Last night for dinner I made a stirfry with tofu, quinoa, onions, mushrooms and these peppers from my garden.

I’m pretty impressed with myself.  Next year I’m going to grow a whole garden.

This is a new section I’m going to start posting, Veggie Meals.  I have been a Vegetarian for 2 1/2 years now and try and cook every night.  I make up lots of great things to eat and I’ll give you recipes, ideas and tips.  FYI I do still eat dairy and eggs, but no meat!

For dinner last night I made a veggie meatloaf (recipe below), mashed potatoes and corn.  I love cooking and love it even more when someone helps me.

I’m really good at mashing as you can see.  I change up my recipe and flavours to match what we’re eating.  For this I used a bit of margarine, light sour cream, salt, pepper and chicken spice.  The chicken spice does NOT have chicken in it, just so we’re clear.

Chad made corn.

Meatloaf fresh out of the oven.  Yumm it smelled so good.

The finished product.  I need to work on my presentation skills.

And if you didn’t know this is the best way to eat it.  All mashed up together.

Meatloaf

• 1/4 red onion
• 1/2 red pepper
• 2 packages Original Ives Veggie Ground
• 1/4 cup dry oatmeal
• 2 slices whole grain bread
• ketchup (2 or 3 tbsp)
• salt, pepper, chicken spice to taste

Top coating

• 1/3 cup (equal parts) ketchup and brown sugar
• nutmeg, chicken spice to taste

Preheat over to 375F

Saute onion and pepper

Mix veggie ground, oatmeal, crumbled bread, ketchup and spices in a large bowl.  Add the pepper and onion and put into pan.  Make sure you grease it so it doesn’t stick.  I like to use vegetable spray.

Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes

After 30 minutes, remove from oven, spread the coating on top and cook uncovered for 15 more minutes.

Serve with mashed potatoes and corn.

*The basis for this recipe was Mama’s Mock Meatloaf on Peta’s Veg-Cooking site.

Sunday Funday is my favourite. It doesn’t happen as often as I like because CT has band usually on Sundays.

We got a bit of a later start because Saturday was birthday bash extravaganza day. We had six parties to go to (I know so popular) and only made it to two. Bryan’s 30th and Ty’s 24th/DWW Celebration. More on that later.

I always make Chad go first when we’re bike riding so I can try to keep up with his pace. I’m a little out of shape and slower than he is.

We rode to Ed Levesque’s for the breakfast. It’s pretty close, Leslie & Queen E.

I want a bottle like this for water at home. I like it.
My mom had the same menu – take it or leave it!

Back of the menu.

I had the omlette of the day minus chicken – Roma tomato and avocado. Avocado is so unbelieveably good in omlettes. I was going to take a picture when it arrived but was soo excited to eat it I forgot.

Scrambled eggs with Truffle Oil, some really good cheese (maybe emmanthol?) and red onions. Sooo good.

Spicy cornbread. I am a spice wuss and it made my face red instantly. Chad liked it though.

I absolutely love this restaurant and recommend it for breakfast. It’s a U shaped dining room and the food is fabulous.

The only part of the meal that was unpleasant was the woman next to us. She ordered a homemade chicken pot pie (which they bake to order) and it took a while to come out. So she complained that the people around her (us included) got our breakfast (eggs, salad and bacon) before her and made a huge stink about it. She was rude to the waiter and complained loudly to her friend. She also had one of those ridiculous blue tooth earpieces in the whole time. How are you that important on Sunday morning at breakfast that you need to wear your earpiece. Ugh she annoyed me.

After breakfast we rode bikes to Price Chopper to grab some food for dinner and then back home. I had a nap because the ride wore me out and got up to make yummy stir fry and vermicelli noodles for dinner.

Family Guy and Simpsons were both hilarious last night. Loved Peter the Mermaid and Lisa on Ritalin (or something like it). Oh and American Dad had a Delorian! There have been a group of Delorian’s hanging out in the parking lot down by the Beach. I’ll get a photo and post soon!

Just came back from lunch at Betty’s on King St E. The owners are two Brits and they are super nice and we always get the best service (I guess that’s because we’ve been there every Friday for the past four years). We seem to end up with fruity shots and pints of beer along with our lunches and it makes the rest of the day a little bit buzzier and blurrier.

I highly recommend you go to Betty’s and make sure you try the Spinach Salad. Yum. My favourite pub to eat at.

Cheers!