Fun With Your Food

I purchased some Trader Joe’s “Garlic Fries” and finally decided that last night was as good as any to bake them up. I enjoyed the crispy texture of the fries yet found them to be extremely salty. I love salt but there was just too much of it.
Also, I didn’t realize that the fries had hydrogenated oils in them- YUCK.
I’ll be making garlic fries from scratch next time.
The spinach I sautéed turned out well. I simply washed it and threw it into a non-stick pan with garlic.
The third item pictured is Morning Star’s Buffalo Chick’n Wings. I wasn’t extremely impressed or disappointed. They didn’t stand out in this meal.
Richard LOVES the fries but I think he may have to go without on this one.

Any suggestions on how to make garlic fries from scratch?

Talk with you soon!

Teddy

Welp, I know it’s sad but it’s all I had time for.
Just enjoy the Peanut Butter Jelly Time!!

Yep… Monday

Good luck!

Teddy
PS back with real food later

This week was a GREAT family veg night.
On the menu: fried tofu in an orange, ginger sauce. First off, my favorite way to eat most things is fried. I know, I know it’s bad for me- I can’t help it.
The tofu without the sauce was wonderful; then add the orange ginger goodness John whipped up and you have a meal fit for scarfing.

What would I ever do without family veg night?

Teddy

Veggie Pizza from Trader Joes

Tonight I’m trying a new product form Trader Joes. It’s not vegan but I’m excited none the less.

It’s got roasted garlic, tomatoes, red onion, basil and a bunch of other veggies

I’m thinking about have a “pizza party night”. Just make a batch of vegan dough, pile on the toppings and watch a movie or two

What are your favorite pizza toppings or sauces? I want to try something new!

Teddy

As promised, here’s the recipe for my quinoa/pistachio salad

Ingredients

2 cups quinoa
1/2 cup pistachios
1/2 cup dried fruit (cranberries or other)
1 lemon zested and juiced
salt

I make my quinoa in a rice maker and I combine with the zest of one lemon.
Once the quinoa is cooked, I add the lemon juice as well as the nuts/fruit. Sprinkle generously with salt and combine well. Feel free to eat up!

It’s incredibly simple, I hope you enjoy.

Teddy

This week we had fresh angel hair pasta with homemade pesto and fried eggplant. I haven’t had pesto in months and it was just as delicious as I remembered.

Thank you Mom and John for the great food every week!

I’ll be posting the quinoa recipe tonight!

TGIF guys; have a great friday.

Teddy

A few weeks ago, John made a family veg night dinner that Richard and I both LOVED. This is my attempt to recreate it. The list of ingredients is short: Quinoa, lemon, pistachios, and dried cranberries (well, salt and pepper too). It wasn’t quite the same as John’s but still a sweet and savory treat.

I’ll post my “recipe” if you’d like (I have no real recipe written down).

Teddy

I LOVE the Target dollar bins!
I was at Target the other day and they had heart lollipop molds out for Valentines Day. You bet your last dollar I got a mold and I’ll be using it before V-day.
I’ve only experimented with candy making a couple of times (mostly with chocolate). I’m a novice.

Does anyone have any tips on candy making?

Teddy

We woke up this morning to 50 degree weather and that’s just plain COLD here.
It took no time to decide that I wanted to turn on the oven for breakfast. A warm oven means warm MUFFINS!

I opened up La Dolce Vegan and started to plot my muffin adventure. Page 274 has banana blueberry muffins. I never stick to a recipe because I never have all the ingredients required. I tinkered around and came up with my own version.

They turned out wonderful, warm and moist (and the oven heated the house up!)
Today’s going to be a quiet day in. Hope you all enjoy your weekend! I need to get back to my couch before Richard eats all my muffins

Teddy

Last night Richard and I ventured over to my parents house for our weekly Family Veg Night. On the menu tonight was:

Fried Plantains

Spinach and olive lasagna.

Honestly, I’ve never been a big fan of lasagna but I really like John’s. It’s odd but I’m going to say I like his because he doesn’t use any Ricotta cheese (:P). Thanks for making it the way I like it John!

Teddy