{Meatless Monday} Cucumber & Zucchini Pasta Salad

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Hi everyone!!

Hope you all had a fantastic fourth of July! Ours was quiet and nice. We picked more cherries yesterday; only a pound though because it was their last day and the cherries trees were pretty much picked out. I also scored another jar of fresh local wildflower honey  -straight from the hive into the jar. YUM!

Last week, I made a wonderful quinoa pasta salad using the cucumbers red onions, tomato and zucchini  from our CSA crate and basil from our garden. It was super simple, quick and easy! I thought I snapped a photo of it with my camera phone but I guess not! Party foul! wah!

We love this brand (Ancient Harvest)- Gluten free!

Just visualize this…

Ingredients:

1 Box of Quinoa pasta

1 med  cucumber chopped

1 med zuchinni sliced into half moons

1/2 red onion chopped

5-6 basil leaves or more depending your taste!

(I roll these up and chop into thin strips)

1 med tomato chopped

1/3-1/4 cup of pepitas

1/2- 3/4 Oil & Vinegar dressing  (we used a homemade version)

2 tbsp Nutritional Yeast

Directions:

Boil pasta as directed on box, approx. 6-9 minutes. After pasta is cooked, rinse and drain. Next, dump pasta into a fun serving bowl and add in your fresh veggies, basil, pepitas and Nutritional Yeast (nooch). Pour in oil and vinegar dressing and mix well. Serve and enjoy! **Make this ahead of time and let the flavors marinate for a tastier dish!

Meatless Monday in the bloggy blog interwebs…

First! Here’s 10 GOOD reasons to STOP eating meating!

Caprese Salad by the Healthnut Foodie

Enchiladas at Moms Going Green

Article at the Huffington Post: Going (GMO’S) to Seed with Gado Gado Recipe!

Stop GMO’s!!

Maple Nutty Scones at The Blissful Chef

Garden meal ideas from the Green Phone Booth

& this weeks Meatless Monday’s recipes = YUM!

Hope you enjoy the links and the recipe!

Let me know, if you try any of these or mine out. 

What  have you been cooking or uncooking in the kitchie?

Would love to hear from you.

Peace, Love and Green Happiness!

Later!!!

{Meatless Monday} Raw Vegan Goodies & Meals

Happy Meatless Monday!

Hope you had a great weekend!!  It sure went by fast. There’s always so much I want to share with you but so little time… !!!

The case of Baby C teething is still plaguing my nights… especially, last night, as I could not get him to sleep until after 10pm.

Which meant that any chance of blogging, flew quickly out the window. Gah!

I’m gettin’ really pumped about eating more raw foods and have seem to found a little groove goin’ on. I’m really feelin’ it, physically and emotionally. I’ve only started to feel this way within the past couple of weeks. I’m sure it has a little something to do with the season change but maybe not.  Happy Summer, by the way!

This so called “groove” has me planning and preparing like no other. Let’s just say that preparing raw foods and eating them makes me super happy. Ha!

I’ve been doing a little dabbling lately… recipes from here and recipes from there …basically just getting and idea and experience.

Feeling out different techniques, ways, version…etc.

So much to learn… *sigh*

Besides the usual juices, smoothies and salads on our  menu… here’s some fun raw vegan fare we really enjoyed last week…

Cookies? Did somebody say, cookies? <said in my best Cookie Monster voice>

These cookies are absolutely tasty! I used sprouted buckwheat and chocolate covered cacao nibs for mine!

A couple Meatless Monday’s ago,  I mentioned the e-book The Magically Mysterious Raw Recipe Book.…

well, I’m thoroughly enjoying it…these chic-un-nugget had all the flavor of the real deal except no chickens were killed for this version. YAY!

Seriously? Hummus with no beans… what? Yeah, NO BEAN HUMMUS…it’s definitely among us and I’m SOLD!!!

What, what!! RAISE THE ROOF…these Dorito knockoff’s deliver!  BELIEVE. Crunchy & flavorful AND healthy!!!

