https://www.jasquatch.com/home daily 1.0 2023-07-17 https://www.jasquatch.com/home/j-amp-qs-cooking-demo-with-the-syracuse-vegan-living-program monthly 0.5 2023-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/4be130fa-1029-457e-ad00-83982ec396aa/dairy+facts.png Home - J &amp; Q's Cooking Demo with the Syracuse Vegan Living Program - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/50f19bf5-536a-4935-960c-d25ca4c4f873/PXL_20230714_224103149.jpg Home - J &amp; Q's Cooking Demo with the Syracuse Vegan Living Program - Make it stand out REFRIED BEAN RECIPE can be found right there, but also in “Mains” or “Beans & Lentils” Here it is served with guac, greens, peppers, quick-pickled cabbage, and tortillas that’ve been toasted with vegan cheese and pickled jalapenos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/8a2ef789-d062-40c5-a92b-7469fffa3748/PXL_20230625_010653531.jpg Home - J &amp; Q's Cooking Demo with the Syracuse Vegan Living Program - Make it stand out We didn’t catch any photos of plates-served at the demo, but here’s a Peanut Sauce plate from a recent road-trip we did (because we travel with these ingredients too) with the same line-up as the demo: brown rice, QPC, greens, bell peppers, and SoyBoy Organic Tofu. This is so dang good you’ll be dancing to it all week, and it can be freshened up by turning it into a fried-rice stirfry or adding some of the ingredients to wraps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/0272fadf-0c00-4772-9b30-6f6bb44ef586/PXL_20230712_150112934.jpg Home - J &amp; Q's Cooking Demo with the Syracuse Vegan Living Program - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/48247d0e-6400-4c40-8226-d91b9fc4c4c8/357069981_129045946903899_2783057219123173149_n.jpg Home - J &amp; Q's Cooking Demo with the Syracuse Vegan Living Program - Make it stand out Thanks for the photo Emily; and thanks to Emily, Dan, and Shelly for letting us try something difficult, but helpful. We’ve learned lots for next time. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/7738f449-1c47-4e08-9e44-e0ca0863c21f/Food+Footprint.jpg Home - J &amp; Q's Cooking Demo with the Syracuse Vegan Living Program - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/c7338d78-ed95-4cec-b6d1-e8a3b6c59f87/prcabbage.jpg Home - J &amp; Q's Cooking Demo with the Syracuse Vegan Living Program - Make it stand out QUICK-PICKLED CABBAGE RECIPE - also found in “Sides” Quick-pickled cabbage is a daily love over here, we eat it with just about every meal, and it’s no wonder that it was the first recipe I shared on this site. It’s full of fiber, Vitamin C, and deliciousness; and as answered in Athena’s query of which vegetable we’d chose if we were stranded on a deserted island: it’d be red cabbage. Hand’s down. No question. Every time. It’s also not just us that is crazy about it: all four food samples in this demo came with QPC and by the 4th meal the folks in attendance had had about 1/2 cup each of QPC and I asked for a show of hands for anyone who wanted me to leave it off the last dish, and no hands were raised. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/60201d7a-0ea2-44d0-bd87-8db0a7f8d592/sesame+noodles.jpg Home - J &amp; Q's Cooking Demo with the Syracuse Vegan Living Program - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/006340ba-c8fc-4cc7-ae10-d255bdf61513/queso.jpg Home - J &amp; Q's Cooking Demo with the Syracuse Vegan Living Program - Make it stand out CASHEW QUESO RECIPE - can also be found in “Sauces” Goes great on tacos and bean bowls, alike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/0c4d5d2a-6f8b-4110-9a85-5bef79a8820f/sesame+dressing.jpg Home - J &amp; Q's Cooking Demo with the Syracuse Vegan Living Program - Make it stand out SESAME DRESSING RECIPE - found in that handy link, and also under Sauces https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/32500e89-6c48-4430-87f8-97214b5408df/358812440_1960481477657800_2128390700909481704_n.jpg Home - J &amp; Q's Cooking Demo with the Syracuse Vegan Living Program - Make it stand out Emily took this shot of me filling everyone in on how much we love SoyBoy: it’s organic, cheap, and delicious (firm, not-at-all spongy, flavorful with a feast of different marinades). However, I had no idea this tasty wallop comes from Rochester! Local CNY crew: get yourselves some delicious SoyBoy. We see it in most local grocery stores, and it comes in: plain, Caribbean Style, Sesame Soy, & Smoked. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/4bcc3b46-62fb-4339-92a9-f882dd03532d/tacos.jpg Home - J &amp; Q's Cooking Demo with the Syracuse Vegan Living Program - Make it stand out LENTIL TACO RECIPE - the recipe for these can be found here, and also in the sidebar menu under either “Mains” or “Beans & Lentils” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/55146029-5744-4f1c-8862-1f760d8da70d/lentils+vs+beef.jpg Home - J &amp; Q's Cooking Demo with the Syracuse Vegan Living Program - Make it stand out Lest the carb number shock you, whole carbs are essential for healthy bodies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/4b029dfc-9e64-4cdc-bc8f-a20699ad4ee2/black+rice.jpg Home - J &amp; Q's Cooking Demo with the Syracuse Vegan Living Program - Make it stand out We served the bean bowls and the 3rd meal (peanut sauce bowls) with brown rice, but that cooks up the same as this BLACK RICE RECIPE. ***If you do have an InstaPot: our preferred method is 3 cups of rice, 4 cups of water, season per your desire, cook for 18 min. Turns out swell every time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/b6a2b0d8-ddcf-42af-adbf-ec2857c9ca36/tomatillo.jpg Home - J &amp; Q's Cooking Demo with the Syracuse Vegan Living Program - Make it stand out What I didn’t share at the demo, but I see is on the lentil taco pic, and is something that we super love and will be in season very soon: our 10-MIN TOMATILLO SAUCE. Recipe found via that link, or also in “Sauces”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/230f15b2-dfca-4d43-8fa2-84ce7f144945/peanut+sauce.jpg Home - J &amp; Q's Cooking Demo with the Syracuse Vegan Living Program - Make it stand out PEANUT SAUCE RECIPE - also found in “Sauces” As stated in the video, we pour this over rice, noodles, and salads; or we thicken it up (by cooking just a little while longer) and then adding to sandwiches and wraps. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/cheesecake-truffles monthly 0.5 2022-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/ba444c27-c220-4e18-9333-8e83aa8ca45d/PXL_20221215_184838854.jpg Home - Cheesecake Truffles - Make it stand out Things of note: -that’s canola, but coconut oil, veg oil, etc would all work fine. - Miyoko’s is our fave, but there are many vegan cream cheeses out there to pick from. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/35b20ab1-77d1-4279-b4ef-fc1ab8dd36fa/PXL_20221206_221544646.jpg Home - Cheesecake Truffles - Make it stand out For Crystal’s birthday ones, we did sprinkles of flax, rainbow sprinkles, and crushed peppermint candy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/dfc6c9cf-e832-49bb-bb68-2ebbcacca890/20221218_074247-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Cheesecake Truffles - Make it stand out As seen in the recipe, blend those cookies first and then add in everything else. It’ll incorporate better. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/eb5ac6e0-f331-464c-bf63-f2f4acf754f5/PXL_20221215_192904970.jpg Home - Cheesecake Truffles - Make it stand out It’s important to lay them out on parchment paper or wax paper so that you can pick them up easy after they’ve been rolled in the choc. I wish I had a pick of the choc-rolling process, but it uses two hands and my menfolk were both bed-bound. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/c8d6c53b-4535-4099-ae0c-306567b6f9d8/PXL_20221217_194607994_2.jpg Home - Cheesecake Truffles - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/2d1ba4d0-ad88-4ad6-800c-ad22b4522f86/PXL_20221215_190835473.jpg Home - Cheesecake Truffles - Make it stand out To make them mostly uniform, it’s helpful to use a measuring scoop. If you use a TB spoon, you should get about 28-30 truffles from one batch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/85cd684c-fe50-4d49-a7b4-e431eab42bd0/PXL_20221217_192118315.jpg Home - Cheesecake Truffles - Make it stand out Just after you’ve dipped them (ie while they are still wet) you can sprinkle whatever you like on them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/0b3742b8-1b05-42e8-8c13-ec3fc3cad0df/PXL_20221218_131036207_3.jpg Home - Cheesecake Truffles - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/b8bf4528-c1d8-46f1-9927-45efca43c027/environmental-footprint-milks+%281%29.png Home - Cheesecake Truffles - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/8e4e2b49-8fa0-4108-9e7e-ed19a75c6923/Untitled+102.png Home - Cheesecake Truffles - Make it stand out And if the compassionate or environmental reasons weren’t enough reasons, dairy is not at all good for our health. Here’s a drawing from Quillan of a quote from The Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/pancake-recipe-whole-food-gf-option monthly 0.5 2022-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1646517866675-VBIR61MHDOS7SZDLMP4L/chick-alone-conveyor-macerator.jpg Home - Pancake Recipe (whole-food, GF option) - Make it stand out Also important when contemplating eggs: this is what maceration looks like. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1646000096625-EU94SGMPVB7GXI0064NE/PXL_20220227_194913478.jpg Home - Pancake Recipe (whole-food, GF option) - Make it stand out From “Fiber Fueled” By Dr Will Bulsiewicz (pt 1) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1645990481918-YDBQ603204CVHUIYVN15/PXL_20211205_141009812.jpg Home - Pancake Recipe (whole-food, GF option) - Make it stand out Our fave combo is almond butter, banana, and a quick hot-puree of mixed berries (we take whatever frozen berries we have around, throw them in a pan, simmer them until popped and juicey, puree quickly with an immersion blender, and sprinkle in cinnamon if that’s your fancy or a little maple if you want it sweeter. ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1646516752568-WCZGI3DGS20H3BB0VXFD/PXL_20220305_162604569.jpg Home - Pancake Recipe (whole-food, GF option) - Make it stand out Fiber Pt 2 from my “Nutrition & Society” class through Cornell’s Center For Nutrition Studies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1646000902017-PQA63W13DPIQKYVIXDV7/Screenshot+2022-02-27+5.24.39+PM.png Home - Pancake Recipe (whole-food, GF option) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1646518324663-01TGSXUWND29XOB7X2FS/PXL_20210619_123608802+%281%29.jpg Home - Pancake Recipe (whole-food, GF option) - Make it stand out Here Seen: Q with fresh summer strawberries and cashew cream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1645990360903-1RVUXB2L7GIBMXHWSLLY/PXL_20220227_172722604.jpg Home - Pancake Recipe (whole-food, GF option) - Make it stand out Ingredients needed for a batch of pancakes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1646000926997-IU6WCY00HQZX4FWH7ZBE/Screenshot+2022-02-27+5.27.20+PM.png Home - Pancake Recipe (whole-food, GF option) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1645990405312-N4KYY4CYHD1VNXJ1YGCO/PXL_20210619_122945448.jpg Home - Pancake Recipe (whole-food, GF option) - Make it stand out Kind to your heart/body in multiple ways: not only are you avoid the endothelial clogging, cardiovascular calamitous, and diabetes perpetuating incredibly unhealthy eggs; you’re avoiding the dairy associated with prostate and breast cancer; and they flip so easy you don’t even need to add oil to the pan, which is especially kind to our cardiovascular system. Simple spoon in the batter to a medium-heat pan, wait until they bubble through, flip, and then give them another minute or so. Voila! <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1646516785704-OAFULM8JEWNTKCTQG4MQ/PXL_20220305_162621844.jpg Home - Pancake Recipe (whole-food, GF option) - Make it stand out Fiber Pt 3from my “Nutrition & Society” class through Cornell’s Center For Nutrition Studies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1645999939541-9VR5G41QQDL6T2W3JJHA/PXL_20220227_203400286.jpg Home - Pancake Recipe (whole-food, GF option) - Make it stand out From “How Not to Die” by Dr Michael Greger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1645999909355-4ZGVFXWEGNSH45EA3Q5J/PXL_20220227_200740025.jpg Home - Pancake Recipe (whole-food, GF option) - Make it stand out From Plant-Based Baby & Toddler by dietitians Whitney English & Alexandra Caspero https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1646522667604-D9II87643R3N1HTGX0JX/PXL_20220305_232017858_2.jpg Home - Pancake Recipe (whole-food, GF option) - Make it stand out Gluten free? Buckwheat is an easy alternative. Worried that buckwheat has gluten in it due to the latter part of its name? Fear not, buckwheat is to wheat as a seahorse is to a horse. :-) Don’t have whole-grain flour on hand? Throwing oats into a blender will get you oatflour in under a minute. Just follow the notes above and give it a few more minutes to set, as the batter will seem super runny until the oats soak up the liquid. Don’t have any whole-grains on hand? This’ll work swell with all-purpose flour too, but see below for information on the importance of whole grains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1646000309260-GUQG1MZRTWI42O454N22/PXL_20220227_195732783.jpg Home - Pancake Recipe (whole-food, GF option) - Make it stand out Important for contemplating when the inclination to use eggs in pancakes comes creeping back. :-) This is from “Fiber Fueled” by Dr Will Bulsiewicz again https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1646516649338-Y7IL98U7NXCMHZI2SOFF/PXL_20220305_160328677.jpg Home - Pancake Recipe (whole-food, GF option) - Make it stand out Fiber Pt 1 from my “Nutrition & Society” class through Cornell’s Center For Nutrition Studies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1646000001496-IFS0VNACZ36YLFSR2DQU/PXL_20220227_201950125.jpg Home - Pancake Recipe (whole-food, GF option) - Make it stand out From “The Proof is in the Plants” by Nutritionist Simon Hill (pt 1) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1646000032934-1YO48565VQ44ZMI2NWBM/PXL_20220227_202250689.jpg Home - Pancake Recipe (whole-food, GF option) - Make it stand out From “The Proof is in the Plants” by Nutritionist Simon Hill (pt 2) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1646000131639-NL7CJ1H5BEVHKDMSOQ7J/PXL_20220227_195014586_2.jpg Home - Pancake Recipe (whole-food, GF option) - Make it stand out From “Fiber Fueled” By Dr Will Bulsiewicz (pt 2) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1646000225950-4PGJOBVP8I19UHKS30AS/PXL_20220227_195014586_2.jpg Home - Pancake Recipe (whole-food, GF option) - Make it stand out From “Fiber Fueled” By Dr Will Bulsiewicz (pt 3) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1646516534580-7312J0N464M8WDTG8JBR/PXL_20220305_163954786.jpg Home - Pancake Recipe (whole-food, GF option) - Make it stand out Class notes from a pediatric workshop with Nutritionist Kiran Deol https://www.jasquatch.com/home/j-on-a-podcast-q-on-truth-a-pediatrician-two-pediatric-dietitians-on-healthy-feasting monthly 0.5 2022-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639917233366-P5C38FI3P4256SLMY2SQ/256435374_10103306563242835_3417983489649321270_n.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639918677259-G4MMPXIXTL2LAP9VDE7L/PXL_20211205_141009812.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out My plate: topped with berry sauce, and served with almond butter (<— high in calcium) and banana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639917711676-KJCHPZ9P6OYSMAETU3YM/PXL_20211218_234000437.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out Kale (compliments of our CSA) & Arugula pesto, wrapped around whole-grain noodles, topped with a mushroom marinara and almond parm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639919312730-7XVS69NZWHNDRM19WXC2/PXL_20211212_225434884.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out And because we have CSA kale filling our fridges and we know that kale has more calcium that dairy-milk and is incredibly beneficial for our health, here’s another way to eat kale: we call it Beans & Greens Soup. I throw an onion and several cloves of garlic into our nutri-bullet and get them good and pureed (quicker than chopping and it allows them to cook up quicker too), saute until lightly browned, add in 4 cups chopped kale, 2 cups tomato (we used whole, canned), 2 cans of white beans (1 of which we’ll puree too as it makes the base creamier), 1 can of kidney, and cover with veg broth. Simmer for 30 minutes and you get yourself an incredibly filling and nutritious soup. We served it up with garlic bread topped with PMA pepperjack. And covered it in almond parm, because we top most things with almond parm. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639919665387-KVY5VRC0FJEHQDEA1VD2/PXL_20211211_230153514.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out Chocolate Nice Cream with crushed peppermint candy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639917054860-K70HDQ5769K3WUS4GRMC/266752393_10103329426399885_5278955646018481217_n.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639916399455-Y52PB147OXKRQSP5HVU5/267478087_10103329426364955_1303048662545892220_n.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639920085228-F2KS3IPNNWOEX58C3A10/PXL_20211216_231714210+%281%29.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out And this sweet cub was so thoroughly enjoying his (tempeh tostada) dinner that he didn’t realized he’d swallowed his first lost tooth until I bellowed, “Oh no! Where’d your tooth go?!” :-D This is his face just after realized it was on its way through his digestive tract. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639919106932-AJIRXZBU2IQEA71JEXYB/PXL_20211209_223038726.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out And this was another easy/busy-night meal, that Q loved despite the fact that it looks like he’s giving it the bird. :-D It’s homemade rolls I’d made earlier in the week and there are beyond meatballs on it, some of that mushroomy marinara, some PMA plant-based Bleu, and a side salad with balsamic and sunflowers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639999831575-RHYURGGL9271PNCAIKM7/6a00e54fc8012e8833014e8802bd59970d-600wi+%282%29.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639919608709-VUFACIDA2B77Y48A9VY2/PXL_20211216_104627137.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out Q starts his day with a warm mug of soymilk, and the flavorings vary. Sometimes there’s a little cocoa powder, sometimes there’s berry sauce stirred in, some days there’s a little maple, and this week he got a little dash of Trader Joe’s Oatnog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639918735032-9WA9G6264ZLFO33JIM5G/PXL_20211216_165605661+%281%29.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out Our friend Bob’s backyard nature preserve https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639930125113-L65QRI6VIWSJ4XU7HGBK/PXL_20211214_223325989+%281%29.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out And for nights where cooking isn’t in the cards, here’s a simple pivot: vegetable gyoza from Trader Joe’s; served with a side salad of mixed CSA veg & mushrooms, covered in a Thai-style vinaigrette we bought from Strong Hearts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639917332862-ABTC4DJ66CIFXZE97Y6K/Screenshot+2021-09-08+2.51.01+PM.png Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639918773822-UQGO0GOYN2AAGJZTY8G2/PXL_20211214_190347799.PHOTOSPHERE.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out Also Green Lakes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639917503701-86OUWJF5KQL8GQOMTBH0/PXL_20211212_164443427+%281%29.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639918974473-NWOJDV03QIZU4APYJPR0/PXL_20211208_143155732.PHOTOSPHERE.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out Rand Tract a few days later :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639919392760-6KFZWLO7ZVUVRZCPV0Z0/PXL_20211216_124445046.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out And his oatmeal bowls vary wildly too, but this week there was a lot of blueberry oatmeal with strawberry sauce (we take frozen berries, add to a pan, simmer, season with cinnamon or sometimes maple, puree, voila) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639918461685-W7GDS9G3AFJRS082WRQA/PXL_20211216_174841487.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out Used leftover peanut sauce for salads with more CSA greens, Pink Lady Apples, & sesame seeds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639915807090-H49G5LGKVHY84ZTOZMH3/Screenshot+2021-12-19+6.28.11+AM.png Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639918322280-KNWWGG483I0J5HZXB6X1/PXL_20211208_224407397.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out Black Rice, Peanut Sauce, CSA greens, quick-pickled cabbage, more quick-pickled radishes, bell peppers, and seared mushrooms… also from the CSA. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639919240120-I75DFX4T6ER4H4RJZOW1/PXL_20211213_170947345.