Dude, I like food. :) what an intelligent title

I haven't been posting much on here.  I've ate a lot of damn good food.  Every day I cook at home at least once on some days it can be up to 4 or 5 times depending on what i'm up to physically, most of the time I try and snap a photo if I can of the food that makes up who I am.  Right now I'm about to watch a movie but I figured I'd post what I ate for lunch and dinner.  Pretty soon I'll have a massive post. With everything  from the last month or so.

lunch

Naked

whole wheat dough, jalpeno, raddish, carrot, onion, garlic chive, bourbon barbecue sauce

dressed up

baby spinach, more garlic chive, onion chive, cilantro and avocado

yum

Dinner

 my way home from the gymOnI picked up some sourdough rolls on clearance, a $2  bottle of wine and $.28 of bean sprouts

I topped the rolls with artichoke bruschetta, garlic chive, jalapeño and onion

baby spinach, radish, onion, carrot, bean sprout, jalapeño, garlic chive,onion chive, macadamia nut/ olive oil, balsamic vinegar and fresh ground pepper

still hungry

I came back for seconds with a roasted a jalapeño

The food is gone. All I am left with is a few sips of wine, a full belly and a smile.

Salt and Vinegar rant.

Lately my biggest weakness towards eating calories I don't need has been salt and vinegar chips. I buy a steady supply at Freah n Easy, Trader Joes's and Cost Plus.  Recently I found myself at Big lot's.  They usually do not sell any brand of salt and vinegar  chips.  Today they had 5 different types.  (Sweet) Then I read the ingredients and every single one of them contained milk.  WTF,  Why?  So I started looking at ingredients on other packages and flavors and none of them contained dairy unless they were  cheese flavored.    I don't get it.  In protest I will not eat any salt and vinegar chips for at least the next 20 minutes.

40 Burritos For $9

Burrito's oh how I love thee.

Along time ago I was in a polygamist burrito or pizza a day diet for about 6 months.  They were some of the happiest days of my life.  As time progressed the burrito and I slowly drifted a part as I spent  more and more meals with pizza.

Sadly Burrito and I were headed in separate directions and I went over 3 months without it in my world.

A few weeks ago  Burrito came back into my life and it was as if it had never left.  One night I cooked up 24 Burrito's for dinner and for the next 2 weeks it felt like we were on our honeymoon.  Pizza was still in the mix but burrito and I were now  together everyday.

24 Burrito's is not nearly enough for one man.  This time I decided to make 40.  My goal was to spend less than $10.  I Headed out to the $.99 and to the farmers market for my ingredients.

Whole wheat Tortilla's 

8 for $1 I bought five packages

$5

($.99 Store)

240z bag of Pinto Beans

$1

($.99 Store)

24oz Bag of Long Grain Brown Rice

(my rice cooker could only hold about 20oz)

$1

($.99 Store)

1 medium Sweet Potato

$.35

(farmers market)

2 Onions

$.40

(farmers market)

3 Carrots

$.25

($.99 Store)

4 Radishes 

$.25

(farmers market)

Cilantro

$.50

(farmers market)

Garlic Chives

$.25

(farmers market)

3 Serranos

(homegrown)

Total 

$9

I cooked up the sweet potato, carrot, radish, serrano and little onion in the wok

The assembly line

I wished I had bigger tortillas

Dinner

I also ate another burrito after I finished this plate.  By my calculations each burrito should be about 220 calories.  I put the remaining supply in the freezer 

36 burritos

That should last me a few days

Not a bad deal for $9 but I can do better

Next time I plan to make 50 burritos for $6 . I'm gonna try and make my tortillas's from scratch for the first time

Making up for missed pies

It's nice to be back home and in my kitchen

Naked

Whole wheat dough, tomato, onion, onion chive, serrano, carrots, garlic, pineapple and barbecue sauce

No ripe avocados :(

I added some sprouts and some raw garlic

Camera battery dieing made for a strange effect on this pic

This was the first time I added the barbcue sauce after most of the topping.  I tried to drizzle it randomly over the pizza so that every bite of the pizza would not taste the same, also by putting it on last I think it caramelized better in the oven and this is how I will do it from now on.

