Celebrating Steve-O

Howdy, bloggers! I hope you all have had as pleasant of a Fathers’ Day weekend as I have. My dad (aka Steve-O) and I spent much of the weekend together, doing our foodie thang: farmers’ market on Saturday, The Fresh Market today, and a celebratory meal with the fam this evening. Although 99% of our conversations consist of insulting one another (in jest) or quoting Christmas Vacation, I have a special place in my heart for dear old dad. Here’s a glimpse at our adventures through the years:

Penn State Northwestern game, October 2001

Grand Canyon, February 2003

Profressor Yoder & me, December 2008

How did you celebrate Fathers’ Day?

The Next Food Network Star begins in a mere twenty minutes, so I must be brief:

Friday

Conveniently enough, the place where I purchased my dad’s Fathers’ Day present is right next door to my favorite health food store. While there, I picked up a packet of Fruitein, my beloved Spirutein‘s cousin. I had high hopes for this shake, but it tasted a bit like a Flintstones vitamin. Tootie frootie, indeed. Plus, the ingredients list rivals my chemistry textbook in length. The ingredients are all natural of course, but it was a bit odd to see that I was consuming everything from Jerusalem artichokes to pomegranate seeds.

latest health food store find

peach-raspberry smoothie with Fruitein, soymilk, & Acai Apple granola

Saturday

After our wildly successful trip to the farmers’ market, I sat down to a big plate of banana-blueberry pancakes. Totally loving this combo lately. Any ideas on how else can I enjoy the blueberry-banana duo?

blueberry-banana pancakes (made with rice milk), topped with honey-cinnamon almonds, bluberries, & maple syrup

While digging in the pantry, I found this salad dressing that I had purchased at TJ Maxx a while back. I was a bit skeptical, but the ingredients list was short and pronounceable; low-sodium too! It turned out to be fantastic! Rachel’s cottage cheese still rocks my socks.

Mango-Lemongrass-Chardonnay Vinaigrette from TJ...Maxx, that is

salad with assorted farmers' market veggies, leftover beans, & mango vinagirette; Rachel's Lemon Verbena Berry cottage cheese with wheat germ & blackberries

Clean Eating Magazine featured a tortilla soup recipe a few months ago; I veganized it by using soy sausage and adding tofu sour cream. So filling and delicious!

Tortilla Soup with "soysage" & tofu-cilantro sour cream; salad; coconut-spiked yogurt with flax

Yet another delish chocolate-covered strawberry shake.

choco-strawberry shake with chocolate HempShake, strawberries, soymilk, Choco-Cherry Treat granola, & chocolate syrup

Sunday

Fabulously fresh blackberries make any bowl of oat bran phenomenal. That walnut butter was pretty rockin’ too.

blended oat bran with silken tofu, rice milk, blackberries, & raw walnut butter

I dug into my Fresh Market goodies for lunch…lemon hummus! This was so creamy and uniquely flavored–none of that pasty flavorless stuff in this tub.

treat from Fresh Market

lemon hummus sandwich; salad; apple & PB

Dinner for the family this evening was a shrimp-orzo salad from A Lyon in the Kitchen, so I prepared a separate dish for myself–basically spaghetti with “meat sauce.”

whole wheat spaghetti with TVP, tomatoes, onions, & sweet basil; salad; hemp milk; fruit salad

I made dessert from my beloved ED&BV. My dad and I are the only ones in the family who enjoy coconut, so I used Dreena’s recipe for coconut cake to make a small batch of cupcakes, along with plenty of coconut frosting. I just can’t get enough coconut these days!

coconut cupcakes with coconut frosting (ED&BV)

dessert for Daddy

Alright, TNFNS is starting. Ciao, lovelies!

Filed under: Meals

23 Responses to “Celebrating Steve-O”

1. Danielle, on June 21st, 2009 at 8:57 pm Said:

   Yum, Happy Father’s Day to your dad! And great bar post before… I really enjoyed it

2. Sarah (Running to Slow Things Down), on June 21st, 2009 at 9:08 pm Said:

   Oh my…looks like a very fun (and tasty) weekend! So glad you had a great weekend with your dad!

3. Lauryn, on June 21st, 2009 at 9:21 pm Said:

   awww i love the pics with your dad! its so fun to see little bloggers from past years =)

   everything in this post is too good to be true, my mouth is watering. no, seriously. you had me at the pancakes.

   haha hope you had a great weekend!!!

