Vegetarian Camp Food

Hello! I just got back from spending four glorious days relaxing at Lake Casitas! It was so nice just doing nothing at all!

This is now my second camping trip as a vegetarian. I tried a couple new things including spaghetti, grilled cheese, green beans, and grilled peppers and onion fajitas (not pictured).

Spaghetti
I cooked the whole wheat spaghetti noodles at home and stored them with olive oil un a Plastic container. All I had to do is cook the veggies in some butter and then add the spaghetti to the pan to warm it all up. I sprinkled parmesan cheese on top after it was cooked.

Grilled cheese
For lunch, we made grilled cheese with sliced fuji apples and red onions. I used cheddar cheese and French bread (although the bread really tasted like sourdough). This lunch was super easy, but seemed gourmet. I loved the crunch the apple slices added. I'll be making this more often at home!

Green beans
I cleaned and cut the green beans at home so all I had to do was dump them in a pan with butter, garlic, and parmesan cheese. Again, super easy. Luckily, I'm growing this kind of bean in my garden so soon I'll be able to make these at home with home grown green beans!

S'mores
One day I had a s'more for lunch! Why not? It's vegetarian! Hahah. We like to make fancy s'mores by using Reece's peanut butter cups or Ghirardelli chocolate squares.

Roadtrip with the grandparents

Last week I took my grandparents to San Jose for my little cousin's 8th grade graduation. Traveling with old people is... challenging. I imagine it's a lot like traveling with children. When I'm driving by myself to San Jose, I prefer to stop only once or twice with each stop lasting less than 10 minutes. With my grandparents, we made 4 stops on the way to San Jose. One stop was about 45 minutes for lunch! If they had their way we probably would have stopped at every mission along the way. 

There is, however, one perk to traveling with oldies... handicap parking! 

vip parking

I had fun while in San Jose. We spent most of our time eating. If we weren't eating, we were thinking about eating or planning our next food stop. 

the foodies

On my last day in nor-cal, I was able to sneak away and spend some time in SF with Sarah, Willie, and Connie. Connie selected a restaurant for us to try that just happened to be the number one restaurant I've been dying to try for like two years! We took public transportation (yay!) to the Mission District of SF. I finally got to experience Gracias Madre  and their 100% organic vegan Mexican food. Yumm. 

chilaquiles from Gracias Madre

It was a fun three days with the cousins. Congrats to Connor! The youngest cousin is now in high school! That makes me feel oooold! Pretty soon I'll be needing that handicap parking ;)

the grad and me

Postcard

Got a postcard from Sarah from Kauai! So many people going to Hawaii! When will it be my turn?!