Dinner tonight was so delicious, but so not photogenic! Part of it is that the sauce turns out sort of a grayish color, and part of it is that I used white satin carrots from our CSA that didn't add the usual orange carrot color. I used the usual recipe for "chicken" (aka baked tofu) a la king, and it was delicious, as always.
Also, we are trying out a new kind of orange. Chip is "meh" about oranges, but I told him he can't take them away from me! We've only got four fruits that he'll eat (apple, orange, banana, watermelon), and I refuse to cede oranges. I've read that Cara Cara Navels are delicious, as well as being a beautiful shade of red, and I hope that he enjoys this one.
"Chicken" a la king with CSA carrots, organic corn, organic peas, organic mushrooms, and organic tofu, organic steamed brown rice, organic Thompson raisins, organic dark chocolate, organic dried cranberries, banana, and a Cara Cara Navel orange.
This is post number 100! There aren't quite 100 lunches here yet though; some of the posts were a bit off-topic. Maybe for lunch 100 I'll do something fancy. More likely is that I'll forget (just like until I started posting right now I forgot that this was post number 100) and whine about forgetting.
So...here's lunch. Chip Skyped me from work today at about 3:00 and told me he was a bit hungry. "Lunch suggestion: if there's a slightly empty container, fill it with chocolate. And nuts." So I attempted to do that here, and I hope he can stay satisfied til he gets home for dinner. I told him to save the nuts/chocolate/dried fruit for a mid-afternoon snack...we'll see if that actually happens.
"Chicken" a la king, steamed organic brown rice, organic Thompson raisins, banana, homemade clean oatmeal cookies, organic macadamia nuts, organic cashews, organic raw almonds, and organic dark chocolate.
Clean Eating Magazine! That's right; I am a subscriber. I got my first issue in the mail on Saturday. While it's not a vegetarian publication, they do focus on eating healthy, whole foods (clean eating = "consuming food its most natural state"). I'm hoping to get us eating cleaner and feeling healthier than we have been. That means saying goodbye to meat substitutes and hello to vegetarian proteins like tofu, seitan, beans, lentils, and tempeh.
Clean eating endorses the consumption of 5 small meals throughout the day (or more like 3 meals and 2 snacks). It definitely takes some planning, as far as stocking the kitchen with appropriate foods, as well as eating the right stuff at the right time. I'm a big mindless eater (and I'm a cookie-holic) and I hope to learn to break that habit.
So...I present our first lunch with a Clean Eating Magazine recipe! I made Chicken A La King (substituting broiled tofu for the chicken, and veggie stock for the chicken stock) and it was a HUGE hit. I've been craving my mom's chicken pot pie for years and this really hit the spot! The mag served it in whole wheat wraps, but I decided to go the less messy route and serve it over brown rice steamed in veggie broth. We both ate sensible portions and had plenty left over for both of us to have lunch tomorrow. I can't wait to try more clean eating recipes!
"Chicken" a la king, brown rice (organic tofu, organic veggie stock, mushrooms, organic local milk, flour, organic peas, organic carrots, onion, organic corn, salt, black pepper), Nature Valley granola bar, Whole Foods veggie crackers with local Colby cheese, and a whole Gala apple.
