Breakfast: Oatmeal with banana and peanut butter. My stomach is not a fan of this type of oatmeal. Makes me feel headache-y and slightly nauseaus. Almost like my body is trying too hard to digest it. Never thought I'd long for the easy digestibility of a sausage, egg and cheese bagel...
Lunch: Leftover rice pasta with the roasted veggie and garlic sauce. A damn shame, the sauce had gotten better overnight, but the rice pasta did not fare nearly as well. I'm pretty sure if there was a way to turn a decent plate of pasta into some sort of horrific zombie nightmare, this would be it. I picture this bowl of pasta rising from the microwave, limping, decayed, discolored and somehow a dark shadow of itself. Shudder.
Emotional status: After lunch, running a few errands, I walked past a sushi/teriyaki restaurant next door to my dry cleaners. The smell almost brought me to my knees. I seriously could have cried. Amazing how the ordinary smells of the street are amplified when your body is craving animal protein. I've also begun to notice that my mood is, in general, a bit worse than normal.
Dinner: Date Night! After realizing about halfway to the restaurant that I left my wallet at work (I blame the lack of fat in my diet. I believe I read somewhere that fat is crucial to brain function...that might be just for babies, but I'm sticking with it...)and deciding not to go back (score..dinner's on the sugar mama), we sat down for dinner at a highly recommended vegan restaurant in the Western Addition called Herbivore. While this restaurant did have a large menu, the truly tough part of eating vegan AND gluten free is that generally speaking, to do food that tastes good that has no dairy and no wheat product is incredibly hard. We had some veggie soft tacos to start. Decent guacamole was the highlight, as the "veggie crumble" just tastes weird and has unusual texture. I had a decent vegan version of pad thai, though it was more like rice noodles with peanut sauce than a true pad thai (no fish sauce, no deal). Hearty and satisfying, but I have to question the seriousness of tofu as a protein source. It looks funny, tastes strange and has decidedly funky texture. Seriously, tofu is the duck-billed platypus of the food world. And yes, before you ask, at this point, I'm pretty sure I could cook a duck-billed platypus and create a masterpiece of modern cuisine. I'm thinking something like a slow roasted platypus with stone fruit chutney. I know, it's a little early in the Fall for stonefruit, but I always thought of the platypus as a Fall animal. But I digress. Allie got the winner. And I can't believe I'm going to say this. A delicious plate of "Lentil Loaf" complete with mashed potatoes (laced with soy milk) and mushroom gravy. Seriously. Not kidding. Really good. I would eat this anyway. I was even thinking of different ways to serve the lentil loaf... open faced lentil loaf sandwiches anyone?
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