Delicious recipes.

We had Homemade Dairy Free Blackberry Thyme Ice Cream:
http://www.yumuniverse.com/2012/08/06/dairy-free-blackberry-thyme-ice-cream/

The ice cream was pretty easy to make. I chose the coconut milk option. I used my blender and put it in the freezer. I think I over blended it because it too a really long time to freeze. Perhaps my freezer is really weak. Needless to say, it took longer than two hours to freeze. I would highly recommend using parchment paper in your freezer container and then pouring your mixture in. It was really hard to scoop out the ice cream. It tastes really good. I'm shocked this is vegan!

We made homemade Empanadas (image left). I added more lemon to the recipe and replaced the macadamia nuts with walnuts. It tasted so good! Definately add to pieces of rainbow chard to one wrap. This will make it so the filling doesn't easily fall out. I highly recommend making this. It is super easy and yes it takes less than ten minutes to make.





We also made some delicious homemade soup from Life As a Strawberry. We added leeks to the recipe too (image right). It was DELICIOUS!! We made some cashew cheese to go with it and added some fresh basil and thyme for garnish. 


 




Today I decided to clean my spices. They were a gift three years ago. You know the spices that come in a package? I'm not sure how old the spices were before I received them. Bay and I decided to start new beginnings with fresh, organic, spices. Mmmm... I can't wait to write with our black crayon on the top to identify each spice. Yes!! I love new beginnings.

Oh and here are some amazing websites to eat plant based- vegan foods here. 

Chill Monday.

March, 3, 2013

Bay-Bay:

"a rough morning. but nothing like good work out at the gym and a fresh juice can't cure! :) carrot, pink lady apple, cucumber, meyer lemon, ginger, spirulina power and bee pollen. happy monday!! xo" (image left)

This morning I made the Chia breakfast and a smoothie. For the Chia breakfast, I didn't have any dates so I added raisins and cranberries along with everything else in the recipe (image left bottom, imagine this in a mason jar and that's what my breakfast looked like.) My smoothie was really good and I made it up myself. It included: frozen: pineapple, black berries, blue berries, a cup of water, two bananas, a huge handful of frozen kale, and a little bit of honey. I also brought along two avocado's that were ripe.

I practiced a lot of interpreting and transliteration today. I felt like something clicked. I was able to convey meaning through my signing. Success! That is always an interpreters goal. Ah! I love interpreting.

Also, today I've been going over the past month's accomplishments and trying to figure out what to say for the YU 30 challenge video. I have two minutes or less explaining everything I've done. Ha! It's like my own mini commercial. I think I have figured out what to say. Now I just need to video myself and edit it. Bam! Don't worry, I'll keep you posted.

For dinner I had left over Jerk Wrap mix with Ranch dressing. It's my bed time. Off to catch some zzz's cheers! xoxo

YU 30, Day 4

Monday, February, 4th

We are SICK, SICK, SICK. I feel like a baby. I started with cold like symptoms after a baby shower the recently Sunday. Monday, bam! I have the cold. Shakes head. My throat feels like Cheddar has climbed inside and used it as a scratching post. We found this recipe to help with my throat (image below, left.) It helped a little bit. It help prevent getting sick use the recipe "Natures Flu Shots" (image right).

                    


Over the course of the week we ate leftover soup, smoothies, tea, and other home remedies. We found out a lot of people were sick with the flu. 

Breakfast: slept right through it.

Lunch: 
Bay’s brother was out of town and let us borrow his Vita mix. It worked amazing!! Our Yellow Split Pea Soup with sweet Potatoes and Kale was a little bit thick. We put it in the blender and voila! Perfect soup was made.     

Dinner:
We ate more leftover soup.

We found out a lot of people were sick with the flu. This week consisted of sleeping, getting food from the market, eating leftover soup, sleeping, drinking fluids, and repeat. Everywhere we went someone was sick. Gross! I felt as though I was infesting people and getting sick by association. We apologize if we got anyone sick.

Recipes. Recipes. Recipes.

Here are some sites that we have come across that we find useful in different ways:

• Yum Universe
• Rawmazing
• Young and Raw
• The Copycat Cook
• This Raw Some Vegan Life
• Smoothie Alchemy
• Raw Food Rehab
• Raw Dazzle
• Feed Your Skull
• For The Love Of Food
• The Sweet Life
• Choosing Raw
• No Face Plate
• Oh She Glows
• The Post Punk Kitchen
• Profound Hatred Of Meat
• Your Vegan Mom
• Fat Free Vegan
• Fragrant Vanilla Cake
• Just Glowing With Health
• My New Roots
• The Nutritionist in the Kitch
• The Whole Food Lab
• Golubka
• Raw Food Recipes
• Fork and Bean
• Health Voyager
• New-trients!
  
• The Road Not Processed

Happy cooking! xoxo.

Organic Homemade Body Butter.

My organic, homemade, orange and lavender, body butter. I found this recipe at Rawmazing. 

I didn't realize that I need an blender so I used a whisk instead, not recommended. lol. I was extremely hard to whisk together. Luckily, I had Bay Bay to help me with gun power. 

This whole process took an hour, including putting the shea butter in the freezer. Organic raw shea butter was a challenge to find. We found it at our local shop in S.E. Portland called People's coop. 

I'm so proud of myself. Their are so many nasty chemicals that are put into our lotion, shampoos, conditioners, packaged, food, etc. Since my body is super sensitive and I have gotten rid of almost all of the chemical based products in my studio. I'm sure their is something lingering. 

Try this out! You'll be surprised at how easy it was, promise.