There’s bean juice in the cake

I spent Sunday morning with my mini man at church (in an attempt to give me and P some special bonding time). I have no idea what I ate for breakfast because I have no photo of it…maybe leftovers from the day before? Or more granola?

This kale had so many bugs in it!  Organic definitely has it’s downfalls.

I had sautéed those Brussels in olive oil as part of my weekly prep a while back and needed to use them up soon, so I added them to some of the kale massaged in vinaigrette before adding the rest of my vegan Winter salad ingreds.

Like butternut squash, candied walnuts, avo, and dried cranberries.

I am obsessssssed.

Have you made this salad yet?

I don’t need anything else in my life right now.  For real.  Breakfast, lunch, dinner, this makes me think I could go back to being vegan in a heart beat.  It’s so goooood.

Spent the afternoon enjoying the SUN and then tackled grocery shopping.  Oh the joy.

Trader Joe’s salmon for sure gets my vote.  The price is right and the cuts are nice looking and it’s much easier than going to Costco every time I want salmon…which is maybe dangerous because it means I’m more likely to put salmon on the weekly menu on a regular basis, but it’s just. so. good.

Kyle wanted to grill so I let him have at it with the fish after I brushed it in sauce.

I made a teriyaki sauce from scratch following a recipe from my Vegetarian America’s Test Kitchen cookbook.  It’s meant to be used on tofu, but obviously you can do whatever you want with it.  I know I can always count on ATK recipes to be perfect, which is why I looked there for the sauce recipe.

Side note: GUESS WHAT!?  America’s Test Kitchen has two books in the works that I 100% promise I will be getting.  First, they have an instant pot (electric multi cooker) cookbook.  And second, they have a sauces cookbook.  Both coming out this Spring.  YES PLEASE!!!

Kyle did a beautiful job on these.

That BBQ char is what I live for!

Served with rice and cucumbers and more teriyaki on the side.

I had extra that I bottled up and will be very excited to have on leftovers or with another meal later on.  It’s syrupy sweet with a nice gingery kick and I know exactly what it was made with because I did it myself!  Store bought stuff aint got nothing on this.

My tummy was very happy with this meal which was a relief because it was a little off this afternoon.  I’m attributing it to the TWO meals out the previous day.  GAH.  Sometimes my gut is so temperamental. :-/

Kyle’s tummy, however, was very happy with this cake.  He keeps telling me it’s the best I’ve ever made, so that’s pretty cool considering it has BEAN JUICE in it.  He he.  Sneaky sneaky.  I never told Kyle’s parents that’s what was in it because I didn’t want to freak them out, but there you have it.  Vegan secret weapon = aquafaba.