Seitan & Mushroom Fajitas

Well, I warned you that you might see the homemade seitan that I made this weekend again, and here it is. For these delicious fajitas, I simply sliced up about a pound of the seitan I made using the recipe from Vegan with a Vengeance by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and cooked it in a skillet with a bag of frozen onions & 3 pepper medley, a couple of packets of storebought fajita seasoning (carefully checked the ingredients to make sure there was no beef fat or whey or anything else snuck in), and a can of mushrooms. That's it.

I thought about assembling a couple of fajitas and then wrestling with them to try and fit them into the lunchbox, but then I had a better idea. I'm not sure if this has been done before over on Vegan Lunch Box or over at the Laptop Lunch FLICKR Group, but I just put the fajita "stuffing" in the container and then laid two tortillas out flat inside of the lunchbox lid (they fit perfectly). After I finished packing the rest of the lunchbox, I simply covered all four containers with a piece of Glad wrap (so nothing would get on the tortillas) and then closed the lid. It all fit, and I didn't have to struggle to squeeze two fajitas into one of those plastic containers. It's probably been done before and I just haven't seen it. But if YOU haven't seen it, it's definitely a good way to pack something that goes on tortillas rather than filling them and then trying to make them fit.

For the rest of today's lunch, I brought some fat-free vegetarian refried beans that just came out of a can. I like them a little thinned out with some soymilk.

Then I packed some chips & salsa using some of the new Tostitos Multigrain Chips that they seem to have been advertising the whiz out of here lately, and some homemade Jericho Salsa that I made using a recipe from Cafe Max & Rosie's Vegetarian Cooking with Health and Spirit. This is a really good cookbook that I picked up at a bookstore over in Asheville, NC. The sad thing is that Cafe Max & Rosie's was a vegetarian restaurant that was actually located there in Asheville, but I believe it is closed down now. I could be wrong. I believe there are at least one or two people who read my blog who are from Asheville or Weaverville who might be able to clear this up and let us know more about what happened to the restaurant.

Anyway, the salsa is very delicious and came from the TOP SECRET portion of the book, which are actual recipes that were used at the restaurant. You know, the ones that people asked for all the time but couldn't get. I think that is so cool when restaurants share some of their famous recipes. But again, good salsa, excellent!

Well, that does it for Wednesday. Based on the responses about the fast food thing, yeah, I think a week straight would probably not be good. It would definitely be unhealthy, and probably get boring too. So I guess I'll just start documenting some fast food choices occasionally, like I have been doing with some of the local places. I've got a business trip coming up at the end of this month, and there may be some of it worked in there because this will be my first business trip as a vegan and there's no telling what I will resort to eating. I've done this trip before as a vegetarian, but not as a vegan. So that should be interesting. I will be going to Pittsburgh, so if anyone knows of any restaurant that a hungry vegan should not miss in that city, please let me know.

Thanks for stopping in. Have a great day and I'll see you tomorrow!

P.S. I just added the coolest thing to this post. I hope this works for everybody. If you go back up to the picture of today's lunchbox and move your pointer around on the picture, when you stop moving over each compartment, text should pop up and tell you what each thing is as you move and stop over each different item. You don't have to click or anything, unless you want to, in which case you will just see a large version of the pic. But just moving the pointer around the small pic should bring up automatic little text boxes which tell you what is in each compartment. I'll probably continue to do this from now on, unless it causes problems with some people's browsers or something like that. Nothing groundbreaking. I just thought it was cool!