We Eat

Some green food I enjoyed on St Patrick's Day. Recipes here!

I attempted to make hamburger buns. Buggers didn't turn out! This recipe. Still a tasty meal with Wildwood burgers, avocado, tomato and some sauteed mushrooms.

haha This was last Saturday when my husband and I were on our way to a friend's house to watch the UFC fights. We supplied the pizza. I decided to "fit in" with the crowd and get a frozen pizza too. I thought it was kind of funny. The wife at the house we went to said "bless your heart" when I told her which really made me laugh!

I was excited to make these lentil wraps because I love the Trader Joes ones so much. They were yummy! A lot of work for a wrap and I made wayyy too much of the lentil mixture but still. Oh and the dipping sauce did not work out. Also, I did not have lavish bread so they kinda fell apart haha But they were tasty!

Yummmmmm! Obviously we shopped at Trader Joes for a change last weekend, haha.

We went to Native Foods Cafe last weekend and I got the St Patrick's Day special and it was SO GOOD. I think this is my favourite restaurant...  If only they normally offered this sandwich!  It had pink vegan horseradish sauce, people.  (pretty sure I've never even had regular horseradish sauce though haha) 

These are super tasty. TJ's has the best snacks.

Picked up some orange chickenless at TJ (Trader Joes, if you didn't catch that) and made a stir fry.

Made some banana muffins but they did not turn out. SUPER dry. I deleted the recipe and can't remember where I found it now.

This, despite how it looks, was very tasty shepherd's pie. 

My favourite thing on a warm day is a super thick green smoothie. I've making sure I always have frozen fruit in the freezer so I can whip one up! I think this was almond milk, frozen peaches, frozen banana, flaxmeal and spinach.

We don't normally eat out during the week but we had to run some errands on Wednesday night so we ended up eating at BJ's. The deep dish pizza crust is just to die for. The Hopstorm IPA? Not so much. I LOVE IPA's but I couldn't even drink it. Thankfully, they are super sweet at BJ's (we've never had bad service) and replaced it. So I got the Kona Brewery Koko Brown beer which is amazing. It tastes like caramel. And yes, it's vegan.

I made Cheeze-Its! I actually never liked the real thing but these are delicious! I accidentally added a full tsp of liquid smoke instead of 1/4 hahah but they are still great. Only bummer is they lost their crispiness after a day. I think I could have rolled them flatter though and that would  probably help.

Obviously I'm a big fan of curry. I love love this recipe for curry sauce and the tofu was fantastic as well.  New favourite for sure. And yes, that is Jasmine rice. I normally stick to brown but a friend gave it to me so... 

Vacation Food Round-Up

I was trying to get this post up yesterday but was having technical difficulties. So here we go! The rest of what I ate while on vacation.  I am definitely feeling the need to incorporate more raw and less processed foods in my diet now that I'm back home.  I might two a two week detox of no processed foods or added sugar just to kinda reboot and get back on track with the way I am comfortable eating. I think I'll pick up Kris Carr's book Crazy Sexy Kitchen. I have Crazy Sexy Diet and love it. As you may have seen in yesterday's post my only food related "resolution" is to eat cleaner (including more raw foods).

1.  On our way home we mostly just snacked. I had raw veggies with hummus at one point.
2. Stopped at The Best Little Sandwich Shop in Redding, CA where I knew they had an impressive vegan menu. So yum! The oven wasn't working so it wasn't toasted (which would have been tastier) but this still beat Subway by a landslide. The vegan roast beef was soo good.
3. Of course we had to stop at VooDoo Doughnuts! It has become a yearly tradition. Such delicious vegan donuts. This is the "vegan cock and balls" which has vanilla cream filled balls. haha Don't let the name or appearance scare you off. It's so good!
4. And this is the VooDoo doll which was filled with  jelly. Good but not as good as the vanilla one.
5. Stopped at AmeRAWcan in Tacoma, WA, an all raw restaurant. It was a very cool experience for my husband and I. We had the four course taster plus he ordered a full sized falafel. Oh and I got a green juice to go. Everything was delicious! Also, the menus were on iPads; fancy! This is the taster size raw nachos. They were really yummy.  So was the falafel although I didn't love the hummus.
6. Raw chocolate cheesecake with vanilla cream. Mmm. Not super sweet which was nice.
7. Raw avocado quinoa boat. This was so simple but soo good.
8. Snacked on chips with avocado and salsa on NYE. We bought wine but then I realized it wasn't vegan. Boo. I don't buy wine often so I hadn't thought to check in store.
9. Mexican food at a restaurant. This was a vegetarian fajita and it was HUGE. I ate it for three meals plus gave rice to my dog.
10. I tried this ravioli again but this time got the spinach one (spinach and something, I forget). It was SO good. Definitely recommend that one! My husband got a non vegan one. Found these at Fred Meyers.
11. Some lazy pizza I made. I found Archer Farms crusts that are vegan at Target but when I went back today they didn't have them.... weird.
12. Big breakfast. I think I just ate oatmeal, fruit and pancakes for  breakfast the entire vacation haha It was the easiest to make in my inlaws kitchen with what they/we had.
13. I bought some green curry paste and coconut milk to whip up some curry! Tasty.
14. Amazing vegan pizza at The Alibi in Pike Place (Seattle). Highly recommend! This was the mini happy hour one so it was only $5!! But it was 6 big slices.
15. Christmas leftovers. I cooked this for my husband and I. My inlaws made non veg stuff for everyone else.
16. Oatmeal with fruit.
17. Some frozen waffle with fruit and hashbrowns.
18. Vegan ice cream and pie on Christmas. Did you know Marie Calendars makes some vegan pies? Yep.
19. Eggnog pancakes for breakfast on Christmas. All I did was replace the milk in my simple go to recipe with soy eggnog. Yum!
20. Making burritos.
21. More oatmeal. Some days I made with raisins and peanut butter.
22. Maple bacon (tempeh) sandwiches.
23. Fruit with granola.
24. A frozen vegan pizza. Which is exactly what it tasted like haha But it was good, don't get me wrong. It just has that cheap taste. It was also pricey at $7.
25. Amy's lentil soup. I love this soup and I don't normally like canned soups. This is the only brand of soup I ever really buy.