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out Lentil Tostadas with cashew queso, quick-pickled radishes (compliments of our CSA), mixed greens (also from the CSA), and olives. **I put the queso down first so it protects the shell from soaking up all the juices from the hot sauce and pickled radishes** https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639918930871-H1TERZYMDV1A1J66K7IH/PXL_20211213_201449215.PHOTOSPHERE.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out Rand Tract https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639918844605-7SW6WJQ20LD6MH7T7VIV/PXL_20211214_182540075.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out Green Lakes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639919031525-LK8XC9DPV5O3QFCSZH56/PXL_20211218_145419436.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out Whole-Grain Oil-Free pancakes are a weekend treat over here, and I make enough so that we can heat them up in the microwave through the week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1639920023796-QHCAQCXJLAVMRDF82526/PXL_20211216_165441046.PHOTOSPHERE.jpg Home - J on a Podcast, Q on "Truth", A Pediatrician &amp; Two Pediatric Dietitians on Healthy Feasting - Make it stand out Helping Bob remove clogging weeds from his stream. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/the-inevitable-changing-of-traditions-landscapes monthly 0.5 2023-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637926565116-TNOG17W3LRNXU14XHAZA/20211125_110447.jpg Home - The Inevitable Changing of Traditions &amp; Landscapes - Make it stand out Sodus Point with our cub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637926845486-K5PZS8T1S9IYMGC4HGJS/PXL_20211125_160937012.PHOTOSPHERE.jpg Home - The Inevitable Changing of Traditions &amp; Landscapes - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637927697712-HJHBVSAH7NQNNSLHEXC0/PXL_20211125_175729909.PHOTOSPHERE.jpg Home - The Inevitable Changing of Traditions &amp; Landscapes - Make it stand out Long-legged Leap https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637925679506-BQSHG93CUL6JL4BTADS0/PXL_20211125_132108487.jpg Home - The Inevitable Changing of Traditions &amp; Landscapes - Make it stand out We’d packed along these granola bars Q made. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637925716828-8JD3Z65XZ0UGKP4P7ARW/original_5c613577-5d59-4d05-ac53-ca48c01c05ca_PXL_20211125_131455949.jpg Home - The Inevitable Changing of Traditions &amp; Landscapes - Make it stand out And I made us sandwiches from some arugula/sunflower-seed pesto (I wanted to pack as many greens onto the sandwiches as possible, and this was a whim but one heck of a good idea! <3), Pumfu (pumkin seed “meat” <—the only ingredient is pumpkin seeds), and PMA plant-based “Blue”. We ended up dipping that delectable sandwich in some spicy tomato sauce, with much rejoicing. :-D https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637934278694-CB5Z30D2UW9C9OTENCA6/PXL_20211125_172106001.jpg Home - The Inevitable Changing of Traditions &amp; Landscapes - Make it stand out The sweet heart-swell of my soulmate gently cleaning his son’s face with a lake-damp napkin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637925975470-RTGYA7I3TBLNVLZARC6T/PXL_20211126_001846560.PHOTOSPHERE.jpg Home - The Inevitable Changing of Traditions &amp; Landscapes - Make it stand out And we capped the night watching our favorite Thanksgiving movie: the 1991 classic “Dutch”. It’s good for belly-laughs and remembering to appreciate what you have and that there’s always room for growing forward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637926614695-M1I9DEPK5Q1I68MSG8KX/20211125_132719.jpg Home - The Inevitable Changing of Traditions &amp; Landscapes - Make it stand out There’s much beauty in change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637927492169-2B35TB8PNQFA24B2LZYP/20211125_123121.jpg Home - The Inevitable Changing of Traditions &amp; Landscapes - Make it stand out Q said his favorite part was pretending he was a Tusken Raider, and though we didn’t get a photo of that, this was me having a good laugh at his silly noises. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637927637957-FEGUOV0N3UPXB9IG2E6T/PXL_20211125_175213649.PHOTOSPHERE.jpg Home - The Inevitable Changing of Traditions &amp; Landscapes - Make it stand out And another favorite was scrambling out to the edge of this estuary, breathing in soft lake air, and watching Ian and Q hop around on mini islands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637929081761-NMIFY15X55ZWLMSI6BLX/Screenshot_20211126-070723.png Home - The Inevitable Changing of Traditions &amp; Landscapes - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637927908354-2NMSSUUCEQANDTJ7PJ1A/PXL_20211125_182409678.PHOTOSPHERE.jpg Home - The Inevitable Changing of Traditions &amp; Landscapes - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637925792521-5WCNII2NGFN58SXDG2E4/PXL_20211125_172716204.jpg Home - The Inevitable Changing of Traditions &amp; Landscapes - Make it stand out As usual: it was a zero-waste affair. Cloth napkins (they’ve been kicking around for years and have come on many journeys), reusable containers & bags, and good ol’ packageless fruit. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637928335687-4FZRQYYJSBRO75PIFK7F/43603072_10215972112029610_3290043144573288448_n.jpg Home - The Inevitable Changing of Traditions &amp; Landscapes - Make it stand out And though I may be daily grateful for Ian & Q and make much photographic fuss about it :-), I am equally grateful for Crystal (as seen by the many odes I’ve written about her :-D) who’s been a close confident and ever-changing growth partner with me for now almost a decade, and is one of my daily contacts (<—if you follow her on FB, you should def check out her amazing Thanksgiving spread). She’s also one of my personal heroes because she took up the torch of plant-based forward movement with nary a howl (and she once “loved” dairy and meat just as much as I did), she did so on a single-mother-salary supporting her 3 teenage children, and she’s always crafting up new delicious & creative offerings. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637928820592-6KXZIPF9MK2G8RMJIERN/PXL_20211126_120926233.jpg Home - The Inevitable Changing of Traditions &amp; Landscapes - Make it stand out Words of illumination and inspiration from world-renowned cardiologist Dr Dean Ornish from his book “Undo It”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637928388005-6QZ6GIM38DTE7TT7G4JH/IMG_20200526_051412.jpg Home - The Inevitable Changing of Traditions &amp; Landscapes - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637927125931-ZZEUY76QDWZKZL0YCEAD/PXL_20211125_162820245.PHOTOSPHERE.jpg Home - The Inevitable Changing of Traditions &amp; Landscapes - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637925857623-Y19B4GH61BY72WWT40TG/PXL_20211125_165451892.jpg Home - The Inevitable Changing of Traditions &amp; Landscapes - Make it stand out Best Thanksgiving meal I’ve ever had. It may’ve just been “nuts, seeds, grains, and plants” but it fueled us up for 4 hours of hiking around tricky terrain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637929058274-WBOQJNABU2CEEDFRQ86K/90707946_10102640737492975_3142188646300385280_o+%281%29.jpg Home - The Inevitable Changing of Traditions &amp; Landscapes - Make it stand out And some more mental rattling from “We Are The Weather” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637929021114-8EW34U5DZ03LPLDUNRDA/IMG_20200322_081506.jpg Home - The Inevitable Changing of Traditions &amp; Landscapes - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637927552287-641ZSI0WLKRBPVBOMDN5/PXL_20211125_163245794-COLLAGE.jpg Home - The Inevitable Changing of Traditions &amp; Landscapes - Make it stand out My favorite part (aside from the souls & view) was the sight of these two Trumpeter Swans who glided around in the lake the whole time we were there. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/thanksgiving-feasting-options monthly 0.5 2021-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637427894882-B56U2RE1IR6S7JZS5B7Y/food-footprints+%281%29.png Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605712828853-09ME7POF18LIM7798B4G/IMG_20200830_134159.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options And if you whip up some of our 30-second chocolate sauce, you can drizzle it all over any of the above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605711253105-XC4FPM7O03UHGPTS71MM/IMG_20200305_094537.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options Mashed Potato Recipe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605711187866-7U7X1464U7VZFFC6FACJ/prcabbage.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options Our quick-pickled cabbage would be a great side. Cabbage is the kind of food I would have balked at several years ago, and it has become one of my most beloved. It is incredibly good for you: not only is it packed with Vitamin C and the same fiber I keep mentioning above, there are also “20 different flavonoids and 15 different phenols in cabbage, all of which have demonstrated antioxidant activity. (These anthocyanins qualify not only as antioxidant nutrients, but as anti-inflammatory nutrients as well.)” Throw in the added health benefits of raw garlic and apple cider vinegar, and you have yourself a prebiotic wallop that is bursting with minerals and vitamins, promotes gut health, and pops your plate with color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637427854936-C6QZBSKYT4SB79L3Z4TB/food-footprints+%283%29.png Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637427052388-QZ4WULDQDZG7O9OHX19L/PXL_20201117_202652099.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637427257990-MPXP9853Z96OY5GBK9AQ/IMG_20200806_125308.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options - Make it stand out Chocolate Mint Nice Cream https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605714016657-JWBAEOBISILP1ME1TFLY/Screenshot_20201117-061105.png Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options There’s a handy multi-source article on Wikipedia about the environmental impact of animal products. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637427108160-JUXAXANYUL4T86RVS5AD/PXL_20201119_213350900.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605712715447-AC9QPKXT9E3KMXKP7WV4/IMG_20200824_144221.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options Crust Bars with Fresh Fruit, Cashew Cream, and some Berry Sauce (I always reduce a bunch of frozen berries in a pan. You could do that or also use cranberry sauce :-) ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637427963571-YFLZZT5R7XNEZGTSHD12/Screenshot_20210404-045330.png Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options - Make it stand out An all-time favorite Carl Sagan quote https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605711554187-QVW47YL2Z5VFNZ2B32IQ/IMG_20200302_150735.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options Roasted Squash Recipe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605714057570-NF7A4ZOIIFZMG2Z3PB9D/Screenshot_20201117-061308.png Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options Warning to Humanity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605706783875-6VYKSP450R0NI94Z8CFV/PXL_20201117_125403509.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options When Q heard one of his all time favorite souls is now 3 months without meat and fake fainted in happiness. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637428202385-J5WXGMZNL9GANTMXZ879/Screenshot+2021-09-23+10.23.50+AM.png Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options - Make it stand out This was the very first slide in my first Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate Program. What followed was three courses, over 80hrs of classes from our global leaders (doctors) in nutrition science explaining how animal products are perpetuating this mess, and how plant-based foods can both better our health and our environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605712237964-J1IYC0CJ68F653R13R2A/IMG_20200520_121634.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options Dessert Option: Black Bean Brownies It tastes like a delicious, fudgy oreo cookie and is full of: - nutrient-dense black beans - heart-healthy fiber from the whole-oat flour and beans - no refined sugars, just good old fashioned, whole-food fiber-filled fruit sugars (like dates —which are packed with minerals and vitamins— and bananas, which are full of health as well) - plant-based proteins and fats, so you’re paying the earth back with kindness and not participating in animal agriculture that is dooming us all with its environmental impact. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637427133221-CIW2XFWW5QSQDXRLZTY2/tumblr_mopcxbwKDZ1st1154o1_500.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options - Make it stand out Some Shel Silverstein to rattle our minds & hearts as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605712498080-HK0U81M7HFF3RCGUEBQY/IMG_20200521_121530.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options Sweet Cashew Cream goes well with all of the above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637421288579-NEC0BB4JP0I6QC1BGQI7/PXL_20211113_235640235.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options - Make it stand out Looking for a main dish to sub in for the roasted intelligent/social soul? Lentil Loaf is our personal favorite. There are also a feast of options at your local grocery store if making lentil loaf isn’t your jam. There is the ol’ traditional “Tofurky”, but there’s also all sorts of plant-based Wellingtons and more vegan-meat options than you can shake a stick at. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637427073077-2ZRT867JJXLV528Z6QPR/PXL_20201118_211830489%2B%281%29.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605709791908-T7CTAWK4WRQNG775MEAZ/PXL_20201116_234409862.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options Mushroom Gravy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637427198057-W0RB6XKIS4XOMKLN18LA/PXL_20211119_155709882.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options - Make it stand out Cranberry Sauce Recipe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605711726092-NJ3DJ7H8BCWBCMKGOOQO/IMG_20200708_175935.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options Braised Carrots Recipe Carrots are healthy wonders: 1 cup has 428% (<—that is NOT a typo!) of your Vitamin A, and carotenoids are linked with a lower risk of various cancers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637427932040-TW58W7LWFHR6URBJ7GDJ/food-footprints+%282%29.png Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605714092151-5IQW33K4D6Y1N60LTP3N/IMG_20200705_062111.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options And all that damage isn’t even good for us! This is what an animal product dense diet does to our cardiovascular system. (<— from Undo It by World-Renowned Cardiologist Dr Dean Ornish.) Here are all the essays I’ve written pointing to books and podcasts with/by cardiologists. I’ll also redirect you to this horrifying/illuminating video again (and again, and again <—it’s equally-renowned Dr Michael Greger showing how cardiovascular disease starts in children), and the following studies that show the same thing: - Evidence of the Beginning of Atherosclerosis in Infancy and Adolescence” - “Prevalence and Extent of Atherosclerosis in Adolescents and Young Adults, Implications for Prevention From the Pathobiological Determinants of Atherosclerosis in Youth Study” - “Cardiovascular disease risk factors and atherosclerosis in children and adolescents - “Atherosclerosis: a nutritional disease of childhood” - “A Few Unpleasant Facts About Atherosclerotic Arterial Disease in the United States and the World” Compelled? If you have a kid and want to transition them to plant-based whole foods, first: start eating plant-based whole-foods yourself. Our children see what we do and will learn from it; and their environmental sustainability is on the line… so why not try and show them how to live sustainably, healthfully, and kindly on this earth? There’s a delicious path forward, and it goes beyond Thanksgiving. Start making slow steps forward and you will increase your health, lessen your environmental impact, and spare a soul from suffering. It’s a win-win-win all around. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605707611933-P6C0XZD8IGY2E8HRW7EB/PXL_20201116_195808581.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605712582216-VK4A6231IBLX5B21OP6Q/IMG_20200113_132756.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Options Cranberry Chocolate Chip Oat Bars https://www.jasquatch.com/home/mushroom-gravy-recipe monthly 0.5 2021-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637356357776-W21P5OCKUN3XYHTYZ4HY/PXL_20201117_163753135.jpg Home - Mushroom Gravy Recipe - Make it stand out NOTES: You can use whole wheat flour if that’s your jam, I have a kiddo who was diagnosed intolerant to it (through we learned that was just microbiome revolt from all the antibiotics/dairy he’d been downing) but we still have a lot of tapioca on-hand so it’s stuck. :-) This makes a double batch of gravy (enough to use for your meal and have for lots of leftovers), so cut in half if you don’t need a lot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637408991008-9PTL24RD99KVTC44XQ16/PXL_20201116_160058067-COLLAGE+%281%29.jpg Home - Mushroom Gravy Recipe - Make it stand out When cooking this many mushrooms it helps to do half first (until browned), put them in a bowl, brown the remaining half, and then add them all to the pan and continue on with the recipe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637408933613-JW53WRC3QA4SA4PDH1U7/PXL_20201116_155223476.jpg Home - Mushroom Gravy Recipe - Make it stand out Everything you need to make mushroom gravy. We used to buy them bulk at the grocery but have been too wary of that, and the wrapped fresh ones have too much packaging, so we’ve settled on frozen as our answer for now… if you’re getting ‘em fresh, you’re ahead of the game and won’t have to wait til they release all their water. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637409380744-061TK24WSAHV5M54VI6M/PXL_20211113_235640235.jpg Home - Mushroom Gravy Recipe - Make it stand out Throw onto some lentil loaf and mashed potatoes, and you have yourself one delicious, kind, sustainable dinner. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637409042570-TBUS09ZOQG3WZENFCARD/PXL_20201116_163054957-COLLAGE+%281%29.jpg Home - Mushroom Gravy Recipe - Make it stand out Balsamic and Aminos (or Soy Sauce if that is what you have) may sound odd, but I’ve been adding that to gravies for years. When you combine the two in a sauce you taste neither (ie not “Oh man, this tastes like gravy with balsamic! Gross!), they fall into the background but give it a deeper richer, more savory umami flavor that brings it to a whole other level. Add in your water, puree, add your bay leaf, and let it bubble away until it has thickened a little more. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/ginger-lemon-cake-recipe-wholegrain-gf-vegan monthly 0.5 2021-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637356460926-2ODIH1A4PC5TAK3ZICMS/PXL_20201116_203316871-COLLAGE+%281%29.jpg Home - Ginger Lemon Cake Recipe (Wholegrain, GF, Vegan) - Make it stand out I use my Pyrex to measure and hold the wet ingredients and then I keep it for use of the boiling water and the glaze. Here seen, before and after mixing the dry and wet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637357440086-727XBHVYXDMJAQFIV2RL/PXL_20201117_175655062.jpg Home - Ginger Lemon Cake Recipe (Wholegrain, GF, Vegan) - Make it stand out You could eat it plain like above or you could top it (like below) with your favorite fruits, berry sauces, nut butters, and seeds and eat it like a meal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637357200413-J8AIRUUES8JEWLLG63AT/PXL_20201116_203828069.jpg Home - Ginger Lemon Cake Recipe (Wholegrain, GF, Vegan) - Make it stand out Stir boiling water into the mix until shiny and like a wet batter. (<—-the oatflour is going to dry this up, don’t worry.) Then pour into your desired pan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637357241751-MRLAOJ4FWNK6QYDP6CGP/PXL_20201116_205151707.jpg Home - Ginger Lemon Cake Recipe (Wholegrain, GF, Vegan) - Make it stand out Double Batch Glaze: Using the same cup from before, you can grate in the zest of one lemon, squeeze the juice from that lemon, and then add in the maple syrup. Pour over the cake as soon as it comes out of the oven and you get something like a soft pineapple upside-down cake, but with dark/rich/lemony/ginger greatness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637351551614-BOTP5CY8IY08C1E9ECP2/PXL_20201117_163832184.jpg Home - Ginger Lemon Cake Recipe (Wholegrain, GF, Vegan) - Make it stand out NOTES: - Season per taste ALWAYS! <3 This is my framework and if I want it spicier, I’ll add a little more ginger (or grated fresh ginger), or if it needs to be sweeter I’ll add maple. You may want more or less salt. Etc. Etc. Etc. :-D I’m the sort of soul who cooks by smell and taste, and I encourage you to find your own taste frequency. - Don’t have all those flours (<—We just throw oats and flax meal in a blender to make ours)? You can use whatever flour you like best, but take note that nut flours (like almond & coconut) have a way of making things dryer than stretchy flours like oat/tapioca/wheat so add more water accordingly. -You don’t need to make the lemon glaze. It tastes just as great without it and can be eaten with fruit or cashew cream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637356505145-UBW7Y5CDD1KF1KT7SII5/PXL_20201116_203626126.jpg Home - Ginger Lemon Cake Recipe (Wholegrain, GF, Vegan) - Make it stand out Use the same cup to add the 1/2 cup of water and microwave for a minute or until boiling. It uses up all the flavor still clinging to the cup and spares you a dish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637357259008-1JR6JWETPXBQNPLDAABV/PXL_20201115_190421863.jpg Home - Ginger Lemon Cake Recipe (Wholegrain, GF, Vegan) - Make it stand out Enjoy :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637356386246-V6GMR4V1D2MFEN2SK7MP/PXL_20201116_201436276.jpg Home - Ginger Lemon Cake Recipe (Wholegrain, GF, Vegan) - Make it stand out Everything needed to start the ginger cake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637357219245-TCDT2028MHHJIDZYV1UA/PXL_20201116_204126665-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Ginger Lemon Cake Recipe (Wholegrain, GF, Vegan) - Make it stand out You can keep it plain, or top it with your favorite omega seed (here seen: hemp hearts) Note: this is a double batch. