A4R food, okara falafels, and indian vegan kitchen

Boy howdy!

I can't seem to stay outta the kitchen! It certainly feels that way sometimes. Usually it's the lure of a new recipe or ingredient that coaxes me to the icy kitchen.

My Pookie's 41st birthday was this past weekend, and I likes to feed the people I love. I made him pancakes and served them in bed. I even brought him butter without being snarky bout it, lol. That's right, I don't know how to stop giving ;)


For lunch I cracked open appetite for reduction (or clicked Ibooks, scrolled down), and found just the thing for Pookie's delight. I made him the Tofu masala accompanied by the spinach-potato curry. He actually said this is delicious! Usually food is just fine.. or good. High praise indeed. Turns out, I couldn't handle the spicy tofu, so he got to enjoy it all weekend long! lol



I made the Arabian lentil soup. It was wonderful, comforting, and perfect timing for me being sick last week. I don't have a good pic of it. I had it sorted into containers for easy portion control. It calls for brown basmati, which I can't find in my town, so I used regular basmati.



I had bought a bit of asparagus at Costco a week or two ago (I went asparagus nuts!), and wanted to find a simple recipe that didn't overshadow it's awesomeness. I found this recipe for Spicy Vegan Quinoa with asparagus and shiitake mushrooms at Foods For Long Life and it was absolutely perfect in every way (like Mary Poppins, yes).


I had planned to make this tomato basil okara bread, since my freezer had none, and my fridge had loads of okara. I decided instead to use this recipe for okara falafel from vegweb. It uses FOUR CUPS of okara, wooo! I actually still have a cup or two left in the fridge, so I may make that bread yet :P The falafel turned out fine, I am sure had I fried them, I'd be over the moon about them haha. I baked them instead to keep them point friendly. The recipe makes 30, 2 per serving was 4PP. I used whole wheat flour, no other substitutions.


I bought some dal awhile back, and got distracted by the new cookbooks that came out (looking at you happy herbivore & appetite for reduction). So, I was in the kitchen staring at my unopened bags of beans, and decided it could stand no longer. I decided to try two of the new dal. I made Black gram & bengal gram dal from the Indian vegan kitchen. I also made the Spinach and Bengal gram dal and some basmati. Serving size for both dal is 1/2c.


I missed my weigh in this past Monday. I had wanted to go but didn't want to get the other wwers sick. I ate a lot of salt and didn't exercise so I am probably up. We'll see what happens next Monday!