I Could Cry

Not really, but I am so bummed that the Heat lost the NBA Finals!

This is my sad face.

I know, I’m a total weirdo and way too obsessed, but I have been rooting for the Heat since the season started, thinking that they definitely wouldn’t make it this far since they were such a new team.  Plus, I totally love LeBron. 

He’s awesome.  He’s the next Michael Jordan.  I don’t think he’s there yet…he’s too young, but by the time his career is over I think he’s gonna show us all what’s up. 

Okay.  Enough with that rant.  Let’s get to the food!

My first meal at work today was this lovely sandwich.

By “lovely”, obviously I meant “didn’t survive the trip in my backpack, but still tasted bomb”.  Hummus, cucumber and sun-dried tomatoes on Dave’s Killer Bread Good Seed bread.  Great combo!

My salad was also super delicious today, as always.

Spring mix, roma tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, orange pepper, grated carrot, sprouts, garbanzos, and this fantastic Asian miso dressing that I picked up recently. 

I’ve noticed that in my salad pics, all the good veggies seem to hide under the greens. 

See?? Once I get past all those greens there actually are other veggies hiding under there!  Lots and lots of veggie goodness!

By the way, I’ve decided that I need to drown myself in beta-carotene-containing foods so that maybe I can give myself a tan from the inside out.  Not a horrible plan, right?  😉

My soup of the day was Wolfgang Puck’s Classic Minestrone.

Honestly, I think I might like it even more than Amy’s minestrone soup.  Shhhh, don’t tell Amy!!  Wolfgang Puck was the soup brand on sale when I went to Fred Meyer last week.   They were cheaper than the rest of the soup in the health food section, but still more expensive than I would like, at $2 a can.  I think I see some soup-making in my future!

I guess Keenan is bringing me home some tasty treats from the restaurant tonight.  I can’t wait to see what he whips up!

I have the next two days off of work, and other than beginning a new Bible study group tomorrow morning, I really have no idea what my plans will be.  I’m definitely going to get some workouts in, and hang out with my little man, Arlo.  It’s really going to take some adjusting to not having Keenan around 100% of the time that I’m not at work.  I will definitely miss it, but I think it’s good that I’m getting some time to just chill out and do my own thing on occasion.  I will certainly be savoring the time we have together a bit more now that I can’t take it for granted.

What’s your favorite brand of soup?

Any cool plans for the week ahead?

Have a good night!

❤ Lindsay

Bremerton Bar and Grill

Hey Everyone!!!! I’m back!!!!!!

I was able to get a new computer and camera, thanks to Best Buy’s wonderful 18 month no interest financing, so I am ready to roll! For those curious, I ended up with an HP Pavilion g4 laptop, and a Canon PowerShot ELPH 300 HS camera. They’re pretty sweet.

Although I definitely missed the blog, and found myself constantly wishing I could use the things going on in my life as blog material, it was nice to have a little break from it all. I ended up doing a lot of extra reading during the time that I usually spend blogging, and was finally able to finish reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. Great read, by the way.

Another exciting announcement from the Lindsay Loves Veggies crew is that my boyfriend, Keenan, just landed a full-time job as a line cook at Bremerton Bar and Grill! We’ve been living on one income since the end of last year, so this is a huge deal for us. It’s crazy, he had been desperately looking for months to no avail, then all of a sudden one day he got three calls for interviews in one day! It totally blew our minds. He was offered a job at Bremerton Bar and Grill a few days later, which was definitely our number one pick of the places that called him, and just a few blocks from our apartment. Life has wonderful ways of working itself out sometimes!

Today was my first day home by myself while Keenan was at work, and I didn’t really know what to do with myself. I cleaned up the apartment a bit. Arlo and I ran to Fred Meyer and did a bit of grocery shopping.

I treated myself to a kombucha.

After shopping, I came home and had a quick snack of peanut butter toast, before getting my workout on.

I’m trying to somewhat follow the Summer Shape-Up plan over at The Fitnessista, so I did the strength training workout that she has listed.  As I was finishing up, Keenan came home from work and we decided to take a run.  I quickly ate a couple dates, including one stuffed with almond butter for a bit of fuel.

We ran the loop around the bridges by our house, about 2.5 miles, and ended up in the park and walked through farmers’ market.  We didn’t have any money with us, so it was just a window shopping visit, but I always enjoy seeing the fun stuff that they have for sale.  Pretty much the only veggies they had were greens though.  The really good farming is at least an hour from here. 

After our run, I quickly showered and got ready to go out to dinner.  In celebration of Keenan’s first day we decided to go back to the restaurant to enjoy a nice dinner (with a nice discount!).  We started out with an appetizer and drinks.

This hummus platter was amazing.  It came with feta cheese, but I left that for Keenan to munch on. 

Usually I would have gone with a beer, but the Malibu Mojitos caught my eye, so I decided to get the Passionfruit Mojito.

It was just club soda, passionfruit Malibu rum, ice, lime, and mint, but it was incredible.  Not too sweet, and not too boozy.  I had two of these babies over the course of a couple hours and I never felt them at all.  Now I want to try the mango flavor too.

Just before I finished with my hummus platter, the waiter brought my salad.

This is definitely the best vegan house salad I have ever had.  The dressing was a honey balsamic that made my taste buds dance a little bit. 

My entree was really to die for though.

They call it the Treehugger burger.  I ordered it without cheese and with a portobello instead of a patty.

On a ciabatta bun, tomato, avocado, red onion, romaine lettuce and the portobello.  I am so, so impressed.  By the quality of this restaurant.  Everything was impeccably done, and I really appreciated that they had options for both Gardenburgers or portobello in place of a regular burger patty.  I’m really proud that my boyfriend is going to be one of the people preparing this delicious food.

We really had a lovely night out together (Keenan just hates cameras, thus the face).  And even though my basketball team lost tonight (Next one’s yours, Heat!), Lebron still got a triple double, and I can be a gracious loser.

I’ve got to run away for the night.  I have got a pukey puppy.  I think it has something to do with him licking the bottom of Keenan’s work shoes for about 5 hours straight this evening.  Ew.

Have a great night!

❤ Lindsay