The crepes taste amazing! It’s a fairly easy and super delicious breakfast. It takes him about 30 to 45 minutes to get it all together. This meal is fairly ordinary for us. My boyfriend loves to make breakfast for us on the weekends and his crepe game is so good that I ask for it often enough.
1 p.m. After watching TV for a few hours, we go on a leftovers raid: leftover crepes, leftover pasta, a bag of Kettle brand pepperoncini chips ($4.39) I bought last week and somehow didn’t eat for lunch then. I basically snack and watch TV for three-ish hours. We all know how I love my chippies. I would call this a wonderful meal.
7:20 p.m. We get hungry for an actual meal. The decision to go out for dinner is an easy one to make, but where to go is even easier: China Family—a Sichuan restaurant that offers vegan options for some dishes. We order the vegetarian mapo tofu and dry fried green beans, and the BF gets fried rice. We also get two Kirin Ichiban beers because why not, it’s Friday. As the food comes out, you can tell these dishes really are the hits for a reason. Everyone in the restaurant is having a great time, including us. This place gives me that Sichuan peppercorn mouth-thing I crave. I’ve had a lot of Sichuan food in my time, and as far as Austin goes, this is the best that I’ve had for the price ($73).
Friday total: $122.46
Saturday
9:00 a.m. At my boyfriend’s house, we have leftover crepes, which are still good. We microwave them and plant ourselves in front of the TV, as the good Lord intended for a Saturday morning.
1:10 p.m. We eat leftover China Family and leftover pasta. Once again, it’s still good. We are still in front of the TV, we still have our jammies on, and it’s not looking like much will change for the rest of the day. I have so much excess food this week, I’m gonna be eating leftovers for a hot minute.
6 p.m. As the sun begins to set, I suddenly become anxious about not having moved enough or having seen daylight. We gotta do something else. We decide to go to my house where our BFFs/my roommates are. Roomie and his girlfriend tell us they’re going to make miso soup, so we decide to make some stuff as well so we can have a big dinner all together.
7:30 p.m. Boyfriend and I go to the H-E-B closest to us. We pick up the stuff for a bunch of different tempura vegetables, a dipping sauce, and a japanese curry. He’s from Utah, so he wanted me to teach him how to deep-fry stuff, as the resident Texan. While I resent the assumption, he’s not wrong. I’ve been deep-frying stuff since I was a kid. Boyfriend buys this load of groceries and I do not pay attention to the bill, but I think it probably costs around $30 total.
We get started once we get back home. For the tempura, we take cauliflower, sweet potato, carrot, broccoli, onion, red potato, eggplant, and butternut squash and set them in a batter made with egg replacer (actually works great!). I throw eggplant, peas, carrots, potatoes, and onions into the Japanese curry. I had all these vegetables from a grocery run before this week, so it’s time to make something out of them as quick as I can.
