Food I Ate
Urggg… It’s too hot! I don’t like it when the temperature creeps past 100 degrees. I feel like laying flat on my back under a ceiling fan until doom strikes. Food helps a bit. Here are some tasty eats that kept my belly happy and full.
Greek-Style Lentil Burgers with Tzatziki Sauce (recipe from the July/August 2007 issue of Vegetarian Times) – This is a lentil-veggie-kalamata olive-chickpea-spice burger with a tasty sauce, stuffed into homemade pitas with baby spinach. Really delicious. We ate these while watching the Twilight Criterium, a super cool bike race that happened here in Portland not long ago. These guys are amazingly talented and they just happen to have sexy legs. Here are some snaps from the race:
More food:
Nearly Raw Tahini Noodles (recipe from VeganYumYum) – The perfect meal for those hot evenings when you can barely move your butt from one room to the next.
Whole wheat tortillas with homemade hummus, shredded carrot, cucumber, and homemade roasted garlic tofu (the food is in the background, I promise!). Easy. Fast. Filling. This little wooden dude brings good luck. I hope he makes me a rootbeer float tonight…
Awww…. ! Thanks lil’ fellow!
Mmmm, I feel the same way in this heat! Maybe I need a rootbeer float. It sounds so good!
I thought it was pictures of you on your bike!
[ok not really, but the idea amuses me...]
Great shots from the race; and DAMN all that food looks good – yum!!
Hang in there with the heat!!
We’ve been experiencing the opposite here – we’ve had well below normal temperatures here and our garden plants don’t seem to know what to do. That combined with too much rain and squash bugs and we’ve just been having issues.
I love that little guy that gives good luck. How cute!
And as always, the food looks fantastic. If you are ever in Missouri and would like to come make some of this delish food for me, I wouldn’t complain….
haha, wooden guy is cool looking AND he makes floats? you have a magic friend!
Today is the first day in about 50 straight it has NOT been 100 degrees, so I actually have some energy for a change. Ice cream and salads are definitely the foods of summer!
I love your little daruma – so cute. Food looks scrumptious!
It has been so long since I’ve had a rootbeer float! I hope your little friend makes me one too! By the by, your food looks gorgeous and so very tasty.
I guess we’ve been pretty lucky here on the east coast, because the temperature has actually backed down a bit. Hope things cool off for you too!
Those bikers have sexy legs, indeed! (Speaking of that, have you SEEN the Olympic athletes – wow!)
Anyway, those Tahini Noodles look delish. And that “little wooden dude” in the next photo is so cool! Maybe he could come to my place & make me a refreshing drink, too!
Sexy legs? How about sexy food?! I love the little wooden dude! He should make regular appearances on your blog…like a little garden dwarf…
I am so jealous of that rootbeer float. I haven’t had one of those in years!
Great looking food and great looking biker legs! Woo hoo!
The lentil burgers look great! I used to get VT but I let my subscription expire. I just bought ED&BV so I think I have enough new recipes to keep me busy. I love the tahini noodle recipe. It’s fun!
Can he make me one too?
I was never a fan of floats as a kid…it was just soda getting in the way of my ice cream. But I think I might like them now. I’ll have to try them with soy cream. Thanks for the reminder. I’d forgotten floats exist. Love the little wooden dude!
Hahaha, that wooden dude is so cool. Does he make other ice cream treats too? If so, I might want to hire him.
Those biking pictures are amazing! I already knew you were skilled with food photography, but wow!
The food looks so good! The pictures of the bike race are amazing!
I’m with you about the heat. I can’t stand the thought of generating any heat to cook meals!
Your photos of the bikers came out great!
I could kiss, genius. I’ve been complaining for weeks about how much I love lentil ‘burgers’ but I’m annoyed that they fall out of my bun and onto my lap. I tried to “wrap” them – but my wrap started to come apart and created an even bigger mess then when I tried to eat them in a bun. PITA! you genius!
p.s. I hate “heating up” my kitchen in summer too… we live on fruit and salads all summer…
“laying flat on my back under a ceiling fan”
I am guilty of doing this ;o).
And I thought of you the other day when I made your burgers, which I LOVE. Someday, when I get caught-up, I will blog about ‘em.
wow those picture form the race are so cool! i love how they are in focus but the background shows movement and speed!!
i agree with the heat.. ughhhhh too hot too hot!!!