toasted 1/2 bagel with soynut butter and banana

last of the bean salad from last week in a whole wheat tortilla; small orange; generic fig newtons

red delicious apple; carrot; gingerbread pig from fiesta bakery

woodchuck hard cider; baked mac and cheeze from ’1,000 vegan recipes’ with collards; watermelon

tjs honey os with ricemilk. oj.

snack of dried cranberries and almonds.

lunch at charlie’s bar in andersonville: every single entree in this bar has meat except for the veggie burger, which is randomly vegan, homemade, and delicious. it was made mostly from rice and beans and flavored southwestern style. french fries.

amys black bean and veggie burrito. i’m going to go to the store tomorrow and we got the gas turned on on our range (the oven still doesn’t work) so hopefully my entry tomorrow will include a meal that i actually cooked.

apple

lunch buffet at pepper tree (all-vegan pan-asian: too many options to even list, and i think i tried them all and everything was amazingly delicious. i would drive the three hours back to houston just to go to this restaurant, and probably will at some point)

sour lemon mamba

back in austin: free beer (fireman’s four) at a talk about holography at the austin forum on science technology & society. more free beer (cheap stuff) while browsing videos at i <3 video (free beer tuesdays)

roasted squash boats filled with salsa (raw creole tomato and onion, cumin, oregano, sea salt, ground black pepper, sriracha); steamed spinach with currants and balsamic; watermelon with lime

two fig newtons

whole wheat bagel with tofutti cream cheese. oj.

last of the tjs chick pea curry with rice

a few tortilla chips

amy’s enchilada frozen dinner. meh.

cinnamon raisin toast, banana

super green burrito from juan’s flying burrito. i contend that this is the best burrito i’ve ever had. mango iced tea from still perkin’

on drive back to houston: apple; snyder’s of hanover hard salted pretzels; whole wheat bagel with cedar’s spinach artichoke hummus and creole tomato from a roadside stand; watermelon; sour mamba, and classic mamba for comparison (not a huge difference, but i liked the sour a little better, especially sour lemon and raspberry); more watermelon

more pretzels and hummus

honey os with ricemilk. oj.

cinnamon pound cake from fritz pastry; iced king crimson tea

leftovers from victory’s banner and the last of the pizza

cranberries and almonds in peanut butter

a few tortilla chips

some long since expired tjs chick p curry (it was fine!) with brown basmati rice

best discovery of the week: a place about a block away which serves vegan gelato. i got a cone with hazelnut, chocolate, and strawberry balsamic. the hazelnut was soy based and the chocolate and strawberry were water based, whatever that means

wow where is everybody lately? big travel plans? i feel a little lonely over here

i don’t know if i’ve already mentioned this, but we couldn’t get someone to come turn our gas on until the seventh, so my food for the next couple of days is going to be a combination of leftovers from my parents’ visit and things i can cook without a stovetop or oven. i have some ideas.

anyway

tjs bagel with tofutti cream cheese. oj.

leftover pizza

mochi balls that andrea and i got in little vietnam, molasses flavored

freedom bbq/potluck: parts of two pizzas that were grilled on the bbq. apparently tjs sells pizza dough in a frozen little ball? i will have to investigate this further. anyway, they were both just a bunch of veggies and marinara sauce on dough with olive oil, and one in particular had some pretty strong traces of cheese from the non-vegan portions of the pie. it tasted so weird!

also white wine, and lots of it

breakfast: banana; garlic bagel with earth balance

lunch: cape cod salt and vinegar chips; gatorade (lemonade flavor)

dinner while camping along the Appalachian Trail: tortillas filled with canned peas, canned corn, fire roasted red onion, fire roasted red pepper, fire roasted okra (from the garden- i didn’t really work), and bush’s grillin beans- southern pit bbq (not all of their flavors are vegan, so read the label)

dessert: s’mores (graham crackers; marshmallows and chocolate- all vegan obviously)

drinks while camping: yuengling (yes, we hiked in with beer)

breakfast at victory’s banner: eggless wonder (stir fry with veggies, brown rice, marinated tofu. served with hearth bread)

leftover pho from the other day

potluck bbq dinner: i made sweet potato cookies. they were supposed to be pumpkin cookies (i think the recipe is in the archive) but it turns out there was a bad crop of pumpkins last year and as a result most grocery stores aren’t carrying canned pumpkin at the moment. so i used canned yams and just washed the “light syrup” off of them. it turned out pretty much the same as the pumpkin cookies usually do, which is to say great.

the other thing i made was a chick pea/cous cous/canned tomato mixture wrapped inside of steamed collard greens and then grilled. the grilling was a nice touch, it made the collards less chewy than they have been in the past.

i also ate tons of chips and homemade guac, a portabella “burger” topped with a friend’s homemade salsa on a whole wheat bun, and grilled corn smeared with earth balance, salt, pepper. homemade sangria. homemade blueberry vegan pie.

wow, as i write this i’m realizing that i had a top notch eating day. nice.

coffee

lunch: leftover food from yesterday’s dinner (roasted beets+beet greens, vegan sausage, pierogi, apple sauce, sour cream)

dinner cooked by Jonah: rice, beans, vegetables, baked squash

another sip of mezcal