Wet Weekend

How are you this Saturday morning? Well- I hope!

Me? I’m just dealing with another weekend winter wonderland- full of snow, sleet, rain, and everything in between. However, I haven’t seen any other intriguing icicles worth noting so we’ll just go straight to the food.

Plain Chobani, raw cinnamon raisin granola, and fresh mango.

This combo was so delicious. It’s definitely been added to the breakfast lineup. Believe it or not, something without oats made the cut.

For lunch on Thursday I took some leftover soup to work – Bob’s Red Mill Vegi Soup Mix.

The Vegi Soup Mix comes dry and is packed with green split peas, yellow split peas, barley, lentils and vegetable pasta (semolina wheat flour, dehydrated spinach and tomato). We cooked it in vegetable broth instead of plain water and added a chopped turnip, corn, and our own seasonings. It turned out to be super easy and quite yummy. This would be the perfect soup to serve kids because you could hide loads of veggies in it and comes with alphabet letter pasta.

Come lunch time on Friday I was already home from work due to the weather so I made a little tofu and baked tater topped with ricotta cheese and ketchup.

I marinated my favorite locally made herbed tofu in the Balsamic Maple Sauce from Eat, Drink & Be Vegan and baked it up for a about 10 minutes. So so good!!

As for the sweet potato, I got the topping idea from Miss Eating Bender who once topped her sweet potato with cottage cheese and ketchup. I’ll admit I was a little leery at first, but tried it and really liked it. Yesterday I decided that ricotta would work just as well. And, it did. I actually liked the texture of the ricotta a little better. Seriously don’t knock it til you’ve tried it – it’s super tasty and filling.

I dehydrated some mini snowballs aka raw macaroons for an RVA Food Blogger Meetup.

The recipe I used is from Raw Food/Real World. I was a little short on the pure maple syrup so I used less than what the recipe calls for, but no worries- they still turned out fab. I’ve actually made these before and taken them to a neighborhood party. They were a hit and one of my neighbors, who has been to Pure Food and Wine in NYC, suggested that they tasted just like the raw macaroons sold at One Lucky Duck. This made me smile but makes perfect sense as Sarma is a co-author of the “cookbook” I found the recipe in. Hopefully one day I will be lucky enough to visit the restaurant/shop and taste the creations for myself!

Sadly, I found out later that the meet up is cancelled so I’m stuck with a big container of macaroons (what a shame). Although, it is Isaac’s b-day weekend so I’m sure there will be plenty of people willing to eat some while partaking in this little gem:

Isaac and his Dad made a beer run yesterday for what I thought was a couple of six packs…. they returned with the item pictured above. I guess there will be more people than I expected coming over to celebrate this weekend?!?! Either that or we have a lot of Yuengling to drink.

Last night’s dinner haphazardly came together. I didn’t know what to have and then all of the sudden breakfast for dinner sounded delightful so I popped a veggie sausage patty and some leftover roasted potatoes in the oven and steamed some kale. I stuffed the kale into 1 egg/1egg white omelet and topped it off with some salsa.

Breakfast is my favorite meal so having it for dinner has always been something I loved – even when I was younger. Only back then my mom would make eggs, fried potatoes, bacon, and biscuits drizzled with gravy or if we were lucky, warm chocolate jam! Ahh.. chocolate jam – do any other Southerners know what I’m talking about? One day I’ll have to feature my great grandmother’s recipe for her chocolate jam on here. Or maybe I need to do a post about what I ate growing up. I think you all would be surprised to know that I was raised eating a lot of very Southern, balanced, but not particularly healthy meals. I also ate a vast amount of fast food. In a nut shell – I haven’t always been Eating Bird Food. One of my favorite fast food items totally grosses me out now. I still think back and can’t believe I used to eat them – dipped in sweet and sour sauce or honey nonetheless (hint – it rhymes with Hig Black).

I better stop writing before I deluge anymore of my juicy past…

Have a lovely weekend and stay warm if you are getting slammed with this winter precipitation!!

-Brittany

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