What’s shaking in your world on the weekend? Have you had a productive day? By productive I mean, nourishing your body, mind, and soul. Hopefully you’ve gotten to lazily read the paper or some blogs while drinking coffee or tea, or maybe you got in a lovely workout. Whatever it is, I hope you’ve had a chance to recharge your batteries and be “productive” in the way that best works for you!
Thanks for all the praise from yesterday’s Vegan (almost Raw) Girl Scout Samoas Cookie remake that I did. They were really fun to make and I am pleased with how closely they resemble the real Samoas! If anyone tries them, please fill me in! I know a couple of you hotties wrote to me saying you were going to make them, so let me know how it goes!
And I also posted the Raw Vegan 5-minute Donut Holes if you’ve got 5 mins to spare and are feeling munchy, these are for you.
I know that I’ve done sooo many desserts recently so I thought I’d switch it up and show you a dinner I made.
First, I spiralized 2 zukes.
Then, I combined:
About 15 basil leaves (loosely packed it would be 1/2 c, tightly packed it’d be 1/8 c, I just used 1 package of organic fresh basil, de-stemmed)
About the same amount of spinach, about 1/2 c very loosely packed
Juice of 1/2 lemon (careful if you don’t like things lemma-licious, go easy)
1/4 c raw walnuts
Cracked black pepper
Then I mixed this in my New Blendtec using the Pulse feature
And then added about 1 Tbsp EVOO and pulsed again
The Result
I must thank the Fitnessista for her recipe inspiration. In her recipe, she also added garlic and salt, but since I am a fan of neither, I omitted both.
While I was making this, Skylar was hot to trot to have a taste. What 2.75 year old begs their mom for raw spinach, walnuts, and basil? Why the offspring of a raw vegan mommy, I guess.
Anyway at dinnertime, I tossed it together with zuke noods for Raw Vegan Pasta-n-Pesto.
And added mixed greens, B.S., Cauli, Carrots, Cukes and Tomatoes to the Mix. Very good.
But remember how I had spiralized 2 zukes? Well, I whipped up another batch of Peanut Sauce in the Blendtec.
Averie’s Peanut Sauce Today (I even tweak my own recipes so if you look back the last time or the time before that, they are all slightly diff.)
I used the last 1/3rd of the jar of PB (so a generous 1/2 c)
Juice of 1/2 an orange, about 1/3 c
3 Tbsp Maple Syrup
2 Tbsp Agave
3 Tbsp Sesame Oil
1/2 Tsp Ground Ginger
Cracky Blacky
Tip of the Day: When in doubt making Peanut Sauce, there are 3 things you cannot skimp on: Peanut Butter, Sweetener (agave or maple syrup), & Sesame Oil. If you are feeling like you’re almost there with your concoction, but not quite, use more Sesame Oil. And then, you will probably need to add more sweetener, and trust me, it will all work out. Beautifully.
I’ve said it before to some of you privately, but don’t be afraid to use your sweeteners when cooking, raw or otherwise. If you don’t, the food is not going to taste quite right or it will seem a little low cal, off, or just not quite there. Some may disagree, but I have to say Katie, here’s your Hug-A-Carb plug via my little plug for sweeteners.
Anyway, then I poured it back into the jar for storage. It’ll last 5-7 days in fridge I’m sure. If it lasts that long before I slurp it all.
And had a little boatload reserved to go over the other zuke noods.
For dessert we munched the Vegan (almost Raw) Girl Scout Samoas knock-offs I made. And yeah, they went down like butttahhhh.
And I also popped a couple Raw Vegan Donut Holes
VeganMofo in the house today.
Yoga today is an Astavakrasana Variation
Please go enter my Vegan Blondie Macaroon Give Away if you haven’t already!!!!!!!!!! I’d love it if you could spread the word about it, too!
