Fried Rice

Only the vegetable loving vegans in our house like this, but we do like it!

https://runningonrealfood.com/healthy-vegan-cauliflower-fried-rice/

I food processed the cauliflower.  I started chopping the small head by hand, but my arms were really sore from body pump so I got out the food processor.  I'm glad I did.  It took less than 14 seconds to make the rice (my food processor has a timer on it).  If I'd chopped by hand, I'd probably still be standing there chopping instead of having already devoured this.

I did pretty much what she suggested at the above link, heated the pan with the sesame oil, poured in peas and carrots (I didn't measure, but about 1/3 of a bag -- mine were frozen and the carrots are match strip cuts so they cooked super quickly).

I stuck the corn in (probably also about 1/3 of a small bag of roasted corn), some garlic 1 teaspoon of chopped dried, and the cauliflower with 3/8ths of a cup of soy sauce. I also put in some onion powder 'cause I didn't have green or regular onions, and the red pepper flakes.  I added a few shakes of Bragg's Amino Acids -- I didn't count, but quite a few with some squirts... probably about 1/2 - 1 teaspoon.

We ate it as soon as it had cooked for about 6 minutes and we love it!  File under another recipe we'll make again!

I was going to make this, but I didn't have all the ingredients.  Hopefully I'll make this next weekend, but I don't know.  It's going to be hard to NOT make this fried rice.

(And I forgot to take a picture.  We devoured quickly!  Next time!)

Philly

I'm a little over a month behind on many things...

We went to Philly in June and who knew there was such good VEGAN food there?

https://puresweets.com/

This was dinner one night.  OMG, so good.  I would go back in a heartbeat to eat there again.  They had a super fun "cheese" board as a starter, awesome pizza, good burgers (the buns weren't my favorite, but that is my only mild complaint).  Amazing desserts--brownies, tiramisu, ice cream sandwiches on delicious cookies.

And then there was

http://hipcityveg.com/

Fast food vegan, with all compostable wrappers/plastic ware.  So tasty -- we ate there twice.  They had fun milkshakes!  I loved the Philly "cheesesteak" wrap and the curry wrap ... I had a bite of the Bistro Bell....YUM!  I could have eaten there a few more times, but we were only there for 3 days.

I am hopeful that when I go to DC for work I'll get to go to the Hip City Veg there.

We also had dinner at my nephew's house and he made is what I am now calling "the Philly burrito."  I'll share what I've done with it since I've come home.

I didn't get pictures of food 'cause I was too busy shoving the food in my face... Here's a picture of the girls with their cousin at the Ben Franklin Science Museum.  We enjoyed Philly!

 

Vegan sushi

 

Nori

Cucumber

Avocado

Tomato

Sushi rice (grown in CA)

Roll

Here are the spices in the tomatoes...1/2 tablespoon soy sauce or tamari,  1/2 teaspoon minced ginger,  1/2 tablespoon sriracha, 1/2 tablespoon sesame oil, 1/2 tablespoon kelp powder

For the rice (at the end of the cooking cycle) 1 tablespoon rice vinegar, 2 teaspoons sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt

See http://www.carrotsandflowers.com/vegan-sushi-tomato-spicy-tuna/ for the full recipe, the beautiful pictures, and the directions.  

I was intimidated, but it really was pretty easy.  

Oh, you need a SUPER sharp knife for cutting you sushi.  Fortunately, Nick got me new ones for Mother's Day.  (I need to blog about them.)  Natalie, Tia, and I loved this and can't wait to make it again!

 

Watermelon!

 

little one

 

~29 hours later! 

 

A bigger one.

 

 A very little one.

So excited!

The garden in July

 

We have beans, artichokes, zucchinis, corn, tomatoes and sunflowers.  They are all very happy and tall. 

Zucchini

 

It's that time of year again!  

This year, I made a roasted zucchini hummus instead of a raw zucchini hummus.  All I did was slice the zucchini, brush it with olive oil, and then roast it for about 40 minutes.  When it cooled, I made the hummus with the recipe on the previous page with the slight exception of cutting back on the tahini.  

We've also made zucchini bread (3x I think) -- Nick's specialty, roasted zucchini with pasta sauce, and a raw hummus.  The zucchini hummus (roasted or raw) is a very good pasta sauce!  

I'm looking for more zucchini recipes.  I have 2 very large ones sitting on my calendar.  Maybe my friend wants one (or two).  

In sad news, our apricot tree isn't doing so well and we didn't get any apricots from it.  Well, I guess we got about 10, but that's pretty sad considering we were getting so many a couple of years ago. 

Green kid

Today's spirit outfit for school.