Add the chickpeas, vegeanaise, celery, bell pepper, mustard, curry powder and salt and pepper to a food processor and pulse until everything is combined, but still chunky. Add in the cashews and pulse a few more times just to break the pieces up. Pour the mixture into a bowl and stir in the raisins. Serve on top of a salad, with crackers or in a sandwich.
This weekend our friends from Toronto came to visit and we had our first camping trip of 2010. We stayed at Little River State Park in Waterbury VT; it’s a great park with lots of nature/hiking trails and is located on the Waterbury Reservoir. We had intended to spend Friday and Saturday night camping but when the rain started and then the thunder we had one of the quickest tear downs, packed up the car and headed to our house.
However before we headed home we:
The boys fired up the camping stove and we had some yummy eats
veggie burgers and sweet potatoes
Then we took a drive to the Waitsfield Farmers Market where Neil and I enjoyed some black bean tamales that I unfortunately didn’t get a shot of. We took a drive up to the top of Stark Mountain where we proceeded to take a ton of photos.
Then after hitting up On The Rise for a vegan roll up we went on a hike back at the campground.
Following our almost 7.2K hike we relaxed at the beach and caught up on some trashy mag reading. Then it was time for dinner before the rain.
NO those are not mine or my hubby's cigarettes in the photo above
We enjoyed some brews while we cooked up some food; I heart Magic Hat and Wacko is a great summer beer.
Dinner was yummy lentil sweet potato tacos both soft and hard.
After dinner we roasted up some vegan marshmallows and topped the chocolate agave cupcakes that I made Emma for an early birthday “cake”.
Luckily we got our marshmallow roasting done early because then the thunder rolled in and the air grew thick and we decided to make a mad dash to get the entire camp picked up and go to our house….where it was sunny.
Hey Bloggies! I know I have been a little absent the past few days but I am back in full force. This morning I was feeling something savory so I cooked up on of my favorites: Cheezy Grits!
At work I had a horrible K-Cup of Chai Tea which I shouldn’t be surprised as to how bad it was. I was being optimistic though but it was a huge FAIL.
For my lunch I brought some trail mix, a banana and a Vega Shake & Go…..which also turned out to be an epic fail. I really wanted to like the Vega Shake but it just was too sweet and had a funny taste. I just couldn’t get into it so I am thinking that it might go okay will unsweetened almond milk, spinach and banana but this defeats the purpose of shake & go.
After work I met my Momma for an iced tea and to pick up some camping chairs for our guest.
Since lunch was a pretty huge fail I was so hungry after my tea that I called the hubby and told him I’d be home in 40 minutes so he better the rice on and steam up a few sweet potatoes. When I got home I poured myself a nice glass of wine and prepared our Early Bird dinner. For dinner we had brown rice, sweet potato, garlic broccoli and cashews and caramelized onions topped with nama shoyu, gomasio and sriracha. Now we’ll be off to shuffle board and then it’s into bed by 7.
Actually I am working on finding the motivation to make cupcakes and pack for camping.
Tomorrow we are heading out to go camping with our friends from Toronto so I am spending the day working and trying to clean our house, prepare food for camping and locate all our camping gear. Last year our first camping trip was to Lafayette Campground at Franconia Notch in NH. Here is a recap:
Good Morning! We have friends coming on Friday so I have tons to do this morning to get ready for this visit. I started off with a bagel with curry on top. I know sounds strange right but it’s delicious.
Alright sorry about the short post but this morning is going to pass by quickly and I have tons to do! I’ll check in with you all later.
This morning I felt great and jumped out of bed as soon as the alarm went of at 5:30am and headed directly to the kitchen. I had a bunch of root veggies calling my name and a recipe in my mind so I went right to work (look out for a post this evening with recipe included). I love cooking in the morning before I go to work because it means when I get home from work all I have to do is heat it up and cook up some grains and steam up veggies for sides.
This morning instead of starting with a cup of coffee I had .5L of water and then a mug of sencha tea from LeafSpa– it was really nice and made me feel calm and awake.
I was feeling like something fruity this morning so I went with a smoothie for breakfast.
1 banana
5 strawberries
1/2 cup frozen peaches
1 cup almond milk
2T vanilla hemp protein powder
Blend these all together and enjoy!
I also got my lunch together for the day which will be a green juice (romaine, cucumber, apple and carrot), passion mango coconut yogurt, and some Mountain Mambo train mix.
and an gala apple
Until work I am hanging out at the coffee shop working on some blog posts and enjoying a cup of organic English breakfast tea. I have decided that I really need to cut back on the coffee since I went from 1 cup a week to 1-3 cups a day lately- I blame it on this darn coffee shop! Oh well now I’m moving myself back to tea and I love it.
