This is what I eat

 Hi all! I'm back with more food pictures... continuing from yesterday...

 

Cheddar Teese quesadillas with vegan Canadian bacon on the side. This time I fried both sides of both quesadillas in Earth Balance. They tasted great! The Teese melts well if you don't slice it too thick and spread it out evenly inside.

White navy beans Creole style and rice. Beans and Rice is a Louisiana staple. This one was pretty simple and very yummy.

...and leftovers the next day. Like I said. I eat lots of beans and rice. It just makes me happy.

Garlic tofu fried rice with bean sprouts, mushrooms, and water crest. I used Soy sauce and sesame oil to flavor it. The combination of bean sprouts and water crests makes the whole thing crunchy and gives it textural variety. The best way to make a good dish is to combine different flavors and textures together to make a dish that is exciting in every bite. You get crunchy, soft, salty, and robust flavors in this dish. 

Vegan turkey and Canadian bacon sandwich with vegenaise, mustard, and ketchup. It looks worse than it tastes, trust me.

More stir fry. This is enough to feed me and my mom for lunch with leftovers for the next day. I try to do a stir fry at least once a week to make sure I'm getting in protein (tofu), veggies (mushrooms, sprouts, corn, peas, etc.), and starch (rice). Yay for one meal conglomerations!

 

Would you eat any of these foods? Let me know in the comments below. Check back here tomorrow for more food pictures!

Vegan Food Pictures

Because vegans eat good food too! Here's another post full of pictures of the things I eat. I hope you enjoy the food!

I saw this at the store and decided to try it. I love the little VEGAN symbol on the front of the package. It makes it so much easier to find vegan foods at the supermarket when they are labeled. Otherwise, I spend a whole lot of time reading labels to figure out what I can eat and what I can't.

This is what it looked like in the end. You can see the bits of peanuts mixed in with the sauce. It was slightly sweet and quite salty. I really liked it though, and would most likely buy it again if I saw it at the supermarket. I like these less than five minute noodle bowls for days when I have to run from one town to another in very little time and I only have 15 minutes at home before I have to get back into my car.

Fried rice with veggie burger, bamboo shoots, baby corn, water crest, and bean sprouts. Topped with soy sauce and sesame oil. Basically, everything you see here came either out of a can or a pouch. I just opened it all up and dumped it in a bowl and mixed it together, then nuked it in the microwave. It was really tasty and was less expensive than ordering veggie fried rice from a restaurant with much more to go around. I LOVE BABY CORN! It makes my day when I find it at the store. It can be hard to find sometimes, but when I do find it, I get several cans for the future.

Vegan hamburger tacos:veggie burger, pickles, vegenaise, ketchup, and mustard. I mixed all this goo up together and ate it in some small flour tortillas. It tastes much better than it looks in the pictures.

Bold organics vegan cheese pizza. This has most definitely become my new favorite comfort food/ guilty pleasure. They are about $8 and they taste great. They are gluten free, egg free, dairy free, and bake in less than 20 minutes.

Trying a new TEESE cheese product... the cheddar flavor. This is what the package looks like. Just like the nacho cheese sauce, but the product is firm.

...and this is what it looks like in the package. It slices easily and stores easily in a plastic or glass container in the refrigerator.

Vegan Canadian bacon. I don't buy Yves vegan sliced "meat" very often, but I saw this at the store and wanted to try it out. It doesn't really taste like Canadian bacon. It tastes like fake meat. But it LOOKS like dark bologna, so it gets points for that at least. Not my favorite vegan "meat", but not horrible.

Vegan Teese and Canadian bacon quesadillas. I did them in a pan of the stove with a bit of Earth Balance.

 

Check back tomorrow for another food pictures post!

F with a capital P and that stands for Food Pictures

So, you may have noticed my love for musicals in my blog titles recently. Brownie points to the person who knows which musical this one comes from!

 

Here are some more pictures of food I've been eating. I have lots more where this came from, so stay tuned later this week for more food porn.

 

A veggie burger with Vegenaise, ketchup, and mustard and Olive salad on rosemary sea salt bread. This is the same olive salad I had in yesterday's post.

Angel Hair with Olive salad and nooch. I have been going back and forth about Nutritional yeast recently. Some days I love it, and other days I hate it and want to throw it out. Anyone else have this sort of reaction?

This is one of my desert staples. Bananas with peanut butter and a sweet syrupy substance. In this instance: Bee Free Honee. I really love this stuff! It smells exactly like honey, but it is made from apples. I bought this a few weeks ago from the vegan store online and I'm very happy with my purchase. I love using it in tea with lemon.

Vegan soft tacos: tofutti cream cheese, spicy guacamole, vegetarian refried beans, and Spanish rice with salsa. These were on the small taco sized wraps, not the huge ones you usually find at the store. I really liked this combination and will probably make it again.

