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Delicious & Nutritious

This morning we made a sick supplies delivery to a good friend and ended up bringing her to the Emergency Room. Hospitals are such depressing, disorganized places. After the six hour ordeal she's stable and correctly diagnosed. Sick supplies included: 2 kinds of Theraflu, Vicks, tissues, orange juice, strawberries and 4 kinds of canned soup.

At home, be and i wanted to make a good dinner after our consumption of Dunkin Donuts (coffee and 2 chocolate frosted for be, 1 glazed for me), Coke, ginger beer, potato chips and sandwiches (veggie burger for me, tuna melt for be) throughout the day. Another box was due to arrive any minute, so we knew the meal had to reduce produce by a significant amount. We also wanted really healthy dishes - kids barfing and people with mysterious, hacking coughs in the same room will do that.

I made another batch of Wild Blend rice with pine nuts and golden raisins (in mine); sauteed spinach with garlic, fresh lemon juice and ground pepper; and green beans in a garlic tomato sauce. be was inspired by an eggplant pate recipe in The Vegetarian Bistro, so he made roasted eggplant with grilled portobello mushrooms in a cream (soymilk) sauce with breadcrumbs and swiss cheese. It sounded strange to us as well, but it sure was tasty! Afterwards, we felt satisfied but not overly full. Besides the little bit of swiss cheese, the meal was completely vegan and mostly organic, and we used whole grains and a ton of vegetables. Now we just need to cook and eat like this every day...

On a strange side note, i read about the woman who was the first person to actually finish a 6 lb burger with 5 lbs of fixins. I still don't think i understand how big this burger is. I mean, something with a cup each of mayonnaise, ketchup and mustard must be as large as a table! It's also interesting to note that the top ranked competitive eater in the U.S. is an Asian American woman, Sonya Thomas. She's second in the world only to Takeru Kobayashi of Nathan's Hot Dogs fame. I think it's awesome that the person most likely to "bring the title back to the U.S. from Japan" is a 105 lb Korean American woman!

posted by beXn @ 4:30 AM