Day 2

Today I didn't want breakfast. For lunch I had half an apple, and a salad made up of romaine, the Spring Mix greens from Costco (see photo), sliced carrots, and Susan's Lite Goddess Dressing. It was pleasurable.

Rockin' fat ol' bin of greens from Costco:

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Mah lunch salad:

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For dinner I had a handful of grapes, and then Vegetarian Feijoada from the Moosewood Low Fat Favorites cookbook which I keep picking up from the library in the various places we've lived, and today finally decided to just order myself a cheap used copy. Yay!

I thought the Feijoada (the national dish of Brazil, how cool is that?!) would be gross because I didn't have one of the spices, and because I was an idiot and dumped the greens in with the beans and other veggies, when the greens were supposed to be separate. But it turned out real yummy. There's a separate recipe in the same book for this spicy oniony lemon sauce that goes over it. The book said to make it with 3 chilies, but I couldn't even find chilies, so I threw in a seeded jalapeno pepper instead. Turned out great. It was so yummy that my 5-year-old daughter even had seconds and thirds! We served it over rice.

Feijoada, Brazil's national dish, can ya dig it?

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And my brain wasn't working today, I don't think, because I totally put black beans out to soak this morning thinking I needed them tomorrow, but I needed them tonight! So, enter pressure cooker! My hubbie got me a pressure cooker 2 Christmases ago, and tonight was like the fourth time I've ever used it, but it rocks. Soaked black beans cook in 12 minutes. Wha-bam! So we had dinner almost on time.

Black beans soaking.

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Also, today I had half a thing of silken tofu to use up, so I made Tofu Island Dressing, sans the relish and parsley, because we never have/eat relish, and I didn't have parsley. Yeah, don't ask me how parsley is the one thing missing from my spice cupboard.

Haven't tried this yet, but looks good.

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