What I Ate [with the OTHER Boy]
Remember when I showed you a His & Hers WIAW, and you got to see how the man-friend eats [the complete opposite of what I eat]?
Well there is another man in my life.
My brother and I have always been close. He’s only 2 1/2 years older.
That’s us, on the day that he married his lovely wife, Aricka, a couple of years ago π
Anyways, he might be just as stubborn about eating meat as the man-friend. But after a long discussion during our 8 hour car ride back from Columbus…
He accepted the challenge to go 1 week without meat.
His lovely wife is on board with this, which makes it about 10 times easier for him π
He even said “Maybe I could do a guest post on your blog about it”
Um. YES! So stay tuned my friends.
After he told me he was going to try being a vegetarian, I immediately invited him and his wife over for dinner. (I’m a nice sister, right?)
I wanted to make a vegetarian meal that would show him how delicious vegetarian food can be! (Although Aricka makes him delicious vegetarian meals sometimes, so it’s not like he’d never had one before!) And I’ll warn you right from the start that this was not a low calorie dinner. But I’ve gotta ease these men into it…
I decided on Angela’s Barley Risotto (which I’d actually made before here) and a cheesy potato bake, that was the product of an afternoon of brainstorming. I’ll share the recipe soon! I also made an apple walnut salad, because I had to have some greens in this meal.
But since it wouldn’t be a true WIAW without the other accompanying meals of the day, here’s what else I’ve been noshing on.
Breakfast:
The weather has still been warm here, so I haven’t given up my smoothie in the morning
1 frozen banana, 2 handfuls of ice, splash of soymilk, 2 packets of stevia, topped with homemade granola, and a side of dark chocolate dreams peanut butter. YUM.
Lunch:
I was lazy, and didn’t pack a lunch at work, so this is what I pulled together from the salad bar. Veggies, hummus, pita, and a little bit of rice. This was eaten with an unpictured red pepper soup.
Dinner:
The spread that I whipped up for my brother, his wife, and the man-friend.
*Blogger fail, I didn’t actually take any pictures at dinner, but I had leftovers the next night, so I took a photo of that!*
Dessert:
Unpictured cake batter ice cream that my sister-in-law made. Holy monkeys, was it good. For a “healthified” cake batter ice cream recipe… click here!
I would love to see a post from your brother! How about a veggie pizza (loaded with cheese of course still π ) or black bean burgers, anything with sweet potatoes? Gorgeous picture of you two!
Aw, thanks girl! π I love the idea of black bean burgers!
That would be brilliant if your brother did a post, look forward to it! I’d always suggest risotto as a good one but also maybe roasted vegetable pizza, mushroom stroganoff or a lentil loaf with melted cheese on top; all amazing.
Lovely picture of you and your brother too π
It’s awesome that your brother is going meatless! I had a meatless lab a few weeks back and I loved it. It was really good! I would recommend him making the felafel burger, curry butternut squash soup, and chocolate tofu pie! π
So jelous it’s still warm enough for breakfast smoothies. It’s hitting below zero over here.
Love your salad bar creation, looks amazingly tasty!
That smoothie looks insanely delicious, and remarkably like an ice cream sundae! My kind of breakfast!
I am a vegetarian (yay for your brother!) and have many vegetarian & vegan recipes on my blog, if you are interested. I hope he enjoys his week so much he converts for good! π
she neeeeeds to make him black bean sweet potato burgers! or have him try some lentil meatloaf;)
xo.
Sometime I think men are just obsessed with meat because it’s a “masculine” food.
OMG you guys have the same eyes! love it! and I cannot waiiiiit for his guest post!!!! <3
especially with it getting cooler vegetarian chili to me is always a way to go. but then again. i just love chili, and it’s super easy to make. haha.
Gonna pimp out my blog here for a bit and tell you to look at my Friday post of Cranberry-Tempeh Stew…when my vegetarian roommate ate it for the first time she said it tasted like the short ribs she used to eat as a kid. π
PS I think I overdosed on Dark Chocolate Dreams last night. Sometimes I don’t like it, and then I get CRAZY and can’t stop eating it….but this morning I vowed to take a weeklong break.
Good thing there’s always White Chocolate Wonderful
Haha oh man I’m totally checking it out!!! YAY!