GINGER BROCCOLI!!

Seriously awesome.

Okay: This journey began as a ginger broccoli thing. I decided to also make mushrooms (we had some to use up, Marc loves them but I'm not REALLY a fan (peppers woulda been way better!).. tempeh and brown rice. and Sesame Seeds!!! (they were a little pricy but I had to have them. I could only find them in with the "fancy" spices but I'm sure you could find them cheaper somewhere else)

Anyways, olive oil in a pan with a sprinkle of garlic (fresh if you have it though!) and I put about a teaspoon of ginger powder in the pan and let it warm up. Then I threw in the broccoli and mushrooms til they fried a little and softened. I used fresh broccoli and mushrooms. Next, threw in some tempeh (the big block kind that you cut yourself..the only other flavor they had today was something weird like bacon, I wasn't putting that in here. I let that cook, added another dash of olive oil and teaspoon of ginger for the tempeh to try to soak up. Then I added a bit of cornstarch mixed w/ cold water (maybe a tablespoon) so the sauce would thicken a bit. Cooked up the brown rice, topped with sesame seeds! Voila!

There is this asian tofu bowl at USF that I can't eat now that I'm vegan and it really disappointed me (they use egg in the ingredients) but this tastes JUST as good!!! And I can make it myself for much cheaper. Really excited for this. It's a keeper.

Food and Whatnot.

The other day I made extra meaty meatless chili. Chew on that!!



Also, here's a picture of the peanutbutter ball ingredients from a few posts back:


Note the microwave face! I really don't know what I did with all those stickers :-/

Besides my Toms boots, I have these:

and this week in the mail I received an envelope from Toms with a cute little note and a Toms bracelet to wear!

This shirt always raises a few questions:

Tofu Never Screams!

I think this was me driving to school for the first time this semester

I got that tanktop at Target and I love it, I love stripes!! and I had once bought that sweater for work but now I realize it's actually kind of cute with some outfits! I just stuck a few pins on there (shout out to the flaming tsunamis) and I was ready to go!

This is me eating on next to no money haha

Shout out to the Hello Kitty Toaster!!

Marc had bought the chicken for a pizza he made a while back so we still had some leftover! Then rice=cheap, that was the rest of the brocolli I had from the week before, I had the orange (free) from school and a big thing of baby tomatoes only cost me $1 this weekend.

We went to Homossassa flea market, a flea market in Hernando, Crystal River State Park, the Manatee festival in Crystal River, and the Crystal River Mall. I thought it was going to be REALLY nice to be outside since the weather had been gorgeous for a couple of days but I guess it rained and therefore, Saturday was PRETTY CHILLY to say the least. Since I went through the trouble of packing a lunch, we picnicked at the state park anyways:





I'm sure there's something I should be doing before work.. looking forward to having Wednesday off if my homework doesn't get in the way. Soooo much reading!

80) Kristie

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Well, I really don't know about this next week's menu.. See, one of my resolutions for this year is to cut my student loan amount in half (I know, that's probably impossible with my parttime hours) but it was a dream. I have a full tuition scholarship except that the lovely state of Florida has decided it will pay a flat credit hour amount..now, I go to like the CHEAPEST of the big Universities in Florida and yet I still came out $800 short with tuition!! Thankfully USF covered $500 of that but it still put me back another $300 :( So, technically, I have like $80 left for the next two weeks which means $40 to gas and $40 to food.. $40 for two weeks of food!? I guess it could make an interest post.. Living on less than $3 a day but it would probably be pretty bland. I'm actually gonna try to plan some kind of crazy menu instead of dipping back into my loan but I'm not sure if I will be able to do it... it CAN be done but WILL I do it is the question (ha). We do have soooome food lying around the house so we'll see. I should start replanning menus from pay week to payweek so that I can separate out the money.

I could do this!

I know this wasn't an interesting post. Simply a thinking post. Hmmmmm