Stir fry!!!

Breakfast: Amy's nondairy burrito with beaked beans and rice.
Snack: Wheat Thins crackers with hummus.
Lunch: Cheerios with Original Natura soymilk.
Dinner: Stir fry!!! I love to stir and fry my food! I was looking forward to making this since like 5 but Aaron didn't get home until 11 tonight so I had to wait. It consisted of purple onion, garlic, left over carrots and broccoli, newly purchased bok choy and shitake mushrooms, fried in canola oil (olive oil or toasted sesame oil is better but I have this canola oil that I want to use up), and with fresh parsley, thyme, basil, and soy sauce for flavour.
Served over left over white rice.
Here's a picture!

Here's a picture of yummy food that I made

Pedestrian Sundays.

Freaking out a little bit about being back at school.
Okay yesterday Aaron came home from the bar and found me drunk and bawling. Poor kid.
But food always makes me feel better.
Yesterday was Pedestrian Sunday at Kensington market (fuck I can't believe it's Monday again already).
At two I met my friend Brandon at the Hot Box and got their 'Hippy vegan sandwich." It had hemp pesto on it. Apparently hemp is really really good for you. We also smoked from one of the vaporizers they have there. Technically you're supposed to give them a 20$ deposit but they're always too stoned to remember to ask me.
Then I went to a mining protest at Queens Park with my friend Megan. I got there too late to see Elizabeth May speak though (I didn't know she was going to be there until afterward). That sucked.
Then Megan and I walked back to Kensington and I got a vegan chocolate cupcake from Wanda's Pie in the Sky on Augusta. It was win.
Aaron met up with us and then we ran into several more friends, after which we headed to Full Moon on Dupont and got massive plates of food. I got the Shanghai noodles. ^_^

Now I'm gonna go back to freaking out.

Post # 50! I expect you all to be vegans by now.

You just can't beat a giant pot full of vegetables. (Some would disagree, but they are clearly inferior specimens of humanity.)
I made a recipe tonight that was really just a massive pot of veggies. Broccoli, red and green bell peppers, carrots, snow peas, and green onions with lemon juice and lemon rind, fresh parsley, thyme, bay leaves and salt and pepper for flavour. They're cooked using this cool method where you partly boil, mostly steam them by putting half a cup of water, plus lemon rind, spices and some olive oil, at the bottom of the pot. The carrots (4) go in first and cook for 5 minutes, then the peppers (2) for another 5, then the broccoli (2 cups) for 4, then the snow peas (2 cups) and onions (1 bunch) for another 2. Then you add the lemon juice, salt and pepper. I also threw in some flax seeds because they are so awesome.
I also made the broccoli patties and omega sprouted lentils and rice that I got from the vegetarian food fair.
It's 3:30 in the morning right now 'cause I went to the Rocky Horror Picture Show and then to Tim Hortons with some friends. I can't eat that much at Tim Hortons 'cause I don't like my bagels and coffee without anything on/in them, and Timmy Ho's isn't big on carrying margarine or soy milk. But I got a camomile tea and it was amazing.

Breakfast today: Kiwi!
Dinner Yesterday: Aaron and I finally checked out this Caribbean vegan restaurant (rare) called One Love on Bathurst north of Bloor. Really small place but the food was great. We got a bunch of things I'd never heard of before so I can't remember what they were. The corn soup was awesome though.
Lunch Yesterday: Cupcakes. Whatever, you're jealous. My bestest friend Maggie is back in town for a few days so we got together and made 'Basic Chocolate Cupcakes' with chocolate icing from my 'Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World' recipe book.
Breakfast Yesterday: Ate some of the new cereal I got from the Vegetarian Food Fair with some Natural original flavour soymilk. I don't really like putting vanilla soymilk in my cereal because it tastes too different from what I grew up eating. But original tastes great. (... I think I'm gonna have some now!)
Lunch and Dinner Yesterday and Dinner the Day Before: Two nights ago I made some tomato sauce with spinach from a recipe in 'Eat, Drink, and Be Vegan.' I also made a whole box of whole wheat corkscrew pasta, which ended up being way more pasta than we needed for the sauce. SO the next day I went and bought more spinach and just made more sauce for the left over pasta. There's still some in the fridge.
Breakfast Yesterday: Honestly I think it was cookies. Why not?
Lunch Two Days Ago: My friends Morgan and Nick told me how to make really awesome, really simple chickpea salad. I dumped two cans of chickpeas into a bowl and added a chopped up tomato, chopped up green onions (left overs of which went in the first batch of sauce), oil, salt, and pepper. I actually had to stop myself from eating the whole thing.

