Author: Carl Kalbfleisch

We are on the road to visit family and wanted to be able to eat dinners and lunches on the road without having to try to find a restaurant in remote areas. So we got a Hot Logic portable oven. When we left home we put left over chilli into the portable oven. It has heated up from frozen for the last three hours. Pulled into a rest area and we able to eat a hit dinner.

Yesterday we made new potatoes in the instant pot. Today I added some of the potatoes to yesterday’s left over tofu scramble. Heated up some corn tortillas put the scramble on them and added some of the avacado pesto from dinner and salsa. Makes a nice breakfast! Served with a side of mixed green.

Tonight we had avacado pesto over pasta with vegan parmasean cheese, greens and nutritional yeast.

Recipie will be added.

We found a new restaurant after church that has a very good and extensive list of vegetarian and vegan options. Tacodeli!

We ordered the blue plate specials

which include black beans and rice. We tried the Freakin’ Vegan, Space Cowboy and Papadulce tacos. All were excellent. We exchanged queso for spinich which the cashier was happy to substitute for us. We will be back!

Check out Tacodeli at the Northwest corner of Park and Preston in Plano!

This morning I made a tofu scramble for breakfast. It contains a mix of chopped veggies including squash, zucchini, bell peppers, onion and broccoli.

First I chopped veggies.

Then I put some water with vegetable broth into a pan over high heat.

And then added the veggies.

Let this cook for five minutes or so.

Then add your desired spices. Today I went with tumeric, black pepper and an organic spice blend from Costco.

Continue to mix and saute.

I took a whole 16oz block of organic farm tofu.

And chopped it up into small squares.

Then added it to the veggies being sauted.

While this cooked I prepared a bed of greens on plates.

To make it easy and get a mix of greens today I’m using the power greens from Costco. You could also use spinich or kale or a mix.

Add the sauteed tofu scramble on top.

At the table I topped it with salsa and nutritional yeast.

I suggest you experiment with the spices, veggies and porportions to flavor it to your taste. I think the scamblen would also go well in a taco shell. So maybe tomorrow I’ll have tacos for breakfast with the leftovers!

We did it! We bought an Instant Pot at

Costco last night! We had been thinking about getting one for a long time. They had been recommended to us by a number of people. With some travel coming up we got to thinking the instant pot would allow us to cook out of our hotel room or an Airbnb very easily. So we decided it was time to pull the trigger and we bought one. Rather than try our first attempt on a road trip next week we got it out and cooked Instant Pot Vegetarian Lentil Chili using slight modifications to a recipie found at rebootedmom.com.

The unboxing was relatively

uneventful followed by a quick test in the manual to steam three cups of water. Meanwhile Mande assembled all the ingredients for the chili in a large bowl. When the steam test was complete we put the ingredients into the inner pan of the Instant Pot. We put the inner pan into the Instant Pot, set it for 20 minutes on high pressure on the bean chili setting. We then went and sat in the living room and talked while the Instant Pot did it’s thing!

The recipe indicates to let the instant pot cool ten minutes. It has a timer that automatically starts counting up when the cook cycle is done so you know when ten minutes is up. We then used the pressure release to release the rest of the pressure and opened the Instant Pot. Viola! Chili!

It looked and smelled great.

We served it over baked potato and baked sweet potato!

Our first experience was very good. Looking forward to trying many more receipies in the Instant Pot!

Found this place with real gluten free and vegan options. Couple blocks

from the beach and nice outside patio to eat. I got curry and Mande got tofu veggie tacos.

Check out Cafe Verde!

Before switching to a Whole Food

Plant Based lifestyle we used to eat at Fuzzy’s Taco Shop fairly often. But after we switched we weren’t eating there because the only veggie options had oil in them. Recently they added veggie tacos to their menu. And … If you order them oil free they will cook them on the grill without oil. Check them out at a Fuzzy’s Taco Shop near you.

Found another place to eat out. Chilli

Thai in Carrollton. The Curry’s are oil free. I got the green curry with brown rice. Very good. Ask at your local Thai restaurant for oil free!