You know I like to make my own sauces and dressings and really don’t use store-boughts for those things. What do you make at home that you’re proud to shun storebought for? Or, what do you wish you could make at home so that you could give up store boughts? Maybe if you tell me what you’re wishing for I can help you create a recipe….
Stay tuned for A Desserts Week Recap….
I have been reading food blogs for about 4 months, and have learned about so many new foods/recipes that I had never heard of previously and now cannot imagine my life without! Number one is green monster smoothies. Who would have thought that heaven tasted like pb, banana, spinach, and kale in a blender? Other new standards are: Ezekial english muffins, agave, banana soft serve, nootch, and butternut squash fries. Thank you Averie and all you other bloggers for bringing your foodie genius to the masses!!
wowza — you are rollin' in goods. No one deserves them more than you :) hope you enjoy everything sweets!
Have a great hump day beautiful! No humping, ya got me?! ;)
oh man, guess I need to start a blog so I can score goodies like that. Totally jealous
you did score big with the product reviews!
and can i say, yay for firefox! i never have any issues.
i never did oats in a PB jar before i started blogging. :) greatest thing in the world.
ohhh what foods or products ???
Chia and flax seeds…
Coconut EVERYTHING
DATES….always liked them but now I can't live without them
nooch (thanks for the definition…didn't know what that was)
green smoothies…
healthy fats!
nice reviews!
Happy Wednesday to you too~
ohhh so many product reviews! i love the brand name "matter of flax".. how clever. love it. it is so fun to say. i got the pom coffees too! i am going to put marshall to the test. i have heard elise talk about nooch but i honestly have no idea what it is! it has a great name though. can you tell i am all about names? i would be a sucker for a good marketing ploy. annnnyway! stuff i have picked up on from blog land includes breakfast cookies, overnight oats, CHIA! have fun flying solo with the little one!! xoxo
Tons of reviews for you Averie! And I def think you can turn your bloggie treats into a business/cookbook, whatever. They are so good, I would buy them!
Glad I finally got back on your blog. I was having withdrawals!
1) Love that pose!! (Reminds me of skating!!)
2) I saw Janetha's goodies from you and I smiled so big!!!
3) Do you have a facebook? We should be friends!!
4) I love your veggie eats! I think I need to come visit and have you cook for me !!!
5) I have heard so many good things about Matter of Flax!! They were always so expensive at the store though!!
6) Love your raw baking!!
HAPPY WEDNESDAY BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!
I LOVE all of the reviews!! Thanks! Yum to the dried hummus – this gives me another chance to keep eating hummus ;)
Haha to the sawdust comment! Your sawdust looks delicious! As does the raw vegan donut holes – there's a high possibility I'm drooling over them!
I hope you have a wonderful day with the little one!!
Can you use lucama to sweeten coffee??
Holy product review!
You have scored big time!! I love your blog and can't wait to try those donut holes, I love raw donut recipes, check out my blog at
http://www.startingoffhungry.wordpress.com
So So great.
I'm a newbie to your blog and I just can't seem to leave it alone!!
Okay, you rock. Thanks for the internet update info. I have first period at school free, so guess what I spent my time doing?? Nope, not school work. lol
Im obsessed with Mary's crackers.. in fact, I have the entire box sitting on my desk for lunch later.. I would really like to try those tomato flax things. How cool. I really enjoy when bloggies give reviews on products!
Have a super day! :)
great review! lots of yummy stuff.i love the name of that company "a matter of flax," so cute!
I've never had nooch but it took me a whiiiiile as I was reading blogs to figure out what it was :D My fave bloggie finds are greek yogurt, butternut squash fries and oatmeal, I didn't touch any of that stuff a year ago!
My goodness, girl, this is one HUGE review post. LOL
Looks like some cool stuff. The Flax sounds interesting. I LOVE coconut oil! And that chocolate looks YUM!!!
Sorry I haven't been commenting a lot lately – I'm burning my fingers up writing a gazillion words! LOL
Hugs,
Michele