Cottage pie, from the old Moosewood cookbook. It's a pie filled with fine chopped veggies tossed with egg and cottage cheese and topped with sour cream and dill. Bakes up nice and it's super comfort food. Perfect for my daughter coming home today from being gone all summer :)

Correction, it's called Country Pie- I just always call it cottage because of the cheese. If it's not in your cookbook, it's online too if you google. But I'm not going to post a link because I personally feel like looking for just the right thing in a cookbook is super fun :)

- slaw dogs
- applesauce

Steak tacos :) I newly discovered using a cast iron skillet for cooking steaks.... OMG... delicious!!!

Dinner
 

fresh fried codfish, steamed rice , asparagus tips. Iced tea .

Something borrowed...
 

Wrangler:

I subbed a few items/steps-

I had a wa-hoo special pork loin roast that I marinated in orange juice with your other ingredients for 18 hrs (ziplocked).

Baked in 1/2 the marinate for 2 hrs-I did baste with the drippings while in the oven.

With a side of Mandarin-Orange Salad-

Dinner tonight was not great but it was passable.

I used two woks and, with no oil, I stir-fried bell peppers, onions, and carrots in one, and then in the other I stir-fried tofu and cabbage. Then I put them together and added .25 of a cup of Gochuchang sauce (bibimbap / Korean style sauce).

It seemed to really help to press the tofu of all water before cooking, as recommended in this thread. And it was so easy to do.

The bell peppers were watery and over-powering, I think. Not sure the carrots worked that well either. It might be cool to do all cabbage and tofu. And maybe cook onions separately in EVOO and add them.

Cooking the veggies separately and without oil seemed helpful. They browned nicely. Skipping the riced cauliflower seemed good as well.

Afterward I had a Rawmantic vegan vanilla bar.

All in all, even though the stir-fry was meh, it was edible and healthy and filling, so I'm pleased enough.

Dessert for Supper
 

It is very humid and terribly sultry tonight. I just got home after spending 3 long hours in traffic, lol. I'm not too hungry, but I am sipping on room temperature water, guzzling a Dr. Stevia, and will promptly eat some vegan coconut non-dairy ice cream (the whole pint) which is more like a solid type custard type confection, in the flavor of salted caramel.


I had a big Asian sesame salad for a late lunch, with sesame salad dressing, so I feel like I had something reasonably healthy.


Heck, the Dr. Stevia is fairly healthy since is doesn't impact A1c/blood sugar issues. The Salted Caramel non-dairy ice cream is protein rich, so I think I will be okay, for now.


I recently bought a 'rainbow' pack of Dr. Stevia 'soda' products, so it's one a day, just like a vitamin, until they're gone. I don't ordinarily drink soda type products at all, so this is just a test run on a new stevia based drink product.

We are having family dinner tonight instead of Friday due to a few conflicts. Broccoli quiche and salad for the adults and pasta and hopefully some grilled chicken for the boys.

I grilled steaks and made potato skins. It was my first time making them. Everything was good but next time I'll just make baked potatoes. Less time consuming.

Probably scrambled eggs

They are just hot dogs with cole slaw on top - just like chili dogs, except slaw instead of chili.

Tonight I had:
- a garden salad with creamy Italian dressing
- lasagna

(Yes, it was a little heavy in this heat, but I've been craving marinara sauce.)