Adventures of a healthy-ish pseudo-foodie

The goodness of wings without the chicken. This post is brought to you by my obsession with the tempeh "wings" at  Hot Mama's Wings . Ever since discovering them, they are a constant craving. They are delicious, and it makes me so happy to get the buffalo taste and the blue cheese and the celery (they even serve it in a basket, like REAL WINGS) without the actual chicken.  The problems with their wings are that they require going to a restaurant, and also this is a restaurant where I will be tempted to eat fried pickles or tots or garlic fries. Plus the wings themselves are fried under the sauce, I assume.  Problems solved. I followed the same super-easy method as my beloved  BBQ Tempeh , lightly browning each side of the tempeh in a pan before covering it in sauce. And in this case, since I don't have to make the sauce (because Frank's Wing Sauce is perfect already), it's my new easiest recipe ever. The hardest part is rinsing and trimming a fe...

A fried egg on top would be good too. I am updating this post with a brand new kimchi fried rice recipe. The one that was previously in this post was pretty tasty, but it was more complicated and way more calorie-dense. This one is something I could enjoy making on a regular basis. It comes from my favorite place,  Pinch of Yum . It's a pretty straightforward recipe, open to variation. And it's very forgiving of me never measuring anything. As long as I don't overdo the soy sauce, it would be hard to mess this one up. I followed the recipe pretty much as written, except I added a little bit of celery and onion because I had them, and I beat the eggs in a separate pan because I've never succeeded with the beat-the-eggs-in-the-middle-of-the-rice method. I also cooked the veggies all at once, not bothering to do the aromatics first, because I had prepped my ingredients the day before and dumped them all into one tupperware. It worked fine. It would be ...