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[blackknife]

          This is a rough estimate recipe. So do it all to taste. You could probably toss all the veggies in some garlic and oil and quickly braise them, too. I was thinking that this would be more like a cool pasta salad.  You could serve it with soup or a nice French bread. I love sourdough so I’d be all into that. D mentioned a tofu soup last night. I’m curious how it turned out. I’m going to make this on the weekend. We want to go to the Arboretum and this will be a quick dinner after or a painless lunch beforehand. We’ve never been so I’m kind of excited to go.

          Sometimes we get lazy and end up eating junk food because we didn’t plan ahead. However, Burger King makes a great veggie burger if I do get lazy and want to hit fast food. I’m going to have to cook tonight. I don’t know what yet. It’ll be something quick, though. I’d like to head to the gym and see if I can work myself out hard enough that I sleep through the night.

          Yeah, I know. I’m kind of rambling. I have fog head. It’s lunch time. Maybe I’ll actually eat and snap out of it and get back to work. *sending my love to D and C, loved the cuddle pile*

Summer Thai Noodles –Caine

Ingredients:

8 ounces of (whole grain) spaghetti, cooked al dente and drained.

¼ cup shredded carrots

¼ cup bean sprouts

¼ cup any X veggie (Bell pepper, or cabbage)

¼ cup peanut butter ( crunchy)

¼ cup crushed fresh peanuts (for topping)

¼ cup soy sauce

2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar (or some light vinegar, seasoned or not.)

1 tablespoon sesame oil

2 teaspoons chili paste

¼ cup of honey (optional)

4 green onions sliced

2 tablespoons sesame oil

 

Preparation:

Heat peanut butter in microwave to soften (20 seconds)

In a large bowl whisk together peanut butter, soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, chili paste and honey.

Add spaghetti, veggies, and sesame seeds

Chill until ready to serve. Serve at room temperature

 

Comments

[heartsmoke]

I saw an ad for the BK veggie burger and was like omg, fast food for vegetarians!! but there are so few BKs left here... Probably for the best or I would never cook again. Canada is not really good about fast food -- we lack at least 5 US chains that I've heard of (possibly more) and even big ones like KFC are going out of business in Ottawa (okay I don't wonder why, their food is disgusting, what the fuck do you Americans see in them?). We basically have McDonald's, Wendy's, and then you get into pizza and Tim Hortons and Subway, which aren't really fast food in the same way, but the latter two are very popular here. And we have Pita Hut and Sushi places forever. I think folks in Ottawa favour more expensive food as a rule, or local food like our poutine stands for something fast. *ponders* I guess on whole we're not big beef eaters.

My soup turned out awesome! It was full of noodly goodness. Speaking of food, I should go buy cookies and coffee filters.

[blackknife]

I wouldn’t be surprised if beef were the number one consumed animal product. I remember ads for them. They actually have ads for the different industries, beef, chicken, pork, eggs, milk and cheese.

Cookies and coffee filters….I am craving Oreo cookies for some reason. I think I saw someone eating them and coffee…I have yet to have any yet. Cookies would go well with coffee,but not Oreos. It would have to me something like a snickerdoodle or even better, apple pie. You should get pie...

[heartsmoke]

Gluten free oreos are exactly what I'm going to get! Biomom will eye roll at me for using the $20 she left to get us food on cookies and shit but really she should expect as much by now.

[blackknife]

*really wants them now* Maybe you’re Oreo need snuck up on my easily influenced baked goods brain, haha! They have gluten free Oreos. That’s pretty slick. They have to have them here and I never noticed them. The last time I got Oreos was in one of those little snack cups. They were mini and I inhaled them in one strong whiff. *Wants something sweet, might go and get juice* I saw green tea apple juice in the cafeteria yesterday…That sounds pretty healthy for juice. *nods*

[heartsmoke]

These days you can get almost ANY baked good GF -- just check out the GF section at your store and limiting wheat will become painless.

They were all out of oreos today *sadface* so I got more oh henry bars because now they make me think of Cael.

[blackknife]

http://www.nestleusa.com/brands/chocolate/oh-henry I went to the website hoping they have a store locator and they do, but they don’t list it. The search doesn't list thier other products in the locator that I know we’ve seen like Tombstone frozen pizza. Cael has been on the hunt for this candy bar ever since you mentioned it. She says she needs one to share the chocolatey goodness experience. We haven’t gone to that many stores so it’s not as elusive as she may be thinking, lol.

I did get Oreos. I found some downstairs. Bless the heart of whoever decided to stock them.

[heartsmoke]

Do they let you send dairy across the border or no? Because I could just send you all a bunch. I never assumed our candy bars were that different to American's...

[blackknife]

I'm pretty sure it's okay. We've been sent candy and chocolate from oversees before. Cigarettes, alcohol, and probably fruit are the no no's. (Dried fruit is probably okay.)

We've seen Oh Henry's before. In the last few years we've not had access to as many products. I think I used to be able to choose from 20 different types of toothpastes at Target and that's not the case anymore.

[heartsmoke]

How weird! America is known for having more stuff usually... Our mom's friend used to shop down there for that reason.

[blackknife]

I just looked on-line for the available types of toothpaste and I was actually kind of shocked. There are currently 163 different types of toothpaste available at Target, but not all are sold in the stores. Some you can only buy in the store. I guess when I noticed the aisle changing size those brands went on-line only. I also noticed they don’t carry the toothpaste I used to love. It was Crest Citrus. I liked it because it wasn’t too harsh and didn’t taste sweet like a kid’s toothpaste. This is probably the case with all of the other things I see missing, too. It makes sense. They can keep all of those things in the warehouse and keep costs down.

[heartsmoke]

I'm pretty sure dairy from the US is on the no no list here as we consider your milk basically hormone-pumped poison, which it is. But if your import laws are different, sweet, I can send you Canadian food!

[blackknife]

https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/717/~/sending-store-bought-foods-(i.e.-chocolates,-candies,-canned-goods-etc.)-as
Here's what I found on it.