Clean Out The Fridge

Since we are getting closer to another food shopping trip, we are starting to eat through our current stock. I found my lunch to be a particularly delicious bean salad. Leftover black beans, tomatoes picked from Och's Orchard, some green olives, and some bread that was going stale with grape seed oil, red wine vinegar, and sea salt. After dinner (a version of Beets and Sweets and salmon), we made healthy oatmeal cookies! Based on this recipe, we, of course, added our own twist.


Mix in a bowl:
3/4 cup oats
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
flax seed (we used about 1/8 cup? Use as much as you want.)
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon











In another bowl, mix:
1/2 cup agave nectar
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup grapeseed oil
1 tsp. vanilla















Combine all ingredients and mix up













Make into cookies. John likes them plump and I like them flat, as I'm sure you can see. Totally your choice. We made 12 cookies.




















Bake at 350 for 12 minutes.

















Remove and enjoy!

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It's Tuesday and My Tummy's Full!

So I like alliteration, what can I say?

I started the day off today with another swiss chard smoothie. It had 2 leaves (no stems), a frozen banana, some frozen strawberries, a sprinkling of flax seeds, and a BIG spoonful of peanut butter! It was so good, it tasted sinful!
I had a simple salad lunch with a side of leftovers and a super duper dinner!

Cut up beets, onions, and potatoes and tossed them with olive oil and seasonings

I cooked them all for a different amount of time. I started with 15 minutes of beets, then added the potatoes for 15 minutes, then added the onions for 20 minutes.
What had started out to be a side dish became our whole dinner! We ate all of it and wished there was more!

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My First Green Smoothie!

Okay. I'll admit it. I have been dying to try a green smoothie. I'll also admit that I love to create food out of whatever I can find in the fridge. This morning, these two parts of my personality came together!

We had over-bought apples at the farmers market and under-ate some cucumbers and salad grees and were left with this. Cut up in the blender with some water.....


3 Apples, a head of slightly wilted Romaine hearts, a cucumber, some flaxseed meal, and a cup of water became my first green smoothie!

Okay, so it's brown. And a bit too thick for my liking. I'm not sure if that is because it was blended instead of juiced, because I didn't put much water, or... something else. But all in all, not bad!

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Muffin Madness!

Since last night I have been dreaming about fruity muffins so.....

As soon as I woke up I got mixing!

I found a recipe with a muffin base here and tweaked it...

• 3.5 cups flour
• 1/4 cup agave nectar
  
• 1/2 cup dry milk
• A few spoonfuls of ground flaxseed (i didn't measure)
  
• 1 tablespoons baking powder
• 3 tablespoons ground cinnamon (I reduce cinnamon to 2 Tbsp.)
• 1 cup egg replacer
• 3 tbsp vanilla
• 2 cups water

This was the base. I then put the batter into small bowls and filled each individually with different delicious-ness

Clockwise from Top Left:

• Plain
• Cinnamon Apple
• Strawberry
• Blackberry
• Cinnamon Coconut
• Pineapple
  

I baked it for about 20 minutes at 400 degrees aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand.........

The pineapple one was WAAAAY to soggy, but the rest were a-m-a-z-i-n-g.

YAY MUFFINS!

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Breakfasts of Champions!

MMmmMMmmMMmm Breakfast!

I love pancakes. L.O.V.E. them. I will put anything I can into them and I enjoy them to no end. Unfortunately, I rarely make them. Since today was a lazy Saturday, I decided to make them. We only have a premixed batter that is NOT whole wheat :( so I had to think of some way to up the nutritional value.




LUCKLY I bought ground flax seed yesterday! I mixed that with the batter, unsweetened coconut, and blackberries I had frozen a few weeks ago after I over-bought at the farmers' market!

Check out that gooey goodness!!

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