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Wet Weekend

by Eating Bird Food on February 6, 2010

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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Good Times

by eatingbirdfood on July 19, 2009

Yesterday was completely fun-filled. There were visits to the James River, Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and World Market involved; a great mail surprise, and then a night spent with good friends (and a few drinks).

First up we went to the river because neither Isaac nor I have been swimming yet this summer- such a shame, really. Isaac and his friend jumped in a few times. The water was looking a little too mucky for me and I had some reading to catch up on so I decided to soak up some vitamin D on the dock.

It was fun. I love the feeling of basking in the sun, but I try not to do it without lots of sunscreen now, because when I was younger I didn’t know how harmful the sun really is. I used to go to the tanning bed and tan outside with oil/no sunscreen and now in my early 20′s I’m already seeing signs on sun damage on my skin… eekkkk. Needless to say, I’m a huge fan of the SPF now!

On a brighter note, after the river we were both starving so we headed over to Whole Food’s for a delicious lunch. As usual I piled my bowl high of greens and then topped it with a bunch a different salads from the cold bar. From what I can remember I got some kale salad, sweet tofu curry salad with raisins, roasted beet salad, seaweed salad, roasted corn salad, wheat berry salad, soba noodles, and some random veggies like broccoli, yellow peppers, and tomatoes. YUM!

I didn’t do too much damage at WF’s and came out with a few things- some kale, Original and Falafel SUNSHINE BURGERS (they were one sale and I had a coupon- what what!), Stevia!, rice paper wraps, red wine, and Sweet Thai Delight Yogi Tea.

Since Trader Joe’s is pretty much right next door we stopped there as well. I find there are different things I like to buy at both TJ’s and WF’s so whenever I’m in the area I usually stop by both. At TJ’s I purchased romaine lettuce, organic raisins, just mango slices, garlic hummus, frozen mango and blueberries, carrots, a bottle of white wine for sangria, Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk (TJ’s is the cheapest place to buy it so I stock up!), and Ezekiel Bread.

While waiting for Isaac to buy crickets from Petco, I broke into the Just Mango slices for a sweet snack.

As we were walking in the door from shopping I noticed a little package on the doorstep AND a magazine in our box. Great day mail wise! As soon as I put the cold stuff in the fridge I opened the package to find that it was from the lovely Heather from Hangry Pants. A while back I sent her some Zoe’s Bars and she said she wanted to say thanks. I told her not to send anything, but she is sweet and decided not to listen. I’m a grateful because the contents of the package were awesome!

I love PB & Co. Cinnamon Raisin Swirl but I don’t buy it very often because of the hefty price tag. I can’t wait to make a bowl of Cinnamon Raisin Oatmea l. Heather also sent some homemade chocolate chip granola that is to-die-for. Isaac and I both LOVED it! I think I might need to hide it in a safe place until Isaac heads back to DC this week.

Thank you so much Heather!!

After spoiling my dinner with the delicious granola above I headed to the gym to do a Summer Shape Up Workout. The Fitnessista sure knows how to get your heart pumping. It was a great workout and my legs feel like jell-o this morning (in a good way).

Once home from the gym I chopped up a tie-dyed pepper (Christmas in July?), some cucumbers, and broccoli for a salad. Isaac grilled some Amy’s veggie burgers and corn on the cob and also made some guacamole. It was 9:30PM before we ate dinner and I was starving so no picture, although I’m pretty sure we’ve all seen a veggie burger before.

We ate and then a few people came over to hang out. At one point we were planning to have an actual party, but it ended up only being about 10 or so people. This was fine by me as the evening was more relaxing and the clean up was easy peasy. I used the TJ’s recipe again to make some white wine sangria with a bottle of riesling. It was mainly for Isaac sister because she likes sweet drinks but I ended up having two or three glasses myself. It was delish! We stayed up late chatting and I got to bed around 2:30AM, late nights have been the theme this weekend. Usually I turn into a pumpkin at midnight so I can already tell that I need to get in bed early tonight or else I’m going to be dead tired this week.

I’m up early this morning and Isaac and his sister are still snoozing. I made a quiet breakfast of TJ’s non-fat greek yogurt with honey, Heather’s GRANOLA, and wild blackberries. Plus a banana and almond butter on the side. The granola definitely made the dish!

Now I’m debating on what to do for the day. I’m pretty certain there will be some cleaning, a little gym action, and then FOOD INC!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!!

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Good Morning!

April 8, 2008

I had a good morning at work. It was nice to have my boss back in the office so that I could get things approved and move on to different aspects of each project. I also didn’t get hungry for a mid-morning snack which is amazing! So for lunch I had a salad with cucs, [...]