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I've been out of the house so often that I want to make more easily transportable snacks. I love jerky so I decided to try making some tofu jerky in my dehydrator! I bought a few packages of tofu at TJ's: Sliced them up and coated them with Bragg's, ketchup, garlic powder, paprika, and a little apple cider vinegar. I let them marinate for about an hour and then dehydrated them for about eight hours. They taste delicious! But next time I'm going to slice it thinner (I didn't know how much it would shrink down - not that much, actually) and try and make it BBQ flavored. What it really tastes like, actually, is fried tofu. I would definitely recommend dehydrating your tofu instead of frying it! Exercise: Morning: 10 minutes bike, 10 minute danceathon weights/strength: hamstrings, obliques Evening: 20 minutes bike weights/strength: shadow boxing, glutes Food Diary: Breakfast: Cracklin' Oat Bran with almond milk Lunch: Corn chowder Dinner: Yesterday's split pea s...

I had a great/exhausting weekend. I volunteered at ActorFest (like Comic Con for actors) from 7:30-5 on Saturday and my whole weekend was pretty much structured around it. I tried to go to bed early on Friday but it was a total failure and I only got four hours of sleep. So then I was super wired on adrenaline all day Saturday from the lack of sleep I was even doing wall pushups during my rare downtime. I had a great volunteer gig - I got to escort the VIPs from check-in to the green room and I met some of my favorite casting directors! After catching up on sleep, I had two auditions on Sunday. Yesterday I had Power Group and then I was supposed to have an audition for a student film - but when I got there, nobody else was! And I was definitely on time and in the right place! I texted the student but by the time she texted me back I had left. I figured if the production was that unprofessional from the beginning, I don't want to be a part of it. Today I spent all day making...

It's clear that I've mastered the soup/stew/dal combo from winning recipes like Indian-Spiced Yellow Split Pea Soup , Green and Orange Soup , Indian-Spiced Barley Stew , and Mushroom Dal . But now I've taken it up a notch and I introduce the soup/stew/dal/tofu scramble. I started with my Eggless Egg Salad from yesterday. I knew I wouldn't be able to finish all the leftovers as is (it made a lot) and I had some other veggies I wanted to make into soup. Then I got this craaazy idea to put in a couple scoops of my eggless salad. Like so: This was vaguely the recipe: Eggless Salad Split Pea Soup 1 cup yellow split peas 4 cups water 2 bunches kale stalks 1 bunch carrots and greens 1 onion 1 bunch celery 1 eggplant 1 tbsp mustard 1 tbsp garam masala 1 tsp curry powder 1 cup Eggless Egg Salad Chop all veggies, cook at least an hour until the correct texture, season to taste and mix in eggless salad. You can put any veggies in here. Seriously, try it. It's really...

Another scorcher today, about 95 degrees. Whoa. I kind of made this recipe (from Melody of Melomeals by way of Choosing Raw): Raw Eggless Salad 3 c cauliflower, pulsed in food processor -½ c sunflower seeds soaked for 4 hours, drained then pulsed in food processor -1 c diced celery -1 c shredded carrots -½ c scallions or 2 T diced red onion or shallot -½ c nutritional yeast -2 t dried sage -1 T dried dill -1 T dried parsley -½ t garlic powder -¼ t turmeric -4 T tahini -4 T yellow mustard -2 T Dijon mustard -4 T relish -1 T chia seeds (or ground flax) -1 t black salt (or sea salt) -½ -1 t black pepper -½ c water Pulse the cauliflower in processor and set aside in large mixing bowl. Pulse the sunflower seeds, and add to the cauliflower. Add the celery, carrots and scallions and nutritional yeast and spices (not the salt or pepper). In a small bowl add the tahini, mustard, relish, chia seeds, salt and pepper along with ½ c water. Whisk well and pour over the veggie...