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The Start Of Something Pickled

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Pickled Eggs

As of 4PM today, I had zero idea of what I wanted to make tonight.  I knew I wanted to go to yoga (third day this week!).  And I knew that I didn’t want anything heavy (yoga kills my appetite).  And then right as I felt like I was going to have to wing it, sweaty and in stretchy shorts, post-practice at Whole Foods…  My phone dinged with a recipe suggestion from the mom.  Pickled egg salad?  I was curious.

Pickling Spices

I headed to the bulk section and spent a whopping 60-something cents on pickling spices.  And then straight home to mounge on some caprese salad using leftover tomatoes while the spices were boiling and doing their thing.

Pickling Spices 2

The pickling liquid took forever and a half to cool.  In fact, I couldn’t wait any longer and dropped the peeled eggs into a warm-ish mixture.  Now I just have to wait a day or so until I can chop these babies up and make some egg salad out of them.  I’m thinking this egg salad will taste like perfection on some sprouted sourdough!

Jams By J

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Hello FoodFash faithful! I’m Justin. After a very flattering post from your favorite herald of whats good in healthy food and hip fashion I am going to inturrupt your regularly scheduled blog with a little music post. Maybe once, maybe once a month, this is a test to see what flies with the boss as well as the readers (that’s you). For most of those across our fair hemisphere it is the beginning of spring, however, here in St. Pete (and out in Austin where Kristin is) that sadly means close to nothing. We go from mild winter to “OMG it’s hot” in a matter of weeks. In preparation for this impending change I am already hunting for summer jams. Just recently my brother and I attended the Gasparilla Music Festival and (for an incredibly cheap $30) were bombarded with some of LAST years best summer soundtrackers. Best Coast and Dr. Dog were stunning live and really got me pumped for more great live music! In the mean time lets get at some early tunes that are going to clear out those winter cobwebs.

HAIM delivers their sisterly collaboration of pop/R&B vocals with a little retro and a lot of cool. They have an excelent EP out but it’s this crushingly solid single “Falling” that is going to get summer off to a good start.

HAIM – Falling
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Next a band, who I know Kristin is a fan of, has three fantastic albums (the most recent came out Feb 11th and features this just plain danceable gem).

Foals – My Number
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Lastly for now in a more etherial but still good vibing vein Pacific Air, who’s debut album comes out in May but get their EP to tide you over. It’s ideal “laying out” music. Just listen!

Pacific Air – Float
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If this gets a few thumbs up maybe FoodFash will have me back. But, in any case, hang in there knowing summer is just around the corner! Thanks, and now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

The Photogenic Vegan BLT (VLT)

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Vegan BLT 3

“Work it…  Work it!”.  Words that almost came out of my mouth as I was shooting this sandwich.  This new found sort of like of tomatoes really works out well in the photo department.  Red on a sandwich is totally beautiful.

Vegan BLT

Vegan was the mission tonight.  It’s hard to believe that this used to be the mission almost every night (I’ve been off and on veg for as long as I can remember).  But tonight, vegan and Nasoya’s new Nayonaise, were the mission.  Oh and forcing down some tomatoes – that was part of the mission too!

Vegan BLT 2

This VLT consisted of Whole Foods Seeduction bread slathered with Nayonaise and topped with toasted Smart Bacon, romaine lettuce, and sliced beefsteak tomatoes.  I’ll be honest, the meat-eater me would have been soooo much happier with legit bacon.  But bacon/faux bacon aside, this sandwich was all sorts of hearty goodness tied together perfectly with Nayonaise.  I’m looking forward to putting this stuff to work in some Easter potato salad this weekend!

A Leftover Transformation

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Meatloaf Wrap 2

Can you believe I’ve been nursing meatloaf leftovers for a week now?  It’s gone something like meatloaf, meatloaf, restaurant meal, meatloaf sandwich, bar meal, meatloaf sandwich, meatloaf.  Seriously.  I’m meatloafed out, but I sure did like this sandwich while it lasted.

Goat Cheese and Jam

I spread goat cheese and cranberry jam down the center of a spinach wrap.

Goat Cheese and Tortilla

Stuffed the wrap with a generous portion of meatloaf and baby spinach.

Meatloaf Wrap

And then I had myself a few little sweet-savory-comfort lunches.  The goat cheese/jam/spinach combo was so darn tasty and would also work wonderfully with leftover chicken or turkey lunch meat.