No Tofu For Me


Welcome to my food blog.

I try to eat healthy which is difficult because I am currently living in the midwest and I was raised in the DEEP South, which means I grew up with the philosophy that absolutely everything can be fried and gravy is as necessary as salt.

Time to revamp this intro a bit.

I gave up meat in November of 2010 and slowly evolved into a vegan diet and lifestyle.
I live with four other people in my house (all omnis) but my 13 year old boys are pretty veg receptive. I raised them as lacto-ovo vegetarians until they were about four.

I do occasionally eat faux meat and tofu but not often and my recipes will reflect that.

Usually, the meals I make are for one but some days I cook for five, some for three and sometimes just for my lunches. I bring my lunch everyday since a vegan meal in the middle of the bible belt is hard to come by.

I hate recipes that have 400 ingredients or take hours to prepare and cook. Who has that kind of time? Sometimes I want to prepare something elaborate but, most nights I like to keep it simple.

I cook more by instinct than by recipes and I love trying recipes that I can veganize.

My non-food blog is http://occasionaloctopus.tumblr.com

Questions? Comments?

20th December 2010

Spent all day and stayed up way too late last night playing video games. Not so much in the way of cooking in the past few days. Had guacamole and tortilla chips for dinner last night. Not exactly healthy…

Today I grabbed a chocolate fiber one bar because I was out of soy milk and brought a leftover eggplant parmesan that I had packed away in the freezer.

Dinner was thrown together in two minutes this a.m. 1 lb. pinto beans, handful dehydrated onions, salt, and vegetable bouillon in the crockpot.

I went grocery shopping after the gym tonight and picked up some stuff for individual pizzas. Should be tasty.