Toasted Cucumber Sandwich

Day 334

Thursday, September 17

Toasted Cucumber Sandwich

Toasted Cucumber Sandwich

Old standby, like egg salad. Made with potato bread, butter, mayo, sliced cucumber, sea salt and pepper. Soooooo effing good.

Making a cucumber sandwich

Veggie Tempura

Day 333

Wednesday, September 16

Veggie Tempura

Uhhhhh.

We forgot to take pics of this. We did use mostly stuff from the garden, including sweet potatoes, broccoli, onions and zucchini, but also bought some mushrooms to fry up.

Can't give you the tempura batter recipe because I didn't blog it and Laura didn't memorize it, but she does remember the sauce she made.

Laura's Sauce
1/4 soy sauce
1 tsp sesame oil
Pinch of chili flakes
2 cloves garlic

Reviews/Comments

It was pretty good. I gave it an 8 and Missy gave it a 9.5. Laura gave it a 9 too, but added it was mostly because of the sauce.

Pizza Delight Take-Out

Day 332

Tuesday, September 15

Chunky Vegetable Greek Pizza & Garlic Fingers

Pizza Delight

Take-Out Menu

Starving and tired, so we ordered out. I placed the order online and went over to pick it up. Took the dog with me. Easy breezy.

Cian in the car in front of Pizza Delight

Hot pizza & garlic fingers inside

Chunky Vegetable Greek Pizza

This pizza is pretty good, although I find it a bit oily. Like they drizzle olive oil over it or something. Good though!

12" garlic fingers & 12" pizza

Reviews/Comments

It's Saturday now, and I'm playing catch-up with the blog because it was a tiresome week and I made pickles instead of blogging on the nights I wasn't out visiting someone, but as I recall we enjoyed our meal. PD definitely makes the best garlic fingers.

Burritos Extraordinaire

Day 331

Burritos Extraordinaire

Day three of Mexican fare, and I'll take it. We had yet more salsa fresca, as well as leftover beans, so Laura made a few more tortillas and we made burritos. They're just like huevos racheros but without the eggs, haha.

Burritos Extraordinaire

Ingredients
Fresh, homemade tortillas
Re-refried beans
Salsa fresca (day 3)
Grated cheddar
Sour cream
Sliced avocado

Tortilla cooking

Re-refried beans

Salsa fresca

Good & Healthy

I love that this meal is fairly healthy and definitely full of nutrients, not to mention protein. It also has some naughtiness in the sour cream and cheese, but those ingredients are served in smaller amounts than the huge dollop of beans and the generous helping of fresh, raw vegetables. Not to mention the health benefits the avocado adds.

Burrito, unwrapped

Reviews/Comments

I did buy more cheddar for this and it was year-old cheese. OMG, sooooo good. The salsa fresca was all the better for having had a chance to set for a few days and the flavors have melded. There is still more, and we're going to divide it and have it with tortilla chips for snacks at work tomorrow.

Huevos Rancheros

Day 330

Laura and I love, love, love huevos and we have been making them for nearly 10 years. This will be one of the meals we will have to give up when we go vegan. Well, we can still have a version of them, but they will just be called burritos.

Huevos Rancheros

Huevos Rancheros

We had a couple of tortillas and a lot of salsa fresca left over from last night, so this is what we came up with.

Huevos Rancheros Recipe
I posted the recipe for this on my Favorite Recipes page, so if you're inclined to make it Laura-style, here's the recipe. (rather than reinvent the wheel)

Refried beans
2 cups pinto beans
1 Ancho pepper
1 jalapeno pepper
1 Anaheim pepper
1 small onion, diced
1 tsp cuming
2 tsp salt
3 cloves garlic
1/4 tsp chipotle powder

Refried beans

Poached eggs
1.5 quarts water
2 eggs
1/3 cup vinegar
Leftover salsa fresca

Tortillas
Laura makes amazing tortillas; way better than the store-bought kind.

Tortilla warming

Salsa fresca

3 Purple Cherokee tomatoes

2 Kellogg's Breakfast tomatoes

2 jalapenos

1 green Flavorburst pepper

20 grape tomatoes, halved

1 onion, diced small

6 small cloves of garlic

1/2 cup fresh cilantro, chopped

Sprinkle of cumin

Juice of 1 1/2 limes

Salsa fresca

Serve with:
Sour cream
Grated cheddar

Cheese & sour cream

Huevos rancheros

Reviews/Comments

Excellent, as always. 10's.

Fajitas

Day 329

Fajitas

Salsa Fresca

Made with the world's finest ingredients, Laura's garden-fresh salsa fresca is a colorful delight that is sure to please even the most discerning of palates. (I should write ad copy, right?)

Ingredients

3 Purple Cherokee tomatoes

2 Kellogg's Breakfast tomatoes

2 jalapenos

1 green Flavorburst pepper

20 grape tomatoes, halved

1 onion, diced small

6 small cloves of garlic

1/2 cup fresh cilantro, chopped

Sprinkle of cumin

Juice of 1 1/2 limes

Salsa fresca ingredients

Salsa fresca

Fajitas

Again, Laura did all the slaving. All I did was slice some peppers and grill the "chicken" and avocado.

Fajita Ingredients

1 red pepper, sliced

1 yellow pepper, sliced

1 Ancho pepper, slivered

2 onions, sliced

3 vegetarian chicken breasts, grilled

4 cloves minced garlic

Cumin

Paprika

Smoked paprika

Onion powder

1/2 lime (juice)

3 - 4 tbsp water

2 tsp corn starch

Ancho pepper

Fajita Directions

Grill the veggies until slightly soft, then sprinkle cumin, smoked paprika, chipotle powder, regular paprika and onion powder on top and mix in with juice of half a lime, the water and corn starch and simmer until right consistency, then stir in 4 cloves minced garlic.

Grill the "chicken" breasts and slice them. Add to the veggie mixture. Serve on Laura's homemade tortillas. If you can't find Laura's homemade tortillas, settle for some store-bought ones or get Laura's recipe. It's worth it.

Sliced fajita veggies

Tortilla dough

Preparing Avocados

2 avocados 

1/2 lime

1 tbsp olive oil

Sprinkle of sea salt

Halve and pit the avocados, brush the olive oil and squeeze the lime over them and sprinkle with sea salt. Grill fruit side down for 3 minutes.

Grilled avocados

Making Fajitas

Place a grilled avocado on the plate and spoon some salsa on top of it. Serve with sour cream and green onions. Place tortilla on your plate and spoon some chicken/veggie mixture on it. Wrap tightly. 

Serving fajitas

Fajita

Reviews/Comments

This was as good as it looks. I love that you can eat something this delicious and get tons of nutrition to boot.

Lemon Garlic Kabobs with Grilled Naan

Day 326

Kabobs are as easy to make as anything else, but grilling in the dark is not ideal since you can't really tell how well they're cooked. But, we managed and it was really good.

Lemon Garlic Kabobs with Grilled Naan

Lemon Garlic Kabobs

Veggies

Portabello mushrooms

White mushrooms

Red Onion

Zucchini

Red pepper

Orange pepper

Marinade

Juice of 2 lemons

3 cloves of garlic

1/4 cup water

Sea salt

Making kabobs

Kabobs ready to grill

Grilled kabobs

Grilled Naan

Original recipe
Laura is the breadmaker, always. This is the second or third time she has grilled it on the barbeque and it's so good. They were nice and soft and buttery. Mmmmm.

Grilled naan

Reviews/Comments

I don't recommend grilling in the dark, but these turned out pretty well. I give the meal overall a solid 8. Very fresh and lemony.