We had an abundance of plums so I HAD to make “fruit roll ups” for the tots! YUM, yum, YUM!

(recipe for fruit leathers, comin’ your way, later this week)

This little prize was something I came up with in a snap or on a whim, if you will…

Gluten free english muffin (Food For Life), with daiya mozarella, homemade sun dried tomato & fresh sage sauce + veggie dogs on top!

any guesses, on tonights din-din?

BTW- i’ve been using my oven on the lowest temp setting (170) with oven door cracked …experimenting with it vs. the outdated Mr. Foods Dehydrator we have.

What meatless meals have you been cooking or uncooking up in the kitchie?

{Meatless Monday} Raw Vegan Gyros

Hello, my dears!

Happy Meatless Monday!!

It was beautiful in these parts over the weekend a bit on the HOT and dry side but it is desert living so it does get rough in the summertime  BUT it’s all about beating the heat with lot’s of water and uncooked foods OR a dip in the pool works too…lol!

All I know, is this heatwave has me craving nothing but cold/uncooked foods. Turning on the stove or oven is like adding fuel to the fire here. Ugh! So, to say the least, I haven’t used my stove top or oven much lately.

Last week’s CSA crate contained a lot of summer squash and stone fruit &  plenty of other organic veggies too. I was a bit excited when I saw the summer squash because I remembered a recipe I’d bookmarked awhile back.

After finding the link in my bookmarks folder…I realized the recipes at Live Green Smoothie Diet are for members only.

Well, I wasn’t quite ready to make that step so I basically winged it off the picture shown. I know, such a cheater but it was just too tempting not too!

After putting together our first Raw Vegan Gyros, I was impressed. It was so simple, super tasty and easy to put together. I loved it so much that I had it for lunch every day last week and twice for dinner. It hit the spot for sure. Mmm, mmm goodness!

Lovin’ my green smoothies sooooo much lately! I’ve really been packing in the greens too. Been alternating between a blueberry banana chard with chia smoothie and spinach strawberry banana hemp smoothie. Both are my own creations that I happen to enjoy.

The kiddos were gobblin’ these up last week for snack and we also took them on our hike with us last weekend and this past weekend. Last weekend I had watermelon wedges on them and it was super fantastic after a hike.

Here’s a crappy cell phone pic (sorry guys) of my blueberry banana chard sans the chia

since I  made Bitt’s Down and Dirty Chia to eat before our hike (and this am)! It was delicious and did have strawberries on top until a couple of cute tots I know ate them on the car ride to the hike destination. I love soaked recipes because it makes for an easy to prepare meal the next day… shortens your time in the kitchen that’s for sure! Will definitely be keeping this one on the menu for sure.

Now, this is the breakkie of champions.

We saw this baby birdie on our hike and I thought I’d share him with you.

He blended so well his surroundings we almost missed him. He’s cute, huh?!!

Alrighty folks, I have to cut this one short…

preparing some raw vegan “chicken”  nuggy’s tonight!

What are you cooking or uncooking  up in the kitch?

A Boo-rific Meatless Monday with Top 5 Healthier Hallogreen Treats

Hey guys! It’s me again!

Time for another round of Meatless Monday- ding, ding!!

With Halloween on Saturday how about a ghoulish dish for those goblins or guests you may be having over. The dish I’m going to share with you happens to be another eggplant dish because the plant is still flourishing in my mother in law’s garden and giving us beautiful eggplants to nourish ourselves with. Oh, and my love for eggplants may have something to do with it too.

PLUS- after finding the Faken’ Bacon recipe I also found this recipe…

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Simple & All Natural: Banana Honey Facial

Hi everyone. Happy October 1! Can you believe it’s already the 10th month! I don’t even want to think about it, right?! It’s all about the now…. so guess what that means- I’m telling you to go meatless again for the day because it’s World Vegetarian Day! 

Don’t worry it won’t kill ya- it’ll make you stronger!

Celebrate the day with this banana honey facial that I made as a recommendation from @GreenGeisha on twitter!

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