Vegelicious and Yogirrific

Accidental candy bars and Chinese takeout aside--it was Valentine's Day and I'm single: Chinese food has no calories on such occasions--I have been trying to cook up lots of healthy foods.  Because if I cook it, then I'll eat it.  I know it sounds simple, but, for example, if I roast tons of veggies and keep them in a container in the fridge, I'll reach for that as a quick snack, rather than tortilla chips or, um, spoonfuls of peanut butter from the jar.  Hence, the cook-it-and-eat-it-strategy.

Exhibit A:

Roasted parsnips and sweet potato!  Why isn't the sweet potato orange?  Because it's from Georgia!  I don't know if that's a real answer, but it was a sweet potato variety from Georgia with white flesh.  It was just ok.  Drier and milder than a normal orange sweet potato. (I mean, who am I to say what's normal for a potato?)  I recommend sticking to orange sweets.

Lately I've been veering back toward my former love of veggie burgers. I think I stopped eating them because so many were so processed, but I have found a good solution: Sunshine Burger!

They're not terribly low-cal because the first ingredient is sunflower seeds, but they are made of whole ingredients and they are deeeelish.  This one is the falafel type, with avocado, red onion, jalapeno, and spicy honey mustard.  Perfect work from home lunch!

I also have to share a new veggie-friendly restaurant find!  I'm kind of already planning my next trip back there.  I have Ariel and Alex to thank for knowing me well enough to take me to Westville East.  FREYA HEAVEN.  I tried taking pics, but, alas, the lighting wasn't cooperating, so they're either blurry or flashed.

Veggie quartet:

Brussels sprouts and cauliflower, both in a dijon mustard sauce, sauteed mushrooms, and grilled fennel.  The sprouts and fennel were my faves, but it was all amazing, as evidenced below.

For dinner I went with their homemade patty of awesomeness.

AKA veggie burger.  It came with a delicious, huge salad on the side, but the burger was definitely the show stopper.

For a moment of zen, I would like to share some messages from my Yogi tea.  Some of them are so ridiculous and overly zen, but I like having a little note with my tea.

All right, corny Yogi time is over.  I do recommend their spicy cinnamon tea, though.  And, because I like mugs, I leave you with one more, in the post-Valentine's Day spirit.

"I'm single"...

'Nuff said.  Peace out, bloggies!