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By the books

My mom’s cousin (my second cousin? first cousin once removed?) very generously gifted me a lot of (used) cookbooks recently.  And although I haven’t looked through all of them yet, the few I have browsed through look awesome. In fact, last night’s dinner came from this one. I modified it some, and it was definitely a winner.  Of all the cookbooks I got, I’ve bookmarked the most to try in 500 Best Quinoa Recipes.  They’re all gluten free and creative, but still simple and whole foods based.  And even though they aren’t all vegetarian or… Read more >

January 23, 2013 beans, chocolate, dessert, quinoa, soup, squash, vegan cookies, veggie burger Read more >

We ate out!

I know this is not really newsworthy (or title-worthy, for that matter), but since we’ve been on a strict grocery budget we have avoided the restaurant scene to save some cash flow.  For a foodie (like me), this is sad.  So this weekend we made the most of our sitch. On Saturday we headed to Seed Bistro for lunch.  We had a little bit of money left on a gift card, so one of our meals was free.  Budget not blown, stomach happy.  Win win! Kyle got the sirloin seitan burger (same thing he always… Read more >

January 22, 2013 big salad, mexican food, seed bistro, seitan Read more >

Sticky orange tempeh

When I say sticky orange tempeh, I mean it.  This is sticky sweet yummy.   Can you tell from the way the sauce coats the tempeh?    I’m not a tempeh lover…it’s just not my fave (unless someone else – like a vegan restaurant chef – prepares it).  So I was pretty surprised by how much I liked this dish.  I really really liked it.  I could eat tempeh like this every day of the week.  Seriously.   Sticky Orange Tempeh [vegan, gluten free] Ingredients: 1 block (8 oz.) tempeh, cubed (I used Lightlife’s organic… Read more >

January 21, 2013 millet, tempeh Read more >

37 week check-in

I decided I should probably do pregnancy posts more frequently now that I’m getting down to the home stretch. We’re gonna be parents!!!!!!! It’s hard to believe I’ve been pregnant for all this time and it’s only just starting to hit me that we are going to be mom + dad for the next however many years.  That’s way different than just Kyle + Elise. Hard to believe we were once just dumb college kids!  Now we have to pretend to act like adults so our kid doesn’t figure out that we’re really winging it. … Read more >

January 20, 2013 Uncategorized Read more >

The weekly menu

Since a lot of people have been interested in our budget friendly meal planning, here’s what we had this past week.  [Spoiler alert: they’re all really inexpensive dinners] Monday Egg noodles with teriyaki tofu, broccoli, & cashews The organic broccoli was leftover from one of last week’s dinners.  The roasted salted cashews are a pantry staple.  The egg noodles were on sale at WF (we used half of the 1 lb bag/$1.69).  The organic tofu was from WF (I baked the whole block/$1.69). As usual, the ‘fu was pressed for 2-3 hours, then baked for… Read more >

January 19, 2013 avocado, beans, Daiya, greek yogurt, lasagna, mexican food, millet, nuts, pasta, potatoes, seitan, soup, tempeh, teriyake tofu, tofu Read more >