kale salad

I’m glad everyone seemed to really like my sushi post and the leopard smoothie! I feel badly, because I didn’t have the time to take photos and explain the whole process of sushi making, but if you are interested in trying it for yourself there are some good resources online. I like this one a lot. Plus, it’s really fun- I highly recommend it!

Speaking of sushi I had 5 leftover pieces for lunch yesterday along with this yummy massaged kale salad.

Fresh kale massaged with a 1/4 of an avocado and some lemon juice with carrots, cucumbers, broccoli, and nutritional yeast.

Once home from work and the gym, I whipped up some raw corn salad for dinner.

And served it along side a SUNSHINE BURGER!! I had heard a ton about these little burgers, but hadn’t bought then because their quite expensive and only 3 come in a pack. This weekend when I went to whole foods the burgers were on sale and I had a coupon so I got two boxes- the original and the falafel.

I decided to try the falafel variety last night, because FALAFEL is sooo tasty! I used the toaster oven to heat it up and followed the package directions but I think it may have cooked too long because it ended up being quite dry. The flavor was still good and it wasn’t super dry in the middle, however it was very dry along the edges. I was still overall happy with the burger and hopefully next time I won’t cook it so long and it won’t turn out dry. And, at some point I really want to try the recipe for the falafel sauce on the side of the package – it looks super delish.

What really strikes me about these burgers is the fact that they are gluten free and check out the Ingredient list: Organic raw ground sunflower seeds, organic brown rice, organic chick peas, organic split peas, organic tahini(ground toasted organic sesame seeds), organic sesame seed paste, organic parsley, organic cumin powder, organic garlic, organic sea salt. Short and nothing but the goood stuff, gotta love it.

After getting some much needed beauty rest I woke up to a bowl of glorious oats all made possible by Heather’s chocolate chip granola.

How yummy does that look? Whoever said oatmeal was bland was dead wrong. With a few additions oatmeal is pretty much the best b-fast around.

I went home for lunch and whipped up a quick salad and some veggies with hummus. Easy pleasy.

Romaine lettuce topped with carrots, avocado, zucchini, cucumber, sprouts (that I spouted myself!!!), some left over raw corn salad, and TJ’s goddess dressing.

The hummus was TJ’s garlic hummus, not Sabra, but it did the job!

Back at work for the afternoon I had a snack of trail mix. Too bad the snack turned into a what I would consider a meal of trail mix. I have such a hard time only having one handful of MIXES! I think I just need to bring my own healthy snack to the office, keep it on my desk, and stay away from the kitchen. Right Molly? Molly is a blog reader, but also a co-worker that understands my snacking dilemma.

I’ll catch up with you all tomorrow!

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Last night, Isaac was in charge of the house dinner for he and his house mates. The house dinner must be vegan, per house rules, and of course, I was more than happy to help out. We couldn’t decide whether to do bean burgers with b-nut squash fries (everyone needs a little b-nut fries in their life) or the quinoa dish I had made last week. When it came down to crunch time grocery shopping the quinoa dish won. And, I’m happy to say the Greek Quinoa with Avocados proved to be quite delicious again, even with tripling the recipe and sans the feta.

The quinoa (pronounced keen-wa) with avocado was served on a bed of spinach and zucchini with a side of my fav- Roasted Broccoli. I felt like I was on Next Food Network Star. Isaac had talked up my cooking and the blog to his house mates before my arrival. So, needless to say I was nervous cooking dinner for them. No worries though, the Quinoa did not disappoint and everyone loved it! If you haven’t tried Quinoa this is a great dish to start with because it’s quite easy, very tasty, and will have you wanting to make more.

Before dinner we went to a drum circle at a nearby park. It was so cool. There were a TON of people from every different nationality joined together drumming and dancing. And the drumming sounded awesome- it brought back memories from an African drumming class I took in elementary school.

Isaac went off to school today and I worked from “home” -aka, his summer home. I went for a nice walk this morning before work. I was going to run, but yesterday was my first real run since my knee injury and my shins were so sore this morning that I decided just to take it easy and walk. I walked around the neighborhood, to the National Zoo (it’s super close) and then found a big hill to walk up- that got me sweating!

For breakfast I made some steel cut oats with a banana – so chewy! And for lunch I whipped up a kale salad massaged with 1/4 of an avocado, topped with leftover cold quinoa and tomatoes. On the side I had another 1/4 of the avocado and some All-Bran Crackers.

The All-bran crackers are too sweet and highly addictive. I went back for more- 2 TIMES!

Tonight we’ll be having dinner (made by someone else in the house). I’m pretty sure it’s going to invovle tofu and spaghetti squash! Later were heading out to meet up with some friends from the area for salsa dancing!! Tomorrow I’ll be working at a conference here in DC then heading home. Gotta get home to Olive – I miss her.