...and here is a mixture of the leftovers that I ate later: Refried beans, tofutti cream cheese, and Spanish rice with salsa. It looks really strange, but it tasted really good.

Veggie burger concoction:veggie burger, pickles, vegenaise, mustard, and ketchup. I like to make ooey-gooey foods that can be served with a variety of starches: rice, pasta, bread, potatoes, or in this case... 

... fajitas. And here is my hamburger taco that I made with the filling! These were really great, especially with the pickles mixed in instead of sitting on the side like I would normally do.

 

See you tomorrow with another fun post!

Food Glorious Food

... We're anxious to try it!

 

I know, I know... I said I was going to update everyday. Well, life got it the way. I'm back again so enjoy!

 

Here are some more wonderful food pictures that you can feast on with your eyes!

Here you can see some tofu scramble with spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms, peas, soy sauce, Liquid Aminos, Olive oil, and sesame oil. I love the combination of olive oil and tomatoes. It is one of those flavor combinations I will never stop loving. As a child, my mom would make fried eggs with tomatoes and olive oil. By adding tomatoes and olive oil to my tofu scramble, it ends up reminding more of the breakfast foods of my childhood than just another tofu stir fry.

This is rosemary sea salt bread with olive salad on two of the pieces and black olive tapenade on the other piece. I was trying to use up things in the fridge so I wouldn't have to go shopping (sometimes I really hate crowds). This is what I came up with. The olive salad is by a local brand. I've tried many brands of Italian Olive Salad, and this is by far my favorite. I forgot how oily this stuff is, though. It left a pool of oil on the plate. Yuck!

Curly fries baked with Olive oil in the oven. Not the healthiest of meals, but very filling and made me feel like I could go for miles!

A veggie burger on rosemary sea salt bread with pickles and a sauce made of mustard, ketchup, and vegenaise. I like to mix all of my sauces together into one sauce for a different taste and texture than having them all separate.

This is something you have all seen here before: Angel Hair pasta with textured vegetable protein, soy sauce, sesame oil, liquid aminos, and rice vinegar. I have been trying to use up the TVP I have hanging out in the pantry because I have found some alternative meat substitutes that I like better. This is pretty easy to make when I don't have a lot of time, so I end up making it a lot more than I probably should.

 

I hope you enjoyed this post. Comment below to tell me your favorite of these foods!

I Missed My One Year Anniversary

I missed my one year anniversary! Oh no!

September 30th was my one year blogversary, and I completely forgot about it. I started this blog to track my Walk to Mordor, and I have been terribly lax in updating my progress... I believe it has been over two months since I posted my mileage on this blog. I plan to fix that in the coming weeks as I attempt to post a blog post every day this month.

I wanted to reminisce a little bit about how this blog has changed over the last year. I started out with the mindset of "Walk to Mordor NOW!" and "get in shape, lose weight!" This just hasn't happened and over the months this blog has turned into a place where I can share my many interests with those who decide to stop by. I've reviewed books and CDs, I started talking about makeup and beauty, I've shown you my hundreds of vegan food pictures as I go about my life. I have shared my favorite songs and tv shows. I have ranted about things that annoy me and spilled out my guts about things that make me sad. It has been a healing experience for me to write this blog and I want to continue doing it for the foreseeable future.

In the last year I have gained one follower (yay!) and I have had 2353 hits (as of writing this post) on my blog. To some people, that isn't much. To me, it is 2353 hits more than I ever expected.

Looking back over the last year this post has been my favorite: 2013 Year in Review Books
This is the post that took me the longest to write. I had to go through the hundreds of books I read last year and pick out my favorites, which was difficult. It was almost an ode to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and books from the late 19th- early 20th centuries. This year I fear my list will not be as exciting since I haven't been reading much (or at least, not finishing books that I've started).

And this has been my most viewed: Makeup Products I Have Used Up In March
I'm not quite sure what makes this my most popular post with 49 views, but it is the most viewed post on my blog. It's interesting to see what products I was using and what I am using now and noticing how my tastes have changed depending on the seasons.

Lastly, this was the hardest post I had to write: Depression
It took me a long time to work up the guts to write and then finally upload this post. I am glad I did, and I hope you take a look at it. Depression in something that is important to talk about and not shove under the rug because it makes people uncomfortable.

What I hope to do with this blog in the future: Write posts more consistently or nearly every day. Write a larger variety of posts. Write more about topics that interest me. Review more books and CDs. Have days for specific posts (Like What I ate Wednesdays and Monday book reviews). Do more tag posts and/or challenges.

I want to thank each and every one of you that read this blog. I hope you have enjoyed or benefitted from some of the things I have said. So thank you for helping make my year wonderful. Here's to the next one!