morningstar veggie pattie

This weekend has been busy, but great. Besides hanging out in bed most of Sunday, I did have some weekend parties to attend in celebration of Memorial Day. Before getting into that, I want to share a delicious recipe I tried on Saturday.

I love kale (kale chips!!, sesame kale!!) and I have used it in salads before, but only mixed with other greens as I decided to use Gena’s Massaged Kale Salad recipe to create a salad of only kale greens. 3 cups washed and chopped kale, ¼ avocado, 2 tbsp EVOO, 1/2 lemon, grape tomatoes (about 7/8), ½ large grated carrot. Thanks for this recipe Gena, it turned out great! Even if you don’t think you’d like a plain kale salad I recommend trying this recipe because the olive oil and avocado really coat the kale and make it wilt and it tastes delicious.

I served up a salad bowl full and sprinkled nutritional yeast flakes and Seaweed Gomasio on top for some extra flava flav.

I went back for seconds and then saved the remaining amount for Sunday’s lunch. Speaking of Sunday, here was my breakfast creation.

1 egg/1 egg white omlette with mushrooms, green peppers, grape tomatoes, and salsa.

With a Morning Star Veggie sausage pattie on the side.

My stomach was still acting up yesterday and since I didn’t have oats for breakfast I decided it would be lovely to have them for lunch. I ate the remained bit of the Massaged Kale Salad and had a bowl of oats. Great combo of greens and grains.

Plain ol fashion oats with some raisins and cinnamon cooked in with a spoonful of I can’t believe it’s not Better N’ PB.

After some much needed rest, Isaac and I headed to our second BBQ of the weekend. The first one was on Saturday evening and it was at our neighbors house. I didn’t take any photos of what I ate, but I did meet a food blogger from Richmond there!! It was really cool to randomly meet another blogger. As he said at the party, our blogs are almost completely opposite (I think of picture of his last post completely reiterates this), but it was still cool to meet and realize that he and a partner run the site EatingRichmond.com.

Back to Sunday’s cookout, here was my first plate. Veggie burger (not sure which brand), tomato & mozzarella sticks, raw veggies, chickpea salad (so good!), fruit salad, and WATERGATE SALAD!!

Notice how I said first plate above. This is because I went back for seconds on the watergate salad!! I was happy to know they had veggie burgers, but was so excited when I saw that someone had brought this fluffy cloud of a salad because it’s a favorite of mine stemming back to childhood. Anyone else obsessed with the green stuff?

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!!

A friend of mine is coming to visit for the day from Arlington. Not sure what we are going to be doing, but right now I’m baking some Whole Wheat Banana Bread and dehydrating some fruit. More on that in my next post.

In other news, I just joined twitter as EatingBirdFood. I’ve been on there for a while now as the tweeter for my company, but just decided to go on with the blog. Follow me.

{ 10 comments }

I decided that I wanted to change things up a bit this morning with a sweet and savory combo, instead of my normal oats I had half an Ezekiel Sprout Grain muffin smeared with half a laughing cow cheese wedge, 2 egg whites (A tiny bit of yolk cracked in and two whites wouldn’t fit on top of the muffin so the rest is in the background of the pict.), and a Morningstar veggie pattie. The other half of the muffin was on the sweet side with some pecan pumpkin butter. The pumpkin butter side was like having a breakfast dessert.

I had a lunch meeting at work today and we went to Can Can, this cute French restaurant close to my office. I didn’t take a photo but I ordered the half seasonal soup with half of a seasonal sandwich. I started to call it the “you pick two” when I went to order- opps- wrong restaurant! I got the Cauliflower and Fennel Soup (Cauliflower crisps and Pickled Fennel) and the Roasted Portobella Sandwich (arugula Pesto, Fontina Cheese, Garbanzo beans & carrot salad). It was so good. I have to admit the first time I went there I wasn’t that impressed but today’s meal was absolutely fabulous. It’s a bummer I didn’t get a photo because the meal was plated nicely.

Tonight ended up being Trader Joe’s Wednesday. I started with spicy black bean dip and baked chips- both from TJ’s.

The dip is delicious. The chips are just okay- not my favorite baked variety. They are a little bland.

Lastly I had a salad with TJ’s lettuce and broccoli slaw, tomatoes, broccoli, and avocado. All this topped with TJ’s Goddess Dressing!

I’ve also been snacking tonight- I had a skinny cow ice cream bar and some granola mix that Isaac created using Pumpkin Flax granola, kashi go lean, and raisins- great combo, but addicting.

I went to the gym today after work and for some reason it was so busy. It’s been really busy lately around 6, but never to the point were I couldn’t get a treadmill- which is what happened today. Is anyone else experiencing the busy gym?

P.S. IT SNOWED HERE TODAY!! I’m so ready for Spring weather I wasn’t even that excited, however it was pretty walking to work in the snow.