Vegetarian BBQ Pizza

Again, I forgot with the pictures, but I'll blog anyway.

Dinner last night was a tasty vegetarian barbecue pizza, with sausage-style tempeh, onions, and barbecue sauce.  It was delicious, although next time I'm going to put more barbecue sauce and a little less tempeh on it. We had planned to make it vegan by using hummus instead of cheese, but the hummus did not survive our freezer.

Salad Lunch

I had a picture, but somehow it got lost on my phone.  Anyway, for lunch I had a big salad, and managed to get away without dessert, until later, when I got a small cup of almonds and some Reese's Pieces. I'm going to go back for more salad, I think, though.

Heavy On The Cottage Cheese

Went for the trusty cottage cheese and fruit breakfast.  Perhaps a little heavy on the cottage cheese this time.

No Cottage Cheese Today

Sesame seed bagel, smattering of cream cheese, cantaloupe. Yum.

Light Lunch

An interesting, but light lunch.  On top is a polenta cake with a mushroom and fennel ragout, then going clockwise, a small portion of macaroni and cheese, followed by a vegetarian shepherd's pie.

More Curry

Had curry for dinner yesterday too. This is a red curry with tofu, carrots, zucchini, and onion.  I put too much curry paste in, so it was very spicy.

Stoplight Curry

Lunch was great yesterday. Red, yellow, and green curries. Sauteed tofu. Mixed veggies. A delicious chickpea stew with yams! Also, a cookie. Some Fresca to drink.

Old Faithful

Cottage cheese and fruit again. This time heavy on the blueberries.


And yeah, that's my new copy of Notre Dame underneath the bowl.

Pesto Dinner

We got a new food processor last night, and we used it to make pesto.  I put too much garlic in. But it was still good. I also had a pumpkin chocolate chip cookie for dessert that was tasty. I forgot to take pictures, though.

Almost Vegan Lunch

I thought I would go for a vegan lunch today, and I was off to a good start. Vegan enchiladas, with beans and rice. Yum! But then I just had to grab that small plate of gnocchi with mushroom cream sauce.


And then the lemon meringue (and a tiny piece of weird brownie thing) did me in again.


Alas.

Same Old Already

I repeated yesterday's breakfast this morning. Bowl of fruit and cottage cheese. No picture this time because my phone was dead.

Veggie Chili

Kendra made a great batch of vegetarian chili last night. So I had some with two slices of muenster cheese melted in. Yum!

Brussels Sprouts!

At work they have these really delicious Brussels sprouts from time to time, they have mustard seeds on them.  I grabbed half a plate of those, along with a couscous-stuffed mushroom, and two pita chips with some hummus.  It was shaping up to be a nice healthy vegan lunch.


Then I had a tiny bit of pink sparkling wine, as my team was celebrating a few things, including my recent successful dissertation defense.


There may have been mini cupcakes involved.


Either way, I blew it all to hell when I saw this lemon meringue pie calling to me.

Back On The Horse

I'm back!

Finished my thesis, so now I have more time and energy for this.  Both the documentation and the diet effort.  Here we go!

Simple small bowl of fruit and cottage cheese.

Birthday Dinner

I ate dinner at work so that we wouldn't have to do any cooking or cleaning.  I had a veggie burger with cheese, lettuce, onion, and tomato.  A few French fries, a tomato and basil grilled cheese sandwich, some hominy casserole, and some squash.  Yum!  It was way too much food though.


Back home, my friends surprised me with some cake.  I had a piece, which was tasty, but again, I had way too much to eat.

Stayin' Awake

I had a long class yesterday afternoon, so I brought some caffeine to help keep me awake.

Birthday Lunch

Yesterday was my birthday.  I ate way too much at both lunch and dinner.  Oh well.  One day a year is not a huge deal.


At the top left is a butternut squash soup.  I thought it was alright, but apparently later batches were too salty.  The main plate has a bunch of curry, but it was just OK, I don't even think I ate it all.


They had some tomato and mushroom pizza, so I had two small pieces of that.


I also had some of the Brussels sprouts.


And a piece of chocolate cake, since it was my birthday.

