How are you doing today? Now that the week is playing out and moving right along towards the weekend, we can all let out a sigh of relief that some R & R time is right around the corner! I’m going to be teaching a yoga class Saturday morning and am beyond excited! As I had mentioned I was going to be doing, I took a yoga class at the studio today that I am going to be teaching at it and I love the vibe, the energy, the practice space. It was wonderful!
Then I took Skylar to the Mommy & Me Pottery Painting activity we had planned. It was too cute watching her paint. Like a bad Mommy, I forgot my camera but I will post pictures of her plates after they are fired. They were pretty much a smeary hodge-podge of paint; the paint-your-pottery equivalent of scribbles, but to me, it’s Picasso. She also kept asking for Blue. I am a pink girl but she was loving blue.
I’m glad to hear yesterday’s Raw Vegan Chocolate Coconut Snowballs were a hit! Yeah, num-num in my tum-tum! Shout out to my lovely friends, Lil Veggie Patch and Raw Juice Girl who both made these. I hope you enjoyed your balls as much as I do, girls. TWSS
And of course the Raw Vegan Sugar Snap Pea Salad with Raw Vegan Creamy Tahini Dressing Recipe
And your reports on whether you deem yourself to be creative and telling me about your creative outlets with everything from knitting to jewelry making was really fun to read about, too!
For today’s greenery, I made another salad and flooded it with the Creamy Vegan Tahini Dressing. Romaine, Carrots, Cukes, Red Peppers, Tomatoes, Sugar Snap Peas, and the Tahini Dressing. Then I added some spicy sesame-coated almond bits on top.
It’s my Tahini-ized Version of a Cesar Salad
Who needs anchovies and Cesar dressing or croutons and gluten when you’ve got Raw Vegan Creamy Tahini & Sesame-Coated Almonds? Not I.
For Dessert, here’s a recent Raw Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls episode. For full recipe info, click right on over to here! 5 minutes til heaven in your mouth if you get started now, just sayin’.
Cashews & Oats
Add the Liquids (Maple and/or Agave or both, Vanilla Extract)
Add the Chocolate Chips
Blend for a Second
Make your balls
After refrigeration they looked like this
And as I got closer to inhaling a ball it looked like this…
And unstuck balls look like this (TWSS)
Couple Shopping Finds Now..
For all you MAC users, I recently picked up the Magic Mouse. It’s only been out about 2 weeks and I have to say, I love it. It took a day or so to get used to, but now I am in mousey heaven.
Lightweight, responds with a light finger touch, wireless and rather than clicking the Back Button on your browser to back out of webpages, you can finger swipe across the top of the mouse and back out of webpages that way. Great little gadget if you’re a MAC user.
In light of the fact that I’m going to be teaching some yoga classes, I wanted to spruce up my workout duds a bit. I found a Lululemon Sports Bra on sale, in pink, in my size. Score! That baby had my name written all over it!
And with my purchase I got a re-usable Lulu bag. They must’ve known I had just been talking about all the green lifestyle choices I make. It’s nifty to be thrifty. Sorry, that just popped into my head and I had to write it.
Yoga Today is Hanumanasana (Full Splits or Monkey Pose)
And after all that shopping, I just had to pop a few 3-Ingredient 5-Minute Dark Chocolate Fudge Balls, too. Yum.
Tip of the Day: My EcoStore USA Give Away!!!!!
Your chance to win a $25 Online Shopping Spree! You really need to get on this one to help green up your life, so go Get Entered Now!!!!!
Second Tip of the Day: My Yoga Mat is the Manduka Black Mat Pro, all the way. People have asked me what I use, and in my opinion, that’s the best. It will last you a decade whereas other mats will shred and erode and wear down but not the Black Manduka. It’s a quality investment in your practice that will pay off.