Round 2

Same ingredients with the addition of red beans and more barbecue sauce than before

Eat me

Yum

Spoils from the Farmers market 

spinach, cilantro, avocado, onion, and garlic chives Yes. artichoke maybe. dates, raisins, oranges, guava, bok choy, pea leaves, kumquats, grapefruit

Saturdays lunch

Steamed Artichoke with some onion, bok choy and carrots,

Red beans and quinoa topped with raw onion cilantro, garlic, chives, avocado and sriracha

A little crispy

Whole wheat dough, tomato, onion, onion chive, serrano, carrots, garlic, pineapple, red beans, garlic  and barbecue sauce

I added some fresh spinach, cilantro, more onion chives, garlic chives, avocado and some raw garlic

It had been awhile since I had spinach on my pizza.  The pizza tasted near perfect

Poor Kermit

I was still hungry so why not eat some frog balls

Frog balls are actually pickled brussel sprouts, I also had a few garlic stuffed olives and some pea leaves

Breakfast salad

Pretty much the same things that went on my pizza last night.

Spinach, pea leaves, onion, onion chives, tomato, garlic chive, cilantro, carrot,red beans, flax seed, fresh ground pepper, macadamia nut olive oil and balsamic vinegar 

Gringo vegan in Mexico

I recently spent a couple weeks in Mexico for a race.  I wasn't quite sure what effects this would have on my diet.  I was prepared to eat meat if need be but lucky for me I randomly undertook this journey with 5 other vegans who really made it easy for me.

The first place we stopped for food in Mexico was a quesadilla restaurant. they had almost no food not cooked in lard

First meal grilled chilies with tortillas. Cost 8 pesos

Beans rice Vegan enchilada

Cactus

Soy tostada 

Komquats growing right outside my hotel

This the what I ate 90% of the time.  Avocado jalapeño onion tomato and tortilla

My buddies down the road camped at a place with a full garden I was able to do a little grazing at

Chives

Raddish

They were camping and had access to a full a kitchen (those lucky bastards)  this is where I want to stay next year

Fresh raw beets

Best grapefruit ever

After hiking 9miles of the race course we reached Los Olios

All the grapefruit you can eat.  

I had 3 my buddy Jamil had 9

Somehow I managed to keep my belly full the whole trip.  Almost every   I at a lot of bland beans at least 100 corn tortilla's and some really good local yellow potatoes at Mama Tita's restaurant.  I don't think I lost any weight but I definitely didn't gain any. 

 The bulk of my calories care  from usual suspects

Traditional Mexi-Vegan Lunch

I could of ate this for every meal 

Beer and Avocado on a 2 to 1 ratio

I really should be working on my race recap blog post  So this post shall abruptly end now 

Sweet Potato Pizza Pie

Naked

Whole wheat dough, ginger, bourbon barbacue sauce sweet potato, radish, carrot, onion, serrano, garlic chive, rosemary and basil. 

Avocado, cilantro, and  garlic

yum

The starch from the sweet potato did a great job neutralizing the sugar in the barbecue sauce.

Naked

Whole wheat dough, bourbon barbacue sauce, black eyed peas, corn,  turnip, radish, carrot, onion, serrano, garlic chive, rosemary and basil. 

Added the usual

Avocado, cilantro, and  garlic

Have you realized yet that I love pizza?

Sauteed pea greens, carrot, sweet radish, corn, black eyed beans, garlic, onion, serrano, and radish

My dumb ass decided to cook some beans and rice just before heading to Mexico for 12 days.  I made so much, 7 of my last 8 meals  will be based upon them,  costing me about $5 total.

Cooked brown jasmine rice, pinto beans, with raw cilantro onion, serrano, garlic and salsa

Cooked brown jasmine rice, pinto beans, cilantro onion, serrano, and avocado topped with Sontava and Ponzu

I'm  the type of person who could eat the same meal every day and be happy (as long as it has avocado).  I look for to my Mexican cuisine that awaits.  I am going with 2 other vegans which should make things easier.  However if someone goes out of there way to give me food that is non vegan I will graciously except.