Supper Time
Here’s what we’ve been eating for dinner this past week…
Creamy Spinach Pasta from The McDougall Quick and Easy Cookbook and a lovely summer salad with fresh corn and carrots.
Field Roast vegan sausage, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes (made with soymilk and seasonings), and a wee little bowl of mixed beans and corn.
Spiral Diner to-go for fun in the middle of the week. Eric went on a long run, and I surprised him by picking up two wraps that we shared for dinner. The one on the left was the “Ate Layer Burrito”, and the one on the right was “Sweet Luv’Us Hummus”. These were both wraps that we had never tried before, and they both get thumbs up. The burrito was the best though! It had a chipotle mayo on it that was delish. I definitely recommend it and will get it again.
You just can’t go to Spiral without picking out some dessert. We had one of their famous brownies and a carrot cake cupcake. 
This is one of my FAVORITE meals to make on a busy night. It is so delicious and simple, if you try it, you’re sure to make it a regular thing at your house as well! Corn tortillas with refried beans spread on top, baked or microwaved sweet potatoes, spinach leaves, and green salsa. Go ahead….try it! It tastes so delicious!! Fresh corn on the cob was for the side.
We usually eat out Friday and Saturday night’s, so this is what we feasted on this weekend. Friday night we went to Sushi Zushi , to get some great edamame and sushi. We got a veggie roll, a pickled plum roll, and Eric got a spicy vegetable tempura roll, which is not vegan because it has some mayo sauce on it (just to warn you). 
If you live in Dallas and are vegetarian, I’m sure you’ve heard of Kalachandji’s . If not, it is Dallas’s oldest and most renowned Vegetarian restaurant. It’s almost completely vegan too. They have a couple of things that aren’t vegan, but they are always marked. On Saturday and Sunday’s they even offer a vegan dessert. This time was apple crisp (sorry no picture of that). It’s a buffet offering mixed veggies, rice, various Indian curries, homemade vegan raisin bread, and an amazing salad bar as well (in the brown bowl). I took pictures of both of our plates. It was a feast! They have the cutest garden to eat around outside, and we loved listening to the live guitarist that was playing. Kalachandji’s does not disappoint.
Favorite Breakfast
This is my all time favorite breakfast. Nothing is better than piping hot waffles smothered in almond butter and drizzled with agave nectar. Unless of course you have a ripe banana to slice on top. Pure food bliss! I usually buy Van’s original, wheat free, gluten free waffles. I don’t own a waffle maker yet, but I hope to start making my own waffles soon. Stay posted! Frozen ones will have to do for now because I clearly have a love affair with these things. Every morning I have a cup of hot herbal tea. Today’s tea was organic nettle leaf. Never heard of it before? Me either! Last year when living in Scotland, I read a lot about the health and digestive benefits of this particular tea. I used to buy it all the time in Glasgow in the most charming wee (and I do mean small) grocery store called Roots and Fruits.
Lunch today was made up of leftover components from last night’s dinner (refried beans, broccoli, corn) stuffed in two blue corn tortillas. I poured a wee bit of Bragg’s and vegan worcestershire sauce on them to flavor it up. Paired with a nice side salad, it made a lovely lunch. Dessert was the same as yesterday, half of Eric’s blueberry cookie (which he left uneaten in the biscuit tin…anything is free game in the cookie jar…right?!) with ice cream.
My sweet mom flew in today to spend the week with us. I thought I would give her a proper welcoming by whipping up a delicious vegan meal. On the menu was Falafel (p. 98 from VWaV) with tahini dressing (p. 121). Eric LOVES falafel, but is quite picky about it, so I was a bit nervous to see what he would think. Everyone loved it (including my lovely sister-in-law Ashleigh, who was also over)! It was such a yummy dinner…I mean… how can you not like a homemade pita stuffed with crunchy falafel, crisp lettuce, red onions, cuccumbers, tomatoes, and drizzeled with a zesty tahini dressing?! Thank you Vegan Dad for the pita recipe. I would be remiss though if I didn’t tell you that this meal was A LOT of work. Buying pita bread would have made it easier. They seemed to love the pita bread, and it did have a great homemade bread taste to it, but again just a warning, it was quite time consuming.
Dessert was the recipe from Fatfree Vegan Kitchen’s latest post, Blackberry-Lime Tartlets. Except when I went to Whole Foods, they didn’t have any blackberries, so I made Raspberry-Lime Tartlets instead. Delish!! These were so super easy, yet so elegant. They probably thought I slaved away in the kitchen for hours on these babies.
