Jenna's Adventures: 2nd Week of Veganisms

Phewwww!! Had a scare for a moment. Usually the pictures I take during the week I modify them with nice little borders and stuff and then post them here. However, when I transferred those photos over to my computer they disappeared into the abyss of "your file is no longer and has never been here-sorry, you may throw your computer into the street now and laugh every time it gets hit by a car" folder or something. So, I was a bit unhappy by that. Until---duh---it dawned on me that I still had the unpretty originals. Woot! Everybody dance now! \(-0-*)/

Okay, so the pics won't be pretty this week, but at least I have something. Food this week was about the same as last week with the few exceptions you'll see below. I made my usual vegan mozzarella cheese, tortillas, and soy milk from scratch. However I made a few other things that were new to me this week that were interesting. (-_-)...

As a whole this week, I'm still fine. Unfortunately didn't lose any more weight, but I did workout about the same (or less I should say) amount: walked 2hrs 20m, Zumba 2 hr, an hour bike ride, and ran approximately 40 minutes this week. I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos about different types of vegan foods, diets, and so forth.

Pics:

Homemade tortillas and vegan mozzarella cheese.

Always a winning combination. Though the week coming up I'll limit the tortilla's to one everyday or every other day.

Soy milk action time!
Here is one version I've used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDdzSr7RqC8
Except now I don't take off the shells of the beans anymore because it was an utter waste of my time and life!

Bean have been soaked and ready for blending

Blending- looks like milk uh?

the most messy process, removing the "chunks"

cook it for at least 30 or else it's super soy beany

Usually I have a small cup of it after it's done. I added cinnamon to this one.

Breakfast!
Bran Pancakes of Chalky Goodness--Not.

So most of my breakfast this week has been Okonomiyaki. But I messed up and put waaaaaaaay too much celery (my worst enemy) and it just tasted so yucky. By Thursday I was done with it and made tortilla's with some onion and leftover chickpea salad.
However, Saturday morning I had these non-delicious utterly fiber full pancakes of soon to be regret and despair! Hey with enough syrup and peanut butter you can make cardboard taste good right? They needed bananas or flavor or something that resembles delicious. I followed this recipe for Buckwheat pancakes but used bran instead (for some unknown reason) and it's just a no. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwC8bu7qte0 However, I do have leftovers and will eat them because I hate to waste food, unless it's celery.... evil vicious celery....

Lunch!

Tortilla Greatness with Yummy Stuff on Top of them!
Just like I mentioned with breakfast, I'd put a tortilla down with some mock-zerrella cheese, cooked onion, and chickpea salad on top. Minus the onion and add some lettuce was most lunch days.

Broccoli stems with veggie delight!
I found some broccoli stems (they are broccoli without the flower portions- sold here) and decided to stir fry them with carrots, cashews, garlic, and Chinese/Japanese sauces. It was good, but dang make sure you steam the heck out of the broccoli stems or you'll be chewing for days.

Zucchini Spaghetti
So, I found zucchini!!! And totally forgot the millions of recipes I wanted to make with them, if I was to ever find them in this part of the world! So, I tried to make zucchini noodles with tomatoes, mushrooms, chives, fake cheeze, and garlic. It turned out very well- a bit on the sweeter side. I think pepper would have solved all my concerns. So I'm happy with this one!

Out to eat!

Japanese!

So some days we go out to eat. We had Japanese again! Blackwood had a vegan steak which was two portabella mushrooms of sadness. We had some nommies Indian food (one of our favorites). But the best this week would be our vegetarian restaurant. They had some special fried rice that was entirely green! Apparently they made a sauce from Taiwan cilantro and thus green fried rice. Frank was delighted by this dish. I'm avoiding rice this week to help the whole lose weight process.

sadness

Green Fried Rice

Indian

Dinner

Last week's special and extra

I had made Takikomi again and threw that together with some sour Chinese cabbage (cabbage cooked in Chinese vinegar and garlic). Along with my usual from last week. Probably a tortilla or two as well. Dinner wasn't bad this week at all, just the same story.

Snacks

Most of the snacks this week have been the same. Fruit, veggie chips, and nuts. However I made ohagi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qau8jLPltjM an exceptionally messy but fun mochi like thing to make. Mine wasn't the greatest. I also don't eat that much rice so I left like 80% of it in the fridge for a few days and guess what doesn't taste good after a while? ... yup... like hard snowballs of sandpaper nastiness. But it was neat to make.