Adventure Begins in the Kitchen
And so it is… my Sriracha exploration continues. Tonight’s concoction? Sriracha hummus.
I made two batches just in case the spicetastic version was a complete fail.
A failure wasn’t in the cards tonight, cause Sriracha hummus is the jam.
I used almost the entire container of the orange-colored hummus on my sandwich and then added shredded carrots, baby cukes (sliced lengthwise), and sprouts.
A super fresh wrap with a hint of spice = the perfect post-Bayshore dinner!
Look what I found today!!! I was so pumped when I saw The Sriracha Cookbook on sale at Urban Outfitters. So pumped.
I pressed some extra firm tofu for the occasion and marinated it in Intensity Academy’s Green Tea Gourmet sauce. I’ve used this marinade with tofu before and I think the flavor absorbs pretty quickly without overpowering other parts of the meal.
In the meantime, I sauteed garlic, onions, and green peppers in a little bit of Earth Balance until they were sufficiently browned.
Then I turned to my new book for sauce inspiration and mixed 1/4 cup of Tofutti with 1 teaspoon of Sriracha. Holy heck! Every sandwich should be topped with this combo!
I slathered both sides of a sourdough bun with the Sriracha/Tofutti mix and then layered with veggies and fried tofu.
The only thing I would have changed was using a softer bread. It was a impossible to eat without squeezing all of the good stuff out of the sandwich.
But that obviously didn’t stop me from finishing every last bite…
Robbie, Val, and I had happy hour on the brain since mid-morning. We headed to Mad Dogs & Englishmen after work and scooped up an outdoor table. It seemed like such a great idea, but it was a tad on the swampy side – even our drinks were sweating!
Our drinks went down super easy and the hummus went down even easier. Mad Dogs serves their hummus with warm naan, which is never a bad thing. It hit the spot, for sure.
Val and Robbie ordered some meaty sandwiches that were served with ridiculously tasty sweet potato fries. And amongst the meaty menu choices, I was able to find some veg-friendly dishes.
I ordered the Crisp & Fresh salad which was shredded cabbage, jicama, apples, asian pear, basil, pecans, and apple cider vinaigrette (i.e. perfect salad). But the side of toasted almond and golden raisin basmati, although photogenic, was a little on the dry side and overall so-so. I wasn’t too disappointed though, because the hummus and salad filled me up quite nicely.
Here it is! My favorite childhood snack: popcorn and nutritional yeast. I might have been the only kid in town that didn’t care for movie popcorn. And you better believe I was the only kid in town that requested yeast on the regular.
My mom had an ancient air popper, or so I thought. It turns out that poppers haven’t changed much over the last twenty years.
Well… Except for the fact that the like-model popper that I bought spewed out scorching hot kernels and gave me awkward popcorn burns. Not cool.
So I bought the carnie-like popper pictured above and, since then, popcorn making has been a lot less painful.
All you have to do to recreate this snack is pop some kernels and sprinkle with melted Earth Balance, salt, and nutritional yeast, in that order. And! Since nutritional yeast has 18 amino acids, 15 minerals, and is a super duper source of B-complex vitamins, there’s nothing guiltful about this guilty pleasure.