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Banana Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

2011-08-29T23:30:00.000-07:00

4 cups Oat Flour
1 tbs Baking Powder
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Cinnamon + 1 tsp to mix with Stevia
2 ea Bananas
1 ea Apple
1 cup Apple Juice
1/2 cup Raisins
Pan Spray
2 tsp Stevia

1. Preheat oven to 375F. Whisk together dry ingredients.

2. Smash bananas. Grate apples. Mix with apple juice and raisins.

3. Add dry ingredients to wet.

4. Spray cookie sheet with pan spray. Spoon batter and form cookie shape.

5. Bake for 10 minutes or so. Try not to get golden brown. Light color is cool so the cookie stays chewy. Sprinkle with Stevia Cinnamon mixture right when they come out.

Walnut-Bean Lettuce Wraps

2011-08-22T22:38:00.000-07:00

1/2 cup Walnuts
1 can Trader Joe's Organic Pinto Beans
3 tbs Trader Joe's Enchilada Sauce
2 tbs Taco Seasoning (Whatever kind or mix you like)
1 pkg Trader Joe's Romaine Hearts
1 pkg Trader Joe's Organic Broccoli Slaw
5 ea Limes
1 bun Cilantro
3 tsp Truvia (Sweet n' Low)
Mexican Taco Sauce
1/2 cup Brown Rice
2 cups Trader Joe's Vegetable Broth
3 tbs Trader Joe's Salsa Verde

1. Bring rice up to a low simmer with vegetable stock. Cook about 45 minutes or until rice is tender. If using a rice cooker, follow instructions on rice package and cooker.

2. Chop walnuts. Drain pinto beans and rinse. Mix with taco seasoning and enchilada sauce..

3. Wash romaine. Cut stem off. Use outer layers of romaine for your "shell". The inside layers that are too small for a shell should be cut thinly and added to the broccoli slaw mix.

4. Chop Cilantro roughly. Squeeze lime juice. Mix with sweetener. Toss slaw mix with lime mixture and marinate in fridge til the rice is done.

5. When the rice is cooked, mix with salsa verde. Hold warm.

6. Assemble wraps by using the romaine as a shell, then slaw mix, then nut/bean mix, then hot sauce. Serve with brown rice.

Parfait Milkshake

2011-08-21T20:37:00.000-07:00

2 ea Bananas (Ripe, Peeled, Diced, Ziploc Bag, Frozen)
6 ea Tangerines
5 ea Strawberries
1/2 cup Blueberries
1 cup Papaya
1/4 cup Raw Almonds
1/2 cup Almond Milk
Trader Joe's Soy Protein Powder
Cinnamon

1. Squeeze the juice out of the tangerines. Take frozen bananas and blend them with just enough juice to get them to turn into a thick puree. Remove from blender, reserve in freezer.

2. Chop strawberries and papaya into bite size pieces. Place into bowl with blueberries.

3. Rough chop almonds or leave whole. Whisk together 1 serving of protein with almond milk, cinnamon, and remaining tangerine juice. Fold in banana mixture ans fruit. Serve in whatever you want.

Black Bean Sweet Potato Burrito

2011-08-21T20:10:00.000-07:00

1 can Trader Joe's Organic Black Beans
1 can Trader Joe's Vegetarian Re-fried Beans
1/2 cup Soy Rizo (Tofu Chorizo)
1 ea Yam (Medium Sized)
1 ea Mango
1/2 cup Trader Joe's Frozen Corn
2 tbs Trader Joe's Salsa Verde
1 tbs Mexican Hot/Taco Sauce
Trader Joe's Brown Rice Tortilla
Pan Spray
1 ea Banana
1 ea Apple
10 ea Grapes
1 ea Navel Orange

1. Make a fruit Salad with the banana, apple, grapes, and orange.

2. Wash the potato and cut into cubes that look good to fit in the burrito. Place in pot with cold water. Bring up to simmer and cook til tender. Strain.

3. Peel and chop mango. Mix in a bowl with corn, cooked potato, and sauces.

4. Spray a pan and cook the soy rizo on medium heat for 3 minutes. Turn heat to medium low and add both cans of beans. Cook til hot. Transfer to the bowl with corn/mango mix.

5. Warm up tortilla and wrap burritos. Serve with fruit salad.

Banana Berry Muffin Cake

2011-08-21T14:18:00.000-07:00

1 cup Whole Wheat Flour
1 cup Bread Flour
3 tbs Baking Powder
1 tbs Cinnamon
2 ea Banana
1 cup Berries (Whatever you like)
3 tbs Agave or Honey
1 cup Apple Juice
1/2 cup Soymilk
1 tbs Yeast
1 tbs Vanilla
2 tsp Salt
Pan Spray

1. Preheat oven to 375F. Bring soy milk up to simmer. Transfer to mixing bowl with honey, apple juice, and yeast. Reserve for 10 minutes.

2. Whisk together flours, salt, cinnamon, and baking powder.

3. Mash bananas, add berries, then mix with milk yeast mixture and flour mixture to form batter.

4. Spray a shallow baking pan. Place batter inside and bake for 25 to 30 minutes. Check with toothpick, maybe needs longer. Cool at room temp for 10 minutes.

