Roasted Garlic and Bell Pepper Hummus

hummus, houmous, humous, hommos, however you spell it, it's one of the tastiest dips ever made. Hail the glorious chickpea!

Roasted Pepper Hummus
3 cups cooked, sprouted chickpeas.
2 tbs tahini paste
1 roasted bell pepper ( I used an orange one, red or yellow would do)
4 roasted garlic cloves
Water as needed
Salt to taste
Place all in processor with S-blade and process until mixture starts to get smooth.
Add water  to mixture while processing, 2 tbs at a time until you reach the consistency you like.
I used 12 tbs of water, about a cup and a half or so.

Makes about 3 1/2  cups hummus.
Store in a lidded container in the fridge.

How to Make Tahini

1 cup raw and unhulled sesame seeds

2 tbs olive oil

2 tbs water

Place sesame seeds in food processor with S-blade and process until fully powdered. They should be about the consistency of corn meal.

With processor running add olive oil and water.

Process until smooth, scraping sides as necessary.  It should be the consistency of peanut butter.

Transfer to a glass jar with a tight lid. 

Store in refrigerator.

Cantaloupe Seed Milk Smoothie

This super easy, ONE ingredient smoothie recipe is one of my all time favorites.
Next time you get a cantaloupe, save the seeds, strings and any little pieces of the meat you have left over.















Store the seeds, etc in an airtight container in the fridge. Sometime in the next few days put the seeds, strings and flesh of the cantaloupe into a blender add a cup or two of water (depending on how thick you want it) and blend until smooth and frothy.















Strain, decant and enjoy.















Groovy Cantaloupe Nutrition Facts

Serving size 1/2 cup, diced (78g)
Amounts Per Serving % Daily Value
Calories 25
Calories from Fat 0
Total Fat 0g 0%
Saturated Fat 0g 0%
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 10mg 0%
Total Carbohydrate 6g 2%
Dietary Fiber 1g 4%
Sugars 6g
Protein 1g
Vitamin A 50%
Vitamin C 50%
Calcium 0%
Iron 0%

Groovy Cantaloupe Warning

I used to not like cantaloupe because I got a stomach ache every time I ate it. Now I know that cantaloupe must be eaten alone. Because it digests so quickly that any other food in the stomach with cantaloupe will cause fermentation of the stomach contents which means, gas, pain, bloating etc. Now when I get a big, ripe aromatic and juicy cantaloupe I mono-feast on the meat one day, save the seed and mono-feast on a creamy seed milk smoothie a couple days later.

I drink this smoothie on an empty stomach and don't eat anything for 4 hours after I finish it. If I combine this with any other foods I get some harsh intestinal difficulties. You might not, I'm just saying. The rule of thumb for me with melon is "Eat it alone or leave it alone".

Stay Groovy.

Vegan Dinner Ideas: Pulp Recipe: Carrot Burgers and Creamy Cashew Cheese Sauce

I made carrot patties for dinner and had them in sandwiches. I used the leftover flat bread for mine.

Curry cauliflower salad with celery and bell peppers















Food porn
















Green onions from the garden woot!















Carrot patty with sauerkraut, seitan sausage slices and creamy cashew cheese sauce
















The arial shot
















Carrot Patties

1 cup carrot pulp
1 onion
1/4 cup sunflower seeds
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup celery juice you can use vege broth or water
2 tbs lemon juice

Chop in food processor with s blade until a paste.

Bake at 350 for an hour, flip and bake another hour. Should be crisp on the outside and tender on the inside. Use 1/2 cup for each patty makes 6 patties.

Creamy Cashew Cheese Sauce

1/2 cup cashews
1/4 cup nutritional yeast
1/4 cup rolled oats
1/2 tsp salt
2 cloves garlic
3/4 cup, more or less of water for blending.

Blend until creamy, chill and serve. It will thicken with chilling

Banana Beet Deep Purple Smoothie

mmm beets! The man doesn't like beets very much. I think it's a stigma, but whatever. I try to sneek beets in when I can and this is a good way.
Also see:

Beet Meat Burgers

Beet Tortilla

Beet Juice













1/2 cup strawberries from breakfast that the boy wouldn't eat yesterday
2 ripe bananas
2 cups lettuce and ruby chard leaves from the garden woot!
about a 1/2 cup of beet
e3live and RenewMe!
Juice of one orange
20oz water and blend.
YUUUMMM!!
Seriously, it was too sweet for me! I put a little lemon juice in mine, wow!

