Fast & Healthy Lunch? Hell Yeah!

We love Morning Star Farm's new hickory smoked Riblets. We made up a quick lunch for ourselves that was absolutely delicious (and of course healthy). Whole wheat wrap, Riblet, sprouts, green peppers and tomatoes. Wrap it up and viola! Lunch is served.

An Anniversary and Match Foods...love, love,love

Sunday was my and my man's sixth year anniversary (YAY US!) Anyway, we decided to stay in for a special romantic dinner after a day out at the Ninth Avenue Food Fair ending in a theater visit to see Star Trek (awesome, by the way). We wanted to try our new and exciting frozen protein (sounds so much better than fake meat...) food...Match 'Beef'. This stuff is AMAZING! It's like a ground beef substitute that you season as desired and form into patties or a loaf or ..whatever and bake or fry or....whatever! So we decided to make "steaks" with cremini mushroom red wine sauce and braised baby bok choy. We seasoned the 'beef' with pepper, chives and soy sauce, formed them into oval shapes and pan seared them. You SERIOUSLY need to check out Match products http://www.matchmeats.com/

Match is so great! We have tried the 'chicken, the 'crab' (our fave), and the 'pork'. So versatile.

So, long story short, we had an amazing meal. I am sure what made the meal was the 1982 Antinori Tignanello wine that was a gift from Dad and we had been storing for a special occasion such as this... And since we cheaped out on the 'not-going-to-dinner' part of our anniversary--we certainly made it up in wine.

Live long and prosper! Jzb

The Official Grain of Minnesotta don'tchya know

Long Grain Wild Rice!
My boyfriend and I just arrived back from Wisconsin. We were visiting his family in the North Woods, translation: way the hell up there in the middle of nowhere (no offense Ty). As a vegan, he promised me an open minded family and plenty of grains for dinner! Low and behold he delivered on both!! Well, not exactly. We introduced his family to quinoa and tofu, ate tons of lentils but never got around to making real wild rice. So we stole a bag of his mother's long grain rice and stashed it in our carry-on. Boy is this wild rice yummy! We made it two nights in a row. The top picture is wild rice with Morning Star Farm's Italian Sausage with sauteed red and green peppers. The bottom photo is "grandmas no-meat meat stuffing to stuff in the meat". Thank you Tyler for the fabulous recipe name. We stir fried TVP with mushrooms and peppers and then added it to the Minnesota state grain. TOO GOOD!
Eat up y'all and buy some good wild rice. -MvL