October is such an awesome month. Sure, it’s got the candy lover’s dream, Halloween, but it has so much more going for it. Today is World Vegetarian Day so make sure you encourage our veggie friends to continue on their trek toward ethical eating. I also read that October is National Co-op Month, so I can see several trips to our favorite co-ops: The Ocean Beach People’s Organic Food Market, REI, and SDCCU. If all these things were reason to get excited, it is also Vegan Month of Food, aka Vegan MoFo. Our challenge for Vegan MoFo is to post about vegan food at least 5 days a week the whole month of October. It’ll be a challenge but one I’m looking forward to!
So, what yummy vegan food shall we talk about today? For lunch I had myself a yummy “mock tuna” salad sandwhich on some whole wheat bread. In my last blog post I talked about getting down and dirty with some homemade bread. Well, this past weekend I decided to have another go at it? This time I used 50% whole wheat bread to make things a little healthier than before. Once again, it turned out very well. For the visual learners, the photo below below shows the fruits of my labor.
Being totally bread crazy, I couldn’t just stop there. I had some very ripe bananas, a bag of dates, and some chocolate chips, which all rendevoused to form a nice little loaf of banana bread (the recipe was from “How it All Vegan”). I knew it wouldn’t last long so I snapped the photo seen below to remind myself of the power of bananas.
Unfortunately, as someone once said (at least I think someone said this): “Man cannot survive on bread alone.” As a result, I had to come up with something to pair with my bread. During my last trip to OB People’s, I saw they had kelp powdered in the bulk bins so I had to pick it up. I didn’t have to think long about how to employee the kelp: mock tuna salad was it. I also have designs on some mock fishsticks, most likely this recipe from Shmooed Food.
Today was another long day on campus for me but luckily Colleen was on the ball with some yummy chickpea cutlets and purple green beans for dinner. It was about a bajillion degrees outside today and it was sweltering in our apartment so I was very grateful that Colleen battled the heat for a wondeful dinner. Too bad I forgot to take photos before we started.
Well, I guess that’s about it for this edition of Vegan MoFo on our blog. Come on back tomorrow when we (hopefully) have another post.
- Sat
