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Tea of the Day

Breakfast was a repeat of yesterday - Apple Pecan Pancakes with maple syrup.  Lunch was a partial repeat. I had the eggplant tomato sandwich but on a whole wheat hot dog bun this time.  The cabbage slaw was on the side.

For an afternoon snack I had a granola type bar from Atwater's.  It was made with chocolate, dried cherries, cranberries, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds and maple rice syrup.  While there were a lot of good ingredients, on the whole it was not very good.

For dinner, I had a veggie burger on a whole wheat bun with tomatilla salsa and ketchup.  There was a salad made with spring mix, tomato, cucumber and ranch dressing.  I had a whole wheat skinny dippers cracker on the side.

Snacks for the day included a Apple Banana muffin and a skinny dippers cracker with Green Pea Hummus.

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Apple Pecan Pancakes

Pancakes for breakfast!  This version used coconut oil, silken tofu, rice milk and apples. The texture was a little to spongy for me.  I have had better luck with pancakes by using a non vegan recipe then converting it. The recipes meant to be vegan always seem to have texture problems.  These were served with broken pecans and maple syrup.

 For lunch I had a vegan sausage with tomatilla avocado salsa and ketchup.  Cabbage slaw was on the side.  Snacks during the day included a apple banana muffin and a seeded granola bar from Atwaters.  Yes, Atwaters is open in Canton now!

Lemon Garlic Asparagus

We had dinner at the Canton Waterfront Park.  It was the first of the First Thursdays concerts in the park.  Joan Osburn was the headliner.  Even though it rained during the middle act, it was a fun night.  I started out with a winter seasonal Woodchuck Cider.  As the night progressed, the lines to the beer tents were ridiculous, so I made a run to Chesapeake Wine Company for a rose.  For dinner we had Sundried Tomato Risotto and Lemon Garlic Asparagus in the park.  The risotto was made with short grain brown rice, onions, sundried tomatoes, basil and parsley.  The asparagus was roasted in the oven with the garlic, lemon, salt and pepper.

Sundried Tomato Risotto

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Tea of the Day

I don't think the tea actually helps with weight loss, but it is made with roobios which is one of my favorite non tea 'teas'.  It also has orange peel, carob and cinnamon. Breakfast was one the Apple Banana Muffins with apple butter, a fiji apple and the rest of the breakfast scramble sans tortilla.

Lunch was an Eggplant Sandwich with Tomato Sauce. The eggplant slices were dipped in milk and egg substitute and dredged in a mix of flour and breadcrumbs.  The slices were roasted in the oven until they were crunchy.  The Tomato Sauce was made by cooking a yellow onion in olive oil until the onion was very soft.  Then the onion was removed and peeled and seeded tomatoes were to the oil and cooked into a sauce.  Some basil, salt and pepper were added at the end.  I saved the onions and some were on the sandwich made from the last of the Black Pepper Roll.

Eggplant Sandwich

I made a simple side salad of spring mix greens, almonds and Tomatillo Avocado Salsa.

Dinner was a Tofu Stir Fry over Brown Rice.  The tofu was cooked in a mix of olive and sesame oil.  I added onion, sweet potato and carrot.  This was cooked until the tofu was crispy and the veggies were soft. I made a sauce from vegetable broth, soy sauce and rice starch.  The sauce was added with a mix of different mushrooms.  This was cooked until the sauce thickened and served over brown rice.

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Breakfast was a Banana Apple Muffin with apple butter and an apple.  The muffin was made with apple butter and mashed banana.

Banana Apple Muffins

I had another the veggie burgers I made last week for lunch. I cut this one in half and made a open face sandwich on a black pepper roll.  One side has ranch dressing and spring mix.  The other has tomatillo salsa and slaw.  A little bit of ketchup went on both halves.

