Veggie and Tofu Stir-Fry and Semi-Veggie Week 2

Vegetable and Tofu Stir-Fry

Week two of semi vegetarian eating! Monday I had off for MLK day.  Roomie and I decided to make it a be lazy day. It was also a true vegetarian day, as neither of us usually has meat at breakfast (we made challah French toast yum) and then we tried out Little Star deep dish pizza, famed to be the best pizza in San Francisco. They might be right – their namesake pizza was DELISH! (and vegetarian!). But, on to recipes you can try yourself! After failing to find paneer at wholefoods for the recipe I wanted to make, I found this Vegetable and Tofu Stir-Fry on my old standby recipe site, allrecipies.com. I’ve been using that site for YEARS! As usual, I made a couple changes. Neither of us are fans of bamboo shoots, so I left that out. Roomie forgot to buy the sprouts, so I also left that out. The comments said some people liked cooking the tofu first, and adding some sesame sauce, so I used ¾ of the tablespoon veggie oil and the other quarter sesame oil, and cooked the tofu first, before putting the other things in. We also made a double batch of sauce, on some people’s recommendations that there were so many veggies, they needed it. And there were a lot of veggies. It took the two of us a while to cut them all, and I had to transfer to a bigger pan partway through. Even so, roomie could hardly stir them! We may need to invest in a wok if we’re going to continue eating vegetarian things.. The sauce took forever to thicken; we added more cornstarch to try to get it to thicken up, it did a bit but never really much, and after a long while, we gave up. It tasted fine. We could have used maybe one and a half sauce recipe instead of double, but it was fine. Pretty sweet. I used up more of the csa bok choy (we had gotten a lot, there’s still more) and a green pepper that was going to go bad if we didn’t use it, and that’s how I found this recipe. It was good. Not super scrumptious, but tasty. The hardest part is cutting everything, good to have someone else to help. We ate it over couscous and it was SO filling! This recipe says it serves four, the two of us ate it with probably a half a helping left over. But we’re big eaters, so it definitely will serve three normal eaters.

Roomie left for the week the next day, so i did not try any new recipes by myself. I did keep up the vegetarian with leftovers, indian kati rolls, mac n cheese and a stirfry made of leftovers from the fridge. One thing I have to say about all this healthy eating… there’s no turning back once you’ve started. I spent the day at my friend’s house on saturday, we had a few mimosas and i never drink. champagne has so much sugar, i was sugar rushed for hours later and could hardly sleep. When you eat so healthy, i guess you really have to pay for your fun! Once you begin the trip down the healthy eating road, any pitstops are felt very dearly by your body. Makes me kinda think twice about giving up any more unhealthy things in the future…after all, gotta live life.

Little Star Pizza from Little Star Pizza

Leftovers Stirfry

Love French Toast

So Much Sugar Overload at a Friend's House