Spaghetti & No Balls

2011-08-20T23:13:00.000-07:00

6 pcs Trader Joe's Meatless Meatballs
1/4 cup Dry Whole Wheat Elbow Macaroni or whatever whole wheat pasta
1/2 cup Pasta Water
1/2 cup Trader Joe's Organic Tomato Basil Marinara
1/4 cup Basil
1 bag Trader Joe's Cleaned Spinach
1 bag Trader Joe's Wild Arugula
1/4 cup Almonds or whatever nut or seed you like
1/2 ea Pineapple
1/4 cup Cilantro
1 tbs Peanut Butter
1 tbs Hoisin
1 tbs Sambal
2 tbs Rice Wine Vinegar

1. Blanch the pasta and drain. Save 1/2 cup or so of the pasta water. Don't measure it.

2. Bring the marinara up on low, to a low simmer with the meatballs. Adding the pasta water as the marinara cooks off.

3. Chop the herbs, pineapple, wash the arugula and spinach.

4. Whisk the peanut butter, sambal, hoisin, cilantro, and rice wine vinegar to make dressing.

5. When the sauce and meatballs are hot... stir in the cooked pasta. Then fold in the spinach on low heat. Mix the arugula with the dressing, pineapple, herbs, and nuts in a bowl. Combine the 2 together.

Yeast Pancakes

2011-08-20T22:17:00.000-07:00

1 cup Brown Rice or Multigrain or Whole Wheat Flour (Bob's Red Mill)
1 cup White Whole Wheat Flour or Bread Flour or any kind of UNBLEACHED Flour
4 tbs Baking Powder
1/4 tsp Salt
2-1/4 cups Soy Milk or Rice Milk or Almond Milk or Oat Milk (Bring up to bath water temperature).
2 tbs Maple Syrup or Honey or Agave or Dates or Brown Sugar or Truvia
1 tsp Vanilla (Whatever you got)
2 tbs Active Dry Yeast
Pan Spray
Fruit for the top (Whatever you like)

1. Whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl.

2. In another bowl, whisk together the warm milk, syrup, vanilla, and yeast. Set aside for 10 minutes.

3. Chop the fruit. I like banana, strawberry, berries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums, kiwi, mango, papaya, apple, figs, stuff like that.

4. After 10 minutes or so the yeast mixture should be foamy looking. Whisk together with the flour.

5. Make pancakes with spray instead of butter or oil.

Open-Faced Masala Potato Sandwich

2011-08-20T09:12:00.000-07:00

2 ea Trader Joe's Vegetable Masala Burgers
1 ea Trader Joe's Multigrain or Whole White Wheat Sourdough Loaf
2 tbs Trader Joe's Eggplant Garlic Spread
12 oz Arugula
1 ea Cucumber
1/2 ea Red Onion
1 ea Mango
2 tbs Walnuts
1/4 cup Barley
3/4 cup Vegetable Broth
1/4 cup Trader Joe's Cuban Black Beans
2 tbs Hoisin
1/4 cup Cilantro
Pan Spray
Trader Joe's Everyday Seasoning

1. Pre-heat oven to 425F.

2. Bring vegetable broth to a boil. Add barley and reduce to a low simmer. Cook for 30 minutes or until soft yet chewy. Should be a little remaining broth, that's good.

3. Slice cucumbers, mango, red onion. Chop cilantro and almonds. Wash arugula.

4. Make a room temperature salad with barley, barley juice, arugula, cilantro, almonds, hoisin, & black beans.

5. Spray saute pan and on medium heat toast veggie patties til golden brown. Slice 2 slices bread. In the same pan toast the bread.

6. Spread the eggplant garlic spread on toast and layer cucumber, mango, patty, and red onion. Open face style. Serve with salad..

Man Juice

2011-08-19T23:34:00.000-07:00

4 cups Spinach
1 cup Romaine
1 cup Tangerine or Clementine Juice (FRESHLY SQUEEZED!)
1/4 cup Cucumber
1/4 cup Cactus
1/2 cup Papaya
1/2 cup Pineapple
1/2 cup Granny Smith Apple

1. Place spinach and oj in blender. Pulse it til it starts to get going.

2. When it gets going, add the fruit, cucumber, and cactus and blend it til it's smooth. Don't over blend.

3. If yer a man... blend in some more spinach and romaine. Serve ICE COLD!

So Raw, So Goooo Fu Yu!

2011-08-19T23:22:00.000-07:00

1/2 cup Adzuki Beans (Sprouted)
1/2 cup Rye Berries (Sprouted)
1/2 cup Almond Milk
1/4 cup Raw Walnuts (Soaked)
1 tsp Vanilla Powder (Or bean is fine)
1 tsp Cinnamon
1 cup Boysenberries
1 cup Apricots
1 cup Nectarines
1 cup Papaya
1 cup Pluot

1. Sprout the beans and berries with this method:
http://naturalpapa.com/food/sprouting/how-to-grow-sprouts-at-home/

2. Rough chop the walnuts. Chop the fruit however. Big pieces are cool.

3. Whisk together the vanilla, cinnamon, and almond milk.

4. Fold in sprouted beans, sprouted berries, fresh berries and nuts.

Steel Cut Oats

2011-08-19T22:29:00.000-07:00

1/2 cup Trader Joe's Quick Cook Steel Cut Oats
1 serving Trader Joe's Soy Vanilla Protein Powder
1 cup Almond Milk (Unsweetened)
1 tsp Cinnamon
1 tsp Truvia
1/4 cup Almonds
3 ea Figs
1 ea Asian Apple-Pear
1 cup Strawberries
1/2 cup Blueberries

1. Microwave Oatmeal on high for 3 minutes with straight up water. Mixture should be tight when it comes out. (Almost dry and shouldn't wiggle at all).

2. Whisk almond milk and protein with cinnamon and truvia.

3. Fold in oatmeal and nuts.

4. Slice all fruit however you like and fold in. Grab a glass of FRESHLY SQUEEZED OJ and a cup of dark ass coffee.