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/cranberry-sauce-recipe monthly 0.5 2021-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637346480206-G9M7621YUBI6RP6OYLOM/PXL_20211119_152403314.jpg Home - Cranberry Sauce Recipe - Make it stand out Everything you need for a batch of cranberry sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637346821263-2TYCPL2TAJYJ8IGU5G5J/PXL_20211119_155709882.jpg Home - Cranberry Sauce Recipe - Make it stand out Enjoy :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637346595681-1XL6KJ2BK3GTW2L7Q6JF/PXL_20211119_152520838.jpg Home - Cranberry Sauce Recipe - Make it stand out You can grate the zest right into the pan, but in this case Q wanted to put it in the Pyrex so he could scrape out any remaining juice for himself. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637347122063-K1W7IUGP9FV9DWU42OGN/cranberry-nutrition-facts.png Home - Cranberry Sauce Recipe - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637346648807-UY4LC0NOME9RQG2QDY6P/PXL_20211119_153027715.jpg Home - Cranberry Sauce Recipe - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637346692326-4RNTICCCGW23PV25VVIO/PXL_20211119_154812953.jpg Home - Cranberry Sauce Recipe - Make it stand out Simmer covered for about 20 minutes and stop when the cranberries have popped. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637346794181-TXVBEK8CXWTHKBL09P06/PXL_20211119_155933221.jpg Home - Cranberry Sauce Recipe - Make it stand out This is good enough that you could eat it right out the jar, but if you save a little for the holidays your family will be appreciative. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637345203369-8GKUK1NVP0X32VFVSPD6/PXL_20211119_180344200.jpg Home - Cranberry Sauce Recipe - Make it stand out **DOUBLE THIS** recipe if wanting more than about 12oz (about the size of one cranberry sauce can). This makes enough for our family of 3 to use in dollops, but for larger gatherings you’ll def want a bigger batch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637346763721-W2P6VF9B7SQ5X1DNIK3L/PXL_20211119_155359664.jpg Home - Cranberry Sauce Recipe - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1637346722936-Q5JM0OBNBHQ46K8SEGJB/PXL_20211119_155144013.jpg Home - Cranberry Sauce Recipe - Make it stand out If you like it jammy, whip it up with an immersion blender. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/cashew-queso-recipe monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595440768722-T6C6AQ8EDB1GYD00XBWZ/IMG_20200722_091109.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe Queso Ingredients: raw cashews, nutritional yeast, salt, pickled peppers (choose your favorite: Jalepenos? Red Bell? Banana?), smoked paprika,garlic, and salt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595441069672-6DJ6O9BNNGONXN657MZD/IMG_20200720_133524+%281%29.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe Dessert: Peach Smoothie with oatmilk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595441406110-IYIKD6ONAU1RKFGY30EY/IMG_20200721_123626.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe Lunch: Quinoa, shiitake mushrooms, seared garlic scapes, peas, greens (romaine, kale, swiss shard), summer squash, balsamic tomatoes, green onions, Q’s Sesame Dressing, and furikake, with a side of red potatoes. We save on resources by making a big pot of quinoa and then using it for multiple quick meals through the week. You fill yourself up with plant-based protein and fiber-pack vegetables; and when it tastes as good as all of this does, you never get tired of eating it. <—Case in point: Q licks his bowl clean after every meal, and this is one where he’s always eyeing my bowl and seeing if he can siphon off a second helping. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595441541212-ATS0N0PGZXSKB5KVOUC0/IMG_20200721_181352.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe Taco Tuesday Dinner: black bean tacos with queso, kale, quick-pickled tomatoes, and avocado. (This was Q’s.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595440982996-MXNL0EJQEPYKJ6TBE079/IMG_20200720_074337.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe Plant Based Kiddo Breakfast: Berry Bread, cashew cream, peanut butter, peach, cherries, and black raspberries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595441568816-ON98LY6AE5S205PHSA7P/20200721_144114-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe My world, my heart, my Bear: flying through time on warp-speed yet always passionate about art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595441661218-96LIT8JWF28TU72NAIZV/PANO_20200721_193833.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe Ian had a taco bowl when he eventually came in from the long slog of paint-scraping (up there on the roof). <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1634209529665-0J2SO5XFK40496L7GKXE/Cashew+Queso+-+Nutrition+Label.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe - Make it stand out This is for 2tb of queso. Note that it has zero cholesterol paired with its protein unlike cowmilk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1634208095273-8YIJQWDUNPI73WXLUQCF/Screenshot+2021-10-14+6.40.12+AM.png Home - Cashew Queso Recipe - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595441299434-B3F1FVTK2INVDD881U8T/IMG_20200720_213628.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe Nightly Reading. (Looking for a good kids book focused on 10 Frames? This was another Dolly Parton Imagination Library WIN.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595441732364-NL8AXBRWV5RY9LW1G9FS/Screenshot_20200721-102654.png Home - Cashew Queso Recipe If we can’t get protective passion out of a club that bears the same name as these doomed bears, who the heck else can we count on? Is the taste of meat REALLY that important?! There are so many alternatives and animal agriculture is ruining our environment. And your health is made better by switching to a plant-based diet! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595440814111-C2SDMCPN9FHI16ZMUB4I/IMG_20200721_181334.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe I like mine open-faced on a hardshells like a tostada. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1634208072998-8SDX0EBT82048I2TTR0R/Screenshot+2021-10-14+6.35.54+AM.png Home - Cashew Queso Recipe - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595441710365-UDZE41CA2C0XMMT8EBU5/IMG_20200722_094528.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe Here seen, the first time I’ve ever had to write about sadness in relation to my beloved Coney Island Polar Bear Club. I’ve been swimming with this club since 2009 and it is filled with some of my favorite people on this earth; but I had seen posts about shock and horror over the news that polar bears are poised for extinction by 2100, so I summoned the courage to go over and do a call-to-action (<—I do this in my own realm, but have never brought it up with these beloved folks). The response to the below was crickets with the exception of heart-broken Ian and our friend Lee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1634212999938-8AU8X0UEA0PXAIR334OF/PXL_20211014_115851372.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595441447406-1IPECH1MBIG3JX0KQQ24/IMG_20200721_131658.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe Dessert: chocolate mint nice cream. (<— so easy, so quick, so inexpensive, so environmentally kind, SO DELICIOUS!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595440923763-XSD6UFINY4148DXGVMRH/IMG_20200719_122552.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe Lunch: Ethiopian Style Red Lentils, fresh greens (romaine, kale, swiss chard), balsamic tomatoes, easy avocados, quick-pickled beets (made just like the cabbage), summer squash (zucchini and yellow squash), and green onions. We’re members of a CSA down the road, and get a counter-full of organic veg for about $36 a week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595441686456-XXNNN8N9QDAEU1WZLO9D/IMG_20200721_213405.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe Nightly Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595441179284-T6LOQHI4B8U6BAHIRR4C/IMG_20200720_170601.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe I’ve been saving for months and was finally able to buy an InstaPot. Not only will this thing save me sooo many hours, it will save a tremendous amount of natural gas! Previously, it was a many-hours-long process for us to re-hydrate beans. That black beans were done in 30 minutes BLEW MY MIND. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595440951647-6X8OWF0J3HIAKUFBHI6N/IMG_20200719_183129.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe Dinner: Quinoa, seared garlic scapes, peas, tempeh, zucchini, greens (romaine, kale, swiss shard), Q’s Sesame Dressing, and hot sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595441349109-AP1ZC6OW2ZCD2NTXCX2Y/IMG_20200721_081124.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe Plant Based Kiddo Breakfast: Berry Bread, cashew cream, peanut butter, peach, and black raspberries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595440464726-YA7JIB4H23XKS9TVXEMT/IMG_20200722_091129.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe SO EASY! Season per taste. You may want an extra pepper in there, you may like more garlic, throw in more liquid (either brine or water per preference), etc etc etc. The options are endless, but this is the spinal column for a sauce so good I have to hold Q back from going at it like a pint of nice cream. NOTE: if you have a little time, letting it sit overnight (brine, seasonings, and all) makes for an extra creamy version and our most frequent way to make it these days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595440787874-ANXTL082CVSFGTBZS5IM/IMG_20200720_183218.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe Soak them overnight (or cheat and pour super hot water over it and let it sit for a hour), blend until creamy, season per taste. For reference, the above is with quick soaking, and below is a batch where it soaked overnight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595441227918-U56LGEJ9A1PS5KDZHYGC/IMG_20200720_185232.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe Dinner: Refried black beans, “Holy Moly!” Sauce, Queso, romaine, tomatoes (made like the Balsamic ones, but with pickled-jalapeno brine), ruby kraut, and whole-grain chips. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595598532969-8SMZX409FQQQGQOL84LO/113736796_10102834877839165_2677342471491166566_o.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595441849372-3OLRVJAP78XTKWVP16L8/90707946_10102640737492975_3142188646300385280_o.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe From We Are The Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer. We cannot continue to claim “error” if we know better. Ignoring our leading scientists/doctors for the ease of comfort/taste eventually becomes willfully destructive to us all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1595441478406-UVZU4UGXW8VCP9ELAJ3V/IMG_20200721_150312+%281%29.jpg Home - Cashew Queso Recipe Summer Schooling a Sci-Fi Enthusiast with a biology bent: “It’s alllll the carnivorous plants I could think of. There’s even a bladderwort!” https://www.jasquatch.com/home/easy-blueberry-oatmeal-breakfast-cereal-cashew-cream-sauce-recipe monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590664947548-NZBD0O3K9NPRIR5MVQQF/IMG_20200527_184353.jpg Home - Easy Blueberry Oatmeal + "Breakfast Cereal" Cashew Cream Sauce Recipe Plant-Based Whole-Food “Breakfast for Dinner”: watermelon, arugula, and quinoa salad (dressed with lemon and mint from the yard); with blueberry oatmeal topped with “breakfast cereal” cashew cream sauce, peanut butter, sunflower seeds, and flax seeds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590663105007-CGN64P2SQ5KDT8DNTMVM/IMG_20200527_153808.jpg Home - Easy Blueberry Oatmeal + "Breakfast Cereal" Cashew Cream Sauce Recipe Why add everything at the beginning and not wait until the water has boiled like so many recipes dictate? Because making it this way works just as well, saves you time/resources, and I’m all about efficiency over here. Throw this on the stove, bring to a boil (covered), bring down to a medium-low simmer, stir occasionally (keeping covered in between), and in 15 minutes it’ll be done. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590663192350-340D7VUFLPF80O5TILM9/IMG_20200528_053043.jpg Home - Easy Blueberry Oatmeal + "Breakfast Cereal" Cashew Cream Sauce Recipe Season to taste means that you may want more sweetness (add another date? add maple?) or a little more malty/cheesy flavor (add more nutritional yeast), etc. This recipe was reverse-engineered by this Flavor-Hobbit to be akin to cereal milk, but flavors are personal and I’m all about y’all making it however it tastes best for you…as long as you keep those animal products out of it. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590663050823-A92CXM9BG28D6ASFCIMN/IMG_20200527_153422.jpg Home - Easy Blueberry Oatmeal + "Breakfast Cereal" Cashew Cream Sauce Recipe Everything you need to start a batch: whole oats, blueberries, cinnamon, and salt. We started with a 1/2 tsp of cinnamon here because some folks may not want it to be cinnamon heavy. We added an additional 1/2 tsp (so 1 tsp total) and if you’re a cinnamon fan: do the same. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590663135876-0MFYG4A2HAQEWKSTRISM/IMG_20200527_155717.jpg Home - Easy Blueberry Oatmeal + "Breakfast Cereal" Cashew Cream Sauce Recipe Voila! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590664994734-F2QOPZIM0ITWFHX7HX6K/IMG_20200527_190551.jpg Home - Easy Blueberry Oatmeal + "Breakfast Cereal" Cashew Cream Sauce Recipe Happy cub and a fully belly of kind feasting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590663234299-BK925D2UG726JNHF66UA/IMG_20200527_175613.jpg Home - Easy Blueberry Oatmeal + "Breakfast Cereal" Cashew Cream Sauce Recipe Voila! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590663080867-TWNOI3FLMMMEUBS6YDRV/IMG_20200527_153642.jpg Home - Easy Blueberry Oatmeal + "Breakfast Cereal" Cashew Cream Sauce Recipe Add all those ingredients to a large pot, fill the blueberry Pyrex with water (gathers a bit more of their color and helps clean that dish for you, while you’re at it :-) ) Reminder: you can also use a cup or two of plant-milk subbed out for cups of water, to make it creamy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590663780417-VLOYUNUAQ8OBH3MTYVW5/IMG_20200528_064746+%281%29.jpg Home - Easy Blueberry Oatmeal + "Breakfast Cereal" Cashew Cream Sauce Recipe Everything you need for “breakfast cereal” cashew cream sauce: cashews, dates, salt, lemon juice, nutritional yeast, almond extract, and vanilla extract. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590663213278-UJMK58GMZOL24LZJC7CE/IMG_20200527_160756.jpg Home - Easy Blueberry Oatmeal + "Breakfast Cereal" Cashew Cream Sauce Recipe Let soak for an hour or more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590663853264-Z9II3R510K8USEIZU7LX/IMG_20200528_065822.jpg Home - Easy Blueberry Oatmeal + "Breakfast Cereal" Cashew Cream Sauce Recipe May 2020: what 5yr Q was drawing while I was working on the above :”It’s a normal-sized snail, but he’s surprised to see those little people so he’s hollering in shock!” :-D I love his artsy/quirky brain so dang much! <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590664971576-N7J369IM2THC565086PH/IMG_20200527_184551.jpg Home - Easy Blueberry Oatmeal + "Breakfast Cereal" Cashew Cream Sauce Recipe Q shocked me by eating that whole salad before touching the oatmeal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590663017312-IKF1N4D5QT2Y0ZNH62UO/IMG_20200528_053100.jpg Home - Easy Blueberry Oatmeal + "Breakfast Cereal" Cashew Cream Sauce Recipe This equals about 5 heaping full cups of oatmeal, or 6 standard. :-) ~ You can sub in any berry for blueberries and even add more if you like it jammy. :-) ~ Sub in a cup or two of plant-milk if you want it creamier (we do this often too) ~Throw in chia for added protein and calcium. Maple is a good substitute for the dates in the cream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1633601418853-HTLQ5REXKPAJ1W7EAIRM/Screenshot+2021-10-07+6.10.15+AM.png Home - Easy Blueberry Oatmeal + "Breakfast Cereal" Cashew Cream Sauce Recipe - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1633522049952-3PA43OC9EZFZLM2ZKR5L/Blueberry+Oatmeal++-+Nutrition+Label.jpg Home - Easy Blueberry Oatmeal + "Breakfast Cereal" Cashew Cream Sauce Recipe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1633522050049-DCR229AQDZD8CEM9GBOH/Blueberry+Oatmeal+with+Soymilk+-+Nutrition+Label.jpg Home - Easy Blueberry Oatmeal + "Breakfast Cereal" Cashew Cream Sauce Recipe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590663358316-EVKLIJCAH62OZM94ZEMT/IMG_20200508_174707.jpg Home - Easy Blueberry Oatmeal + "Breakfast Cereal" Cashew Cream Sauce Recipe Stir it all together. (Fun for kiddos.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590663164232-ZFWG58U4RDK2QAEYVIM6/IMG_20200426_093203.jpg Home - Easy Blueberry Oatmeal + "Breakfast Cereal" Cashew Cream Sauce Recipe Add some fruit, nut butter, seeds, etc. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/plant-based-nutrition-certificate-from-cornells-center-for-nutrition-studies monthly 0.5 2023-01-15 https://www.jasquatch.com/home/zakin-the-alzheimers-solution-and-growing-forward monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618145065589-61N195VWXKNB30SDGUL8/Sherzais-image-option-1-664x374-c.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward And above is a book I have not read yet, though I have listened to now 5 different podcasts with Neurologists Dean and Ayesha Sherzai and I could not recommend it or them more. Once I get through the 3 books I’m currently reading, it’ll be up to bat. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618163613839-DLGCF6MR004TRR2YTFKR/142185768_10103045126109945_2306272406092653161_o.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward UN REPORT: PLANT-BASED DIETS PROVIDE “MAJOR OPPORTUNITIES” TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CRISIS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618057706769-MTGVOGGLA85ZVLRGUCRV/PXL_20210407_002725157.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward What I came home to from the Board meeting on Tuesday: inspired by Queen’s Gambit, Q asked Ian if he could teach him how to play chess. Now it has become an obsession and he wants to play it each day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618133342314-O0SQSF2PUZ8Z8CLOS2PS/PXL_20210410_182427665.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward We have some manner of smoothie daily. This one was: mixed greens, blueberries, strawberries, dates, and oatmilk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618058346181-P3VJ7LHUVDH2ZY8P358E/PXL_20210404_174036426.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward Lentil Tacos, with cashew queso, quick-pickled cabbage, romaine, and olives. I wish Zakin was still here, so we could have him (and Helen) over for dinner, because I now love to cook (he only knew me in my junkfood/fastfood days), he loved to eat, I ache at the memory of his gravelly voice exclaiming delight over a tasty offering (and we wax poetic over everything we eat these days), and the conversations I imagine him having with Q make my heart inflate-deflate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618132840508-XB25SR0NSXGU334NCFOQ/PXL_20210410_135225550.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward Above and the next 2 below are from Dr Michael Greger’s book “How Not To Die” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618058486589-2P0AD9T6OJF0REU750RH/PXL_20210404_151844831.