Veganmofo: Making It Easy

This morning's breakfast was a hemp smoothie. To make it optimally healthy and easy to digest, there is only fruit and hemp nuts. Here's the recipe:- 1 cup orange juice, 1 banana, 2 tablespoons of hemp nuts, and a good handful of strawberries. Blend.
I cannot go the 100% raw route... where I live is just too cold for that and I feel the cold a LOT. So blended food for a while will have to be the plan. Lunch is a green smoothie which I will just be sipping most of the day as too much food at once is an issue. And some sort of blended soup for dinner.

Time Out

Time to come clean... I am not well. Stress levels have been through the roof for a very long time, and it seems that once one problem has been resolved another one takes it's place. I have mentioned previously about having to get an appliance to stop grinding my teeth in my sleep... that was my first real signal that all was not right, and it has shown itself in other ways too... I have noticed some hair loss. And now I can't seem to keep my food down very well. A few hours ofter eating I am in agony. This has been going on for days now, and I am beginning to find it intolerable. So this is what I am going to do... I am going to stop. Period. This little sign down below will be my visual cue when I begin to feel stress.
It's really selfish I know... but everyone is going to have to get along without me for a while. My first goal is to alkalise... so no cooked food for a while (so VeganMoFo is out and no suppers for the others in my house... I'm taking a holiday), mostly veggies and fruits to soothe the tummy (and mostly blended green smoothies) and I think it's time I finally, for the first time ever, got out my meditation pillow (Zabuton) AND USED IT. Every day. That's it for now. Wish me well, lend me strength, give me love and encouragement. I need it all. Thanks.

VeganMoFo III

Another fab. meal from The Vegetarian Times Cookbook... Pasta with Roasted Veggies and Chickpeas and a Roasted Asparagus Salad. I loved the pasta dish so much it has become one of those good ol' standby's of comfort food. Pasta is just so awesome already and the addition of roasted veggies is just genius. I especially like roasted mushrooms, and even DH said that there weren't enough of those... so the next time I made it I totally loaded up on the shrooms.

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From the Vegetarian Times Cookbook (1995 edition) Vegetable Pot Pie with Greens. It was quite easy to make, very delicious to eat and so easy to veganise.

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I recently tried a new soup... a beety soup. Beet, Barley, and Black Soybean Soup from Vegan With a Vengeance. I have to confess that I did not really like it. The recipe looked so good! But I am not a fan of borscht or it's variations. It smelt wonderful whilst cooking... it did not go to waste...DS2 gobbled up a fair bit... but I did not like it. In my humble opinion, beets are best grated in a salad (or juliened if you don't want the mess of a grater), or pickled. In my family pickled beets were the good ol' standby in the summertime. We always had some with our salads... When I was last in Australia beetroot was like a condiment... whenever I ordered a dish in a restaurant, there was always some pickled beetroot on the plate. I really liked that, and have my own stash of homemade pickled beetroot in the coldroom. I will keep on trying new beet recipes (just not in soup!).

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From Mollie Katzen's Still Life With Menu, I borrowed her ideas and put together a pretty awesome meal tonight... Tomato Soup (with lots of garlic ), Biscuits with currants (both recipes from How It All Vegan) and her recipe for a Jeweled Rice Salad, which was really nice. Every bite was a little different and I liked the crunchy toasted pecans, the juicy grapes... I will have a totally awesome lunch tomorrow!

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I missed another day of MoFo... but I have been so busy! I have a friend over for the weekend who is making her first quilt ( I am strictly in a supervisory capacity), and I have been working around her, catching up on my house work, starting my workouts again (after a six week hiatus), and helping out my friend wherever I can. The pattern she chose is out of Kaffe Fassetts Museum Quilts, and is turning out quite beautifully.
I have been feeding her pretty well, I think, and both meals so far have been courtesy of Dreena Burton.
Pasta with Mediterranean Sauce from The Everyday Vegan, I also added some chickpeas and topped it with roasted mushrooms. Very , very yummy, plus loaded up in what I needed for my workout the next morning.Last nights dinner (and post workout craving) Stir fry with Spicy Almond Sauce from Vive Le Vegan. I certainly didn't need to take my calcium last night! I made a huge pot of veggies loaded up with Chinese cabbage, broccers, tofu and almond sauce! And was it ever good! I can always rely on Dreena for a winner.And for last... we have the naughty runaway who rolled in dead fish by the river. He sure did NOT like getting a bath.