Christmas Time in The Ginger Household!

Hello All!

I have a lot of pictures from the weekend (before and after Candle 79), so I'll keep my chatter to a minimum. Thank you all for the lovely comments on my picture in the last post. You are all so sweet! I am so lucky!

On Friday night, I made some raw nog. I have heard from a few sources that the raw nog recipes out there are not very good. I seem to have found a winner! I used a VegNews magazine recipe that I received in my email last week. The only thing I would change would be to add more dates or cashews for a little thicker nog. Other then that, this was superb!
To go with our nog, I made raw gingerbread cookies! They were not at all shaped like gingerbread, but they taste the same! I actually started to follow a recipe on these, then changed it up to make it my own.

Lauren's Raw Gingerbread Cookies
2.5 cup cashews
.5 cup walnuts
1/4 cup agave
3 tsp. cinnamon
4 tsp. fresh ginger
7 dates (soaked)
1 cup of raisins (soaked)
2 tsp. nutmeg

Combined all in food processor. Roll into balls and refrigerate for 2 hours. Or dehydrate for 3 hours at 105 degrees.

I dehydrated them, but I am sure they would come out just at well in the fridge.
On Saturday, T and I went to a new place we discovered in town. They have an awesome salad bar that you choose what you want and they mix it. I choose mixed leaf lettuce, chickpeas, broccoli, artichokes and olives. I am craving one of these salads!! Hopefully we can go back this weekend, I am going to try a different combo!
On Sunday, for lunch we hit up Whole Foods. I made a small salad with lots of sprouts and cabbage, yum!
No post would be special without an appearance from the queen! This was Sunday night, she was laying on T's chest while he watched football. She has the life!
Finally, we put up our tree!! Isn't she pretty? We wanted to cut our own and bring it back to the farm to be made into mulch, but the place was closed due to the rain! Boo! So we got it from a local farm instead.
Lastly, I want to give a special shout out to the lovely Gena, who is hosting an awesome cleanse to kick off the New Year along with Hadley who is a fellow blogger (at Hadley’s Holistics), and she’s a founding member of Spark! Wellness and Andrea Moss (who also writes a blog). You can read more about this fabulous cleanse here. Gena puts her heart and soul into everything she does, so this is sure to be a success!

Have a nice Wednesday everyone!