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward Passions, Love, and Sharing. Q was recently gifted three butterworts from local painter Scott Bennet because they share a zeal for carnivorous plants, and when he realized they were great at catching various house flies, he offered one to his sweet grandma (<— who was the first person in the family to buy a Nepenthes and sparked him on this journey). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618148918004-HVQ2G1B4F2ZWDFE3Y89U/PXL_20210407_160405288.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward And that sweet brain is chugging through his advanced (<— but not genius-level like the Sherzai kids! :-D) kindergarten curriculum too. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618058118257-JF8BITCR3UH2YMT5B27L/PXL_20210405_193105097.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward And it’s not all food and activity: love and community are also essential. Q sends out multiple letters a week to loved ones, but my favorite is his series of facts he sends my aunt (from a fact book she gave him). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618057479594-9DHV2H2LXS00LVRRXTGM/PXL_20210407_223852681.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward T-Ball Sign-Ups and Inch Worms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618146609940-7G4QHV9DLIMIFIJJ592V/299735_748350577565_1563216320_n.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward The only picture I have with Zakin and his wise/sweet/strong wife Helen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618056897857-8LPN3NWFHI2X071K28BF/PXL_20210403_180304247.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward A good example of the sgraffito approach Zakin excelled at. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618057844149-RC8SKJ6E8GDZLHAVPL0I/PXL_20210405_221850302.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward Q Lunch: (we are forever dipping our feet back into soy, bloated bellies be darned, because it is beneficial for your health and microbiome) Miso Soup with Millet Noodles, Seaweed, Braised Broc, Pumfu, and Furikake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618058212780-2F6RV18DAOO8MKMZFUUB/PXL_20210404_192631538.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618056830999-7GFDRCEVIWL9H6Q8QAXT/PXL_20210403_181641674.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward Much like Q can make a game or joy out of every moment, Zakin also had a knack for filling spaces with laughter. Here seen: it’s the first time Q had met him, and to warm Q up Zakin was making a game out of poking his foot. It caused Q to laugh and then we got that same much-loved, much-remembered delightful Zakin giggle that reverberated around a room like sunlit wind-chimes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618133564257-KO3Y7RVRMYZ4OJRPHUGF/PXL_20210410_200233505.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward The cold joy of spring creeks. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618057523771-BYC2N0N6CPV3GHIOZ537/PXL_20210407_162558648.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward And every day is packed with physical activity, because that is just as important for your brain as your food. Zakin excelled at this and did Tai-Chi, Q runs here-there-everywhere, can’t tell a story without hopping around like a spore, and has started to do impromptu arm exercises like below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618143533582-YAW5DC084Q6R7JK6T190/-bd57b132f5cdb695.png Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward Zakin started as a painter, transitioned to ceramics with a unique style of drawn/etched painted and glazed surfaces, and in his later years (because he was always, always learning and growing forward), he mastered digital art. Here seen: a photo from this brilliant article about him which I’ll quote below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618132905892-Y6G22OPLL6SMQ5GYPSBC/PXL_20210410_140111962.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618057812961-PMLUT6WHANFAV2WX6ZOT/PXL_20210406_163342790.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward Q’s Favorite Quick Lunch (ie when I’m in a hurry and we need something super simple, filling, and delicious): Braised Broc, Black Rice, Peanut Sauce, and Furikake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618163836749-V4L1H8PITMDSY0858WUF/png%3Bbase6458055b19dcb63323.png Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618056611952-1ZZZOB5VV6D1I6X34KLD/PXL_20210403_181702235.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward Generations of Art, Love, & Light (and 3 of the dearest souls in my life): Zakin, Ian, Q. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618056983569-M1R0XIS9XKUFBJ596K3O/PXL_20210403_175838150.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward My personal favorite and given to me as a gift when we told him I was pregnant with Q. The plant is not potted in the piece (I’m not that reckless :-D) it’s held within a glass jar inside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618133531590-DQ2R2P9TY7JC01GIH1V7/PXL_20210410_195745512.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward Creek Play with another neighbor’s granddaughter. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618133180640-OPPGLK8UVQBLF6SX987F/Screenshot_20210410-111405.png Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward Zakin absolutely loved food. It was rare to have any conversation with him where food didn’t come up, and if you were eating something he was always eager for a shared piece. One of my favorite comical memories of him also now causes the heart to wail at my nutritional ignorance: One day I was taking a break at the bookstore I used to work at, was eating my daily (atrocious) lunch of a big ol’ slice of pepperoni pizza, and Zakin came in for something. He walked on over to have a chat with me as I ate, and midway through our conversation I noticed he was eating something and saw he was plucking the discarded pepperoni on my plate (I’d peel them off and save them til the end <—insert mental retching now) and eating them without a care. “Hah! Oh, pardon me!” he said, “They just looked so good!” What were we talking about that day? I’ll never remember. What do I wish we were talking about? The environmental impacts (and unnecessary cruelty) of that pizza, the carcinogenic classification (<— by the World Health Organization) of that pepperoni, or how all of the above was terrible for his beautiful brain. Additionally, since Zakin was all about “possibilities, not problems”, I dearly wish he was around now so I could hear his thoughts on the climate solutions in front of us that so many want to ignore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618164025010-GAARS21GE8GDV3E1IEKJ/IMG_20200322_072100.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward Above and below from “We Are The Weather” by Jonathan Safran Foer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618057083406-75X6TS93YA9R2AT3D90D/20210409_070220-COLLAGE+%281%29.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward So how are we growing forward over here? After decades of reveling in the Standard American Diet (<— my favorite foods were any-and-all-cheeses, chicken wings, ribs, pizza, and any-and-all-candy), we transitioned 100% Plant-Based and are almost entirely Whole-Food (we dabble in some oils and do so minimally and rarely). For the 6 week pediatric nutrition class I am taking with nutritionist Kiran Sidhu, we needed to start documenting what we were feeding our kiddos and this was from a day this week: Breakfast: something we're calling Butterbean Bars because they are always hiding 4 cups of butterbeans (lima <--blends up super creamy) in each batch. We've done them with peanut butter (Peanut Butterbean Bars), but this one had pureed strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries in it, and the rest of it is whole-oatflour, flaxmeal, and dates. (Sprinkled coconut on top). Served with almond butter (that's 1.5 tb but it spread out big-time because its natural and thus part liquid, it seems) and clementines. Lunch: mixed sushi with bean-curd dumplings. Dessert (unpictured): dark chocolate with hazelnuts. Dinner: black bean mac and plant-based "cheese", amino&garlic braised kale, and sauteed mushrooms, topped with Almond "Parm". Smoothie: Oatly, Strawberry, Mango... and I should have reminded him to clean his hands after gardening, but maybe that's just a little microbiome booster? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618058399962-JXUY15187JWJEOZJ36V5/PXL_20210404_170231102.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward Papa <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618057914187-NNMZHJ6NB1GB8M8A9J63/PXL_20210406_162109534.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward We play “tag” to encourage running every day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618056932081-GJTEJK4JP12K6K3TV9V5/PXL_20210403_180022054.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward One of the many things I loved about Zakin is that he nurtured each individual student’s realm of creativity. Though he had a distinct style, there was never a feeling that you need to follow in his lead, in fact he delighted in all the various wavelengths he encountered. (<—My ceramics and Ian’s ceramics could not be more different than Zakin’s). Prior to his class, my only artful dalliance was photography (which I eventually also studied and learned to develop/print my own work),but Zakin encouraged me to view all mediums as a vector for expression and through him I learned to be comfortable drawing, painting, sculpting, molding art out of whatever was at hand. I even became a better writer. He truly redirected my own myopic-minded view of the world, and taught me how to view life openly and with perpetual curiosity. <— That’s also become an essential pillar in our parenting of Quillan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618164075460-5BJU4C4CJAKYZY6U6XU2/90707946_10102640737492975_3142188646300385280_o.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618056954645-P6IO8I04OWZQC4GDNLFZ/PXL_20210403_180046151.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward First piece we ever received from Zakin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618133139768-69XPWE8HVY5NHSNHDQJ0/PXL_20210410_133242958.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618133452716-DGDRT5EBBMFU1AA6UDSG/PXL_20210410_191054842.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward Our current favorite habitat: the backyard wonder of our neighbor Bob’s slice of forest (filled with skunk cabbage and no end of fun nooks to explore). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618057436359-1BPPC63Z79BUD88O5CUE/PXL_20210407_230625499.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward Q Dinner: Plant-Based Split Pea Soup (hiding pureed kale), black rice, bell peppers, and almond parm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618146210184-6HSBYMD02J52FELQADR0/375425_779254475905_250819036_n.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward Where was I when I made my decision? Next to the love of my life. Was it easy for him to wake up to the imperatives and join me? Nope. It was the one time I was pulling him ahead instead of the reverse. In my last year of college I met Ian (who was also a student of Zakin’s and has a feast of his own heart-filled memories of this much-loved man) and though I loved Ian, I was at a directionless point in my life where I was convinced I was best not settling down (and dragging someone down with me), and was ready to go wander away to grad school (which I never did and am darn grateful I didn’t because I had no clear idea of what I even wanted to study), and Zakin sat me down one afternoon and said, "If I were you, wherever you go, I’d keep Ian alongside you because he is rare in his strength of character and kindness. He is as good for you as you are for him, and together you will be better and stronger.” He had never given me such direct life advice (only ceramics or food advice) and the words struck like lightning. Though I was a hot-mess of raw emotions (I was overcoming years of abuse —something Zakin had also overcome in his childhood and was quite open about with us students— and my mental health was a nightmare) Ian saw through the haze to whatever it is that he still sees, and the two of us have now spent 16 years growing forward together. Without Ian perpetually pushing me toward growth, I would have happily wallowed in my own melancholic misery, and due to that motivation/support I've turned into the environmental powerhouse/klaxon I am today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618057111113-73AFZC3OPEDRHOXTLUML/PXL_20210409_182328082.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618164100344-5G1XB493ZCY69DFOM55R/IMG_20200322_075343%2B%281%29.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618057327591-IYSHQW5L0USHHDFWKAN6/PXL_20210408_235235865.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618133162348-BG4QMHOAJC1268CBKSOQ/Screenshot_20210410-111358.png Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward What the heck are Blue Zones? The Blue Zones are 5 populations which have been studied in detail by medical researchers, anthropologists, epidemiologists and demographers & show the greatest longevity across all human populations on Planet Earth. On average, they live 10 years longer than the average Westerner and their populations have 10x as many centurions (people 100+ yrs of age). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618133293350-V0DK5M45VI8YDWMVIBUF/PXL_20210410_140917949.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward Another Q breakfast: whole-grain-and-seed bread with peanut butter, cinnamon, and apple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618132931825-GXPO9QYXO85Q8ZFAGHA5/PXL_20210410_132922601.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward Above and below from Dr Neal Barnard’s “Power Foods for the Brain” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618057680626-0GONWETSFXWKMJC0SI3T/PXL_20210407_112922309.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward New morning routine for the next 6 weeks: listening to class videos and taking notes, while Q cruises through breakfast (<— whole-grain pumpkin muffins made by his grandmother, served with nut butter and clementines.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618132878335-HMH0U9BF7X7CEK7T046C/PXL_20210410_135237851.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618058245633-KDWNP4RW19ADXJ17UJR9/IMG_20210406_204637.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward Creek Time at our beloved Bob’s and carrying him back because his feet kept slipping on the sharp creek rocks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618057613126-P8B2OOC7P7WA08DG3UVN/PXL_20210407_160125208.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward Favorite medium these days is colored pencils, and he's doing some great work vwith them.♥️ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618057398225-CUT17GEPH0RJK0NDHIYS/PXL_20210408_194247796.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward His biggest passion is nature (and being full immersed in it), so I’ll take all the learning progress I can get. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618057734274-78SPEV8571UT5FZK91HJ/PXL_20210406_214814964-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward Big Time Love: he spends all day, every day with me (<— he’s home schooled), and when I have to leave for Board of Education meetings he follows me to the front windows and blows me kisses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618056873581-XEO56EM46JZ6W0CP80QR/PXL_20210403_180405851.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward The piece he gave Ian at the same time. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618057580205-PY9VPOE9LIOLLQUVFITI/PXL_20210407_161522282.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1618057989898-B1IVWSHR97DDNN7O1H4H/PXL_20210405_193112672.jpg Home - Zakin, The Alzheimer's Solution, and Growing Forward https://www.jasquatch.com/home/what-keto-is-doing-to-your-cardiovascular-system-and-the-environment-how-to-prevent-childhood-atherosclerosis-how-deep-is-your-love monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614434402118-JVGYLBDXFB4G5FBY6L9M/Screenshot_20210225-162732.png Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614458238600-QHQNMQ2J069XEHDSPWYC/Screenshot_20210225-081011.png Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614432453853-I11C9CZVNVW9H6OLPN9R/PXL_20210222_163243792.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" That set up works well for Tacos too (pumfu and cashew queso) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614517470108-ZL2NIOU8CT6DH45T2P8A/PXL_20210223_143653489.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" And he’s still pulling out facts from the book my aunt gave him, and sending her weekly facts/love-notes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614431668767-S9JBEF0BBZ622W0EYCX6/PXL_20210222_221550606.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Q jumping at the sight of Ian returning home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614434528633-J0AUI6AI5DYAID46IK6J/Screenshot+2021-02-27+at+9.01.35+AM.png Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" From the American Journal of Medicine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614430411319-LLRUZMMRDARDDTUCE0TV/PXL_20210225_231825750.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" More tacos :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614434325110-SOETDFJ6F3DFNBAFR7YL/Screenshot_20210225-162652.png Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614458379835-7X2W4YJMENHMKIYBBGFP/PXL_20210227_200401723.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Made more plant-based whole-food peanut butter donuts. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614432547440-JKBUMK4ZHPS0CTTGQRVT/PXL_20210221_211636145.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Pleasant Valley Nature Preserve https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614510459040-LDUPUZ32YF17YRE9F0JO/PXL_20210227_173312449.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" “Dip Bowls”: plant-based whole-food refried beans, and kale dip I’d made with cashews and plant-based yogurt, quick-pickled cabbage, cashew queso, and green onions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614431616734-9TJG5L0LZVAKSJIGELF7/PXL_20210224_201431480.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Poison Ivy has been popping up on more drawings lately. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614430528476-0X836HJ7GPEJAKD6O7Z3/PXL_20210225_213208737.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614432523002-85NY2CYQAB28LOZ24A42/PXL_20210221_210041407.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Sun and Sarlaccs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614431336163-PVE3AXSYGJ4G1L83XPXT/PXL_20210224_232632007.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Split Pea Soup with braised kale, avocado, bell peppers, and turmeric rice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614517424395-ZYHKM53P2LTQIXZQS4S4/667054DB-287E-4DAB-A43A-70AAABB6EB3D.png Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614510361402-2PTOHNEJUPKQE4T4505K/7EEA8C2A-9973-4232-A181-5993A8082E16.png Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Those Shadows!! <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614434360198-IPQADZHV5X4DCARBN57U/Screenshot_20210225-162701.png Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614431401271-9VQLKIIKDGG7JZOC6C2P/PXL_20210224_203843885.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Yard Sarlaccs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614517803192-M3CZ4Q9FETR67V26O7HM/Izzy-gizmo-and-the-Invention-Convention-written-by-pip-Jones-Illustrated-by-Sara-Ogilvie-and-published-by-Simon-and-Schuster.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" One of our most favorite books. “While all her fellow contestants are trying to build sleek new machines, she tries to perfect her recycling machine fuelled by nature. Can she do it?” Get it from whatever local bookstore or library you can. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614517385188-054E4KSETHVTY6ATS98M/3F12B2F7-1914-479D-B534-C0875E10EB66.png Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614430496644-VLUMKPQR5GK7B50RICES/E5752F06-DC51-409F-8DBA-906DFDE35FB0.png Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Q: thinking about Halloween 365 days a year. Also Q: thinking about Aria 365 days a year. "It's me and Aria for Halloween, and we're also going to be putting on a play. And she'll be Poison Ivy, and I'll be one of her plants, and in her mind's eye she's imagining a flower throne I'm going to design and build for her." ❤️❤️ Oy how I love that he made himself a plant instead of a superhero and designed her a throne!❤️❤️ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614432642223-DYVUQBUNAUUZK604MUT0/6a00e54fc8012e8833014e8802bd59970d-600wi.