It looked black in the blender but it came out a wonderful purple.
















So in conclusion, eat more beets. The roots can be eaten raw, steamed, fermented, marinated, baked (like a potato!) or juiced and the greens can be used like any other greens in salad, juice, steamed like spinach or chopped up in a nutloaf. I love this plant.

Here is what Wikipedia has to say about beets medicinal properties:


The roots and leaves of the beet have been used in folk medicine to treat a wide variety of ailments. Modern research is investigating in further detail how beet extracts could be used to protect normal and diabetic livers, as well as their effects on elevated cholesterol in individuals with cancer, and other medical maladies.

The Romans used beetroot as a treatment for fevers and constipation, amongst other ailments. Apicius in De re coquinaria gives five recipes for soups to be given as a laxative, three of which feature the root of beet. Hippocrates advocated the use of beet leaves as binding for wounds.

Beet juice can help lower blood pressure. Research published in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension showed drinking 500ml of beetroot juice led to a reduction in blood pressure within one hour. The reduction was more pronounced after three to four hours, and was measurable up to 24 hours after drinking the juice.

Since Roman times, beetroot juice has been considered an aphrodisiac. The juice is a rich source of boron, which plays an important role in the production of human sex hormones.[citation needed] Field Marshal Montgomery is reputed to have exhorted his troops to 'take favours in the beetroot fields', a euphemism for visiting prostitutes.

From the Middle Ages, beetroot was used as a treatment for a variety of conditions, especially illnesses relating to digestion and the blood. Platina recommended taking beetroot with garlic to nullify the effects of 'garlic-breath'.

Beetroot has been used as a treatment for cancer in Europe for several centuries. The pigment molecule betanin in the root of red beets is under investigation as the cause of the plant's purpoted protective effects. Hungarian oncologist Ferenczi recommended beetroot juice as an effective cancer treatment. Recent scientific research has shown that beetroot can inhibit tumour growth and has antioxidant properties that may even help prevent development of oncogenesis.

So, yeah! Eat more Beets!

Juice Feast Lunch Starring Cantaloupe!

I feel GREAT! Juice feasting is fun. I never feel deprived, on the contrary, I feel quite indulged. All the juice I want? hehe. I wouldn't want to do it every day, I do enjoy chewing, but I don't see where the deprivation is there.

I finished my celery cocktail and put about a half hour in on the mat. It's getting easier every day, I know I have gained a ton of flexibility since I started. I also did some upper body work with the dumb bells and the flexi-ball. my chest muscles and arms are hurting. Please, no more push-ups, please?
Then after laying on the floor for a while watching old sit coms, I looked at the clock and THOUGHT it was noon, so...

I made a cantaloupe milk smoothie for lunch.

Blending















Straining in a fine mesh strainer or use a cloth bag















I push it through with a bamboo paddle until there is nothing left but seed husks.
















Then Put it in a glass and drink it yum!















But wait! I thought it was noon! It's only 11am! Dang it. I wanted to wait until noon to have my cantaloupe lunch. Ok, so I...



Took all the plants out and watered them and then jumped on the trampoline for awhile. Wheew! what a work out that is!
















Hung up the wash













I like that I can hang the napkins folded and they are ready to go on the shelf when dry. Bam.

Made some cooked vegan leek and potato soup for the omni's dinner














Yeah, I will probably have some.

I saved about a cup of chopped raw leeks, celery and garlic from when I cut them all up so I could have some raw in my salad while everyone else eats soup. I will probably have a small bowl, but maybe not :)

It is made from
1 leek
2 celery hearts that I saved from juicing this morning
1 quart of broth made from juicing pulp (a great way not to waste. Make broth from vege juicing pulp. I have even used fruit pulp mixed with vege and it's delish)
2 potatoes diced nice and small
2 cloves garlic, smashed and sliced
a wee bit of salt

I will cook it in the big soup pan on low all day but it's ready in an hour or so if you take the heat up to med. Stir occasionally.



