6 Week - Day 37

Soul Food: Worship, 1 Peter 2

My Food:

Breakfast: granny smith apple, handful of pecans, crust of baby's spice cake

Lunch: salad bar- no dressing! (grocery store), cherry pie lara bar (half), clementine, a few pita chips

Dinner: Mexican casserole over plate of romaine, breakfast salad, slice of spice cake (sigh)

My Thoughts:

I'm a little frustrated with how I ended tonight. I brought along food for our extended rehearsal. I made a Mexican casserole that turned out pretty good. I was doing great but then caved and had a piece of the spice cake that we brought for a dessert.  I don't know why I did that, aside from it looked (and tasted) so good.  I mean, it was completely ETL friendly, so I'm not fussing about ingredients. But I am over on grains and didn't need to eat it.  I guess I was just feeling like a treat during a tiring rehearsal.  Time to just accept it and move on. But I know I won't be happy with the scale tomorrow.

So, the casserole. It was a good way to use up leftovers.

Veggie rice (brown rice with mixed vegetables) with a jar of salsa and taco seasoning stirred in. Spread evenly into a 9x13 pan. (I sprayed the pan with coconut oil to keep from sticking)

Spread a layer of black beans (mine had added corn, green chiles, onion, greens, mushrooms, and taco seasoning) over the rice.

Spread a thick layer of vegan cheese sauce over the beans.

Crush corn tortilla chips and spread over as the top layer.  Bake in a 350 to 400 degree oven for about 30 minutes.  (I made this the day before - without adding the chips - so it took a little longer for it to cook for me) 

I think it needed a little more salt, but most added hot sauce or salsa to it so the flavor was still there. My oldest likened it to a taco pie recipe that I used to make. She really liked it. :)   

Sorry, I can't find a link to the cashew cheese sauce I made. I'll try to type it up another time. There's a lot of them out there. I've made different kinds and they all turn out pretty good.

Here's the spice cake recipe I use. I omit the sugar and use about 12-15 dates pureed in with the liquid ingredients (or pre-made date paste) and this time we used banana in place of applesauce because we had bananas that needed using up. It was yummy. :)