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" “High-Fat, high-protein, low-carb” = Keto… so this path may involve losing weight, but the folks on this path are sadly filling themselves with cardiovascular diseases, ruining the environment, & needlessly causing a soul to suffer. Given that one can lose weight on a plant-based whole-food diet (while also bolstering their health tremendously), reduce their environmental impact over 70% by pivoting vegan, AND spare souls from suffering: it makes the choice of paths pretty easy-breezy, eh? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614434268515-3ZA0B9BVLLTTL17SS2K3/Screenshot_20210225-204156.png Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614432355649-YF5235ICMK6HWYBPZ0LS/PXL_20210222_161604735.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" We’ll also dice up Aldi greens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614434866560-3KNOC19KBUFUPI36DF64/Screenshot+2021-02-27+at+9.06.47+AM.png Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" From the National Institutes of Health https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614431280910-RUJLPW20CXI9I3D1ND86/PXL_20210225_174737381.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614432149150-3030QANSH9CCFEMHC22C/PXL_20210222_202803616.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Walking to-and-from through knee-high snow makes for good blood movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614430574867-40ACZM3VZEKQMMFDLZ19/PXL_20210225_193208721.PHOTOSPHERE.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Rand Again https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614431700732-ZJ3KOCDD5L6RKYRFDW80/PXL_20210223_224803790.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Q blowing me kisses as I leave for a Board of Education meeting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614431554650-9SKOH32DRDMH7N9VNOOL/PXL_20210225_130754929.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614431915664-W43NOAZZVCY2V2XOFM2K/PXL_20210223_174433391.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Omega Green Smoothies with added ashwagandha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614510319811-XFBM2TYJPMA5CIZ7RBBP/Screenshot_20210227-160458.png Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614432265903-GXAJC6BOHDSBQYTTRNZL/PXL_20210222_192741864.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614430274782-54VDURPEQBIU4H22JWWO/PXL_20210226_163918945.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Rand Tract with Papa/Ian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614432393491-J7C46X9HNV2L5AR8YSIF/PXL_20210222_120448903.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" And it doesn’t have to involve a lot of fuss. One way we save time and get a lot of fibrous nutrition into us: I make a big sheet of fruit crisp over the weekend (topped with a mix of whole oats, flax seeds, and crushed nuts), and we heat up slices of it for breakfast with various fruit combos and/or Oatgurt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614431443857-SYWX4K32OQD21268JN5Y/PXL_20210225_130209803.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" From Undo It by cardiologist Dr Dean Ornish and Anne Ornish https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614458199700-GX4E1TR6TE5OUI1D23ZO/Screenshot_20210225-080933.png Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614436662197-YK74DEVH67RJFMK2VQNW/PXL_20210227_141642357.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Q’s heartbreaking drawing of our current global system accompanied by his shock that we’d continue with animal agriculture when we have healthier, kinder (notice that that broken-hearted soul showed every animal mother separate from her kin), and more sustainable alternatives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614430703042-95LVU6EIZ2J54KCKC0R5/PXL_20210225_173844676.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" And lunches can be prepped quickly if you make a big pot of grains (<—here seen, turmeric brown rice), and an array of quick-pickled veg (cabbage & radish), super-quick-to-make peanut sauce (one batch lasts several meals), and change up your greens (<— here seen: amino braised kale). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614434294463-IC4ZYVLCHR7ODH7E9FW6/Screenshot_20210225-204250.png Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614432107950-Z2F0WM6FT5DHRHM2EIGQ/PXL_20210222_202302155.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Finding fun in the snowmounds and the neighboring church’s parking lot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614431883172-ORRKL0I4ZBMKVO786W4H/PXL_20210223_171158601.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Ethiopian style red lentils, topped with mushroom gravy, and served with greens and beets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614517511802-MATGKC0T5DTG676MQIH8/PXL_20210223_143657156.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" He’s a whirl of brain and heart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614431784627-6FCYRUBWDRVDBG3SAZNQ/PXL_20210223_194730422.PHOTOSPHERE.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Rand again. :-) (it’s the closest) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614431482640-QDEXC88QC2T1HBXCVGRK/PXL_20210225_130601423.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614431246664-28Q4QGCYCKQX9SN9JJFM/PXL_20210225_174631334.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" And this system allows Q the ability to participate in making his own bowl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614434887869-I3DN0NCSPYHRERT32RAA/Screenshot+2021-02-27+at+9.07.24+AM.png Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614431820389-KTI4FOLCDQV53IY5322A/PXL_20210223_194350398.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Rand again https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614431736100-4GYJ5Z9C5D2DE4TFMTGB/PXL_20210224_014752990.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" what was awaiting me when I got home late. “I was waiting for you to read me Izzy Gizmo before bed… please!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614515375663-Z61XYVMJANKW6ENLCDL5/IMG_20200715_082744-COLLAGE.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" That moment when your son is ordered by his pediatrician to see a cardiologist because both sides of his family tree have a horrifyingly prolific array of cardiovascular disease, and you balk because you know you're on top of it and giving him the only diet known to prevent (AND REVERSE) cardiovascular disease, but you go as ordered and watch him patiently sit through an array of tests, only to have Onondaga County's best-reputed Pediatric Cardiologist (Pendergast!♥️) come in and say every single thing about your son is robustly healthy and we're doing EXACTLY what he is urging all of his patients to do: eat a Plant-Based Diet! [I had a backpack full of cardiology/nutrition books to present if the Plant-Based path was disparaged , and was elated that he brought it up first and was feeding me back the same things we've learned. ] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614430380555-02W5GNXXAV839XMDF4NS/PXL_20210226_143312866.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614432046207-QPVOVLU6Q5YVA3C4H5JZ/PXL_20210222_215538944.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Morning Dancing <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614430172643-QOH6Z12WUNI3I27WPCMV/PXL_20210226_175318164.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Peanut sauce leftovers with quick-pickled beets and green onions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614431972290-QAEOYF69C323W9XWU0X1/PXL_20210222_231557577.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" “Loaded Potato Soup” with mixed greens, bell pepper, and whole-grain bread. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614431370228-2GFMLJ8UP2R0JKQS1SGJ/PXL_20210224_221729159.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Helps with cooking and cleaning. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614430121547-DK5D2UDNQ4OEQ599L2LW/PXL_20210226_223322030-COLLAGE.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Mushroom Gravy Stroganoff with Pumfu and also hiding a whole bunch of chia that was so unnoticeable Ian and Q didn’t even know I’d done it. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614432015756-BNO1MSZASL8LXOJBXPT4/PXL_20210222_203114075.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Icicle weights :-D https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614430625872-HOD3BG1AGG7S2C6RY7F8/PXL_20210225_175000273.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" And what it looks like when it has been doused with omega and iodine rich furikake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614432204403-F18COPG6W09BBS2IEAL7/PXL_20210222_192801218.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" He has tests now where he’s supposed to see how many of the words he can recall from the poem, and it’s been a great lesson in the variability of the English language and how “sounding it out” isn’t always applicable, and some tricky words will eventually need to be remembered. What do I love about this? That it shows we all are working on something, and there are parallel realms where we can comfortably soar. Q? He loves drawing more than most things, and I love that in the margin he doodled a snapshot that covered below the ground to outer-space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614434760118-708YS5WA65XW0EXA4K78/Screenshot+2021-02-27+at+9.04.35+AM.png Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" From the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1614430352031-Z51UR70DSLBJUICCTULN/PXL_20210226_142532034.jpg Home - What Keto is doing to your cardiovascular system (and the environment), how to prevent Childhood Atherosclerosis, &amp; "How Deep Is Your Love?" Working on homemade peanut butter. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/thanksgiving-feasting-recipes-featuring-lemon-ginger-cake-mushroom-gravy-mashed-potatoes-roasted-squash-braised-carrots-quick-pickled-cabbage-more monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605709558968-E9TJALXZ76XI4PSV0BCK/PXL_20201116_160058067-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More When cooking this many mushrooms it helps to do half first (until browned), put them in a bowl, brown the remaining half, and then add them all to the pan and continue on with the recipe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605708505731-55HGLHWIPMLKS7LXPT5O/PXL_20201116_203626126.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Use the same cup to add the 1/2 cup of water and microwave for a minute or until boiling. It uses up all the flavor still clinging to the cup and spares you a dish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605708839726-IVZBCACL32ET7YYVYYDS/PXL_20201116_205151707.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Double Batch Glaze: Using the same cup from before, you can grate in the zest of one lemon, squeeze the juice from that lemon, and then add in the maple syrup. Pour over the cake as soon as it comes out of the oven and you get something like a soft pineapple upside-down cake, but with dark/rich/lemony/ginger greatness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605716642240-6VKTT6G2SSS724REE6XX/PXL_20201117_163753135.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More NOTES: You can use whole wheat flour if that’s your jam, I have a kiddo who was diagnosed intolerant to it (through we’re working toward seeing if that was just microbiome revolt via dysbiosis from all the antibiotics/dairy he’d been downing) so we tend to use whole oat flour or tapioca flour. This makes a double batch of gravy (enough to use for the meal and have for lots of leftovers), so cut in half if you don’t need a lot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605711040587-EAEKEGY18K5FJ9BMSG1X/PXL_20201115_142521816.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Homemade Whole-Grain Oat Rolls with peanut butter, berry sauce, and an apple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605709791908-T7CTAWK4WRQNG775MEAZ/PXL_20201116_234409862.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Tastes great over mashed potatoes, roasted squash, and roasted brussels and we’ll be replicating this meal with many more sides next week. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605711887235-9EYZ31QT6D410WVJEVZ8/IMG_20200609_123248.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Lentil Loaf Recipe Instead of the turkey, you could sub in any of the super-delicious plant-based meats: Like Beyond, Impossible, LiteLife, etc. Though they are not a “health food” ( <— neither is turkey, in fact it is worse), but they taste so much like meat it will astound you. Or, you could go whole-foods plant-based and try making this lentil loaf. “Meatloaf was never one of my favorite dishes (it grossed me the heck out), but Ian LOVED it. Guess what he loves even more? This lentil loaf. It has all of the dark umami flavor of your standard soul loaf, but it is a compassionate choice, environmentally-kind, budget-friendly, and nutritionally dense.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605712582216-VK4A6231IBLX5B21OP6Q/IMG_20200113_132756.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Cranberry Chocolate Chip Oat Bars https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605707842356-6KJPPAS3AS57JLOPBZPN/PXL_20201116_201436276.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Everything needed to start the ginger cake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605712498080-HK0U81M7HFF3RCGUEBQY/IMG_20200521_121530.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Sweet Cashew Cream goes well with all of the above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605709356957-75Z3JJTMCZXFMA93T6UJ/PXL_20201116_155223476.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Items need to get started on Mushroom Gravy. We like to throw in paprika too! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605711726092-NJ3DJ7H8BCWBCMKGOOQO/IMG_20200708_175935.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Braised Carrots Recipe Carrots are healthy wonders: 1 cup has 428% (<—that is NOT a typo!) of your Vitamin A, and carotenoids are linked with a lower risk of various cancers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605709615982-MTJA1W1V82BD79NQPZCZ/PXL_20201116_163054957-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Balsamic and Aminos (or Soy Sauce if that is what you have) may sound odd, but I’ve been adding that to gravies for years. When you combine the two in a sauce you taste neither (ie not “Oh man, this tastes like gravy with balsamic! Gross!), they fall into the background but give it a deeper richer, more savory umami flavor that brings it to a whole other level. Add in your water, puree, add your bay leaf, and let it bubble away until it has thickened a little more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605706756137-1XK39BS9LEQGRPN8EOF0/PXL_20201117_131822669.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Peanut Butter and Berry Sauce Sandwich made with our black bean brownies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605712420652-GH0MC8Z3R4UI65B1NDRP/IMG_20200629_192300.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Cashew Cream Cake (Could also add in some pumpkin puree and make this like pumpkin pie like we did below). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605706783875-6VYKSP450R0NI94Z8CFV/PXL_20201117_125403509.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More When Q heard one of his all time favorite souls is now 3 months without meat and fake fainted in happiness. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605708575329-5JSL7MJGLY6WDDX2F6FB/PXL_20201116_204126665-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More You can keep it plain, or top it with your favorite omega seed. :-) Note: this is a double batch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605712828853-09ME7POF18LIM7798B4G/IMG_20200830_134159.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More And if you whip up some of our 30-second chocolate sauce, you can drizzle it all over any of the above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605884921001-RZVME8Q6BX9K9JDQEP1C/PXL_20201117_163832184.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605714092151-5IQW33K4D6Y1N60LTP3N/IMG_20200705_062111.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More And all that damage isn’t even good for you! This is what an animal product dense diet does to your cardiovascular system. (<— from Undo It by World-Renowned Cardiologist Dr Dean Ornish.) Here are all the essays I’ve written pointing to books and podcasts with/by cardiologists. I’ll also redirect you to this horrifying/illuminating video again (and again, and again <—it’s equally-renowned Dr Michael Greger showing how cardiovascular disease starts in children), and the following studies that show the same thing: - Evidence of the Beginning of Atherosclerosis in Infancy and Adolescence” - “Prevalence and Extent of Atherosclerosis in Adolescents and Young Adults, Implications for Prevention From the Pathobiological Determinants of Atherosclerosis in Youth Study” - “Cardiovascular disease risk factors and atherosclerosis in children and adolescents - “Atherosclerosis: a nutritional disease of childhood” - “A Few Unpleasant Facts About Atherosclerotic Arterial Disease in the United States and the World” Compelled? If you have a kid and want to transition them to plant-based whole foods, first: start eating plant-based whole-foods yourself. Our children see what we do and will learn from it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605712715447-AC9QPKXT9E3KMXKP7WV4/IMG_20200824_144221.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Crust Bars with Fresh Fruit, Cashew Cream, and some Berry Sauce (I always reduce a bunch of frozen berries in a pan. You could do that or also use cranberry sauce :-) ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605706727195-YJ962S8PM4RDJJ75UMH6/PXL_20201117_172807809+%281%29.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Pumfu tostadas with cashew queso, greens, hot sauce, ruby kraut and olives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605709393755-GAWF3V6PBVZ0VPEQY6II/PXL_20201116_155052702.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More We used to buy them bulk at the grocery but have been too wary of that, and the wrapped fresh ones have too much packaging, so we’ve settled on frozen as our answer for now… if you’re getting ‘em fresh, you’re ahead of the game and won’t have to wait til they release all their water. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605708543483-SV8W8S3167EZEFFNHTFG/PXL_20201116_203828069.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Stir boiling water into the mix until shiny and like a wet batter. (<—-the oatflour is going to dry this up, don’t worry.) Then pour into your desired pan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605711107767-QS2IF4LS3JX5O67Q1BC1/PXL_20201115_142935666.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Used leftover pumfu to make noodle bowls with all that is seen above plus sesame green beans, but it was all eaten and this was all that was left for photographs. :-) (Those beets have been quick-pickled like we do the cabbage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605713534369-E82ENAJT7AH0IH63ZXWE/PXL_20201116_183306191.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More The bok choy, beets, and daikon all came from our local CSA. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605884951078-F8O0QS4WZ9BTSXW4UUL3/PXL_20201117_163753135.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605716617517-Z2YCMNRGZYX64REK0WSA/PXL_20201117_163832184.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More NOTES: - Season per taste ALWAYS! <3 This is my framework and if I want it spicier, I’ll add a little more ginger (or grated fresh ginger), or if it needs to be sweeter I’ll add maple. You may want more or less salt. Etc. Etc. Etc. :-D I’m the sort of soul who cooks by smell and taste, and I encourage you to find your own taste frequency. - Don’t have all those flours (<—We just throw oats and flax meal in a blender to make ours)? You can use whatever flour you like best, but take note that nut flours (like almond and coconut) have a way of making things dryer than stretchy flours like oat/tapioca/wheat so add more water accordingly. -You don’t need to make the lemon glaze. It tastes just as great without it and can be eaten with fruit or cashew cream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605708427405-84TAGTUBF66EQOHZLI9V/PXL_20201116_203316871-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More I use my Pyrex to measure and hold the wet ingredients and then I keep it for use of the boiling water and the glaze. Here seen, before and after mixing the dry and wet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605712961695-NOFNR9H1R3AFILXRSDP2/PXL_20201103_182341046.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Delicata Cake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605707611933-P6C0XZD8IGY2E8HRW7EB/PXL_20201116_195808581.