#74 Tempeh Picatta



Tempeh picatta with garlic kale

 After looking through Michelle's copy of Chloe's Kitchen and becoming obesessed with this recipe, I bought it yesterday. This was realy easy to make and was quite tasty. I'm a sucker for picatta sauce. I think my onion was too big because the sauce was a little heacy on the onions. Next time I'm going to use less or a smaller onion. I loved the fresh parsley and lemony flavor. I am currently in love with tempeh, so this was a perfect dinner for me. Note to self: Next time, be sure to brown the tempeh a bit more! When I looked at the picture in the book, Chloe's was much darker than mine.

I suateed garlic in olive oil until it was slightly brown then tossed in a bunch of kale, mixing in the garlic and olive oil. I put a lid on it and turned off the heat. Before serving, I drizzled a little basalmic vinegar on top.
These two were very yummy together. There wasn't even any leftovers. Yummm!!!

#73 Fettuccine Alfredo

The first dinner I made in the new house!!

Part of my amazing birthday present from Lynzie was a gift card to Vroman's. I used it to purchase Chloe Coscarelli's new book Chloe's Kitchen. She was the first vegan winner of Cupcake Wars! Woohoo!!! I haven't been this excited about a cookbook in a long time. I kept taking pictures and sending them to Lynzie. She rushed out and grabbed a copy too, so you'll be seeing more from this fabulous book soon!

I had everything I needed to make the cashew based Alfredo sauce (I love it when that happens) so I went with this recipe first. It was super simple, and fast. I really liked the mellow flavor and rich creaminess. I used brown rice fettuccine and served it with the Best Garlic Bread in the World (another recipe from the book). Wow. My new favorite garlic bread. The nutritional yeast gives it a flavor reminiscent of Parmesan...from what I can remember anyway.

I'm so excited about this latest addition to my cookbook library! It's an absolute steal for 11 bucks!

#72 Bacon Ranch Burger

So Tasty!

For dinner tonight, I grilled a Gardein Beefless Burger. I also cooked up a couple slices of Tofurkey Tempeh Bacon because I'm obsessed with it. I layered a toasted bun in this order:

Ranch (on both sides of the bun)

Gardein

Tempeh bacon

Tomato

Avocado 

Thinly sliced pickles

Lettuce

I served this with baked french fries and cole slaw. This is the same cole slaw recipe that I posted here. 

It was really yummy but was way too much for for me. I only ended up eating about half my burger. 

Sean ate it all though! He made his a little different. He had his with a ton of lettuce, mushrooms and onions instead of bacon.  He also opted for Veganaise and a sweet/hot mustard instead of ranch.

Sean's delicious looking burger

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#71 Breakfast Bagel

This is one of my favorite breakfasts. It's a Works bagel from Goldsteins, toasted and topped with Tofutti cream cheese, red onion, tomato, capers, salt & pepper. From Starbucks we have a venti soy misto with 1 pump cinnamon dolce. Delicious.

I'm hoping to cook a real meal in the new kitchen very soon! I had my first bake session there today, it was a cookie success. The little boy (with serious food allergies) they were ordered for loved them!

#70 Goddess Niçoise Salad

So many yummy ingredients!

This is another recipe from Appetite For Reduction. This is one of my favorites from the book. As you can see the salad is made of tomatoes, steamed potatoes, red onion, green, beans, kalamata olives, and a chickpea "tuna," served on a bed of romaine.

The picture I took is without the dressing. The recipe for the dressing follows the recipe for the salad. The dressing is the best part! It's green, garlicky and delicious, with 2 of my most loved dressing ingredients: tahini and miso! I always double the dressing so I have some left over.

I love this salad. I make it for dinner because it's so filling. Yumm!

#69 Garlicky Mushrooms & Kale w/Quinoa

This hit the spot! I was in need of some good ol' fashioned health food. Maybe because of my last convo with Lynzie. It involved tempeh, granola, dreads, and patchouli. Hahaha!

This recipe is from Appetite for Reduction. Super quick and easy. Garlic, mushrooms, kale, olive oil, salt & pepper. That's it! I had some quinoa cooked in the fridge and it was perfect! Tasted fantastic with a glass of red wine. The recipe says it serves four however, I ate half of it and I'm considering seconds...looks like another one for the doubling files.

#68 Loaded Baked Potato

That's tempeh bacon not pecans!

This is something I like to make when I know I'm getting home late. I call Sean and have him put the potatoes in the oven about an hour before I think I'll be home. When I get home all I have to do is steam the broccoli and cook up the tempeh bacon.

I mash Earth Balance into the potato and top it with steamed broccoli, daiya cheddar and crumbled tempeh bacon. I add a dollop of Black Creek dressing.

Presto! Dinner is done in 20 minutes (except the time the potato is baking)!!