Random Food in May

Hi everyone! Quick post today covering some of the new foods I've tried this month. First up are some goodies I got at the Vegan Pledge...

The lemon poppyseed cookie from Alternative Baking Company was amazing! 

The orange dark chocolate from Equal Exchange was really good, and I have a second bar to still enjoy, hooray! 

The sea salt drops from Bridge Street Chocolates are great; I've been taking my time to savor them, haha! 

Zach suggested trying the Daiya cheezy mac with veggies, and we both liked it; Zach already made sure to pick up another box on our last grocery trip hehe. 

I was so excited to find the breakfast patties from Lightlife, and they are awesome, definitely the best vegan breakfast sausage I've tried so far! Served with a tofu scramble & toast. 

Some new chips I've tried... The sea salt ones are good, but the salt & pepper ones are fantastic! 

Finally, I tried another roasted chickpeas recipe this week, this one from Tofu for Thought. They were great in a bowl with potatoes & veggies. 

It got pretty hot this week; while digging out a fan from the hall closet, I tossed out the old drop cloth from the last time I painted. Leela quickly made a nest in it, and growled at Buttons when she tried to crash the party!

“This is Fort Leela, no Buttons allowed.”

Peace. :)

Random Food Post (August)

Time for another random food post! Here's some new stuff I've tried since the end of June...

Apple Pie Muffin Cookie with Raisins from Alternative Baking Company. Absolutely delicious! 

I made a lemon ginger sauce for some Gardein chicken; it was really good.

I tried the sweet potato tortilla chips from Food Should Taste Good, and they did indeed taste good.

I finally cleaned out the bread machine and used it to make bagels. The dough was so sticky and I was rushing, and so the bagels came out a bit... oddly shaped... but they still tasted good. 

I made the pizza rolls from Bake Eat Love & they were delicious! 

I used Yves veggie ground in a simple but filling pasta dish.

Alena and I took another trip to SuTao Cafe's lunch buffet to celebrate the end of her first clinical internship. We made sure to eat our fill & even remembered to try one of the soups (miso). 

Alena's first plate

My first plate

My miso soup

Alena's second plate

My second plate

Alena's third plate

I got a bunch of cool food stuff from a Vegan Essentials order, and the first thing I wanted to try was the Daiya mac & cheese. Unfortunately, I wasn't that pleased with it. It just had a weird taste (and aftertaste) to me. It was a bit better heated up as leftovers the next day, but it's not something I'll get again. 

Vegan Essentials order

leftovers

And here's a lovely heated-up-in-the-microwave-even-though-the-box-says-not-to Tofutti pizza with diced Tofurky pepperoni added on top. (I had this when the oven was out of commission; thankfully it's fixed now!) 

Here's a photo set of Buttons, being very startled and confused by the sounds of the bread machine... 

"What is happening?!"

...And here are some pics I took of Leela the time she decided to climb into the (dry) tub to explore and make her silly "ah'oo" sound. 

mid-"ah'oo"

P.S. The Vegan Month of Food (Vegan MoFo) starts on September 1! I'm still figuring out what to do for some of the daily prompts, but I have ideas for most of them. Before the daily prompts were announced, I'd been planning to do another week of The Veganlist (veganized food from The Blacklist), among other weekly themes like last year. After learning of the prompts, I managed to fit The Veganlist into the week when The Blacklist's third season was going to return, and then NBC pushed the premier back a week to October 1. So, I decided to scrap the idea of a Veganlist week; instead I plan to do Veganlist days throughout the month whenever they are applicable. Day 1 of Vegan MoFo (breakfast prompt) will be one such Veganlist day, so get excited!

Peace. :)

Random Food Post (June)

Here's some of the new foods I've tried since the last random food post.

I finally got around to trying the Gardein meatless meatballs; they were pretty good. I first had them with spaghetti sauce, but found out that I actually preferred them plain. 

I also tried Daiya's fire-roasted vegetable pizza, which is now my favorite of their frozen pizzas. Yum! 

And I tried a few of the Simply Asia noodle bowls. First up was the soy ginger, which was pretty good. 

Next was the sesame teriyaki, with some Health is Wealth vegetable spring rolls on the side (the spring rolls were alright, considering that they had major freezer burn, whoops...).

And finally, the roasted peanut, with carrots added in and cucumber on the side. Delicious! 

Here's a pic of Leela and Buttons lounging around.

Peace. :)