{"id":1835,"date":"2016-05-30T11:21:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T15:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=1835"},"modified":"2016-10-29T17:27:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T21:27:55","slug":"accidental-vegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/30\/accidental-vegan\/","title":{"rendered":"Accidental Vegan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to tell on myself here. I&#8217;m all for the whole frugal cooking thing, bringing your own lunch to work, prepping in advance\u2026 All that smack.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been doing it lately, and when I took a good look at the family budget, I realized that we&#8217;re buying lunch at work too damned often. I&#8217;m not even going to give the dollar figure here, because it&#8217;s might look trivial to some, but for me it&#8217;s high enough to be embarrassing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I decided to make up some easy to grab cold salads for us to bring to work. One of them was just your basic chicken salad, which we like a lot. (Yes, not vegan. I know!)<\/p>\n<p>The other one is a Black Bean and Quinoa salad. I&#8217;m passing on the recipe because a lot of people are going to parties and cookouts where we might not know the dietary requirements of people there. This particular recipe is not only gluten-free, it&#8217;s vegan. Me? I&#8217;m a total carnivore, but this is still a favorite lunch &#8217;cause it <em>tastes<\/em> good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/30\/accidental-vegan\/accidentalvegan-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2049\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2049\" src=\"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/AccidentalVegan-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"accidentalvegan-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/AccidentalVegan-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/AccidentalVegan-1.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Quinoa and Black Bean Salad<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>2 c quinoa<\/li>\n<li>15 oz can of black beans<\/li>\n<li>11 oz can of corn<\/li>\n<li>1 large red pepper<\/li>\n<li>\u00bc c. chopped onion<\/li>\n<li>1 large stalk celery, diced<\/li>\n<li>Salt<\/li>\n<li>Pepper<\/li>\n<li>1 T olive oil<\/li>\n<li>\u00bd cumin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cook the quinoa according to directions on package. Allow to cool. Mix with salt and pepper to taste, then add cumin.<\/p>\n<p>Saut\u00e9 red pepper, onion and celery in olive oil until onion begins to become translucent. Stir into quinoa mixture. Stir in black beans and corn.<\/p>\n<p>Chill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to tell on myself here. I&#8217;m all for the whole frugal cooking thing, bringing your own lunch to work, prepping in advance\u2026 All that smack. I haven&#8217;t been doing it lately, and when I took a good look at the family budget, I realized that we&#8217;re buying lunch at work too damned often. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/30\/accidental-vegan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Accidental Vegan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-frugality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}