My hungry weekend..

Hello Sunshine's!

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend.

I started mine off Friday morning with some of Gena's banana soft serve with mango, coconut oil and E3live added in. Yup, that's right ice cream for breakfast, when it's this healthy, it's okay! :)
After that I was surprised to see these cucumbers T had picked from our garden that morning! I can't wait to get juicing this week! These are extra crisp and perfect with a little sea salt, Parma, or just plain.

We also have zucchini! This is only the beginning of what we are going to be harvesting from our garden.

Friday afternoon, I went with my future sister in law for a cruelty free-natural mani and pedi. Our hair salon only uses green/vegan products and they have a full service salon with waxing, massages, facials, manicures and pedicures. After getting pampered we went to our favorite Italian restaurant for lunch. I ordered a large garden salad. The waiter warned me that the salad was huge, but being a vegan, I know when they say huge it's usually tiny, so I ordered it anyway. Boy was I surprised when the waiter wasn't lying, this salad was a monster! It had red onion, tomatoes, cucumbers and olives. I had olive oil and balsamic vinegar for dressing. I couldn't even finish it. Good thing T and his brother showed up and helped finish it off.

After that we all headed to the shore to stay at my in laws house. We went to my sisters party on the river and watched the fireworks. It was a lot of fun, but a lot of younger (22/23 years old) drunk kids.. T fit right in, HA HA!!

Saturday afternoon I went to lunch with my brother in law and future sister in law (T was a little hung over and couldn't make it). We went to our favorite vegan cafe on the shore, The Twisted Tree. I made an exception and had a sandwich on their homemade oat bread. I had the hummus salad sandwich which had hummus, avocado, sprouts and tomato. I also had a small salad on the side. This was amazing, as always!! Now if only they made gluten free bread..

My mother is law was kind enough to order a copy of Sarma's new book: Living Raw Food, for me and my future sis in law. I am so excited and can't wait to make delicious recipes from the book. My mother in law is now high raw, she is eating 80% raw everyday! How great is that? She even ordered 3 other raw cook books, an Excalibur 9 tray dehydrator, and a VITAMIX!!! You can imagine how jealous I am. But I will be using it when I am down.

On Saturday night we made raw lasagna from the raw cookbook Raw Food Celebrations. It can out really well, but again, a little to rich for me. For some reason raw Italian food doesn't sit well with me. I can only have one or two bites before I am full.

Luckily, I had a big salad on the side which I easily finished off. My mother in law makes an amazing salad!

For dessert we made Nomi Shannon's Raw Carrot Cake. The frosting was really tasty and had a lot of flavors, but the cake tasted more like a vegetable dish then a dessert. I think if we make this again we will use less carrots.

That is my weekend in food, we had a fabulous time and I will be making more gourmet raw meals with my mother in law in the near future! Yay RAW!