Then I baked some bread for the boy













I made it in a pie pan for fun. The boy likes to eat the bread and I sneak zucchini in it like this

1 cup water
1 peeled and topped zucchini
2 tbs vinegar
2 tbs sugar
1 tsp salt
in blender until smooth, set aside

2 cups flour
2 tsp aluminum free baking soda
1 tsp baking soda
whisk together until thoroughly mixed then add liquid and stir.

Pour in greased pan and bake at 350f for 1 hour.

Cool and serve, yum, you love vegetables, don't you? yes you do!
ahem
The boy is in trouble for acting up at school. There was an electronic communications incident and he is grounded from all computer, video games, television (unless we are watching), and I don't know what else. A salad and a bath every night, lol.


I watched the birdies in the bird feeders for a minute














It took them almost a week to find the feeders but now they are all over them, yay!








You can't see but they are orange headed finch type birdies.






And then it was noon and I started sipping my wonderful Cantaloupe Milk Smoothie and composing this entry. Now I am done with both and I think I will put my butt on the mat for a while longer.

Remember: Cantaloupe on an empty stomach and nothing for about 2 hours after or risk the wrath of your belly!

Green Smoothie Likes to Do Vegan Laundry and Carrot Tortillas Juice Pulp Recipe

Smoothy is
1 ripe banana
1 roma tomato
about 10 grapes
1 kiwi
1 kale leaf
1 handfull baby greens
1 tbs Renew me
1 tbs AFA
2 tbs flax
Water



That is my pile of cloth napkins. Well, part of it. I get them at goodwill. I wash them in laundry soap that I make myself.

I use soap ends that I buy at the natural foods store in town and borax. 1 part soap, 2 parts borax. Grate the soap and mix in the borax. I store mine in a lidded trash can by the washer and use a tablespoon of the stuff per load. I can't remember how much it costs but it's at least as cheap as commercial laundry soap and it doesn't contain bleach or harsh perfumes.

I made a video about it that you can see here!

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What do you do with all that pulp from Juicing? I am always looking for new recipes and trying to find something delicious to do with the leftover vege and fruit pulp when I juice. I compost some of it but it seems like sort of a waste, I know there must be more nutrition in that stuff!
Last night, in a fit of inspiration I made some carrot tortillas with juicing pulp.














Carrot Tortillas

1/2 cup or so of vegetable juice pulp. I used carrot and cucumber.
1.5 cups whole wheat flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
2 tbs olive oil
1/2 + 1/8 cup warm water

put in Food Processor with dough blade and process until the dough cleans the bowl.

Pull the dough out and knead with flour until "earlobe" soft. Then break it into eight equal pieces, flour the pieces and put them in a bowl let them rest for an hour or so. I left mine all day and they were quite easy to roll when I finally got around to it.














Roll very thin and cook them about 3 minutes on each side on a really hot skillet or grill. Don't cook them too long or they will get crispy.

Lined with a collard leaf, some leftover beans and sauerkraut.















Wrap it up and eat it.














Tasty!

Tell me, what do you do with your juicing pulp?

Dinner Last Night with Banana Nut Cake and Bliss

Juice this morning was carrot, beet, celery.














I'm going to use that pulp to make some Beet Your Meat Raw Vegan Burgers for dinner



Dinner last night was tempeh baked in tomato sauce with onion and potato.














I didn't write down the recipe but it was really good. A sweet sauce made with tomato, zucchini, onion, garlic and grape juice. I am always trying to make barbecue flavor. This one was ok. The man put more barbecue sauce on it :)

Also featured are side salad of corn, tomato, cuke, zuke, onion and fresh thyme, red leaf lettuce with sauerkraut and horseradish and some bread that didn't seem to want to rise. I may or may not have forgotten the baking powder or something. It still tasted good, it was just... thin. and dense. The boy loved it, ate three pieces before I caught him :)

I also made a banana cake with banana nut raw frosting that I was happy with.

Banana Layer Cake

Preheat oven to 350F and grease and flour a loaf pan

In blender:
1 cup grape juice
3 ripe bananas
1/4 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
2 tbs oats
2 tbs ACV
Blend well and set aside

In large bowl:
1 cup white flour
1 cup wheat flour
2 tsp aluminum free baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda

Mix dry ingredients well and add liquid banana mixture

Pour batter in greased and floured pan and bake at 350F for 1 hour. Cool completely.

