Vegetable Pad Thai for your Thunder-Thighs...

Grabbed this innocent-enough looking frozen entree in one of our local stores here... you know the one... they sell a cheap bottle of wine and, ordinarily, I'm quite pleased with their choices.  But they have struck a blow to my better senses (and arteries) today... and sadly, it wasn't what I had thought it would be.
Vegetable Pad Thai, sounds good for you, huh?
Then I peered at the back of the package...  520 calories for this 10oz. serving of noodles and sauce, with tiny bits of tofu, a few green onion shavings, and loads of oil... (and not the good kind either).
Total saturated fat weighing in at 40% of a human's daily quota... and, how did it taste you ask?  Well, the flavor is quite nice, zippy, but not too spicy... but OILY on the tongue.
So here it is, in all it's gloopy glory...

Needless to say my guilty conscience took over and I ended up throwing 1/2 of this in the garbage.
A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.

Green Eggs

Hoping to lure my inner child into a Green Eggs and, well, toasted pita wedges... and it was not working.
I had a great idea to use avocado and herbs to create the greenness, but something happened in that combo, something that I'd rather not repeat again.  Ate them for lack on anything else at work, but not "good".  Avocado doesn't have that much flavor, but with the egg yolks, and mayo, and whatnots, it was gagable to my palette.

It were a good idea in theory...

Aww, and they were so full of promise...

Well, the brown rice and hijiki onigiri were a complete bust. 

You could see them pulling apart even before they were ready to flip over, so I certainly did *something* wrong, though who knows what. They fell to pieces when I tried to turn them over during their grilling...

Maybe I used the wrong type of brown rice, or maybe they were too hot/cold/dry/whatever. I'll have to look over the recipe again to see if it's something obvious.  Takes too much time to make them. Cook the rice. Reconstitute the seaweed. Simmer the seaweed with its flavoring sauce. Mix both together. Make into 6 balls. Wrap balls tightly in Saran Wrap and let sit a bit. Heat griddle. Fry for at least 10 minutes per side. See what I mean? Over an hour of prep for what, seaweed and brown rice? 
No one's going to want that. Well, can't win every time.