Veggie Burger

Dinner was leftover Shepard's Pie topped with sauteed onions and a mixed greens salad with ranch dressing.  I had a Banana Apple Muffin with Apple Butter for dessert.  It was such a icky rainy night, that a bottle of sparkling wine was in order.

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Tea of the Day

Breakfast was a repeat. A sprouted spelt tortilla topped with a scrambled tofu and veggie mix.  I added some of the tomatilla avocado salsa on the top to make it a little different.

Lunch was leftover fettuccine alfredo and the slaw.

I was really hungry in the afternoon and knew that I would be at the gym from 6:00 to 8:00.  So I had a Cliff Bar for a snack.  I do not think that it was strictly vegan because the chocolate chips seemed to be milk chocolate, not dark chocolate.  The print was too small to accurately read the label.  I know that Cliff's Builders bars are vegan, but I am not sure about the other products.  I have an Optometrist visit on Monday, so I get can an accurate reading glasses number.

Dinner was awesome.  I made a vegan Macaroni and Cheese.  First, some onions, garlic, carrot and yellow pepper were sauteed in Earth Balance.  In the food processor, I processed cashews, salt, pepper, rice milk and Earth Balance.   Then I added the veggie mix and processed it into a sauce. I really looked like a cheese sauce. I poured it over cooked macaroni (corn based gluten free macaroni) and topped with bread crumbs.  This was baked in the oven.  Meanwhile I heated some frozen corn, plum tomatoes, jalapeno, and yellow pepper on the stove top.  These two recipes made dinner.  The Mac and Cheese did not taste like real cheese, but it was full of flavor.  I made it before I went to the gym.  When I came home, Tommy had eaten two servings of the Mac and Cheese. I call that a success.  I had a glass of sparkling wine to compliment the meal.

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Breakfast was a sausage sandwich on some black pepper rolls that I made.  They were a basic yeast bread with a sponge and lots of pepper for flavor.  The condiments are ranch dressing and ketchup.

Black Pepper Roll

Lunch was a Black Bean tortilla.  I sauteed black beans, bell pepper, tomato and green onions.  The mix was on a spelt tortilla with some ranch dressing on top

tortilla

I also had a simple mixed green salad with tomatilla avocado salsa. The salsa was more like a guacamole.  I processed onion, tomatillas, avocado
and jalapeno with some salt and pepper to season it.

tomatilla salsa

For dinner that night we went to Jack's Bistro with some friends.  I had the vegan risotto.  This dish had mushrooms, carrot, and celery in it.  I also had a mixed drink and a glass of tempernillo.  Jack's has some the best cocktails in Baltimore. I had a dead weather which was made with rye, cherry almond syrup and bitters.

Risotto

Later at home we had a glass of sparkling wine.

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Breakfast started out pretty basic - oatmeal with banana and a little bit of maple syrup.

For lunch I did a mix of two different leftovers - the fettuccine alfredo and the  garlic harticot verts.

For dinner, we went out with friends to Aida Bistro in Columbia.  They have wine on tap and serve it in 3 and 5 oz glasses.  I started with a pomegrante martini and we given french baquette slices and olive oil.  For my first course I had a beet salad.  This was shaved beets and arugula.  It also have goat cheese that was not listed on the menu so I had to pick the cheese out of the salad.  My first glass of wine was a gewurtaminer.
I forgot to take a pic of the salad.  The next course was a duo of spreads.  One was the black truffle hummus and the other was a dill cheese spread.  I gave the cheese spread to the table.  I was I had thought to ask for 2 hummus servings instead.  The hummus was nice, but not as rich as I was used to.  Also, I could not  taste the black truffle.

Hummus an crackers

The main course was a quinoa and black bean casserole with corn and a tomato sauce.  Tommy ordered a bottle of Argyle sparkling for the table.

There was nothing on the dessert menu I could eat. I decided to go with a chocolate martini.  It was good, but the chocolate sauce appeared to be a chocolate cream sauce instead.  It was good and looks really  nice in the picture.

Chocolate Martini