Roasted Potatoes And Vegetarian Sausage

Dinner on Wednesday night was some rosemary roasted potatoes:


And some vegetarian Italian sausages from Trader Joe's. I fried them up with some onions.


Basically a big excuse to eat a lot of ketchup.


I also had some honeydew bubble tea.

Still Hungry

I was told that the secret to feeling full was a bunch of fiber and a little fat.  So, I added a little fat in the form of some cashews, peanuts, and almonds.

Big Salad, The Third

Wednesday I had another big salad.  This time, I added a tiny bit of lowfat cottage cheese.

Another Fabulous Lunch

Really digging the cafe lately.  We have some "Scallops Verde with Smoked Tomato Wheatberries and Spelt" which were delicious and spicy (and the wheatberries were great too).  A papaya and sugar snap pea salad with sesame seeds and mirin (got it because it sounded strange, but it was great).  A stuffed portobello mushroom with squash (and a bunch of other veggies).  There's also a small salad with spinach, fresh mozzarella, and tomatoes.  Finally, the small plate has a polenta cake with succotash! I've never had succotash before, but it was really tasty.


As if that weren't enough, I had a small slice of pecan pie.

Tofu Skillet

We have a recipe for a tofu skillet that is pretty good.  It has peppers and onions and squash and tofu, and melted muenster cheese over the top.  Kendra made it and it was tasty, although the tofu was probably a little past its prime.

Yet Another Big Salad

This is becoming a bit of a tradition for better or worse, but in the late afternoon I had another big salad.

Delicious And Varied Lunch

On Tuesday, I had a pretty darn good lunch.  This is fettuccine in peanut sauce, a mushroom risotto, cayenne shrimp, and a chayote and butternut squash medley.  Delicious!


I also had a small banana and cherry milkshake.

Leftovers

I had two servings of the leftover pasta, since Kendra didn't like it.




I also had a few more of those mint chocolate UFOs from Trader Joe's.

Hunger-Busting Salad

Got hungry around 3:30.  Had a big salad.

Wannabe Healthy Mexican Lunch

I got in one of the lines at work today hoping for vegetarian mole, but it had pork fat in it. Oh well.  I grabbed a few corn tortillas, some pinto beans, some sauteed portobello mushrooms and onions, some guacamole, tomatoes, lettuce, onion, and sour cream.  I mixed it all up and ate it with the tortillas.


Then I had two small cookies for dessert.  Peanut butter and chocolate white chocolate chip.

First Smoothie From The FooBar

Morning weigh-in: 231.2!

I was running late today, so I grabbed a "Berry Bliss" smoothie from the FooBar at work.  It's just fruit and orange juice. Yum!

Pasta With Lemon Asparagus Cream Sauce

Sunday night, Kendra picked a recipe and we made it.  We started with just a simple salad of carrots, cucumbers, avocado, and tomato.



Next was the main course.  We started by peeling some asparagus, sauteing it with some garlic, then mixing in some cream and lemon zest (and a tiny bit of finger zest).  Then we mix it all in with some pasta.  The recipe called for fettuccine but we didn't have it, so it came out a little dry (since the ratio of surface area to volume is much higher for spaghetti).  Kendra didn't like it, but I thought it was great.  I topped it with some shredded Romano cheese.

No Lunch

Since I had such a late breakfast on Sunday, I skipped lunch and just had a snack of almonds and cashews at work.  Oh yeah, those are my shades. I'm so cool.

More Cereal

Sunday I had more cereal. Morning weigh-in was 233.2.

Easy Dinner

Kendra and I were too worn out to cook anything.  So we just had some leftover enchiladas (we each had half).




Then we had some Trader Joe's Chickenless Nuggets. I had mine with ketchup.




I also wanted a beer, so I had this "Hoptober" from New Belgium. It lived up to its name.




And a couple of those mint chocolate UFOs from Trader Joe's.

Picnic!

Kendra and I went to a picnic for the Puget Sound Birth Center.  There were, predictably, a ton of kids there.  I had a veggie cheeseburger, with lots of fixin's.


Some butter mochi, cornbread, and one of Kendra's chocolate chip cookies.


The cookies went fast, so I went back for more buttered mochi, which was delicious!