What’s your favorite brand of workout apparel? Are you brand loyal or do you bounce around? Do you shop based on price, function, cuteness factor, or what? Gimme the dish! I am Nike brand loyal to my running shoes. For my yoga clothes, I love Be Present, Prana, Lulu, and there are some tiny niche lines that sometimes have cute pieces, but that’s very hit and miss. And regional, at best, distribution on some of those. For Sports Bras, that is extremely hard and hit or miss for me. Target ones are too flimsy, some of the high-tech ones are too restrictive, so I am always on the hunt. What kind of workout apparel do you buy? Or do you just sport a hanes tshirt and call that your “technical fabric”? Does it matter even? What do you think?
Stay Tuned For A Great Use for Apples…
that's funny you are on my blog because i'm over here poking around at all your goodies. i have heard about your PB cups. never thought of adding nutritional yeast. it will be a hard one to pull over on the hubby who wouldn't even let me add salt to them. he's a stickler!
you are a genius I need to make these peanut butter cups soon
wow, those pb cups look amazing! Good thing you can make just 1-2 at a time because it would be hard to resist them!
I just stumbled across your blog from Heather's blog. I am newly gluten free and now found a new blog to read with so many great ideas. I am making these peanut butter cups for a cookie exchange I am having. Thanks for the great ideas :)
I'm making these tight this second. The first layer is in the freezer hardening. I'm making them for the boyfriend for a treat…I'm pretty sure he's going to be sooooooo happy!
Thanks for the recipe, love!!!
XO,
Erin
thanks for the idea. i never would have thought to make pb cups from scratch! now i can make gluten free ones for my hubby!
what a fun outing. skylar is so cute!!
i need to make those PB/choc cups. now. i need to find the paper cupcake holders first though.
Sorry for such a late comment! Catching up on some posts that I've missed! Those peanut butter cups look delicious & I'm so excited that they're so quick to make!
About your questions, I would personally want to say something to the cigarette butt guy but I don't think I actually would. Some people are just not going to care no matter what you say.
My mom once spoke up to a woman who was hitting her child in public and the lady tried to come after my mom. With how strong you look, I'm sure you'd be able to stand your ground but it's still a scary situation. If someone is going to treat their own kids like that, you can only imagine what the person would do if someone tried to speak up. I feel so bad for kids that have to deal with stuff like that.
Oh dear…I didn't realize that you couldn't eat graham crackers. Are there no gluten free graham crackers out there? Hmmm…maybe I need to work on that because no one should have to live without graham crackers! : )
Have a beautiful day!
I have made peanut butter cups before and used graham cracker crumbs in place of the nutritional yeast. They are really good! You might want to try those when you run out! : )
What a tough question! I am totally all tough sometimes about confronting someone doing something I think could endanger someone/something, but I usually chicken out. I live in a fear of someone deciding they don't like being told what to do and decide to beat me down or something. Same reason I try not to honk at other drivers and just swear inside the safety of my own car.
People are CRAZY! Plus I like to think that Karma is a bith and that old man will find himself in the after life picking up trash with chopsticks or soomething.
Thank you for posting this recipe! I'm a huge fan of peanut butter cups but I haven't had any in a while now that I am vegan :)
I can't wait to make these! You are right, things you make yourself are so much better.
i cannot wait to make the chocolate pb cups and trick my boyfriend into eating them…he refuses to eat anything that is natural…he prefers chemicals and fillers…haha…
i agree with what jane said, i would pick up the butt in front of the dude…that would send a message loud and clear…and you won't have to say a word!!!!
as for the other incident…i wish there was something i could do or say when i see something like that…it breaks my heart to see children mistreated in any circumstance, even if mom or dad are frustrated…i never say anything though…ever.
Those PB cups look perfect, better then the real thing!!! Thanks for the super easy recipe!!! Love the photos of you and your cutie daughter!! Thanks for sharing!
dude did you take a picture of a real PB cup and just put in your wrapper…seriously those are perfect.
hmm butting in..gosh I rarely do, but on a occassion have found myself saying something. I don't really know what my threshold is..maybe just my mood that day
I never would have thought of using nutritional yeast in pb cups. Interesting. I always used powdered sugar to make it the right consistency, although now I use lucuma.