Any Ideas What We Just Ate For Lunch????? ;-)

Fresh Bread Anyone?

Tomorrow we are having some friends over for a re-make of our Empress Tea!  This time we will be adding in some gluten free things as well as one WONDERFUL raw food dish.  Here is a sneak peak of one of the delights.........

More pictures and details later!

~~Laura

The requested smoothie recipe

The original recipe for this smoothie calls it the Blue Sunset -- we eat it in the mornings, have changed it up a bit, and are now calling it the Blue Sunrise smoothie!

~~Laura

Blue Sunrise

2 Cups Frozen Mango (or one 12 oz bag)
2 Cups Frozen Pineapple (or one 12 oz bag)
2 Frozen Bananas
2 Cups Best Ever Nut Mylk (recipe below)
3 Tablespoons Agave Nectar or 12 Drops Liquid Stevia
2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract
1 Cup Blueberries

In a blender, puree all ingredients except blueberries until smooth. Pour out about half of the mixture into serving glasses, filling each glass half way. Add the blueberries to the remaining shake in the blender and blend until smooth. Gently pour the remaining blueberry shake over the pineapple-mango shake. Enjoy! Serves 2

Best Ever Nut Mylk
~~Laura’s variation of Mathew Kenney

1 C. Almonds or Brazil nuts or Walnuts or Pecans or hemp seeds
4 C. Purified water
1/3 C. Agave Nectar or 1 1/2 droppers full of Liquid Stevia
1 Tablespoon Vanilla
3 Tablespoons Coconut oil

Blend all ingredients in a high-speed blender for about 45 seconds. Pour through a milk-bag, cheesecloth, or a very fine sieve. Yield: 4 Cups

Come Join Elizabeth!

Come join Elizabeth at her new blogs!  Learn about what she eats at Life With Food Allergies and take  walks through nature along side of her.  These fun blogs are just starting to bud so keep on the lookout for new posts!  

~~Laura

P.S. don't forget to vote on her polls!  ;-)

The Best Smoothie In The World #2!

What is my new favorite smoothie?  The Blue Sunrise from one of our cookbooks!  The bottom layer has bananas, mango, pineapple, brazil nut-milk, vanilla, and liquid stevia.  The top layer is the mango mixture with blueberries and bee pollen added.  This was the creamiest smoothie I have ever had!

~~Laura

Lunch Time!

We don't have much time, but we thought we might share our "Elizabeth and Laura proof" lunch! It was completely gluten-free and totally delicious!  We have given the explaining to Muddy and so take a look at her blog in a bit.

Almond Milk

Mango Cherry Milkshake- with the Almond Milk

Raw Mexican Pizza

Elizabeth's Not Egg Salad

Raw Apple Pie

~~Laura

Updates!

After quite a summer, we're back to posting and that includes Muddy.

This week is VERY busy including orchestra, a raw foods class, violin, voice and tennis lessons plus school.....try to post as soon as we catch our breaths!

~~Laura

Beet Salad

I made a really yummy beet salad with broccoli, kalamata olives, and a lemon and olive oil dressing.  --simple and tasty --  It also cleaned out our refrigerator.

~~Laura

Got Raw Food?

Different people have asked about raw food. Since our blog is about so much more than food, Muddy has offered to have her own blog dedicated to gardening and raw food. Since she has almost no knowledge of working a computer, I will be her "computer secretary". She won't be able to post often but she'll try to get something on each week. We actually started it awhile back, but we're just now opening it.

So, the big question is -- "WHAT IS THIS?"



Check out her blog to find the answer.

~~Laura

Tuesday's Box

Our Tuesday box is here! Today we got -

Broccoli
Grapefruit
Yellow Onions
Mixed Greens
Oranges
Grapefruit
Meyer Lemons -- Some in the box as well as a case
Sunflower Sprouts
Cabbage Micro Greens
Carrots
Romaine Lettuce
Collard Greens
Sweet Potatoes
Red Potatoes
Baby Turnips

YUMMY!

~~Sisters

Tuesday's Box

"She is like the merchant ships, she brings her food from afar."
Proverbs 31:14

Well, not too afar. And we don't bring it. It comes to us.

We really believe in eating in season and locally grown organic produce (including from our own garden). Lot's more nutrition, and much better flavor. It's even fun to anticipate and wait for certain foods to come in season -- like the first tasty strawberries or juicy citrus.

