Spiced Chickpea wraps with Tahini Dressing, pg. 32 (Thug Kitchen)

Pulled out my tiny blender attachment for my stick blender to make the Tahini dressing, which made it very easy to do. The rest came together quite will as they are simple directions and simple ingredients. A bit spicy, but filling. We topped ours with some baby spinach and some carrots. Even after leaving work at around 6, I was still able to get this on the table shortly after. Several hours later, I’m still feeling a bit full (not stuffed, just not hungry).

Black Bean Tortas with Coconut Chipotle May, pg. 143 (Thug Kitchen)

So I have a mild complaint about the book. So they recommend using their own bean recipe, which is fine, however they do provide the alternative to used canned chickpeas or beans. In that case it should be specified if they should be drained, drained and rinsed, or not. It seems like in some recipes this would be fine and in others not so much. This one was clearly a drained. I had to spend some extra time simmering getting it to the described guacamole consistency that they talking about. That being said, it still came out pretty good. The mayo didn’t get quite enough time to solidify, as it was the next day, but still was nice. I used the leftover beans to make myself bean burrito lunches.

Pumpkin Chili, pg. 97 (Thug Kitchen)

I have a “bit” of pumpkin puree leftover from the several times that I have made it. That being said pulling it out of the freezer to use it feels pretty good. I thought about making this Friday, but, since I pulled it out late, the pumpkin puree was still quite frozen. Even when I made it on Saturday it was a mixture of mostly ice shards and liquid.

As a note, I didn’t drain the beans here.

This came together pretty easily. though I did have to simmer it a bit longer, because it took a bit for all the ice to melt. I did ruing the vegan-ness by topping it with sour cream (sour cream’s not vegan?), so there is that. What this does show that it is possible for me to stay full without meat (or fake meat).

Sloppy Chicken

The chicken I didn’t used, ended up in a sloppy joe like mixture and it was nice.

Indian Pulled-Chicken Sandwiches

I got home late, and was mentally exhausted, so after pulling the chicken off the bones, I went with a standard chicken salad instead. It was nice.