New Discoveries

Thank you to Simon for taking over blogging duties for me for a bit. Things have been a little busy. Last week, I logged in 73 hours of work. Whew! This week will be less hectic with only 65.5 hours. Anyhow, onto food.

I had heard about this Gardein brand of vegan mock meat products. I don't remember where, but it was a while ago. Then one day, just as easy as you please, there they were on the grocery store shelf. A bonus - they're Canadian!

I picked up a package of the Chick'n Filets in a Mediterranean herb & spice rub for $4.99. It was only 200g. Ouch! There were about 6 or 8 "fillets" in the package, but they were small fillets. The first try, I just heated them up and ate "as is." Umph. Nothing special. I used the other half of the package making a chick'n salad sandwich with some Stonemill multi-grain bread, lettuce & vegenaise That was better. There are other flavours in the line-up, but I haven't given them a try yet.

A couple of weeks later, I was at Fortino's and I spotted this -

I picked it up to look at it and read the ingredient list and I saw it was made by the Gardein company for President's Choice. I found a much better website for them listed on the package. I figured I'd give them another try. I decided on fajitas with rice & beans.

I had this package of Vigo Red Beans & Rice I found at Ultra Mart. It was also something we hadn't tried before. There were 4 or 5 different kinds of Vigo products on the shelf, but this was the only one I found that didn't contain some sort of chicken.


There was also a special on peppers, so I was able to get a variety of colours to make things all pretty.

The strips were a much bigger hit in this dish, than the plain fillets were. I had whole wheat tortillas, some delicious Neal Brothers Salsa and sour 'creme'.

The fajitas were delicious! I think I ate one too many.

I very much liked the rice & beans too. I will definitely buy this again. It had a very nice flavour. Too much nice flavour I think. We were both too full for dessert. :o)

On another note - one that is sad, disgusting and downright horrific - Michael Vick & the dogfighting case. I am not a football fan of any sort, so I didn't even know who this guy was until I heard about the dogfighting. I am sickened beyond belief. You can sign an on-line petition HERE and another one HERE.

To lighten things up a bit after you've signed the petitions, head over to Sarah Kramer's blog and check out this post for her hubby. I think you have great taste Sarah!!