"Cheesy" Quinoa Pasta

Happy November ya'll! It's a real dreary rainy day today, perfect day for some comfort food and a warm fire. I made this pasta a few days ago and I'm still eating the leftovers, that's how good it was! I'm not going to waste anymore time rambling on. I'll just leave the recipe right here and you'll thank me later!

Ingredients:

2 Cups Quinoa Pasta spirals

1 Cup Raw Split Cashews

1 Tbsp Seasoning Salt

1/2 Cup Water

1/2 Onion

1 Clove garlic

1/2 Cup lemon juice

1 tbsp vegan butter

Directions:

Boil pasta until soft strain and set aside on low heat

Blend- water, onion garlic cashews lemon juice, season salt until

Add butter to pasta and stir.

Slowly pour in cashew sauce and stir

Garnish & Serve

Enjoy!

Best,

Abigail

Berry or Apple Crumble

Happy Fall everyone! It's that time of the year where we gear up for cozy sweaters, warm blankets and piping hot hot coco (carob) and a warm apple or berry crumble. Not sure how to make a good crumble? Well I've got a recipe that is sure to give you all the feels!

Ingredients 

Oats

Raisins (optional)

Walnuts (optional)

Cinnamon

Vanilla extract/ vanilla pod

Agave/honey

Honey crisp Apples ( substitute with fresh berries or cherries)

Coconut oil

Garbanzo bean Flour

Portion

3 Cups Oats

1/2 Cup Raisins (optional)

1/2 cup Chopped Walnuts (optional)

1 tsp Cinnamon

1 tsp Vanilla extract/ vanilla pod

1/2 Cup Agave/honey

5 Chopped Honey crisp Apples ( substitute with fresh berries or cherries)

3 tbsp Coconut oil

1 Cup Garbanzo bean Flour

Directions 

Preheat oven at 250c

Mix together oats and flour

Add cinnamon, chopped walnuts & raisins 

Mix

Add agave/honey & vanilla

Mix and set

Line sheet pan with parchment paper greased with coconut oil

Spread flat mixture on sheet pan and place pan in preheated oven for 10-15 min.

Remove when brown

Line baking dish with vegan butter 

Add Diced apples or berries to baking dish 

And 2 tbsp of water, apple juice or apple sauce

Sprinkle Crumble on top and bake for 30-40 minutes or until golden brown.

Enjoy!

Buckwheat Pancake with Blood Orange Sauce

Good Morning all! It's a frigid Tuesday morning here and I've decided that perhaps you might want a really delicious breakfast recipe, some good old fashioned comfort food perhaps? So on this health journey we sometimes find ourselves running out of foods to eat. But there are a plethora of amazing dishes to create and you can definitlely recreate some of your old favorites with a healthy twist. Be sure to let me know how your turned out.

Ingredients

Pancake

1 Cup Buckwheat Flour

1/ Cup GF Flour

1 Tbsp egg replacer or 1/2 Cup Applesauce

1 Tbsp Carob powder

1/4 Cup Honey or Agave Syrup

1/ tsp Sea Salt

1/2 Cup Almond Milk

1tbsp Coconut Oil

Method

Mix ingredients until smooth

Place skillet or frying pan on stove (medium heat) add coconut oil

Pour mixture on pan and flip when edges are browining

Sauce

2 Blood oranges (slced and peeled)

1/ 2 Cup Honey, Stevia or Agave

2 drops DoTerra Wild orange

Method

Boil 1/2 cup of water

Place chopped oranges in boiling water

Add Sweetner

Add 2 Drops of DoTerra Wild orange

Boil to a reduction

Remove from stove and puree sauce

Let cool and serve