Stuff Was Eaten

I've been missing some days blogging, so I figured I'd show some stuff I've been eating and cooking. I've now made two recipes from Vegan Eats World by Terry Hope Romero and both have been smashing successes. Some of the recipes in the book are a bit too much for me, meaning they have lots of ingredients I don't have, and need cookware that I don't have, but that's okay, there are still a few simpler recipes.

Lentils and rice may not look pretty, but they're so tasty!

This is the Colombian lentils and rice and apparently it's often a side dish, but obviously it deserves to be the main attraction! It's so simple, but sooooo tasty. You just saute onion and garlic with some spices, mostly cumin, and then the rice and lentils are cooked in coconut milk and some water. I halved the recipe, as she called for two cups of dry rice and a cup of dry lentils. With one cup of rice and a half cup of lentils I made a TON, I can only imagine how much the full recipe would make. It's creamy and savory and really filling.

I had some roasted Japanese sweet potatoes drizzled with this Carolina Gold BBQ sauce from Trader Joe's. I roasted the potatoes with a little garlic powder, smoked paprika, and salt and pepper.

Beet,  pineapple, ginger,spinach and lime juice

I can't stand beets. I love the color, but the taste is way too "earthy" for me. I don't taste the sweetness that beet fans talk about. But a couple of years ago, I read about how healthy they are for the liver, and I knew my liver needed healing, so I started juicing them. I haven't had beet juice since way before the incident, and the other day I was reading that beets can also help with mood elevation. Apparently a healthy liver helps with a healthy mood! If you're like me and don't like beets, I have found that pineapple and any kind of citrus, especially lime really makes it palatable!

This was a delicious meal. This is Singapore noodles with oven baked tofu. I had these noodles at some point while I was staying with Derek in Seattle, and I was surprised at how easy they are to make yourself, and with far less grease I might add. I like this dish because the noodles are dry, in a good way as opposed to dressed with a lot of sauce, or oil. I used this recipe, minus the chewy tofu bites. I just used my plain old oven baked tofu. This was another really easy dish and it's one of those meals where you can kind of use whatever veg you have on hand.

And here is Afro, or ahem I mean Brutus. She was spider catting up and down the couch the other day, and just being a total spazz. I had to play referee several times.

I thought she looked so funny here. She's thinking about the havoc she wreaked as Brutus. And also wondering when I'm going to stop putting that thing in her face.
Happy Tuesday!