If wishes were fishes...

Welp, if wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

I had a lot of optimism on the first, but ended up with a nice week long flu. I actually ate well below my points most days (easily, some days less than half), but I was a slothful bed monster from which no exercise could be coaxed.

Happily, I am again about 100% (such as it is), and will be restarting the exercise today. *yay!*

I did make a couple things that were new to me. A couple were before I got sick, and a couple since I have been "on the mend". Much as I love Pookie, he is good for either a sandwich or ramen when you are feeling under the weather. I like variety a bit too much to tax him very long for either ;)














Isa's chickpea picatta. The picatta was divine. I have quite a fondness for chickpeas, and will definitely be making this one over and over.

The southwestern black bean and corn soup was fine. This is the first time a vegan on the cheap recipe didn't blow my socks off. That said, the ingredients were cheap, on hand, and it wasn't bad. I thought it had a very simple taste to it. Pookie refused to have more than one serving. I had it for lunch for several days. To jazz it up a bit, I had a loaded potato (instead of the tortilla chips the recipe calls for).














Appetite for reduction's Unfried rice. I added 1c broccoli, 1c cauliflower, 1c mushrooms to it. Used brown rice as that is what I had made up already.

Tofu scramble from Instructables (I adore the continuity, that the Miller can is in all the pics). I was in the apple book store and saw they had a free vgn book download, this recipe is included in that. I like it a great deal, and it is to date Pookie's favorite Scramble *before this it was Vegan Mom's yellow plain scramble*. Served it with some mixed fingerlings.














As soon as I could stand cooking the first thing I made was this vegetable stew from vegweb. I really needed something easy and found The world's simplest hearty vegan crockpot stew. It was just the ticket. No sauteing. Makes a ton. I did use an acorn squash in place of the zucchini, and my huge crockpot was full to the brim. I can see how others had a problem getting all these ingreds into one pot! It is indeed stick to your ribs hearty, and just the thing for the cold Indiana winter.

Last night, I was feeling pretty good, and wanted comfort foods. I had plenty of points, so I made up some Mac and Trees from Appetite for reduction. Substituted whole wheat penne for the brown rice pasta, as that is what I had on hand. If that wasn't enough I wanted to piggy out. It was plenty for a meal on it's own but I had a brown rice, fat free refried bean burrito with salsa and 1/3 avocado. I did not have any snacks yesterday, and am fine on points.

When I see it in the picture though a part of me just goes on a rationalization rant from which there can be no escape. I need to become more friendly with my diet. I don't know what makes me think I should berate myself for a little piggy food consumption. The points are there to use. Calm down crazy!