Food time

Food time is the best time, especially when you have time to make good food! I have decided to take winter quarter off to write my thesis, and that means I've actually had time to enjoy life. I feel guilty if I don't do something athletic or productive every day, and I have time to make recipes that are more complicated than a granola bar. It is wonderful.

I'm going to share my obsessions for the week with you:

Fake scrambled eggs (tofu scramble):
This is due to my egg allergy. I'd always heard nutritional yeast tasted like egg-y, nutty, cheese, but I never tried it. So this week I got around to it, and made my new favorite breakfast food.
Ingredients (serves 2):
1 half onion
1/4 green pepper
1/2 jalapeno
2 cloves garlic
1/2 block tofu
1/4 cup salsa
salt, black pepper
1 Tbsp nutritional yeast
1/2 Tsp tumeric
olive oil

Dice onions and cook on medium in a 1 tbsp olive oil in a skillet. Add diced green pepper and jalapeno and garlic after two minutes. Allow the veggies to soften and cook before adding tofu chunks. Stir and add in salsa. When food is cooked turn off heat and add seasonings and yeast. Stir and serve.

You can forgo the salsa and put a diced tomato in the "eggs" too.

I also made a fantastic warm lentil salad, I was given the original idea from Yoga Journal, but I changed it up a bit:

Ingredients:
1 cup lentils
3 stalks celery
2 cups diced root veggies
2 cloves garlic
3 tablespoons diced fresh parsley
1 tablespoon olive oil
Sea salt and pepper
1/2 tsp thyme
2 Tbsp wine optional (I used white wine)
Juice of half a lemon

Rinse 1 cup brown lentils, then boil in 2 cups water with a pinch of salt for 25 minutes.

While that is going, roast 3 stalks of celery, and two cups finely chopped root veggies (I used half an onion, half a sweet potato, and 1 carrot) with two cloves garlic at 400 F for 20 minutes.Before roasting the veggies add 1 tablespoon olive oil, a half teaspoon of thyme, salt, and pepper (also 2 tablespoons wine if you have it), toss with your hands to evenly coat all the veggies.

When the lentils and the veggies are both cooked, mix them together with 3 tablespoons diced fresh parsley, and the juice of one half of a lemon. Stir up, and eat while warm.

Vegetarian superfood!

I should probably get ready to go to yoga, so I'll have to write more later, but I have more recipes to share. Happy Eating!