Pesto Fails and Emergency Brussel Sprouts

I’m happy to report that the weekend was good to my new found veganism. The only dairy/eggs things I ate were a couple of cookies and chocolates left over from Christmas… gotta get rid of them somehow!

I left my last post with the intention to make Angela’s creamy avocado sauce but that didn’t go as planned. I have everything ready - basil, salt, pepper, lemon juice already in the blender - and cut open the avocado only to find that it had a shriveled, barely existent pit and was all brown. It was extremely bizarre - I should have taken a picture. I tried googling what this means but couldn’t find anything. Did I have a martian avocado? I don’t know.

Anyway, Joe burst into action, running to the nearest grocery store to get a replacement avocado. Alas, this avocado was not ripe enough to use and saved for later. I ended up making a more traditional pesto sauce - basil, sunflower seeds, and olive oil blended in the blender. While it wasn’t what we had planned for dinner, it turned out pretty good! I used the rest of the pesto today on a naan bread pizza. Joe also requested more glo bars for the work week, so we made some more of those too.

There it is again - my naan bread pizza crutch. I only have one slice of the bread left so I should be through with it tomorrow! Same with the asiago cheese. My new approach this week is to only have dairy at lunch, in an attempt to use up my cheese supplies. So far, so good. I had a smoothie and a glo bar for breakfast and we roasted potatoes, brussel sprouts, and cauliflower for dinner. I also cracked open the not-yet-ripe avocado from Saturday and it was perfect!

I had a bit of a brussel sprout emergency today. Yesterday, we did our weekly grocery trip and after visiting two grocery stores I still wasn’t able to find any satisfactory sprouts - everyone I encountered just looked old and gross. I thought fine, I’ll just go without brussel sprouts this week. But then, a mega craving hit as I was thinking about what to make for dinner when I was out running errands this afternoon. I needed brussel sprouts! So I found myself at a grocery store I’ve only been to once my life, buying two pounds of sprouts . Whewwww. Crisis averted.

I will not make the same mistake next week.