I know I've said this before -- I love being a vegetarian. I love having more then 4 options (beef, pork, chicken, fish) for dinner! So I was in Tulsa w/k-pi and had a ton of fun. We went to the zoo, lifted weight, went shopping and I got 3 cute shirts for only 20.00, and we went out to eat at two awsome resturants:
Sake -- a japanese resturant. Their miso soup was great. They used scallions instead of seaweed and they get a thumbs up for that b/c I hate sea weed and love scallions. Kpi and I split some steamed edamame and I had vegetable tempura. Tempura sweet potatoes are one of my new favorite junk foods. I also got a fruit platter and it was beautiful. The cook cut up all the fruit and arranged it to look like something from the garden of eden. I also tried tamago which is a sushi made of rice, scrambled egg, and honey. It was really good. I hate nori but it was just a little strip and easy to take off. Since Kristen is a regular customer there, the manager brought out free cheesecake (how can you not love a resturant that gives you free cheesecake!) It was plated with slices of kiwi and sliced strawberry (kristen's had raspberry instead) and tasted like God.
BeLe -- my favorite vegetarian resturan in Tulsa. This is the resturant that took my vegetarian palate's virginity (rather, it was my 1st experience w/"vegetarain" food). I got the fried tofu and sweet and sour mock shrimp and of course we drank a pot of jasmine tea. Their tea is the only thing that kept me sane on so many cold dreary days working for dishnetworksonofabitch during the winter. It was on a freezing, miserable day that Rhea dragged me to bele's for the 1st time druing our lunch break and I tried tofu for the first time. It was that little bag of tofu dipped in sweet and sour sauce that made me think "what other foods am I missing?"
We also went to Nam Hai where I spent 65.00 on enough food to last me for a week (much cheaper then my normal weekly shopping bill). I got some texutred soy that's used for a fake meat sub and I can't wait to use it in chili. I also got honey panko (for cheaper then here), mock shrimp, mock shrimp balls (I will fry them w/rice for a junk food feast one night for dinner). I also found some fake salmon fillets. You don't under stand how excited I am about this! Salmon is the one meat I miss, so I hope this soy version is good. I also stocked up on coconut milk. A can here is usually $2-3 but it's .99 at Nam Hai. I also got a good bottle of black seasme seed oil and I'm going to try some agar almond jello type stuff. I also got fresh lo mein noodles and a good sized bag of adzuki beans for a lot cheaper then the health food store sells them. And poki, poki, poki. I also got some seame seed candy for John and coconut waffers for me, although John, me and kristen have eaten most of those. Oh and some vegetarian ham. The ingredients looked good, mostly soy. I'm hoping it makes for good sandwhiches and if it's really good I might start eating salads again. There were so many other things I wanted to buy but I didn't want to use my entire month's grocery list. (b/c John wouldn't want to eat asian for a month solid). I love that store. That store makes me miss Tulsa! I don't really miss Tulsa, I just want a good asain food store full of vegetarian food here in Ft. Smith.
Going grocery shopping in a few days for the extras I didn't get at Nam Hai (b/c I shop for 2 weeks at a time). My meal plan is going to be Medateranian Orzo salad, Lasagna, Potatoe Parsley Soup, 5 precious noodles, pasta soup, "salmon" w/rice and veggi's, beans (probably tonight) w/cornbread, Tofu egg noodle soup (like chicken soup w/o chicken), chili, and probably a veggi pizza. Notice a lot of soup that's b/c it's been raining and will continue to rain for at least the next two weeks according to the weather forecast I saw online. I love the rain, I hate this much rain. But since there's nothing I can do about it I'm going to make soup.
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