Fun with leftovers

Mondays are usually crazy at the office. It's when we get the most tapes in and the most handbacks to either correct or send to the recipient. By late afternoon, things have died down, but it's still a crazy day. And yesterday I somehow didn't get a chance to eat lunch, so by the time I left work, I was ravenous. So I stopped at Java Green and picked up a Tofu Green Salad, an order of soy "chicken" and an order of lotus root. I ate the salad and part of the "chicken" and lotus root yesterday, and kept the rest.

Today, I roasted made Balsamic and Rosemary Sweet Potatoes (okay, they're really yams) from a recipe in The Garden of Vegan. Yams are one of my favorite foods. They do really well when oven baked with seasonings, something cut-up Russet potatoes don't. I heated up the leftover "chicken" and lotus root to go with it. It's not the most colorful dinner, but it sure was tasty.

And today I did have lunch. I went to a local place called High Noon and had a custom salad made for me. While they have menu items, customers can also get pasta or salads with the ingredients of their choice. So I did. It was HUGE, and it was tasty. I have sent an e-mail asking about vegan options there (I'm concerned about the dressings), but as expensive as the place is, I will try to eat there semi-regularly just so I can get nice big salads.

You'll notice I go through phases--I'm sure lots of people do--where I feel like having something healthy a lot and then I just don't feel like eating what's good for me. And, no, they don't coincide with my monthly occurrence. It just happens.