Thursday: Noodles and Peanut Sauce

The new hotel room has a kitchen!  Stove!  Oven! Full refrigerator!  Pots and pans and plates and even a dishwasher. I went shopping and bought way way to much food, just because I could cook it.

As I arrived back at the hotel, I discovered it was free pizza night. Right there in the lobby: free food and I had to walk by. So far that's been the only conscious deprivation of pretending to be a vegan. It would have been harder had I not recently discovered that pizza is better without cheese. Next time I'm involved in a pizza night, I'll convince them to order one with double sauce no cheese. That will work for dieters and the lactose intolerant too. It's all about recruiting others who want the same thing, even if not for the same reasons. When I was a vegetarian there were no other vegetarians in my club but we always ordered one vegetarian pizza to accommodate me and the guy who was following Jewish dietary law.

Here is a picture of my first serving of whole wheat pasta noodles with veggies and peanut sauce. The peanut sauce consists of a 500 g jar of crunchy organic peanut butter stirred together with a can of coconut milk, and then mixed with a lot of pepper flakes.  I got the idea from here, but used much more coconut milk and I like it. I meant also to throw some spinach in for the last few minutes with the pasta, but the pot was pretty full already.

I could have spent more time artfully arranging the serving or tossing the noodles or something, but I was like, "Hey, this peanut sauce it good! And it goes with everything!" so just dumping it on.  There's lots more left, so if I don't post for a bit, it's because I'm busy eating the leftovers.  I just had some for breakfast. And this time I remembered the spinach.