Marinated Kale Salad

Creek

Our creek, always cool, always making music. Home to salmon.

From PCC Sound Consumer. Thanks PCC!

1 lemon (zest plus 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice)
2 tablespoons raw honey
1/4 cup olive oil
Salt & Pepper to taste
1/2 head green kale, thinly sliced
1/2 head red kale, thinly sliced
Toasted salted pumpkin and/or sunflouwe seeds

Place zest and lemon joice in small bowl. Whisk in honey, then olive oil and season with salt and pepper.

Dress the greens and let sit in fridge for 2+ hours. Top with seeds and serve.

Yum!

Frozen Chocolate Macaroons

DSC05263Makes about 25 cookies

4 large egg whites
1/2 cup Grade B Maple syrup
¼ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons arrowroot powder
2½ cups unsweetened coconut 
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
6 squares or 1/2 cup bittersweet chocolate

Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.

Beat egg whites and salt with eggbeater until peaks form.  (No, apparently you cannot do this in a vitamix or a cuisinart!)

Add arrowroot and beat in briefly.  Add vanilla, melted chocolate and maple syrup. Blend well.

When ready to bake, smear coconut oil on cookie sheet or use parchment paper.  Leave about half an inch between cookies.

Bake them in a 300°F oven for 30 minutes, or until lightly browned. Lower the oven to 200° and bake them for another 40 minutes, or until macaroons are as chewy or crispy as you like.

These are great warm or cold, and even better frozen!!

Quiche Redux

This can be incredibly good with no dairy — no milk, no cheese! Try it and see!

Adapted from Vitamix cookbook:

Makes TWO quiches.

1 cup cooked rice (cook in extra water and drain extra water)
1 – 2 egg whites

3 – 4 chopped carrots, 1 onion, head of broccoli or cauliflower, and/or other veggies
1/2 teaspoon fresh ginger, grated
1/2 teaspoon fresh turmeric, grated
4 cloves garlic, minced

4 eggs
1 can (13.5 fl. Oz.) whole coconut milk
1 – 2 square inches of cheese (recommended: goat or raw cheddar) – OPTIONAL (tastes pretty good even without cheese)
1 tbsp fresh parsley – optional
1 1/2 tablespoons dried basil – optional
1/4 – 1/2 teaspoon salt

3 tablespoons Dal or thick lentils cooked or soaked in bone broth – optional, but really tasty
1 hotdog, cut into small bits – optional, but really tasty

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Mix rice and egg white and press into 9″ pie pan so rice is approximately 1 or 2 grains thick. It does not need to go up the sides of the pan.
Bake in oven for 10 minutes, then take out.

Chop or vitamix and then saute vegies and spices until cooked. Skim off a few of the larger peices and lay on crust. Put rest of vegies and rest of ingredients into vitamix and blend for about 30 seconds on high. Then pour into pan and cook for 40 minutes or until top is brown.

Our Food!

Here’s what we’ve enjoyed in the last two weeks:

Gluten Free Quiche with brown rice crust and broccoli
Meatloaf with Grass Fed Beef
Dal
Innumerable smoothies, green and otherwise
Blended fruit ice-cream
Potato Cheddar Breakfast Bake
Wild Salmon
100% Grass Fed and Organic Hotdogs and Hamburgers
Seed Cereal
Lamb Heart with Stir Fry
Chili with Beef Heart
Carrot Orange Ginger Soup
Samosa Tacos
Chicken Curry
Kimchee
Kefir
Chocolate Dipped Macaroons
Pomegranites
Green Coconut
and LOTS OF Eggnog (raw milk, raw egg yolks, spices)