Frosting or filling

In food processor:
1.5 cup Brazil nuts
2 ripe banana
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbs vinegar
1/4 tsp vanilla
Process with S-blade until positively creamy. Chill while the cake is cooling.

When cake has completely cooled, cut the cake in half, cutting the top off of the cake.
Put the bottom back in the pan and spread the frosting all over the bottom half of the cake. Put the top half of the cake back on and chill the cake for an hour before serving.















Shown with Cherry Amaretto Coconut Bliss
which I would never buy but the man brought it home. He said I deserved a treat. Thank you, baby. I like treats. I really don't need any ice cream but I love you for thinking of me. The reason I look sadly at your bowl when you have ice cream is because I am thinking of how bad it is for the cows. I never liked ice cream very much, it's too damn cold :)

Cantaloupe Milk Smoothie

Next time you get a cantaloupe, save the skins, seeds and strings. Keep them in an airtight container in the fridge.

The next morning make yourself this delicious Cantaloupe Milk Smoothie

Scrape the rinds to get all the meat and juice that you can. Put the seeds, strings and any cantaloupe meat you have in the blender.
Add 3 cups of water or less, do not over fill the blender.

Blend until the seeds are pulverized. There is meat inside the seeds and this is what makes this smoothie so creamy.

Pour the mixture into fine mesh strainer and press it through. Pour the thick juice into a large glass or jar and drink it up. Refrigerate leftovers and drink within three days.

NOTE: I drink this smoothie on an empty stomach and don't eat anything for 4 hours after I finish it. If I combine this with any other foods I get some harsh intestinal difficulties. You might not, I'm just saying. The rule of thumb for me with melon is "Eat it alone or leave it alone".

Meatless Tempeh Meatballs

Armed with a load of inspiration from HappyVeganFace, an 8 oz package of tempeh and nothing to lose, I made these "meatlessballs" from tempeh. mmm.
















Preheat oven to 400 degrees

In a medium wok saute in 1/2 cup vege broth:

1 med onion, thinly sliced
2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced


When onions are translucent add and mix in well:

1 tbs peanut butter
1 tbs sesame seeds
1 tbs dried mint
2 tbs vege pulp

Add more water or vege broth if needed to make something like this:














Then add:


1 tbs nutritional yeast
1/2 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp black pepper
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 oatmeal, ground almost to flour
1/2 cup water

Mix well, cook over low heat in your wok, stirring constantly until onions are mushy and mixture is very thick.

Then add:

8 oz tempeh, steamed, cooled and ground with S blade in FP until a crumbly paste. Add to your thickened mixture and mix well.

Form balls, or patties and bake covered at 400F on a greased baking sheet for 60 minutes. Carefully turn the balls and bake covered for 30 min more at 400F.

They were big balls, almost more like patties. They were 1/3 cup each and I made 8 of them.













The man said they were good but I should have made more.

Clockwise:
Beans on vege bread, quinoa, curry carrot salad, leftover potato casserole and balls of tempeh with seed cheese on top.















And for dessert, applesauce cake, sliced, toasted and buttered with buttery vegan spread.















Left is the applesauce cake, right is a vege bread.

Both are basic soda bread recipe. Applesauce cake adds 20 oz of applesauce, 1/2 tsp cinnamon and vanilla and 3 extra tbs of sugar. Vege bread is just regular bread with a half cup of vege pulp added.

Beet Your Meat Raw Vegan Burgers :: They Beat Meat, Hands Down!

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I endeavor to keep it as raw as I can.

This morning I juiced celery, beet greens and carrot with a bit of ginger. I thought it would be nice to have burgers. Raw burgers that are better than anything cooked.
So I made up this recipe:

Beet Your Meat Raw Vegan Burgers

Process about 1 cup of juicing pulp in FP with
1/2 small beet root chopped
2 cloves garlic
one med onion chopped
one roma tomato chopped
2/3 cup walnuts
1 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp salt (optional)

Form patties on parchment paper and dehydrate at 125F for about 2 hours.















