Saturday, February 04, 2012

A flop & possibly a keeper

Well, I promised a review of my EHH crab cakes.

"Crab" cakes on a bed of spinach with wild rice and dilled carrots.

Honestly, I was not too impressed. (my carrots were yummy, though).
I think they tasted too much like tofu. If I were to make them again, which I doubt will be happening anytime soon, I would use less tofu (the recipe called for 1 lb, and I was halving it, so I used 3/4 of a 340 g block), and more pepper, old bay seasoning, and mushrooms. I couldn't find oyster mushrooms, so I used regular ones & added some fish sauce to get that fish flavor (NOT vegan, I know, but I am easing into things). Apparently this didn't work anyhow because I tasted... tofu.
So overall, a bit of a flop.

Tonight's dinner, however, was pretty good! I made Chipotle, Corn, & Black Bean Stew from Vegan with a Vegeance. It was SPICY! I'm all for spicy, but kiddos, not so much. My 10 year-old said it was good though, just a little too spicy. Surprisingly, she's been tolerating all my vegan recipes well. She's a pretty picky eater, but she's never liked meat much. She was vegetarian until about 3 years ago when she discovered that she liked hot dogs.

Sorry, I forgot to take a picture of the stew before we dug in, so here's the leftovers (it made lots!).

Applied for 2 jobs yesterday. Hopefully I will hear something back. I don't want to work full-time, but at the same time I do. I want to have financial independence.

And N passed her swimming lessons! Level  is finished. She has 1 more level to go before she's passed them all. (For reference, I never passed level 3. :S)

Friday, February 03, 2012

Here goes EVERYTHING.

So, gained back all the weight I lost, even though the first week she was here I exercised like a madwoman. :( I did expect it to happen though, and I am now ready to begin all over.


Went to my boot camp class last night, even though I totally wanted to stay home. I told myself it would feel good afterwards. It really did.

Also headed to the gym this morning, while babe was at Preschool. Only stayed about 45 minutes though - 17 min on the elliptical and 2 sets of arm exercises. I am fighting a headache right now, so I will try to do some Wii Fit later.

It is a bit sunnier here today, it boosts my spirits a little, even if I am tired and droopy-eyed.

Making Vegan Crab Cakes tonight from the EHH cookbook. Is it nerdy that I am totally excited to get back on track? I also had fruit & yogurt for breakfast, and a clementine and fruit smoothie for lunch. I was concerned I had wasted money on my Ninja blender thingy, but I use it now almost every day.

Will post some pics of my din-din later on. I am going to try to outwit this headache and have a nap.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

My mom is here visiting so I am eating lots and very non-vegan-like. :( I will update again when she is gone and I start eating better.

Ugh.