Aaron got a whole bunch of lunches out of the left overs.
Mmmmmmmmmm. Food.

Vegetarian Food Fair!!!

So I ended up going to the Vegetarian Food Fair on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday this weekend. It was awesome. Here is a list of the stuff I got there (no more spending money for me for a while):

• A sexy dress from Healing Heart Designs
  
• Vegetable bullion cubes
• A Cookbook called 'The Joy of Vegan Baking' by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau and a free 'Go Meatless for Life' booklet of recipes
  
• LOTS OF FREE SAMPLES
• Like 4 chocolate amaranth bars
• Zoglo's Vegetarian Choice brand Broccoli Patties
• Omega Meals Sprouted Omega rice and lentils
• A 'Truth' brand "Genuine non-leather" belt

I think that's it.
Hurray!

Blue mashed potatoes

A few days ago I made mashed potatoes with sauted purple onion in them (also garlic, soy milk, margarine and salt). After going in the fridge the turned blue. Like seriously blue. So apparently I've invented blue mashed potatoes.
Yesterday for dinner I made a salad with a pre-made vegetable mix of iceberg lettuces, radishes and carrots. I added chopped up apples and pumpkin seeds, and served it with lemon-ginger-sesame dressing that I got with my mom at Cost-co. It was pretty awesome.
While we were eating the salad I fried some portobello mushrooms whole, covered in vegetable oil and tamari sauce. Served with the mashed potatoes they make a really good meat-dish substitute. Mostly because they're so juicy.

This weekend is the vegetarian food fair at the harbour front.. Seems I'm going twice. Today with two friends and again on Sunday with Aaron and some more friends. It's always really awesome. Everybody come out!

Yay! Helping!

Yay! A friend wants to go vegetarian so she asked me to make her a list of all the easiest vegan things to make.

I had a lot of carrots and cauliflower left over yesterday and I didn't want them to go bad, so I boiled them in veggie broth and added chopped fresh dill and a little parsley (also left overs.)
Not the tastiest thing I've ever made but not bad either!
Aaron also surprised me with a Green & Blacks Mayan Gold dark chocolate bar because he is the awesome.

Lots of cooking!

I made some sweet dishes with the help of friends over the last couple of days.
And here they are:

• Cauliflower-Leek Kugel with Almond Herb Crust from 'Vegan with a Vengeance'. I actually used pumpkin seeds and walnuts for the crust since I wasn't gonna go out and buy more nuts when I got bags on the fridge. It was amaaaazing. Leeks are so freaking good. I've got a bunch of left over cauliflower I'll have to do something with.
• Strawberry Lavender Muffins from 'Fresh at Home; Everyday Vegetarian Cooking'. You read that right. These were really interesting. I'm looking forward to finding things to put the left over lavender in. I'm going to a party on Saturday, maybe I'll make like vanilla cupcakes with lavender icing or something.
• Roasted Butternut Squash Soup, also from 'Vegan with a Vengeance'. I've made this one before and it's always really good. I changed it this time by doubling the amount of vegetable broth in the recipe. It was too thick for me before, this made it more like a soup.

Snack: Left over strawberries from the muffins with Splenda on top.