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More While some kiddos may be drawing happy turkeys at school, this cub is getting homeschooled and his view of the holiday is 360 degrees because his future is on the line all for the comfort of “Well, it’s how we’ve always done it.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605711187866-7U7X1464U7VZFFC6FACJ/prcabbage.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Our quick-pickled cabbage would be a great side. Cabbage is the kind of food I would have balked at several years ago, and it has become one of my most beloved. It is incredibly good for you: “There are 20 different flavonoids and 15 different phenols in cabbage, all of which have demonstrated antioxidant activity. (These anthocyanins qualify not only as antioxidant nutrients, but as anti-inflammatory nutrients as well.)” Throw in the added health benefits of raw garlic and apple cider vinegar, and you have yourself a prebiotic wallop that is bursting with minerals and vitamins, promotes gut health, and pops your plate with color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605713424007-L7QC14YKEPDE8U7YXQML/PXL_20201116_183213590.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Veg array lunch: Furikake (source of omegas and iodine), braised bok choy, quick-pickled daikon, olives, and quick-pickled beets with quinoa and sugar-free peanut sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605714057570-NF7A4ZOIIFZMG2Z3PB9D/Screenshot_20201117-061308.png Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Warning to Humanity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605711253105-XC4FPM7O03UHGPTS71MM/IMG_20200305_094537.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Mashed Potato Recipe What do Potatoes have going for them? - Minerals and vitamins (Copper, Manganese, Potassium, B3, B6, Vitamin C, and more!) - Antioxidants (<— Why would I want those? They are anti-inflammatory.) - Gut-healthy/digestion-helping resistant-starch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605709092803-SUMLZNOORPOJR0WLN2QE/PXL_20201115_190421863.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More You could eat it plain like the banner picture or you could top it with your favorite fruits, berry sauces, nut butters, and seeds. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605714016657-JWBAEOBISILP1ME1TFLY/Screenshot_20201117-061105.png Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More There’s a handy multi-source article on Wikipedia about the environmental impact of animal products. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605711554187-QVW47YL2Z5VFNZ2B32IQ/IMG_20200302_150735.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Roasted Squash Recipe Check out these stats for 1 cup of squash per your daily recommended values: Vitamin A - 457% (<—HOLY MOLY! And that’s not a typo!!!) Vitamin B6 - 13% Vitamin C - 52% Vitamin E - 13% Vitamin K - 3% Thiamin - 10% Folate - 10% Calcium - 8% Iron - 7% Manganese - 18% Magnesium - 15% Potassium - 17% Squash are also flush with beta-carotene; and foods high in Beta-Carotene, Vitamin C, and Vitamin E make an immune boosting power trio. Why? Because Beta-carotene: is a powerful antioxidant that can reduce inflammation and boost immune function by increasing disease-fighting cells in the body. It’s even linked with preventing cancer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605712237964-J1IYC0CJ68F653R13R2A/IMG_20200520_121634.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Dessert Option: Black Bean Brownies It tastes like a delicious, fudgy oreo cookie and is full of: - nutrient-dense black beans - heart-healthy fiber from the whole-oat flour and beans - no refined sugars, just good old fashioned, whole-food fiber-filled fruit sugars (like dates —which are packed with minerals and vitamins— and bananas, which are full of health as well) - plant-based proteins and fats, so you’re paying the earth back with kindness and not participating in animal agriculture that is dooming us all with its environmental impact. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1605711065101-XX86DT2AO3G9YY7HVFK6/PXL_20201115_190218286.jpg Home - Thanksgiving Feasting Recipes, Featuring: Lemon Ginger Cake, Mushroom Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Squash, Braised Carrots, Quick-Pickled Cabbage, &amp; More Had “Breakfast for Dinner” with the ginger cake and covered it with various fruits and nut butters. . https://www.jasquatch.com/home/lentil-loaf-taco/tostada-meat-recipe-your-kind-kitchens-website-goes-live monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1603275143102-BOL6L79QKTVNB7RW13HA/IMG_20200623_124252.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live Lentil Loaf Tostadas with: quick-pickled cabbage, bell peppers, romaine, sorrel, roasted corn, and “Holy Moly!” sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1603274951259-35GZYJ9XVXX6ENEWIT30/PXL_20201017_173824223.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live Lentil Loaf Tostadas with cashew queso, quick-pickled cabbage, balsamic dressed greens, and ten-minute tomatillo. **I put the queso down first so it protects the shell from soaking up all the juices from the hot sauce and pickled cabbage** https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1603276714484-USSNSNC81HF7GI5LMT0X/IMG_20200617_184517.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live Lentil Loaf Tacos for DAYYYYYYYYS :-D Go get yourself a hot sauce you love; make yourself a big batch of quick-pickled cabbage, a jar of queso, and a big batch of lentil loaf; and start slicing that deliciousness onto hardshell tacos and topping it with your heart’s delight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1603275319847-2LIO87C4ZU8OPNYD0OSH/PXL_20201020_125351192.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live Plant-Based Whole-Food Breakfast Option: black bean brownie with peanut butter and berry sauce (was served with an apple). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1603275537378-HTK7FXBP1Q793062WUUX/PXL_20201018_154834261.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live Movement & Loved Ones: crunching around through leaf-fall on Sunday with Steph and the boys https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1603324826084-UKPZZ37LSQ5BI7TYNZVY/PXL_20201021_205721682.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live Take the above mixture and throw it wherever you’d usually put seared cow/pig/chicken. Don’t have lentil loaf? NO WORRIES. You could do the same thing to cooled lentils, and this is how we almost always make it. Don’t want to grate garlic? You could use granulated or just chop it. The flavors will be altered accordingly, but it’s a time saver. Start with the tsp each of of the seasonings, and then adjust on the back-end per your tastes. I tend to have a base framework and then alter from there (because sometimes I’m cooking for folks who may not like a lot of cumin, the berbere would be too spicy, or their salt preferences/requirements are different than ours.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1603275368076-9YKBR9C17DEH27IZ6FSV/PXL_20201019_223345597.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live Plant-Based Whole-Food Dessert: black bean brownie with cashew cream and omega sprinkle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1603317930355-H6E20C0CO9RCZ9TK1LNA/PXL_20201014_231705939.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live Plant-Based Dinner Option: lentil loaf tacos again. They have yet to get old, and he's always excited for them. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1603275233596-E6WPPWWLNBAWF0J0M961/PXL_20201020_221251306.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live Plant-Based Dinner Option: “Loaded Potato” Soup with roasted corn, seared mushrooms/peppers/onions, dressed greens, and homemade bread. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1603275586948-546295FM4ZD5UEI0OQ26/PXL_20201018_155851930.PHOTOSPHERE.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1603275801911-WFL17I88AGZB11PAZN94/PXL_20201020_184213199.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live Oy! :-( We learned that it’s only called Bobbit because of that horrible abuse case, and so from here on out it’ll be Eunice Aphroditois! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1603325005559-XWBVLQTDX0XW6NLECJUV/PXL_20201021_154752086.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live Add the oil to the pan, toss in the lentil loaf, grate in the garlic, throw in the seasonings, stir it all around, sear for about 5 minutes, season per taste, and go enjoy on wherever you’d usually use cow carcass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1603276436073-XFYYQS51SFRPXDP28Q6Z/processed_PXL_20201010_172018774.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live Lentil loaf tacos with mashed potatoes (like a flautas), cashew queso, and swiss chard. I'd forgotten about how great flautas are, and we'll be adding way more potatoes to our taco lineup now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1603324901691-Z93UXTJ8WQBSE3SJ88AX/PXL_20201021_151216869.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live Chop up about 2 cups of cooled (even better day-old) lentil loaf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1603275441450-LJI7581VFW5U3J2480G2/PXL_20201020_212831951.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live Whole-Grain Oat bread made into a graboid shape for sandworm-obsessed Q. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1603275773173-2DEXCB3AT7GT9WI1TKVU/PXL_20201019_200729180.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live And this week’s homeschooling theme is the real-life sandworm. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1603324929967-8IUGUXMX82WCT0N9PNPC/PXL_20201021_152458936.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live Prep seasonings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1603275204901-LA16TNCVFH4K7MH3JQQV/PXL_20201020_162222344.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live Plant-Based Whole-Food Lunch Option: our omnipresent peanut sauce bowls made with black rice, swiss chard, quick-pickled cabbage, olives, and the sugar-free version of the peanut sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1603275615372-G0NIC8W7P3M19ZA05KI8/PXL_20201018_162718468.PHOTOSPHERE.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1603275693459-368JUXW6E66NIKNUX80X/PXL_20201018_163150601.PHOTOSPHERE.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live Free/Beautiful Central New York fun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1603275291870-ZKXNAP91Y7SEZW10ZP14/PXL_20201019_134705008.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Taco/Tostada "Meat" Recipe + Your Kind Kitchen's Website Goes Live Plant-Based Whole-Food Breakfast Option: it’s black raspberry (we have some frozen from the summer) and cherry oatmeal made just like the blueberry oatmeal, with cashew cream and omega sprinkle. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/fruit-vegetable-wash-recipe monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1602067233905-OODGP0ET4HAUR0DV9M0J/PXL_20201005_151045875.jpg Home - Fruit &amp; Vegetable Wash Recipe Plant-Based Whole-Food Lunch: Tostadas with taco-style lentils, queso, greens, hot sauce, easy avocado, olives, kraut, and ten-minute tomatillo sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1602067504989-GH3C9APN2Y2YIM8UCBZG/PXL_20201006_130311438.jpg Home - Fruit &amp; Vegetable Wash Recipe Showing Wicket to Cal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1602067615982-93Q85VRRD2ETZ5QQPT66/PXL_20201006_161805559.jpg Home - Fruit &amp; Vegetable Wash Recipe Plant-Based Whole-Food Dessert: Chocolate Mint Nice Cream with Chocolate Sauce https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1602065797595-WY5K9EAMNKSKXFZ9OS2Z/PXL_20201004_175841977-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Fruit &amp; Vegetable Wash Recipe Gardening. Unpictured: a lot of dancing. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1602067321689-RG0ZJ9KYCOC5QZ5FG18X/PXL_20201005_181539899.jpg Home - Fruit &amp; Vegetable Wash Recipe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1602067188803-LG5N3XAF9H405J3EAB9J/PXL_20201005_125612170.jpg Home - Fruit &amp; Vegetable Wash Recipe Running laps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1602100031436-IRKSI5WZIEX1FDLDO804/PXL_20201007_192255129.jpg Home - Fruit &amp; Vegetable Wash Recipe This also translates to 1tsp per 2 cups. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1602067717503-NLNUNSLC9FLMPG1JR1TM/126E7EC2-517A-4399-BB58-2604DE1822FD.png Home - Fruit &amp; Vegetable Wash Recipe Fremen catching and riding a shai-hulud. Tuesday, he took my phone, put Tool’s “Schism” on repeat and worked away at this masterpiece for an hour. I’m not sure what made my heart flutter more: the earnestness of him saying “Can we please listen to that song that says, '‘I know the pieces fit, because I saw them fall away mildewed and smoldering’, please?”; the sound of his little voice singing along on repeat for so long (<—totally respect and love the urge to repeat listen to a song); or finally seeing the amazing heart and detail he’d throw into his work. Dune fan? Shai-hulud fan? Boy Howdy does Q want to share an earful of similar love with you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1602065724632-XYDQNR32UER11SIRK6RA/PXL_20201004_165945078.jpg Home - Fruit &amp; Vegetable Wash Recipe Playing tag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1602067263808-LUFEPY0L0763BUIZ5N1F/PXL_20201005_150414210.jpg Home - Fruit &amp; Vegetable Wash Recipe Plant-Based Whole-Food Lunch: Q took this picture of his Tuesday taco (<— taco-style lentils, queso, greens, hot sauce, easy avocado, olives, and kraut.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1602067449127-6CYX4NSTPLHDR1GCQZQ7/PXL_20201006_122353670.jpg Home - Fruit &amp; Vegetable Wash Recipe A kid who is now thriving, every-meal excited about what he’s eating, and full-enough to cruise through the day without the old “I’m hunnnngry” wails of yesteryears. Plant-Based Whole-Food Breakfast: whole-grain bread, peanut butter, cashew cream, and an apple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1602088334064-QJDBBLKTUTFXY43BY4HR/PXL_20201007_151105586.jpg Home - Fruit &amp; Vegetable Wash Recipe Plant-Based Whole-Food Dinner: same soup (this was amazing and I’ll try to sort how how to do it again) with roasted brussel sprouts, mizuna greens, and Cappello Cornbread. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1602106340004-Y4KG18N4W15TW1TH3OGA/PXL_20201003_142616404.jpg Home - Fruit &amp; Vegetable Wash Recipe To be sauce soon. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1602067529523-5Q62OP7FR5W1HO3PVI4L/PXL_20201006_140923087.jpg Home - Fruit &amp; Vegetable Wash Recipe Card he sent Aria the next day. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1602088378411-YGBMGRN3HJZVC2H0SKYK/PXL_20201007_154038409.jpg Home - Fruit &amp; Vegetable Wash Recipe Plant-Based Whole-Food Breakfast: overnight oats, berry sauce, almond butter, cashew cream, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1602065857472-DRN92D86YYSO4NUW6WOP/PXL_20201004_184556177.jpg Home - Fruit &amp; Vegetable Wash Recipe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1602067378288-53ETWOF65D632DRIF0WQ/PXL_20201005_223431616.jpg Home - Fruit &amp; Vegetable Wash Recipe Plant-Based Whole-Food Dinner: fresh whole-grain bread, a black-bean soup (made with leftover —and hidden— eggplant, summer squash, and zucchini), and balsamic greens and tomato. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1602067585358-TN883J0PLDF3R3R9RZ3O/PXL_20201006_153505891.jpg Home - Fruit &amp; Vegetable Wash Recipe Plant-Based Whole-Food Lunch (our simplest, make-quick lunch): black rice noodles, sugar-free version of the peanut sauce, steamed broccoli, olives, and kraut. (<—Q can’t get enough of the latter 2 these days) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1602067684381-8D0GQAKMO1Z35ZY2KNPX/PXL_20201006_211746841.jpg Home - Fruit &amp; Vegetable Wash Recipe And Q’s also been working really hard at honing his tablet drawing skills. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/omega-green-smoothie-recipe-benefits-of-spirulina monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600259445555-MX3PCEXAKDQR7Y2E03PB/IMG_20200916_080710.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600259214131-OHZ6G15XAO5S901AY4WY/IMG_20200915_124935.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina Plant-Based Whole-Food Dessert: black bean brownie with cashew cream and peanut butter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600258732577-J5RDV61A99LOROY0DNK2/IMG_20200913_143513.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina Making sauce together <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600259403361-XSONJTF54U0Y0QRNVDE4/IMG_20200916_080652.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina Humorously (and unplanned) though, our cards had similar themes and even shared the same moon! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600258337222-USBDHXWWVEIKG9ETPBZG/IMG_20200913_081931.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina Plant-Based Whole-Food Breakfast (black bean brownie sandwich with cashew cream and peanut butter) with grapes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600259044338-GX7M4HZPX84V8TRK6ODD/IMG_20200915_112800.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina 9.15 Was Ian’s birthday. Never one to draw a fuss toward himself that isn’t even mentioned in this incredibly thoughtful note he left Q. (Ian often leaves for work before Q is awake and if they doesn’t cross paths, Ian leaves him a note and Q answers back with a drawing. For this, Q drew “Papa riding the biggest shai-hulud of them all!”) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600258867262-6SYFBQT4B9P9ZZM8WA0W/IMG_20200914_130413.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina He was asked to draw his favorite part of the weekend, and he drew “Me and grandma watching the Dune trailer.” It’s the first time he’s tried to do the perspective of the room and I was impressed for his serious little 5yr old soul. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600258843317-COJ3JLZKLZL9YRX24P2E/image-asset.jpeg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina Remote Learning has been a whirl. Full days for him, full days for me. He’s been good throughout but is BURNT out by the end of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600250012237-2ZPFNX8U27EKEP6OW3Z6/IMG_20200915_151619.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600259256501-SR7BV59R23ETO0CKNSQ6/IMG_20200915_135207.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina Yoga <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600249909289-AVDHVL5V6UM2I3DJP7GQ/IMG_20200915_145251.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina Ingredients Needed: spirulina, oatmilk, 1 cup frozen mango, 1 orange, ginger powder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600275949946-4UDKIRT62H15BPDYOHG2/IMG_20200521_145214.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina If you don’t have spirulina, you can keep it out and you’ll get this delicious orange concoction. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600258812979-BHMVDGQD1OCC2ESF4A39/IMG_20200914_121451.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina Plant-Based Whole-Food Lunch: black rice with roasted eggplant and green beans, golden balasamic tomatoes, and easy avocado. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600249877582-VJ9F7JOPDYYXHOUA8KKG/IMG_20200915_154333.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina Don’t have any spirulina? No worries, you can make this smoothie without it, and it tastes like a bright orange delight. NOTES: that is ginger powder, but you could also grate in fresh ginger if you have it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600258786218-4K4RNJ6VAL2O4QMBRT6K/IMG_20200914_072808.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina Plant-Based Whole-Food Breakfast: blueberry oatmeal, peanut butter, berry sauce, and banana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600258383954-LJE3CXSRUI7YJ8G571IY/IMG_20200913_103654.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina Lifestyle Medicine Essentials: keeping active and keeping connected. These two love doing recreation together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600249939801-FXONC9PFTBS5ET4Q5RPO/IMG_20200915_150126.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina Add it all the a blender, add more or less ginger per flavor preference. Season per taste. Blend. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600258957183-3ZTY9TCSWVZGDPMEA1PR/IMG_20200914_175658.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina Plant-Based Whole-Food Lunch: black bean pasta with Ian’s pesto, homemade heirloom marinara, and balsamic tomatoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600259190668-2RYD5X80UG9ZTKIFL234/IMG_20200915_121256.