Portobello Steaks Rock

Last night's dinner totally rocked!  Tony totally loved HH's Portobello Steaks.   If you like shrooms, you have got to try these!  The recipe can be found here.  I did make a couple of changes this time.  I didn't have the recipe to make Lindsay's mock beef broth, since I loaned my cookbook out.  So, I just used some veggie broth instead.   I also used red cooking wine in the place of the mirin, because I didn't have that either.  When I answered Tony's question about what was for supper, I wasn't really sure if he would be up for the shrooms or not, but he said he would give it a try.  Folks, he gave it a try and loved it.  He said "Great Supper".   Along with the Portobello steaks we had some organic pinto beans, wild rice, and roasted asparagus.  I tossed the asparagus around in a little olive oil and sprinkled some garlic powder and herbamare on them.  I then baked them on 400 for about 15-20 minutes.  Oh, we also had crescent rolls....for some reason they didn't make the picture. 

For breakfast I had some boring oatmeal with soaked goji berries, apples, bananas, a dash of cinnamon, and a sprinkle of brown sugar.  I know it looks bland, but it sure was good.

Lunch was a simple salad with a side of PopCorners, that I found over the weekend at T J Max.  I was so excited when I saw these.  Apparently they have been a big hit, because there were only a few bags left, with a lot of empty shelf space around them.  They only had one flavor which was the sea salt.  Have you tried the PopCorners yet.   They sorta remind of of a thin rice cake.  They make for a great little snack.

We're having to work overtime this week, so I have been going into work an hour early.  It's weird how exhausting it is to loose that one hour of sleep.  One of Maggie's power naps sure would be great right about now.  :o)

~Peace~

Low-Fat Tahini-Chickpea Dressing

Hey there!   Yesterday on facebook Happy Herbivore posted this sign, that I just love.  I need  and want this in my house!  Anyway, I liked it so much that I wanted to share it with you.  :o)



Last night I had a salad that was one of the best salads that I've made in a while. The main reason for me posting about the salad is the dressing that I used on it.  Total DELISH!  BTW...My pictures are still dark, because I still haven't replaced the light bulbs that blew....maybe I'll get to that sometime this weekend.

SusanV over at Fat Free Vegan posted a recipe for Low-Fat Tahini-Chickpea Dressing the other day, which sounded so good to me.   Her recipe can be found here.  I've been wanting to try a new and different dressing, and this one seemed to fit the bill.  It was soooo creamy.  It's nothing like I've ever had before, and that's a very good thing.  It was so good that I had to have a redo of  last nights salad for lunch today.  :o)

Saturday is Tony's birthday.  He has decided that he wants to go to Memphis to eat at The Crab Shack.  I know.... but that's his favorite place to eat, and after all....it is his birthday.  :o)  With that being said, this means that I get to go to Whole Foods.....YAY!  I have a list going of some things to get, but it seems like I always forget stuff.   So, I need your help.  What suggestions do you have as to what I should get while I'm there?   I'm trying to incorporate more raw foods into my diet as well, so suggestions with raw foods will be appreciated too.  Suggestions....please....  :o)

~Peace~Love~Happiness~

Sunday Already.....

Hi everyone! I can't believe it's Sunday already. The weekends just seem to go by way too fast. I mentioned the other day that I didn't even want to think about eating out, because we had been eating out so much the first part of the week. Friday afternoon my husband sent me a text saying "Casa Marina" our newly favorite Mexican Restaurant. So, I guess you know where we went Friday night. I really think that I could eat at this place every night. :o) This time I got their veggie taco dinner. It was very good just like everything else that I have gotten there. The only thing was that the tacos had a little shredded cheese on them that I had to take off. No problemo though.

Here's a close up of the veggie soft shell tacos. They had squash, zucchini, red onion, carrots, pico, and lettuce in them.....YUM! I got a side of guacamole...they have the absolute best. If you ever come to Jackson, TN and you like Mexican, you must go to Casa Marina. You will NOT be sorry.

Saturday after I got home from running some errands and visiting my mom, I put the ingredients in my bread machine to make some flax wheat bread. The past times that I have used my bread machine, my loaves always turned out short and dumpy. I decided to use the regular bread setting instead of the rapid setting this time. Yes, it took longer but the bread turned out to be the perfect loaf that I have always hoped for from the bread machine...Yay!

Here's a the recipe and a picture of the slice of bread that I had with my supper.

11 ounces of water

1 1/2 teaspoon sea salt

1 1/2 tablespoon olive oil

2 tablespoons black strap molasses

2 1/4 cups unbleached bread flour

1 1/4 cup whole wheat flour

1 teaspoon vital wheat gluten

1/4 cup ground flax seeds

2 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast

Put all the ingredients into your bread machine. Follow the directions for your bread machine. Mine calls for all the wet ingredients first, then the dry and the yeast last. I added the above ingredients in order into my bread machine. The bread turned out perfect. This is by far the best loaf of bread that I have made in my bread machine.

Next up is the Blueberry Breakfast Cake that I got from Happy Herbivore's website. It was total yumminess! The recipe can be found here. It was very moist and not too sweet. It was perfect with my cup of Kona Coffee this morning.

That's all the baking I did Saturday, but I have something else that I am going to make this afternoon that I have been wanting to make for a couple of months now. I did whip up some dressing for our salad that we had for supper last night. I made the Thousand Island dressing from Vegan Comfort Food. It was awesome! Way better than any store bought kind that I've ever had. Tony even loved it. :o) The picture doesn't do the dressing justice.

Here's my Saturday night salad that was followed up with a piece of blueberry breakfast cake. I think this was one of my better salads too. I added some sun dried tomatoes for the first time. OMG...why haven't I done that before? I think the thousand island dressing and the sun dried tomatoes are what made the salad so good.

That's all for today. Enjoy the rest of the weekend!

~Peace~Love~Happiness~