Recent Eats & The Comet Cafe

I've got to admit, it wasn't the healthiest week for us.  Mike had to work a lot of overtime (our place of employment gets super busy before holidays) and we seemed to run out of food in the house faster than normal.  Still, we got in mostly healthy food, like this West African Peanut Soup from Dining With Friends.  The only difference we made in the recipe was to leave out oil and use veggie broth to saute with instead, as we have been for a while now.  It's a great soup for dipping hearty, grainy bread in. 

We also had Simply Lovely Quinoa from The Garden of Vegan.  It's one of Mike's favorite dishes and it lives up to it's name.  Very simple and quite lovely! 

Today, we found our cupboards very bare, so we went to The Weather Center for an early lunch of Sandstorm sandwiches.  Both of us got half sandwiches since they're very filling.  Besides, we try to really limit refined foods like white bread.  They're filled with their homemade spicy hummus, tomato, sprouts, red onion & greens, all on toasted, crusty bread.  I asked for no olives since I strongly dislike them, but Mike left them on.   

In the afternoon, we went to the co-op and I was disappointed to find that they still didn't have Westsoy's chocolate peppermint stick milk stocked.  We were planning on going to The Comet Cafe for a late lunch, so we stopped at Beans & Barley since they're on the way there to see if they had it in.  They did!  Even better, it was on sale!!  I stocked up and bought four cartons of it. 

We haven't been to Comet for a while now and although the food is delicious, it's definitely not health food.  We started off with an appetizer of a half order of the deep fried vegan ribs.  It comes with french fries, hot sauce, vegan chive mayo and bbq sauce.  I had an Arnold Palmer (unsweetened iced tea & lemonade) while Mike had a Coke. 

Mike had the Big Luck Burger, vegan style, which is a hazelnut patty that's topped with pickles, vegan thousand island dressing, lettuce, red onion and tomato.  More fries on the side. 

I got the seitan philly, which came with yet more fries.  It's seitan with red & green peppers, onions and the best nootch cheese I've ever had in my life.  It's a bit spicy and so full of flavor.  I could only eat a third of the sandwich (it's HUGE!) and that was with Mike taking a few bites of it.  Since I dislike pickles unless if they're spicy, Mike also got my pickle.  The rest we brought home. 

I topped off my meal by getting a coconut cream soy latte to go for the ride home.  They have the best lattes which also include flavors like Milky Way, Almond Joy and French Vanilla.  All can be made vegan!

So, yeah, we had a brief, guilty love affair with junk food today, but I'm okay with that and won't beat myself up for it like I have in the past.  It just makes me want simple, healthy food even more!