Broccoli Salad

I made this salad this past Sunday. On Monday I put it in the kids lunches for school. Faith,Lily, and I ate the rest of it! Everyone except Maggie liked it. LOGAN even liked it. I made one with pecans and raisins, and one with cashews and no raisins (Logan won't eat raisins)

Recipe: Vegetarian Broccoli Salad

There's Nothing Like Homemade Guacamole

We LOVE guacamole around here. In fact in makes a GREAT meal in the Summer. Dana and I really enjoy making it together. Here is what you need to make it like we do. Avocados, Cilantro, Onion, Fresh Garlic Cloves, Tomatoes (I like Roma because they are a little sweet), Jalapeños, Lime (lime juicer), and Sea Salt! We like to eat ours with Pita Chips. In the picture are Tortilla Chips we bought those for a party we don't usually eat them but we had some leftover so we ate some. We prefer the Pita Chips though.

Ok Here is how you do it......Chop up Onions,Tomatoes,  Jalapeños, and Cilantro, I like garlic so I think we used like 3 or four cloves in this recipe pressed through a Pampered Chef Garlic Press,( press one and a half Limes in a lemon or lime juicer), Add Sea Salt to taste. Cut the Avocados in half (this time we used 4) twist along the cut and then take a knife into the seed twist and pull the seed out. (you can keep the seeds to put in the guacamole to keep from browning). Take a spoon and spoon out the flesh. Then mash up and stir however you like it. Some people like it smooth we like it chunky.  Make sure you taste it in case you need more lime or a little more salt etc. ENJOY!

Watermelon Water and Potato Soup

Watermelon Water
 You know how you have all the juice at the bottom of the bowl when you cut up watermelon and put it in the fridge? Well don't throw it away just strain it through a colander and then pour the juice into some ice cube trays and freeze them! Add the ice cubes to your water and it adds a little sweetness to your water! ENJOY :)

I had a bunch of potatoes that I needed to use before they went bad so I searched on the internet for a Vita~Mix recipe this is what I came across. I adjusted it to what ingredients I had and this is what I made! Here is the original recipe if you want to try this one.

 http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2009/02/quick-and-easy-potato-soup.html

Potato Soup

5+ (I didn't count sorry) Yukon Gold potatoes, cooked  

 3 whole green onions

1 cup  Pacific Organic Free Range Chicken Broth  

Sea salt and coarse black pepper to taste

Raw Almonds a handful 

1 1/2 cups   UNSWEETENED So Delicious Coconut Milk Beverage 

 Smith's sells this Coconut Milk for 5 something....I bought it at Natural Grocers for $2.79 with a $1 off coupon that they had on it!  So the regular price there is $3.79. This won't be something I buy all the time it is too expensive without a coupon. It is WAY yummy though!

Here are all the ingredients I used


 Blend the Broth and the Coconut milk in the blender and blend it on high for a few minutes to heat it up. Then I added half the potatoes, and the rest of the ingredients and blended it on high until hot (3-4 mins) 
Cut the potatoes up however you like them and divide them up into bowls and pour the soup on them!

Logan LOVED it and so did his friend who was over playing! Logan LOVES dairy....but we don't eat dairy anymore so I have been trying new things. If he likest I know it is good. Dana on the other hand is picky about certain foods. She doesn't like potatoes so I told her she needed to eat it anyway. She said it wasn't that bad. We are growing potatoes in our back yard so we need to have some potato recipes!

He ate 2 bowls....the 2nd bowl was Faith's she doesn't like soups very much....unless there are noodles in it. Hey... I can add noodles for her next time. I made this on a whim so not much thought went into it!

I loved it! I wanted to eat another bowl but I stopped myself and had some watermelon instead.

Organic Steel Cut Oatmeal

BREAKFAST this morning!

Organic Steel Cut Oats
Organic Virgin Coconut Oil
Sea Salt
Unsweetened Almond Milk
Vanilla Soy Milk
Cinnamon
Bananas
Raisins
Walnuts
Rice Milk


I am eating this as I type ;)

I made this for my family this morning in the rice cooker. I added 3 cups of Organic Steel Cut Oats to the rice cooker and I added water to the 3 cup line and pressed brown rice. I checked on it before the rice cooker was done and I added Almond Milk, and some Vanilla Soy Milk, Sea Salt, Cinnamon, Coconut Oil (2 cereal spoon full) and I stirred it. I put the Oatmeal in the bowl and then sliced up about half of a Banana, Raisins, Walnuts, Rice Milk and I sprinkled more Cinnamon on top!

ENJOY!