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina Plant-Based Whole-Food Taco/Tostada Tuesday: refried black beans, queso, ten-minute tomatillo, balsamic tomatoes, diced swiss chard, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600259375340-S1KPDBPDLP59GBIJMJ7X/IMG_20200915_170913.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina This is a household of homemade cards, and it was good for the heart to see Q finally at the age where he is making cards by himself and getting to show them off with the pride of knowing it’s entirely your creation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600259320129-FVFIHBK0CHOD2M0D6C2L/IMG_20200915_153303.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina Outdoor time with the romanesco that are as tall as Quillan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600258988790-PXRHNPSTR1YBUESH8XIY/IMG_20200915_082234.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina Working on his Papa’s birthday drawing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600259291108-HQIRQMT3EE3H5LGJKG6I/IMG_20200915_150812.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina Crystal gifted us some fig cake and it was AMAZING. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600259345691-PO2WKNZX4ACMMHFDGLUO/IMG_20200915_170008_1.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina Greeting the Birthday Bear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600279128823-RVUJ1G1R3QD30BPK8E0E/IMG_20200915_150705.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina Enjoy! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600258890209-73HSSL1Z74P2S3NGA2ME/PANO_20200914_131222.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina They’d been sitting at the table watching it on the computer, so this is kind of the view he was going for: but doing so from memory! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600258758161-4QMSCWPCLS6RLUODV9VI/IMG_20200913_180722.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina Plant-Based Whole-Food Family Feasting: Curried Zucchini and Summer Squash Bisque with greens, easy avocado, kalamata olives, and sweet potato flatbread from Crystal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600259173301-YCX1ZQCR664AVZRDRYXS/IMG_20200915_120723.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina What it looks like to start work on Taco/Tostada Tuesday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1600259088520-NDT86949MHCS8ZCX3E75/IMG_20200915_102502.jpg Home - Omega Green Smoothie Recipe + Benefits of Spirulina The benefits of remote learning: you can work outside while Mama and her business partner discuss opening details….downside/real-side, I was giving directions every few breaths and we eventually cut that meeting short. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/crust-bar-recipe-pbwf-raw-gf-plant-based-omegas-how-we-make-sugar-free-berry-sauce-pediatric-nutrition-again-planetary-imperatives-again monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599050880005-D8NSTP8G1UKOC8IHUMUD/IMG_20200901_210248.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Nightly Reading. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599051856686-16F5D2JYBOIDO65NUCS2/IMG_20200902_073409.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599051396420-IMWVMJO41146L4XISNEA/Screenshot_20200831-101153.png Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599050789401-GKB7HTOU6F8F1LLE0L1C/IMG_20200901_163817.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Views from the kitchen: these two hiding in the tallgrass playing a game where they are on the lookout for graboids. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599050923483-F8B73RY6NN6Q9SC4MCRS/Screenshot_20200901-065416.png Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) We hadn’t had cantaloupe in a long while (mainly because it is one of our least favorite fruits), but we received one from our CSA and happily ate it with the goal of diversifying our microbiome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599048968858-BEY1MST1LN3BQX5D3PQJ/IMG_20200830_081052.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) What Quill eats these days (and loves). Plant-Based Whole-Food Kiddo Breakfast: nutbutterscotch bites, sweet peanut butter cream (2 cups of oatmilk, 1 cup peanut butter, 2 dates), and apple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599051909629-JJNENGPX385497ATKLRF/IMG_20200902_073424.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599050848260-X2VENX1WUQM3MFFMO093/IMG_20200901_192828.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Dessert: cantaloupe from our CSA, mango, mintfrom our garden, and a splash of lime juice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599048257409-4R1AYHR9PN0P04022Y9C/IMG_20200824_133626-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Add everything to the blender/processor, and blend until it is between pebble and sand consistency, dump into container, pat down firmly. Throw into your fridge and let sit for about an hour, so it can set and get firm. (It’s safe to eat whenever, but for firmness sake give it a spell to set.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599049100914-66RFPV54WX80202OU9A2/IMG_20200830_215931.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Nightly Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599048405439-Z549DJPLG33VT9X9KPTO/IMG_20200824_144221.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) You can serve it with any array of tasty offerings. Here seen: mango, berry sauce, and cashew cream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599047945313-UQLP49U9XKMRWKVHAIB3/IMG_20200901_174214.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599049629229-R5E3HABG8CX3Y4Q8A9K7/IMG_20200831_122622.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Plant-Based Lunch: Arepas Pizzas with Parmela’s Cashew Cheese, garlicky lentil sauce (diced up lentil loaf with grated garlic and a little olive oil); fresh/homemade heirloom sauce; and side salads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599074554247-VII5J5AEATG964GW96OP/IMG_20200322_075343%2B%281%29.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) “We Are The Weather” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599048150370-TA50IDSONJRSYJ17I9K0/IMG_20200824_133222.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Ingredients needed to start a batch of crust bars: nutbutter of choice (we used homemade peanut butter<—also why the processor is dirty), whole oats, flax meal (simply add flax to a blender, dates, cinnamon, vanilla extract, unsweetened coconut, walnuts, salt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599050703630-6UO3BPJSIEE3D94N0N75/IMG_20200901_125942.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Tostada Tuesday: lentil loaf diced and seared up taco style (with cumin, paprika, and garlic), topped with cashew queso, ten-minute tomatillo sauce, easy avocado, and green onions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599052239696-XX0PGXUL8UJ1B0C4292E/IMG_20200902_073521.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599050818379-YPGP9TQ3RNDOT4LODTFR/IMG_20200901_184651.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Plant-Based Lunch: Arepas Pizzas with Parmela’s Cashew Cheese, garlicky lentil sauce (diced up lentil loaf with grated garlic and a little olive oil); fresh/homemade heirloom sauce; and side salads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599063205234-VN42UQUBUR3MXZSV8K26/IMG_20191224_075502_196.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) What Q looked like after he snuck some cheese and whipped cream at his school’s Christmas party. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599050728122-KNFJY1B1CAE9IP99TCLM/IMG_20200901_125949.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Q’s tacos: same as above, but as usual: a request for only one of them to have queso “so it can be extra special.” <—He saves it for last and savors it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599048287919-1LTDD6Q7BOQEQ4YXEAZM/IMG_20200804_133540.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Or kiwi, banana, berry sauce, and cashew cream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599058397651-9V9A29B5DC9SE8KGH82P/IMG_20200316_180958.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Some on-hand Omegas: blue-green algae, flax seed, chia seed, hemp hearts, and walnuts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599094332164-8LHWREAUKRZ35VIKJ54D/IMG_20200831_220658.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599049719224-5MDFTEKKN7UYH5T34FDM/IMG_20200831_170642.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Watering plants and noticing all of my family is up on the roof: Wicket included. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599050581435-ACA0QKVVXXB5B2RDB7KC/IMG_20200831_214344.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Nightly Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599050623029-E6QID45V4PXCJAKVEBT3/IMG_20200901_080312.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Plant-Based Whole-Food Kiddo Breakfast and saving dishes (and resources like water) by serving it in the dish that was holding the last scraps of berry sauce: overnight oats, banana, berry sauce, and peanut butter sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599051017197-8ICADKR0YFQH5NQI6PX6/Circus+Music.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599084105517-12AZXVQTIN22VX5I3ER3/IMG_20200804_100036-COLLAGE+%281%29.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Q now: ever-energetic dynamo, never-sick (last time was the cheese above), cheerful/loving, whip-smart, growing-like-a-corn-stalk kiddo who is ALWAYS excited about what is being fed to him and licks his bowls/plates clean every time (<—we’re teaching him to never do this in public, but Man: if he likes it enough, why not?). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599050531120-HEJDR8UKO76WE30RYOYU/IMG_20200831_180231.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Plant-Based Whole-Food Dinner: black rice casserole with broccoli and Crystal’s PBWF cheese sauce, balsamic tomatoes, golden tomatoes, green onions, and roasted potatoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599074526011-E17SJ3D0TUWNQRBXFZY7/image-asset.jpeg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) “We Are The Weather” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599051876621-2DOW6AS7SRO9WU1C0LEB/IMG_20200902_073415.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599049069932-QLDF2EW4TRUALCT5HM8N/IMG_20200830_185002.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Plant-Based Family Feasting: Arepas Pizzas with Parmela cashew cheese and a base of garlickly lentil sauce; served with fresh/homemade heirloom tomato sauce; and a side salad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599049546636-GX3ED5JVB8L5T5OFRSHD/20200831_142235-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Super simple sauce: heirloom tomatoes, balsamic vinegar, salt, basil, and an immersion blender. Keep the skins and seeds for extra fiber, it’s good enough that Q only uses a little bit on his pizzas and then eats the rest with a spoon. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599051590474-HTETNDR6XS8VS19OKT76/IMG_20200902_073301.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Annnnd we moved back to a theme of Beetlejuice Sandworms. This kid sure crushes on a theme. He’ll get one into his head and then all he wants to draw are variants, and he works on it for hours! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599051830954-YHEECN1BVEX71L692ARF/IMG_20200902_073358.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599050666468-BXG6NELFHMD5FGJGPXJP/IMG_20200901_101356-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) How do you make our sugar-free berry sauce? I take strawberries, blueberries, and add mango for extra sweetness. I add a sprinkle of cinnamon, bring them to a boil, puree them, and voila. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599049661931-PPKFW3KAE6K5LJPVPPPU/IMG_20200831_134000.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Chocolate Mint Nice Cream https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599050760189-NJTUSWRF73OCVFPIMH5X/IMG_20200901_134123.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Plant-Based Whole-Food Dessert: Crust bar, berry sauce, and banana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599049047714-NVETCZQZAHYLUE8I6L82/IMG_20200830_103530.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Q’s latest Lego creation: a Tremors graboid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599049687003-LD1MXRPYU2D4HASBA8M8/IMG_20200831_143603-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) He draws indoors or outdoors, and if I’m not cooking or writing, I’m back outside trying to tend to our brambly yard (either mowing, pruning, weeding, or tending to plants <—and lately I forget to take pictures because I’m wrapped up in other mental directions, hence the lack), and here seen is the least finicky plant on the property: a pumpkin plant that grows from our compost every year and gives us more than handful of pumpkins by October. :-) All I have to do is aim water back to this corner if we get an overly dry spell. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599050998112-T174S9YCUYITH67LS940/Screenshot_20200901-073519.png Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) How many of you are feeding your children any of the things above, but have questioned the health of a plant-based family? Have you pondered the hypocrisy in that? Have you looked into the research about how every single one of the things above are TERRIBLE for anyone’s health let alone a growing young soul? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599051486139-E3ZGY5HB4YQ0SD9YNB16/Screenshot_20200901-204500.png Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599048383769-VUOMD8VNDP41J2ES9PYX/IMG_20200830_134159.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Or my favorite: cherries, banana, chocolate sauce, peanut butter sauce (2 cups of oatmilk, 1 cup peanut butter, 2 dates, blend it all together and you get a delicious sauce that is less peanut dense and super, super tasty). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599048309983-ZBD2HW5J1MI9VMCNATY6/IMG_20200901_134449.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Or banana, berry sauce, and chocolate sauce. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599049025203-8F8HYK184KFOZXZTPMBB/IMG_20200830_131338.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) Plant-Based Whole-Food Lunch: black rice casserole with broccoli and Crystal’s PBWF cheese sauce, balsamic tomatoes, golden tomatoes, green onions, and roasted potatoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1599062813985-IZOQLU9NJ8Y5OPTAHKQY/20160226_062752.jpg Home - Crust Bar Recipe (PBWF, Raw, GF) What Q looked like before we went Plant-Based. In this photo he has a double ear infection, a sinus infection, and the Croup. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/ten-minute-tomatillo-sauce-recipe monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598442805416-CJ7X0HQ9G9B84UN1TFJ7/IMG_20200823_211622.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Nightly Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598446939603-9UFXQ0NC2EIPJMI0JA5N/IMG_20200824_192049.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Annnnnd moving right on to dinner prep. Monday was an unusually long day of meal-prepping. All of this is normally conquered on Saturday, but we had opted to take advantage of the last great beach day. Here seen: lettuce, swiss chard, swiss chard stalk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598448392625-7DMT1J1RPQD0Z2EWTYHV/IMG_20200825_124110.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Post-Lunch Pluviophile Time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598441782557-Y43SU0QY6V3K629O5EQE/IMG_20200824_160255.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Add everything to a pot, pour in the water and vinegar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598442565892-RQABBY48Q4HFNA6D8RI3/IMG_20200826_071432.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Thursday’s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598446827295-OAMH5UIOBBVYAOQUU28Y/IMG_20200824_180350.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) j - “Why are you looking so serious?!” Q - “I’m trying to convey that I will eat all of this rice and I mean business!” <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598439404489-BWPG540Q4TYUY6LRFWRB/IMG_20200824_154853.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598446427543-UY3GAPW2Y0LOOCLZ0AKA/IMG_20200824_144221.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Crust Bars, mango, berry sauce, and cashew cream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598447237365-4AZ0LACI8T20FYVCSD3G/PANO_20200825_103749.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Before Our yard turns into a brambly mess as soon as it gets Central New York sweltery. This lady despises heat and there are always a million other things I’d love to do more than weeding (<—like Monday’s cooking marathon), but eventually it gets terrible enough that I pull myself by the ear back into the thicket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598446528188-20VTDOHKU0OE6HM2MC78/IMG_20200824_162211.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Another fun side-cook. I used the reserved brine from the tomatillo sauce and kept it to make some quick-pickled jalapenos! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598447040475-MRWKNUB4HQVR2TD6U63I/IMG_20200824_215129.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Nightly Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598447110265-HONCBV2NVLS3PS5R43ZP/IMG_20200825_083529.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Morning cardio. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598442283942-PQPDGY906DHBDF592CGX/IMG_20200823_081544.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Plant-Based Whole-Food Breakfast: date-sweet overnight oats, banana, golden flax, berry sauce (blueberry, strawberry, and mango) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598448852288-AQ4KMZUZ69DAH0JH5CIB/IMG_20200825_135542.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Q’s: nuttbutterscotch bite with the last bit of Crystal’s daughter’s homemade vegan marshmallow sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598447396537-OV7FM2FQBXB2N3VKGR8L/IMG_20200826_071455.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) I’m telling you: he’s obsessed. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598447797117-M7JZ1SDVDGF540YGMDG4/IMG_20200826_091115.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) “It’s Papa riding a graboid. You can tell it is him because of the green eyes, the mustache, and the chin hairs!” :-D https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598442201208-FCDGVLHQ6N3UQT70CH89/IMG_20200824_193931.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Add it to a bowl of rice and beans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598446969902-FQ5BXPHJAZU90LP0SVHJ/IMG_20200824_193931.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Plant-Based Whole-Food Family Feasting: brown jasmine rice, summer squash, lettuce, swiss chard (plus stalks), easy avocado, orca beans, red bell peppers, balsamic style tomatoes, and tomatillo sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598446853280-M3C6YQ0IRX588RJKQKXO/IMG_20200824_180510.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) j - “Where’re you going?” Q - “This is so good! I need to go share some with Papa, because I’m sure he’s going to love it too.” As much as he LOVES food, one of the things I love most about Q is that if he has a really tasty bit of something he is always eager to share the joy. I’ve seen him offer his food to strangers (as sweet as that is to redirect) and if he has something really good, he’s always searching out Ian so he can join in on the fun. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598448822957-82P3BVLE9O1P1QZXAUHE/IMG_20200825_135405.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Dessert (for me): date-sweet overnight oats,flax meal, berry sauce (blueberry, strawberry, and mango) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598442389959-3MBPXL9JQW92H352PWAA/IMG_20200823_125841.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Dessert: Q had a piece of chocolate Crystal left for him, and because I didn’t have oats earlier in the day I had them for dessert :-) Date-sweet overnight oats, banana, flax meal, berry sauce (blueberry, strawberry, and mango) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598442362714-SXLUSD3MJSW0IREWWIH6/IMG_20200823_121838.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Plant-Based Lunch (not whole-food only because the dressing has some toasted sesame oil in it): quinoa stirfry (mushrooms, eggplants, green beans, peppers, and onions), summer squash medley, easy avocado, ruby kraut, kalamata olives, green onions, furikake, and Q’s Sesame Dressing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598446709671-REFXA1FC6CTCSN8ILP7M/IMG_20200824_172649.