Tropical Smoothies
1/2 c fresh pineapple
1/2 mango
3/4 c fresh coconut water
3/4 c yogurt
1 cardamom pod
Crack the cardamom pod with a mortar and pestle. Remove green shell. Grind spice very finely. Add all ingredients in blender and purée.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Tropical smoothies
It's going to be 97 degrees today and so Ellie and I wanted to start the day off with something like and refreshing. We have a plethora of fruit that is on the verge of being overripe sitting around (pineapple, mango, coconut, avocados, apples), so I'm thinking smoothies for the next week! I am also coming off my month long vegan adventure and missing my plain organic yogurt pretty bad, so it's a perfect match. No, plain soy yogurt did not cut it. The shakes I made today were incredible! I can't wait for the rest of the week.
Tropical Smoothies
1/2 c fresh pineapple
1/2 mango
3/4 c fresh coconut water
3/4 c yogurt
1 cardamom pod
Crack the cardamom pod with a mortar and pestle. Remove green shell. Grind spice very finely. Add all ingredients in blender and purée.
Tropical Smoothies
1/2 c fresh pineapple
1/2 mango
3/4 c fresh coconut water
3/4 c yogurt
1 cardamom pod
Crack the cardamom pod with a mortar and pestle. Remove green shell. Grind spice very finely. Add all ingredients in blender and purée.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Veganism and the end of the world
So, after watching the much acclaimed Forks Over Knives, my husband and I made a pack to go vegan for a month. We started a couple weeks ago and we love it! I honestly thought it would be ridiculously difficult, (my first thought was, "what can I eat???"). In fact, that is the single most asked question, "Sooooo.... what do you eat?"
Its kind of bizarre that our society's diet is comprised so completely of meat products. In fact, when I first started this I thought I would be living on rice and salad for a month. It seemed everything I thought to make had eggs or cheese or meat in it. But the truth is, save a big slab of meat, you can cook pretty much any dish you love vegan. I've made sushi, some awesome curries, potato salad and sandwhiches, indian dahl, pasta dishes to die for, vegan enchiladas (recipe to come), thai spring rolls and some awesome stir-fries. It has been an adventure finding new dishes to "veganize".
The hardest part for me was to give up eggs. I get beautiful farm fresh eggs delivered every Friday and eat them usually every other day for breakfast. But, I've made do with some bomb oatmeal (yes, oatmeal can be bomb) and other tasties like fried polenta and tofu scrambles for breakfast that don't leave me wishing for eggs at all.
Not only are we interested in going vegan but we've cut out highly processed food. I make my own whole wheat bread so we still have that, but have cut out most other processed foods, like sugar. We're using maple syrup for any sweetener we want. Also, we cut out coffee.... aaaahhhhh! No, don't stop reading, we aren't crazy! We still treat ourselves to soymilk lattes here and there, but are not making it every day. We've replaced it with green tea. The caffeine swap was more difficult than the food swap.
We've noticed that since we're eating a mainly whole foods diet that we are not as hungry as we were before (booyah!). We've also noticed we have more energy and our moods are better regulated. Now, that may not be from our food choices, but I believe it has a major part in it.
So, I strongly suggest you throw some vegan dishes into your regular diet. Considering we just got our order of free-ranged chickens from a local farm here, I don't think we'll stay completely vegan, but you never know. I am really really digging this diet and how I feel and look!
Its kind of bizarre that our society's diet is comprised so completely of meat products. In fact, when I first started this I thought I would be living on rice and salad for a month. It seemed everything I thought to make had eggs or cheese or meat in it. But the truth is, save a big slab of meat, you can cook pretty much any dish you love vegan. I've made sushi, some awesome curries, potato salad and sandwhiches, indian dahl, pasta dishes to die for, vegan enchiladas (recipe to come), thai spring rolls and some awesome stir-fries. It has been an adventure finding new dishes to "veganize".
The hardest part for me was to give up eggs. I get beautiful farm fresh eggs delivered every Friday and eat them usually every other day for breakfast. But, I've made do with some bomb oatmeal (yes, oatmeal can be bomb) and other tasties like fried polenta and tofu scrambles for breakfast that don't leave me wishing for eggs at all.
Not only are we interested in going vegan but we've cut out highly processed food. I make my own whole wheat bread so we still have that, but have cut out most other processed foods, like sugar. We're using maple syrup for any sweetener we want. Also, we cut out coffee.... aaaahhhhh! No, don't stop reading, we aren't crazy! We still treat ourselves to soymilk lattes here and there, but are not making it every day. We've replaced it with green tea. The caffeine swap was more difficult than the food swap.
We've noticed that since we're eating a mainly whole foods diet that we are not as hungry as we were before (booyah!). We've also noticed we have more energy and our moods are better regulated. Now, that may not be from our food choices, but I believe it has a major part in it.
So, I strongly suggest you throw some vegan dishes into your regular diet. Considering we just got our order of free-ranged chickens from a local farm here, I don't think we'll stay completely vegan, but you never know. I am really really digging this diet and how I feel and look!
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