I don't speak Italian as a language, but I sure do speak Italian food. Imagine Italian food without cheese, cream, sausage, and other tasty meat and dairy foods, and you'll get an idea of where I am today. There are lots of great recipes out there that don't include those things, but.... However, we've been working our hardest to have some delicious Italian meals without either the meat or dairy. Yesterday's roasted veggie sandwich was an excellent example of one.
Lunch today was a pizza made from yesterday's leftovers, including an entire head of roasted garlic. I caved and added a bit of cheese to the pizza, but no more than 1/3 of a cup for the entire pizza. It made a very positive difference in the flavor and texture of the pizza. We used a whole wheat pizza crust and added a handful of cherry tomatoes to the toppings. I'm telling you - this was the best pizza I've had in months.
Brian's mom and I spent the afternoon doing a deep cleaning and purge of her closet and by dinner time, we were exhausted. I was in no mood to cook, clean or have anything to do with food, other than eat it. There is a small establishment a couple of miles up the road called Pasta Pronto. There, we had cheap and delicious pasta. Brian had mushroom ravioli, Marty had Italian shells with green beans, and I had a a pasta primavera with shrimp. Yum. I was pretty darned happy with my selection.
Breakfast today was chocolate/chocolate chip banana bread and a glass of hot tea. It gave me the get up and go needed to take the dogs out for a three mile walk this morning. I ran out of steam while at Petco, getting the dogs' nails trimmed. Our next stop was Trader Joe's, where we picked up some pizza dough and an agave sweetened protein bar. Brian crashed as we were in TJ's, so we split the protein bar and were much better. Oh, and we got some humus and chips to have while the pizza was cooking.
Once again, it was a pretty good food day. Be happy and healthy!
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