Friday's lunch was easy enough to make though and one of my favourites, lettuce wraps! Normally made with ground chicken in my world, this version with mushrooms was delightful. I love looking forward to what I eat!
This weekend's eats allowed me to let others do the cooking for me. Luckily I have a handful of friends who can put up w/ my food neuroses and will accompany to restaurants that I would have never even gone to a few years ago!
Started off dining with my wonderful friend Rochelle who is getting into clean eating as well. On Friday night we went to Fresh, a delicious vegetarian restaurant in Toronto. God bless them for having two locations near my house and opening one by my office! All week I've had a crazy craving for sweet potato fries and I was able to get them here b/c they make their BBQ sauce in house - I avoid the Kraft's of the world w/ their phood like ketchup chock full of ingredients you'll never find in a grocery store but rather in a chem lab. Seriously, they were so good that my delicious main, their beach bowl, just sat there and went into a takeout container as I continued to wolf the fries down. If they weren't going to charge me the extra $1 for more sauce I would have polished off the whole container, but you can see how far I got w/ them in the pic (they're hiding behind the beach bowl!)
Saturday morning after TRX I hit up Evergreen Brickworks specifically for Doug McNish's gluten-free coconut crusted french toast with tempeh bacon - SO GOOD. I love that I can trust that anything he prepares will be healthful for me. Naturally I was ravenous and forgot to take a picture (you'd think I'd get better at this!) but luckily I was able to scoop an image from his Facebook page:
Oh, and a note on tempeh: I read somewhere that tempeh can convert the biggest steak lover. Whoever said that is a rotten liar. I had two tempeh experiences over the weekend and both made me sad that I had some in my freezer. It ain't tasty.
Saturday night I had a crazy craving for pizza. Let's note that Lisa is not a big pizza person. I hated it as a kid and only gave it a try because I had a crush on Michelangelo (clearly the Ninja Turtle, not the artist). Actually that craving hit me on Friday and I ignored it but by Saturday, eff it, I had to. People at my old company raved about the Magic Oven and I knew I could get a gluten-free, vegan pizza from there, as fun-free as it sounded. Verdict? Pas mal.
It's obviously a white-flour gluten free crust but I wasn't about to die over it. Some things I just make peace with. It hit the spot, not something I'll probably ever crave again but if you're avoiding gluten and dairy, I'd certainly recommend it.
Sunday's kitchen adventure (single) was lame. Just some brown rice rotini with sauteed king oyster mushrooms, sundried tomatoes, onions and spinach. Make no mistake, totally yum. But a regular from my repertoire. Dinner was a simple baked sweet potato with maple syrup, cinnamon and olive oil and when I got home around 11:00 (I know, too late to eat) I made my quickie apple crumble.
Dear Lisa: just because maple syrup isn't refined sugar doesn't mean it won't have an effect on your sugar levels. STOP IT!
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