Vegan Dinner: Tempeh Burger Stir Fry, Quinoa, and BEETS!!!
19 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
in Food, Health and Healthy Living, Recipes Tags: beets, food, health, quinoa, recipe, tempeh, vegan, vegetarian
How have I managed to go 25 years without eating a boiled beet? Please, someone explain to me why I tried plain beets in all their glory for the first time a few days ago?
They’re STUNNING! Sweet like a sweet potato. Soft yet not a mushy texture.
For dinner tonight, we had tempeh burger stir fry, with boiled beets and Quinoa.
Boiled Beets:
Boil for 30-45 mins. Drain. Scrub off skins with a paper towel (they come off pretty easily).
Quinoa:
Put quinoa with water in rice cooker. Crumble up an organic veggie buillion cube into water. Stir. Press “Cook”.
Stir Fry:
Dice onions and garlic. Sautee in pan with olive oil.
Dice tempeh burgers, zucchini and cut cauliflower into florets. Add to sautee pan.
Add ground cumin and coriander
Add chili powder
Add soy sauce
Excuse me while I OMNOMNOMNOMNOM 
Recipes for the Lazy Cook – #002 – Banana Rice
11 May 2011 Leave a Comment
in Books, Food, Recipes Tags: banana, books, cooking, food, Going Solo, laziness, recipe, rice, Roald Dahl, soy sauce
1.) Microwave a bowl of leftover rice
2.) Add some soy sauce
3.) Slice in a ripe banana
I discovered the deliciousness of this banana rice combination this hungry morning. I happened to have some leftover japanese rice in the fridge, and intended to quickly carb it up with some dark mushroom soy sauce and call it a breakfast. Then I looked at my fruit tray on top of the microwave and saw a couple of sad looking bananas that were going spotty. Then decided to slice one into my rice, just for kicks.
Actually pretty good. Nice balance of sweet and savoury.
In Roald Dahl’s autobiographical ‘Going Solo’, about his time in the RAF during WWII, he mentions one of the cooks making a rice dish with bananas (plantains), and this has always stuck in the back of my head as sounding fairly delicious, because Roald Dahl said it was delicious. I think I tried making it once as a kid, boiling the bananas with brown rice, and it turned out fairly miserable and I had to throw it away.
Simple, comforting, delicious. Good discovery.
Days 1-2 of #SFU Rowing Crew Summer Training
10 May 2011 Leave a Comment
in Exercise, Food, Recipes, Rowing, Running, Simon Fraser University Tags: 2011, Burnaby Lake, crew, exercise, health, rowing, running, SFU, Simon Fraser University, Steve Hannah, weight loss
Summer is that wonderful semester where all the misery of Fall and Spring rowing (cold, rain, snow, ice, wind, dark) are quickly forgotten, where the Novice and Senior teams join forces, and where everyone gets to row…a lot.
Day 1: May 9
Yesterday we got out at 5:30am for our first row of the summer semester at Burnaby Lake. It was gorgeously non-rainy, relatively warm, and light already! Mika and I went sculling in the 2x. The workout was a steady state technique row. It was only Mika’s 2nd time sculling, so we paddled around for a bit at first, but her technique rapidly improved, and soon, we were rowing all the way down the lake in a relatively straight line! All within an hour of practicing! Good stuff! We even got a couple power tens in there, with increased pressure and rate.
Day 2: May 10
7am: Weights/Core @ SFU Recreation Centre. Rowing is a power based sport, so it is essential to build up those muscles in addition to aerobic fitness. A couple of new exercises added to this semester’s circuit: wood chop and chest press.
Noon: Not scheduled on the training plan, but Alex and I go run the 10km loop around Burnaby Lake. I’m practicing running with my hydration belt and iPhone/earbuds, because I will be wearing them for my marathon in September. Figured out how to wear the belt properly, and it’s staying low on my hips and not riding up anymore. Huzzah! It was cloudy and threatening to rain, so I wore my long sleeve crop under a tech t-shirt, with capris…and then was way too warm. Blah. It’s always such a trick to get that perfect combination of layers for running. Oh. And tried my Vanilla Bean GU carb gel today. Pleasant tasting. Kind of like cupcake batter.
Aches and Pains:
Oh how lovely. Yesterday for some reason my left hip decided to stop functioning age appropriately, so today, I thought an easy run would help loosen it out (usually works). I’m sure you’ve probably guessed from the title to this section that that left hip is still hurting, and wouldn’t you know it, you’re right. Rolled it out a bit on my foam roller and it’s a little bit better.
On the plus side, I got to watch a cooking show while rolling out my hip…all about healthy snacks – roasted carrot dip, white bean dip, flatbread crackers, healthy popcorn toppers – NOM! I will definitely have to try these out sometime. See http://www.cbc.ca/bestrecipes/2011/03/smart-snacks.html for recipes.
Last note for today: GOING TO SEE THE JAMES BLUNT CONCERT TONIGHT! 
Steve and I are both huge fans, so it should be really quite a lot of fun.
Recipes for the Lazy Cook – #001 – Four Ingredient Pasta
12 Apr 2011 Leave a Comment
in Food, House and Home, Peculiarly Awesome, Recipes Tags: cheese, cooking, garlic, laziness, pasta, recipe
1.) Pasta
2.) Shredded Parmesan Cheese
3.) Garlic Powder
4.) Pepper
Boil Pasta. Drain. Top with Parmesan cheese, garlic powder, pepper. Microwave for 30 seconds.
π Day 2011 – March 14, 2011
14 Mar 2011 Leave a Comment
in Food Tags: apple, baking, coconut, cream cheese, crust, π, pi, pie, rhubarb, splenda
How better to celebrate π Day (3/14) than by baking and eating PIE?
A friend of mine hosted Pi day at her house, where we baked and ate pie…everything from spanakopita spinach pie, to apple and red wine pie, to pizza pie!
Silly old me, having never actually baked a pie before in my entire life, decided to finally make a pie.
Pi Day 2011 Rhubarb Pie
Rhubarb filling sweetened with Splenda! However, the flour and splenda didn’t mix very well with frozen rhubarb so next time i think i might pre-cook the filling a bit first so that it gets properly gooey in the baking process.
The crust, however, turned out truly delish. Flour, butter, and Philadelphia Spreadable Cream Cheese. Weird, but again, really really tasty. Easy to work with, too when raw.
Tomorrow (3/15) I’m having a π + 0.01 pie eating party where more pies will be baked and eaten. Will be attempting a coconut cream pie.
NOM!
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