It's been hard in the past to stick to, but now with a wonderful new delivery service, we have everything brought right to our door. There's a company called greenling.com based out of Austin that delivers beautiful in season, locally grown produce to both the Austin and San Antonio areas. They get the fruits and veggies from local farmers who use organic practices in growing their goodies.

Our boxes are delivered every Tuesday afternoon right to our front door. The fruits and veggies are bigger and better than we can find in even Whole Foods as well as items not even carried in any stores around here. We've been able to try different varieties than we've ever eaten.

They have FABULOUS customer service, and everyone is so nice and helpful. The delivery guys even write personal notes on our inventory sheets attached to the boxes.

We've been signed up with Greenling's for around 8 weeks now, and get really excited every Tuesday as if it's our birthday, wondering what treats we'll find in our boxes.

One local produce box is good for about a family of four, but since we eat mainly fruits and veggies, we order two (along with cases of grapefruit and meyer lemons...yummm).

Here are a couple of pictures of our box a few weeks ago.

~~ Sisters and Muddy

Orange Tea

While Muddy was at a hair appointment, we decided to fix a special lunch. We didn't realize, until it was completed, that it was all orange. Thus the name orange tea.

The top dish was spiralized raw sweet potato with an asian sauce and sprinkled with sesame seeds.




This dish was a raw dip that tastes like nacho dip. It's our version of a recipe we got from Serene's cookbook. It's made with red bell pepper, tahini, nutritional yeast, cashews and a few other items. We used peppers, sweet potato chips and carrots for dippers.

And, of course, we served both dishes with a pot of green tea (the only non-orange item).

~~ Sisters

The Only Way To Eat Kale!

WE LOVE KALE SALAD! This one has lemon juice, olive oil, kalamata olives, pine nuts, orange bell pepper, and sprinkled with a big dose of hemp seeds. YUMMY!

~~Laura & Muddy

(Daddy even likes it too!)

Our Favorite Time Of The Year

Our favorite time of the year is 'Green Hatch Chili Season'. We will either get our roasted hatch chilis from Santa Fe, NM (if we are there in September ;-)) or we will get some from Whole Foods. (in the pictures below) We love to visit all the vendors at the Santa Fe farmers market who not only sell the chilis, but also roast them on site. The smell of roasted chilis can't be matched.

After packaging bags for the freezer, we then go to work.




Our first favorite thing to make with the fresh green chilis is homemade hot sauce -- YUMMY!
We use fresh tomatoes, garlic, cilantro, green chilis, lime juice and salt. Then we blend it all up in a food processor. While we are munching on chips and hot sauce, we start getting creative.




For this particular meal we made some chili mashers to go with Daddy's meal.




Here is Daddy's 'meat and potatoes' meal. We used grass-fed beef, organic carrots, the chili mashers, and of course chili season wouldn't be complete without roasted green chili french bread.


While Daddy was enjoying his steak we were enjoying our "BIG" salad. We start with a bed of greens, PILE on guacamole, sprinkle on corn and red peppers, splash on some of the roasted hatch chili hot sauce, and for an extra punch throw on more diced chilis.

Below is Muddy's salad ~~ Can you tell that we are from the Southwest? ;-)




To kinda cool the palate, this particular meal I made whole wheat sopapillas. We dipped them in plenty of raw honey ---- YUUUUUMMMMMY!

~~ Laura

Serving Muddy

Not only is Muddy a vegetarian, but she is also a raw vegan. We also eat mostly raw, so we enjoy our meals together. Here was a surprise lunch that we made while she was out. She enjoyed it so much that she had us repeat it for her lunch in the car on the way to Santa Fe.

The yellow dish contained a raw mock egg salad -- but boy did it taste like the real thing. We used fresh dill from the garden which made it extra eggy special.

The stuffed mushrooms were unbelievable! Raw shitakes soften nicely with the marinade.

Our favorite is always the SUSHI! We make it ourselves with all of the fresh veggies we can find. Sweet rice miso is a very nice substitute for the white sushi rice as well as ground jicama or cauliflower. We are showing two variations below--Elizabeth's and Laura's.

Just keep raw nori sheets on hand and voila! Veggie sushi in seconds.

~~Laura