4. jaime, on June 21st, 2009 at 9:49 pm Said:

   what great pics of you and your dad he sounds fabulous!!!
   LOVE the cupcakes and the pancakes– cakes all around heh
   xoxox

5. gymratfoodie, on June 21st, 2009 at 10:10 pm Said:

   Love your old pics of you and your dad

   My dad doesn’t like celebrating things (his birthday and fathers day, mostly) so we just treat it like any other Sunday. I guess if there’s any day where he should get to spend however he wants, it’s father’s day, so it makes it soooooooooo easy for me and my mom.

   That salad dressing looks fascinating. I love browsing the gourmet foods in stores like TJ maxx, home goods, etc!

6. Christina, on June 21st, 2009 at 10:22 pm Said:

   I love TJ Maxx food finds! Just the name of that dressing makes it sound so fancy and superb

   I just had some blueberries and bananas in my cereal but I guess that’s a pretty obvious choice lol. Maybe make a parfait?

7. Learning To Relove :), on June 21st, 2009 at 10:46 pm Said:

   awww yayy for fun with your daddy! I’m so glad you were able to spend some quality time together and it def doesn’t hurt that it was done in a wonderful little Farmer’s Market.

   Those pancakes look amazing and so does the soup and that salad and a million other things that went into your tummy this weekend. haha

8. fleur, on June 22nd, 2009 at 12:43 am Said:

   Blueberries and Bananas are a great combination. I made Banana Blueberry bran muffins a while ago they were pretty good and a chunky smoothie too.

9. Roses R Red, on June 22nd, 2009 at 2:33 am Said:

   Your bean salad looks scrumptious!
   I love buying fresh veggies, they taste so much tastier.

   Rose

10. Erin, on June 22nd, 2009 at 5:49 am Said:

    Ahhhh I love everything you eat!!!!
    I can totally see the resemblance between you and your dad. He has such a cute face!

11. Shelby, on June 22nd, 2009 at 8:40 am Said:

    I love that walnut butter! Its amazing!

    Ooo and YUM to those cupcakes! I love coconut!

12. Anna, on June 22nd, 2009 at 8:58 am Said:

    Adorable dad pics! And those cupcakes look killer.

13. mayapamela, on June 22nd, 2009 at 10:29 am Said:

    I need to get on some coconut cake goodness!

14. Maria, on June 22nd, 2009 at 10:52 am Said:

    It must be great to share a love for food with your dad! Glad to hear you guys spent lots of time together for Father’s Day weekend .

    I love Rachel’s cottage cheese too, and first read about it on your blog. I current have some pear mangosteen in the fridge, mmmm. That tortilla soup looks super yummy too.

    I adore coconut myself, so maybe I should dig through my copy of ED&BV and try that recipe. The cupcakes look gorgeous!

15. ksgoodeats, on June 22nd, 2009 at 11:39 am Said:

    That lemon hummus sounds right up my alley! I crave the citrus these days!! When I was little I used to eat a big bowl of plain cheerios and fresh blueberries in the summer – so good

    What’s your dad a professor of?

16. janetha, on June 22nd, 2009 at 12:11 pm Said:

    mmm those cupcakes look so delicious, the frosting and coconut on top is stunning. i bet your dad was stoked! i really need to pick up a copy of ED&BV

17. Sophia Pflieger, on June 22nd, 2009 at 12:16 pm Said:

    Those cupcakes look great! What a lucky Dad!
    Its to bad that Fruitien stuff isn’t very good it looks so healthy.
    That salad dressing sounds really yummy, I love lemongrass.
    http://whatyourmommadidntknow.blogspot.com/

18. A, on June 22nd, 2009 at 12:22 pm Said:

    Lemon hummus?!?!? I’ve never heard of such a thing! I bet it is wonderful though!!!!
    -A

19. april, on June 22nd, 2009 at 1:14 pm Said:

    Blueberries and bananas go perfect together! I so want that walnut butter!!

20. broccolihut, on June 22nd, 2009 at 3:02 pm Said:

    My dad teaches law-related business classes for undergraduates, as well as MBA courses in corporate governance.

21. veganhomemade, on June 24th, 2009 at 1:02 pm Said:

    Your tortilla soup looks great! And lemon hummus? Sounds very interesting.

    I’ve been watching TNFNS too…I wished they would’ve just sent both Eddie and Teddy home last episode. I’m tired of both of them and clearly neither was going to make it to the end. Maybe they’ll kick off Teddy the backstabber this week

22. Marianne, on June 26th, 2009 at 12:20 am Said:

    Ooooh, those coconut cupcakes look awesome But I’m sure you would have already guessed that I’d love them

23. Muscle…Water? « Broccoli Hut, on July 28th, 2009 at 8:16 pm Said:

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