After that fabulous dinner at my friend's on Friday (post below), I had my regular tofu scramble breakfast the next morning, then hit up the pitch & putt golf course in Stanley Park with my boyfriend. After playing 9 holes, we felt snacky and hit up one of the hot dog carts in English Bay. We grabbed two spicy veggie dogs (Mr. Tubesteak has two different kinds: regular and spicy veggie) and enjoyed. All carts have veggie dogs these days, and these hit the spot!
After golfing, I had some eggplant I wanted to use, so decided to try a recipe for eggplant croquettes I had seen. My boyfriend whipped up an AMAZING quinoa salad with cooked quinoa, two small bell peppers (one red, one yellow), one seeded tomato, a handful of chopped parsley, 3 green onions, 1/4 of a red onion, some lemon juice and salt. The croquettes were quite good and would make excellent burger patties for a bbq. Super easy to make. I used three japanese eggplants and one egg, and would probably use less bread crumbs next time. My boyfriend loved them. I, on the other hand, couldn't get enough of his salad! It is, in fact, my lunch today :)
**Update May 5 - I fried up the leftover eggplant croquette "patties" last night and we ate them as burgers: on a bun with lettuce, cheddar cheese and red onion. I liked them better this way and will probably only make them as burgers from now on.
After a long day of volunteering yesterday, I came home to an amazing dinner of risotto cakes and salad, made by my man! These cakes are SO good and we've had them several times, recipe here: http://www.barefootcontessa.com/recipes.aspx?RecipeID=109&S=0 Although you can't see it in this picture, he added about half a can of black beans to the salad (which included avocado, red onion, parmesan, salt, pepper and an oregano dressing) for a little extra protein. The beans probably weren't needed considering I'd had my regular tofu breakfast, a blueberry smoothie and a veggie dog already that day, but it sure tasted good!
OMG, that quinoa salad looks SO good. Will def. have to try that. We usually just cook it blah-blah plain as a side.
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine recently brought over a quinoa tabouleh salad! I wish I would have taken a picture of it, it is definitely post worthy (I'm seeing her tonight so I'll get her recipe). I'm normally not a fan of just plain, cooked quinoa (I think it's the texture), but when it's mixed with other things, it's great.
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