Wednesday, May 18, 2011

It was a Radish kinda day

Hey Everyone! I hope you are having a great week! Thanks for all the early anniversary wishes. Tomorrow is our actual anniversary, but we are going out on Friday night. I will post pics and maybe even a wedding picture or 2 on Monday! ;)


Also, I wanted to let you all know that my sister posted her gluten-free, vegan lasagna recipe in the comments of my last post. I will re-post it at the bottom of the post.

Anyway, we are still harvesting our early crops from our garden. Here are some radishes, we have a ton! Expect my salads to be radish heavy! Ha ha! We will be planting our tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, etc. in a few weeks. Can't wait!
Speaking of the garden, I wanted to try our kale cooked, so one night I made it with garlic and olive oil along side a baked sweet potato that I slathered coconut oil and ground pepper on. I must admit, I like kale raw a lot better. I was very disappointed that I wasted it by cooking it! Oh well! I'll be having a lot more raw kale in my lifetime! ;)

I picked up these freeze-dried bananas at Whole Foods to add to my raw granola. They are raw, vegan and gluten free. Nothing is added, just bananas. They also make strawberry and mango!

And finally, a delicious smoothie I made one morning: banana, almond milk, mint, chocolate Sunwarrior protein, cinnamon, spinach, Greener Grasses, Maca and Dulse flakes. Yum!

Finally, here is my sister's delicious gluten-free, vegan lasagna recipe:
-1lb of cashews soaked over night in unsweetened almond milk (or water or another milk substitute) plus a pinch of salt

Drain and then blend cashews in food processor adding:
2tsp. garlic powder
1/4 c. milk substitute
3 tbs. apple cider vinegar
1tbs. of herbs (I used fresh basil)
1 tbs. agave (could use less)
1/3 c. chives
1 tsp. black pepper
salt to taste

I added olive oil (about a tbs) and a whole bag of organic spinach (the green looked prettier :)

Gluten free, vegan brown rice lasagna noodles (boiled)

Marinara sauce

The recipe makes a LOT of "cheese" I made two 9x9 lasagnas, and gave some cheese away (its yummy on crackers too!)

Assemble as you would a traditional lasagna and bake for about 40 minutes at 350.




Have a great Wednesday all! I'll be back tomorrow with a special post! <3

11 comments:

kelli said...

radish is my least favorite veggie, but it grows so quickly and effortlessly that i planted a purple variety.

thanks for sharing the lasagna recipe! i bet you could sub the noodles for sliced eggplant or zucchini and it would taste great. the season for both will be upon us soon enough!=)

Lauren said...

Yum -- my favorite kind of radishes are pickled...so great in salads!

dreaminitvegan said...

Happy Anniversary, early.

Those are some beautiful radishes and those freeze-dried fruits sound really good.

Your sister's gf lasagna sounds so good. I'll have to try the cashew cheese as the filler. I just made some gf lasagna for my son last night and I did use cashew butter but I added it to the tofu "ricotta" I made.

foodfeud said...

Dulse flakes in the smoothie, eh? innnteresting.
I love radishes! I planted some in my mom's garden and she says they're ready to eat also but I have yet to stop over there. Looks like your garden has had a great yield so far - bummer about the kale.

Twins said...

oh I really wish I had a garden to go get some fresh produce out of :(

hope you guys have a wonderful anniversary!!

xoxo
Michelle
pure2raw twin

Jenna said...

thanks for the recipe! i want to give it a try. i'm very jealous of your garden :) happy anniversary, hope you enjoy your night out!

bitt said...

Never thought of putting cashew cheese into real lasagna..um I mean cooked lasagna. You sister is so sweet! No one in my family can make lasagna but me.

You already have radishes? Wow! Maybe you will make some radish kraut. :-)

Sasha said...

Wow look at those radishes. You are so lucky. You know my grandma eats about 2 bunches a week if she can get them. I think that is what keeps her healthy. She just sits and eats them.

Thanks for sharing about dulse in the smoothie. I have never tried it that way. Good idea.

fightlifewithlife said...

Lauren great post! That lasagna sounds like a real treat! You should post your smoothie recipe on the Sunwarrior Facebook page! We love seeing new smoothie recipes and that one looks delectable! Congrats on your anniversary! Have a great day from Allen at Sunwarrior!

rawkinmom said...

Your smoothie looks delicious!!! I love chocolate in my green smoothies!!

graceunderpressure said...

posted to my fb for the lasagna, thanks!