Showing posts with label tzatziki. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tzatziki. Show all posts

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Good times and limited vegetarian options

It has been such an eventful few days. I have dyed my hair (dirty blond), went to a violin symphony, lunches and dinners with friends and even went to karaoke for the first time in my life last night. This afternoon I took a long nap just to recover from the constant activities!

New hair color.
Horrible camera and so it is a bit lighter then this.
I like it

I still am keeping with the vegetarian diet and learning to make new and exciting things. Friday, I used the dill that I bought at Fresh Market and made tzatziki sauce. Tzatzki has always been one of my favorite items from the Greek restaraunt that my best friend and I frequent. It is such a simple thing to make, which is wonderful! The recipe made SO much that I have tzatziki coming out of my ears though. Also, the recipe called for too much salt but it is still amazing and I have been chowing down on it with cut whole wheat pita bread.

Tzatziki and pita bread


I mentioned that I have been to a few new restaraunts the past few days. Yesterday I went to a fancy caribbean place before heading to the symphony. As we live along the Gulf of Mexico, fresh gulf fish is a big deal here. I have never liked fish and so I have always had a hard time finding exciting menu items even before this change in my diet. Now, it seems all I have offered to me is noodles and soggy salads. Yesterday I had a boring fettucini alfredo. It was alright but there was no substance.




Today, we went to a sports bar for lunch with friends. Of course there was a lot of chicken wing type menu items which I normally LOVE but now I am left with no options. I had a simple caesar salad that was limp and nothing to it. I have hope that other restaraunts may offer decent vegetarian choices but I am not too optimistic.

The other night my husband was working late and I can't sleep when he isn't home and so I stayed up late watching Food Inc. on Netlix. WOW, that was a powerful documentary. It didn't advocate a vegetarian or meatless diet but it was about informing the consumers as to where our food is coming from. I cried. There is no doubt in my mind that I will be making a vegetable garden come spring as I will feel so much safer knowing where at least a little bit of my food comes from.

Thanks for stopping by. I adore you. Good night.