An olive and feta pasta salad. The dressing consists of a drizzle of olive oil, a bit of the olive juice / brine, salt, pepper, and a little garlic powder. Includes diced sweet onion, celery, and orange bell pepper. Sliced olives and chopped Italian parsley.

Dinner! Peruvian tallarin de pollo (but with turkey breast). I make it the same way my mother used to make it.The shredded carrots cooked in the simmering tomato sauce gives the dish a pleasant and lightly sweetened flavor. And the bay leaves also help give the sauce its unique flavor.

Lunch! Fried rice for lunch and for the next couple of days.

Lunch! Vegetarian Lomo Saltado. Used the Light life vegetarian sausage for the first time and it came out great.

Lazy Sunday for our boy.

Fresh Buns!

That bottom lip is so cute! Love my boy.

He's precious

Freshly baked banana nut bread

Homemade salsa! Used the roasted chili pepper variety purée that I roasted and froze last summer. Roasted some tomatoes and onions today. Diced up some green onions and tossed in fresh cilantro. Also included garlic, a dash of ground cumin and salt.

First batch of the year. Peanut butter chocolate tofu fudgesicles, no sugar added and used stevia as the sweetener.

"It was a long walk, Mama. Time to recover."

"Watchu doin, mama? Can we go outside now?"

The weather has been great all day today. This was around noon. It's now overcast but still nice. A great amount of rain yesterday and I could tell which houses did not clean up their doggy doodoo because so many backyards smelled awful.

Lunch! Homemade Greek yogurt dressing pasta salad with feta and a grilled cheese sandwich.

Olive bread!

Blueberry lime cake! Came out tasty and easy to make.

Dinner! Homemade pizza with turkey pepperoni, bell pepper and onions. Poe was helping me, especially after it came out of the oven and when cooling down.

Lunch! Salmon burger on a homemade garlic oregano bun. Served with a homemade Asian cranberry slaw.

Sweet potato pie, garlic oregano buns topped with cheese, and homemade salsa.

Lunch date with my beautiful wife. Tried out a new Indian place in our town called Royal Hyderabad. Food was amazing!

Lunch! Homemade tofu chicken sandwich with pan seared garlic brussel sprouts. Added some of the cilantro tomato aji (salsa) on the bun that I prepped yesterday. Added some lite thousand island dressing as well.

Dinner! Homemade coconut chickpea curry with basmati rice.

"Pay attention to me, not the TV show."

Done! Vegetarian Peruvian Arroz con Pollo but with air fried tofu. The homemade breading helps give the tofu that "chicken" flavor. Enough for six meals. Also made vegetable soup for a few days. And Poe loves to watch me from across the house while I work in the kitchen.

Back home, back to baking. Quick and easy orange cake.

Dinner! Amazing hot and spicy pho made by Brooke's dad.

Dinner! Another fabulous and delicious dinner by Brooke's dad. Chicken and Shrimp Alfredo.

Brunch!

My sister from another mister's dad is an amazing cook!

Comfy boy

Dinner! Beyond Burger with air fries.

More bread since the last batch went fast! This time, it has more garlic and more cheese!

Lunch! Used the leftover vegetarian chili I made a couple of days ago to make chili cheese fries. The potatoes were cut and put in the air fryer for about 22 minutes. Topped it all with nonfat Greek yogurt instead of sour cream.

"What's that noise, mama?"

Garlic cheese buns! The house smells so amazing right now. These are cooling off at the moment but I can't wait to try one out.

Cake success! I made a modification to my mom's friend's cake recipe by reducing the amount of sugar, offsetting the oil with almond milk ratio, and I was able to reduce the calories per slice from 189 down to 153. It still tastes great and is not as heavy or super sweet.

"Momma, may I have some cheese with this whine? You know it's time to get up and go walkies."

Lunch! A vegetarian lentil "Bolognese" pasta dish. First time making it and I was surprised on how well it came out! I somewhat followed the recipe from Nisha Vora but modified it based on what I had in the kitchen along with how I usually make pasta dishes.

Peruvian Arroz con Air Fried Tofu Chicken. The tofu has been lightly coated with cornstarch which has been seasoned with a dash of curry powder, chili powder, garlic powder, salt and pepper. It's been given the spritz olive oil before putting it in the air fryer. Served with a sweet onion lime slaw.

Dad and I hit up another bakery today. Yummy almond creme filled croissant and a dark chocolate cruffin. I had the croissant. It was yummy.

Lime and blueberry cake. Sad the blueberries sank. I guess they were feeling... blue. YEAHHHH!

Lunch! Chicken Cucumber Tomato Salad. It includes cucumbers, tomatoes, sweet onion, red bell pepper, Italian parsley, chopped walnuts, crumbled feta cheese, chicken breast, olive oil, lime juice, salt and pepper.

"I'm sleepin, why you taking my picture, mama?"

Lunch! A homemade cranberry walnut slaw. The dressing consists of a mixture of Sesame Seed Oil, Soy Paste, Black Ground Pepper, Honey, and Rice Vinegar.

Fresh buns for the week!

Lunch! Creamy Vegan Cabbage Pasta. First time making it and it came out super delicious. Followed along with most of Nisha's recipe from her video on her channel Rainbow Plant Life.

Last night's dinner! Homemade pizza with sauce from scratch. Turkey pepperoni and sweet onion.

Lunch! Beyond Burger with roasted vegetables. Roasted the veggies with lemon pepper seasoning. Came out well.

Homemade peanut butter chocolate cake. First time and it came out great.