When the patties get crispy on one side flip them out on the rack and dry for another 2 hours at 115F, until they are crispy on the outside and tender in. These can be made a few hours in advance and warmed in the dehydrator for 15-20 min at 125F before serving.

The Money Shot














Dress them like you would any burger and chow down.

I am keeping it raw so I had mine on a collard leaf with seed cheese, tomato, sauerkraut and onion. I picked the whole thing up and folded it like a taco and yum yum.
Collard leaves are the new bread.

Every Day Should Be This Nice. I Love Mondays

The house is quiet.

The cat is gone for her mid morning nap under the bed.

I woke up at 6:15 and drank 12oz water with a shot of ACV. Then I got the boy's lunch packed and made his breakfast. While he ate I had about 30 oz juice, celery, beet greens and ginger.

I didn't get a photo, so imagine a pink juice here

After I put the boy on the bus, I did yoga; stretching and balance. I stayed on the mat 45 minutes. Down dog. How I love you.

Then I went out and did some gardening i love saying that I planted the pansys in the front flower bed.















I got 8 and was going to put 4 on each side but 4 looked skimpy so I put all eight on the side that gets the most sunlight.














View from the inside



I watered the pots of toms and zukes and transplanted the blueberry bush into a giant pot.
















While soaking the dirt in the pot and mixing it up real good, I found three cigarette butts, a screw in metal hook, like you would hang a plant, and a walnut. I'm going to check the walnut later and if it's good, I'll eat it, hehe. I like playing in the dirt.

One blueberry, three tomato plants, two summer squash, green and yellow.















I watered the indoor herb garden














Another angle. Yes, you can see a face in that rock.














It seems to be coming along all right. From left to right, sage, basil, chives, parsley.


Then I made a green smoothie with avocado, banana, lemon, beet greens, BrainOn and Renew Me, kale and collard and the pulp from this mornings juice. I poured half of that in a glass, drank it, and then went back to the rest in the blender, added more water, some dates and fresh mint I found in the yard.
















I blended it all again and now I'm writing this and having a sweet, spicy, minty, creamy green smoothie. It's 11am and quite a nice start to the day so far.

Vegan Carrot Soup, Fat Free Garlic Baked Potato, RAW Vegan Banana Pie with Raw Walnut Pie Crust Dessert Recipe

I love carrot soup.















This time I cooked up a bunch of carrots 1/2 cup of dry black eyed peas and some juicing pulp. Cooked it until the beans are soft then let it cool and blend the whole mess. Put it back in the pot and add more water, chopped carrots, 1 cup of dry black eyed peas and season to taste. Let it cook all day, adding more water if needed or turn it off when the peas are cooked and then reheat it at dinner time.

Vegan Fat Free Roasted Garlic Baked Potato

Prick a washed potato.














Put it in a piece of foil with a large, raw, peeled clove of garlic. Be sure to cut off the hard end of the clove, no one wants to eat that.














Bake in foil for 1 hour at 500F. Woo! that is hot. Don't try to touch them. I let mine sit on the table for over half an hour and it was still screaming hot! They are done when a fork easily poke in the side. If too hard, keep baking for 10 minute increments until done.











I served them in these little bowls for ease of transport. Just bake them right on the oven rack, no problem.



Cut the garlic into the baked potato. It doesn't need anything else but you could put some salt and herbs if you want.














Shot was blurry, sorry.


Dinner last night
















Baby greens salad with apple pear salsa, sauerkraut, seed cheese and some leftovers that I reheated. Carrot loaf in front and some Indian style veges. There is the roasted garlic potato before cutting. I think it's beautiful. You could even put some vegan buttery spread on this if you wanted, but then it wouldn't be fat free, oh well :)

I am in the process of making some raw seed cheese crackers. I put flax seed, yeast, some sunflower seed cheese and lemon juice together and put it in the dehydrator.














I will let you know if it works, but I don't see why it wouldn't.

The man has requested pie. He looked at the pile of bananas turning brown on the counter and asked if I had walnuts. Then he said, "you should make a pie". I will make a pie with walnut crust and a banana filling. I guess I will go look at some recipes and get some ideas. Maybe I can make a sweet sunflower cheese as a cream topping... The possibilities are only limited by my imagination and ingredients