Well I didn't break 29 minutes yesterday morning during the 5k. My time was around 30:30 which is thirty seconds faster than my last 5k time. I got a horrible stitch only half a mile into the race and my legs were really tired. I think I have been training too hard lately because my past three runs have been really hard and I have taken a long time to get warmed up. My plan was to run for an hour and 20 minutes today, but I think I'm going to take an extra rest day instead. I'm not too disappointed though.
On a happier note, I'm stuffed! We just had a big family meal and that always means delicious Sri Lankan food, almost all of which is vegan. I don't really have specific recipes for these dishes, but "feel" cooking is more fun anyway. I can provide more specific recipes if desired.
This is a non traditional Sri Lankan dish that is just zucchini cut into matchsticks and stir fried in a hot wok with peanut oil. Once it starts to soften, salt and Sri Lankan chili powder (spicy!) is sprinkled on top.
This is my favorite potato dish. It is cubed potatoes stirfried with tumeric, onions, ginger, and lots of garlic until the potatoes that are almost cooked and then the dish is baked until the potatoes are all the way cooked and then it is topped cilantro.
This is dahl. It is mostly just lentils and onions and spices. also topped with cilantro.
This is basmati rice that has been fried with nuts (mostly cashews) and whole spices. There was also regular white, steamed rice.
Now for the condiments:
This is raw red onions with chopped green chiles covered with lime juice and salt. The onions get nice and softened from the salt and lime, no cooking required.
This is seeni sambal. It requires a many many onions to be chopped (always delegated to my grandfather, lucky guy). It is just onions that are stir fried with lots of spices. Traditionally it contains fish powder but this version is 100% fish free and better for it.
Mango chutney...'nuff said.
Now it is time for me to lapse into a food coma
Brown rice with seasame ginger/ponzu/apple cider vinegar sauce on eggplant, onion, garlic, and green pepper.
Asian style baked tofu (tamari, mirin, rice wine vinegar, chiles, and nori strips)
The baked tofu on ezekiel bread with avocado.
Spicy ginger tofu with kale and an avocado tempeh melt with sweet potato fries (and a magic hat number 9) from the Usual Suspects. Those are my friends torso's.
My bf holding a delicious frozen concoction of mimicreme, vanilla extract, soymilk, and frozen berries blended together. It was awesome, and yes we ate that whole bowl.
This cake was my second attempt at baking without a recipe and it turn out really well. It is a simple white vanilla cake with a maple cinnamon swirl on top.
aaaaaaaand a green smoothie...that is purple
Dinner was not extremely photogenic. Actually that's probably not the case. It is just my lack of photography skills that make it appear less than photogenic. Just in case you were wondering, the weird glop in the bowl is soba noodles, onion, garlic, and eggplant in a spicy miso broth. It was good. The soba noodles aren't the mugwort kind 'cause my boy has some sense and made us use up the already open packet. I didn't even pout about not having greenish tinted noodles.
Does anyone know if adding flax seed to a smoothie decreases the absorbtion of the other vitamins/minerals/antioxidants? I read somewhere that if you take omegas in pill form that you should take it at a different time than other supplements, but ground flax seed might be different.
It was really tasty, but the meatiness was almost disconcerting (not that I really remember the taste/texture of meat). I don't make seitan very often because I find that the gluten sits rather heavily in my stomach, but Vegan Dad's recipes are always worth it (and much less "gluten-y" than other recipes).