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Cooking Progress/Pride (<—as a food-loving Hobbit, I LOVE it when some new concoction is discovered and delicious. After perfecting the crust bars, stumbling on that awesome peanut sauce, and then tripping over the zero-waste solution for leftover brine that could be turned into extra tasty pickled peppers, I was riding on a swell of food-joy.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598446880584-XK9U133RVFFYMSH91DRQ/IMG_20200824_185512.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Oblong tomatoes from Crystal. One of my favorite things about summer? All the myriad arrays of tomatoes to try. Good for the palate and super-beneficial for your microbiome to get more and more diversity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598442149680-0NPGPGQBDZLPN49AJE3E/IMG_20200825_125851.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Throw it on a taco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598449050883-EBW47BWWN0FFOA4BD4CC/PANO_20200825_201524.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) I walk to and from Board of Education meetings so I can a) reduce as much gas usage as possible b) get some exercise c) it’s good for the mind. Favorite part? The cacophony of crickets and tree frogs. My husband went to this school, the first time I saw it was when I was driving into South Onondaga to spend the first Thanksgiving with his family and I remember thinking this whole hamlet was one of the most idyllic places I had ever seen. Not the most positive of forward-thinking souls back then, I never would have imagined I’d one day be an elected member of the Board of Education (because I wanted to participate in a system my son would be a part of), or have a son (with my college boyfriend) walking down the same district footsteps as his father. Life has such fateful, big-breathed arcs. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598442415177-FNE3OXGE7Y3VN91KK2S0/IMG_20200823_174417.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) These were what had been drawn over the weekend and tail-end of the previous week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598442588491-6O2DIZB7VDQ863I2Q46A/IMG_20200826_071426.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Also Thursday’s (he did two sight-words that day) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598448443544-DYYLVMXUMA53F563B9N9/IMG_20200825_124405.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) And then we fled the noon sun and came in for Taco/Tostada Tuesday prep. Here seen: glorious, scrumptious orca beans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598446674777-P2VU1N641X6V7ZE1L9QQ/IMG_20200824_171318.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Recipe for quick-pickled jalapenos coming up soon too. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598446454281-B88VQLAX1Z4ZSVBUVSLE/IMG_20200824_133626-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) How to make crust bars? This recipe will be coming up on Sunday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598446377686-CTP96UMDCLHN4I6QH56U/IMG_20200824_141103.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Plant-Based Whole Food Lunch: black rice noodles, served along with romaine, swiss chard, cucumber, red bell pepper, green onions, ruby kraut, and peanut sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598447076815-G47OKT9TZJEOBCLB5Q5Q/IMG_20200825_092018.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Plant-Based Kiddo Breakfast (he’s fixing himself): overnight oats, flax, berry sauce (blueberry, strawberry, and mango), cashew cream, and peanut sauce (with dates and oatmilk). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598449010403-ZAYUUV0R0PCG5UJ2SFQQ/IMG_20200825_203138.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) When your amazing, health-focused husband is charged with fixing dinner because you’ll be gone, and this is the picture he gives you of their meal. <3 Looks to be quinoa stirfry, balsamic tomatoes, avocado, cucumber, swiss chard, squash, furikake, and cracked pepper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598447727168-ZWV2CJ8U1OOZGB1Q2X64/IMG_20200825_100519.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Annnnd more graboids: “It’s me in alien form riding a graboid.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598442440383-7CM7XS6ELLD5OOPHO1T0/IMG_20200826_071450.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Monday, he worked on schoolwork while I cooked and drew this sweet picture of him and his friend Layton, while continuing his obsession with graboids. Obsessed seem like hyperbole? See below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598446737683-6EVQRTGX05BBJLDMZWNE/IMG_20200824_173953.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Berry Sauce (strawberries and blueberries we picked ourselves, mango from the store added for sweetness) and my bowl cleaner in the background. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598442779965-NG4E88IY166OOGRRQ5IH/IMG_20200823_183753.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Color Close-Up <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598442525404-YBF30HS07JQO4Z1C6DND/IMG_20200826_071438.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) And because I’d forgotten to post schoolwork last week, this had been Friday’s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598442717883-XDWKYLYIX3NX7M5M9BBR/IMG_20200823_182006.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Drawing lessons with Papa. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598439368969-4AFZ8XGENUWHL06YZLAT/IMG_20200824_154804.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Items needed to start (minus the cilantro and salt which get added in AFTER boiling): tomatillos, jalapeno pepper, half an onion, 2 cloves of garlic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598442746784-4EQZ9VDNRGI74FMMRCKQ/IMG_20200823_183634.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Plant-Based Whole-Food Family Feasting: quinoa for Ian, black rice noodles for us, served along with romaine, swiss chard, sweet potato, quick-pickled cabbage, green onions, and peanut sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598441864657-9C3T70WKLKINPNG8YKUA/IMG_20200824_164303+%281%29.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Voila! <3 Would usually be more green, but the only onions we had on hand were red and they tinted it a bit pink. Can be eaten as-is on some chips, on tacos, on enchiladas, in burritos, on a rice bowl, however/wherever you’d usually put a salsa or hot sauce. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598448631704-AXL74UK61UP54V4HKN31/IMG_20200825_125928.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) My Tostadas: orca beans, tomatillo sauce, lettuce, green onions, balsamic tomatoes, quick-pickled jalapenos, and queso https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598446910357-B2POZDIGGZNIMD1G69N9/IMG_20200824_190211.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Crystal’s tomatoes prepped up balsamic style, and my list of to-dos finally done. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598439084743-21KA89E4MRCBL2IXR5JH/IMG_20200826_052904_1.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) You can add tomatillos, jalapenos, and garlic whole (without even chopping) to the pot and it’ll still end up perfectly fine. The only benefit you get from cutting is either a little less spicy (re: the jalapenos and garlic, because they cook down more) or a mellowing of onion flavor (I sometimes throw it in as a whole half, or a quarter it and then pull apart the layers and place them in that way. Go forward per flavor preference and understand (like all my recipes) that this is the skeletal framework for you to flesh out per your own tastes. The above makes one pint jar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598441812629-064B8S71R389XVNIMA3U/IMG_20200824_161127.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Cover, bring to a boil, let boil for 5 minutes, remove from heat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598442612198-ZCQHHFYWPQ8SXH26067C/IMG_20200826_071421.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Wednesday’s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598446481677-62ZP8USCO7K4BT409BH9/IMG_20200824_131632.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Was making nuttbutterscotch bites and changed up the order to blend the nut butter with the oatmilk and dates (before adding every thing else) and came up with a mind-blowing sweet peanut butter concoction that tastes like filling for a peanut butter cheese cake. This’ll also be coming up soon. Three ingredients and good enough you could eat it right out of the jar, but it tastes way better with those crust bars. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598447274882-70T2NCHZCTP3H9TQ7068/PANO_20200826_071605.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) After https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598448898166-DWV5CEULN5Y33H5BFIB0/IMG_20200825_170548.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Solo dinner for me as I was heading off to a Board of Education meeting: black rice noodles, lettuce, green onions, summer squash, easy avocado, balsamic style tomatoes, ruby kraut, Q’s Sesame Dressing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598447364964-MMK15SYUSI4VB7PZ52ZB/PANO_20200826_071648.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) He requested I trim that back hedge into a graboid, and I complied like the pliant/placating Mama Bear I am. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598446784780-79NTYN7ETSD2ZSUC2EHQ/PANO_20200824_172459.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) …and the zoomed out view of all still to be done. Berry sauce reducing liquid on the stove, oatmilk soaking up liquid so it’ll be extra creamy, and vegetables (and fruits) yet to be prepped: green onions, mariachi peppers, yellow squash, zucchini, fresh jars cooling down, and a compost bowl filling up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598448223835-OR3HBIWFSR5ZHVHODJWM/IMG_20200825_103901.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) We moved schoolwork outside for the day so that I could work on some weeding now that the temps have finally dipped. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598441845833-FDZFXXS6T28PY4LNTV8V/IMG_20200824_162156.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Drain (reserve) the liquid into a different container (you may want more liquid after blending, and you could use that brine for something else<—as you’re going to see below), add all your vegetables into a blender-safe container, throw in the cilantro, and salt. Blend. Add more liquid, salt, cilantro, vinegar, whatever/etc per your taste preference. Blend again. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598444908714-4G61GB9AQ4I5T45M8VUS/IMG_20200824_083939.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Plant-Based Kiddo Breakfast (he’s fixing himself): overnight oats, mango, flax, berry sauce (blueberry, strawberry, and mango), cashew cream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598448698101-34ZTYMFGTLYLS1T84YDW/IMG_20200825_125851.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Q’s Tacos: orca beans, tomatillo sauce, lettuce, green onions, balsamic tomatoes, quick-pickled jalapenos, and queso on one (“So that one seems extra special and is extra fun to eat.”) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598449106691-JBELU3PKYXINUI0AQCID/IMG_20200825_212226.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) Nightly Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1598444994416-RZDQU3GG3BGQYQUMZJTI/IMG_20200824_095203.jpg Home - Ten-Minute Tomatillo Sauce Recipe + Nutrition Facts + Recipes Coming Up Soon (after a successful day of kitchen-wizarding) How does he keep active while doing all that drawing (and schoolwork)? He has a standing desk. Always one to make things a little extra, he also tends to dance while drawing. What’s he dancing to? His third request of “Sister’s Are Doin’ It For Themselves” <3 https://www.jasquatch.com/home/super-simple-chocolate-sauce-recipe-3-ingredients-30-seconds-to-make-ways-to-relieve-stress-tips-on-how-to-transition-plant-based-another-helpful-podcast monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597837927792-B8647KK74P5Q3DE4E4IQ/20200816_135037-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Post-Lunch Dancing. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597837830444-NP3FR80NM0FSHJUPHIMF/IMG_20200816_115044.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Lunch: purple grits*, quick-pickled cabbage, swiss chard, avocado, cashew queso, golden balsamic tomatoes, and green onions. *Tried grits in an Instapot for the first time ever, and Boy Howdy was that a time saver! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597839599972-KNOR8POAHDZ3SG4HXPS3/IMG_20200818_212023.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Nightly Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597837670828-1MW6FFJFMFQBWM0FU3AG/IMG_20200810_124233.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast A little goes a long way. This is 1/4 of the batch and it looks like this berry bread is swimming in it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597838457061-ZOL7Y4WJP09M4IKO98JR/IMG_20200817_131632.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Dessert (shared with Q): Cappello Brownies, mango, strawberry, cashew cream, and almond butter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597838218801-LW4N44GJWW8OKQZQ1M06/IMG_20200816_182926.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Transitioning? There are a LOT of plant-based meat options out there, and you can do fun things like breakfast sausage sliders. :-) You’ll eventually get to a place where these are rare (like how we eat them now: about once a month, if not longer); but when we were first transitioning to a plant-based diet, Ian was relying on Beyond Sausages with every meal to fit the niche of meat-love. These have all the flavor of regular meat (I actually think they are better), and they have less of an environmental impact, but they have more saturated fat than you want to be eating daily (hence why we are no longer eating them daily…and why no one should be eating animal products daily either.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597839035413-83VYGBS1V8QZZ4RZWBT0/Screenshot_20200817-172318.png Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Why not bacon? Well, aside from the cancer and cardiovascular disease it’s giving you, that cured stomach flesh comes from the belly of a deeply empathetic animal. This is actually the screenshot of what was a video of a pig making the most heartbreaking crying nose while nose-pushing, and then laying his head sadly on his mate. Maybe eat the stuff that isn’t ruining the environment, filling you with preventable disease, and comes with the emotions/compassion/heart, and intelligence proven to be higher than the dog that you may love like your own blood. There are tastier, kinder, more compassionate options. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597837869063-Y6MN3XRJ7VYJCMW3AU04/IMG_20200816_122835.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Cappello Brownies (made a batch of these Sat and it’ll carry us through this week because we eat small squares), mango, cashew cream, and unsweetened coconut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597839136738-CH661LQTWCAOA59O0SZT/IMG_20200818_112250.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Prepping for Taco/Tostada Tuesday https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597838401554-HILTG4X8GBF51TK5GK20/IMG_20200817_114006_1.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Lunch: cashew mac and cheese, swiss chard, balsamic tomatoes, and green onions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597838847629-SFCT2VKASWJWIKFPIA82/IMG_20200817_153756.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast “It’s Captain Marvel trying to get a whole bunch of tesseracts away from a flerken, and Nick Fury is holding a flerken, and there are flerkens popping out all over the place!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597842214731-PECEIIGCL3HAWXAI2EPN/IMG_20200818_170606.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597839243651-OCEJCMENLOHD8QYFUVRX/IMG_20200818_113200.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Quill’s Plate: forever requesting that only one of them have queso, so that he can enjoy it all the more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597838033718-8BWULBBD3N6PBHWTA744/IMG_20200816_170853.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast The rarely pictured, often grunting like a surly sailor Wicket. 13 years ago we got her from the Oswego County Animal Shelter in the hope that she’d be a good companion for Malaprop (<—who was perpetually lamenting that we were both working multiple jobs and could never be home to snuggle her), and Malaprop promptly let us know that another cat was not at all what she had in mind, and Wicket instead attached herself to Ian like a tumbleweed moon. She’s one of Q’s favorite things in this world, and despite the nuisance of cleaning up her fuzzy detritus, I hope we have many more years of this sweet/cranky cat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597838719832-QWAEOSUIOLHSZ3BQBW5B/IMG_20200817_153654.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast When the family movie night had been Twister and it bleeds into your kid’s summer homeschooling inspiration. :-D https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597838796577-QMY3JIZV5HZHISP5EUS7/IMG_20200817_153842.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast What’s a flerken? It’s something he saw in Captain Marvel years ago and popped back into his consciousness this week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597837781946-ECYVGSINOV5E24FPMPOF/IMG_20200816_091016.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Plant-Based Kiddo Breakfast (with the kid who now wants to be in most of these photos): whole-grain/sprouted bread with peanut butter, apple sauce, apples, and watermelon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597839284949-4KCS51G8V3HMZVN6I68P/PANO_20200811_142630.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast My afternoon before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597836307475-X6V5JWTTYZBXVAOA7OYQ/IMG_20200818_170647.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Makes 4 drizzle servings. We use Hu Baking Gems which come in a bag you can reuse indefinitely. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597838513635-ESIVHJ7SL8SFEPBKI3Q5/IMG_20200817_152036.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast “Can I pllllllllease eat this tomato?” <—Thank goodness this kid gets excited about fresh produce. It was a journey to get him off the sugar-train, and we’ll go over that at a later date. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597838323959-6BDD2V6WDNXKY3GG66WB/IMG_20200817_082135.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Plant-Based Kiddo Breakfast: a super small one because he slept in and lunch was going to be early due to a Board of Education meeting. Last piece of the whole-grain/sprouted bread with peanut butter and half an apple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597838921860-PT0CQV6F7WN4448IG4MA/IMG_20200817_213217.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Nightly Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597839425577-O7CABSKJB6NOLX8SHPVL/IMG_20200818_162032.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast “It’s a Flerken who is also part-man in the sky, on his spaceship; and he’s watching a man who just won a race on a graboid. And in the stands is a man with a peg-leg, with his pet octopus and pet scorpion.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597839513139-CG04X0HVZN03D6N0MLRE/IMG_20200818_192342.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast “Look, Mama! I may a robot scorpion!” <—What Q was doing while I cleaned up for the night. Another topic that will get fleshed out at a later date: the TV is rarely on in this house. Unless we are sitting down to watch something with him (which is what Q and I do for a treat over lunch), he is crafting something, drawing something, playing outside, or talking our ears off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597845576986-L8VFKNXRQUJ0OU0U4YRB/carbon-footprint-food-supply-chain-1.png Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597842172937-C4Q6CPW2HZ431AHN38GL/IMG_20200818_170525.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597837646178-RVHCWSPNM6RP4A8OKSAZ/IMG_20200814_130055.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Shared Dessert (between Q and me): berry bread, cashew cream, and banana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597838488252-U7RBQWM1USILS52H695L/IMG_20200817_151801.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast When you finish with your meeting and your son runs into tell you excitedly that he’s discovered, “A baby broccoli and two grasshoppers mating!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597839166693-WAZQJEUC2O0NXSW19ISR/IMG_20200818_113214.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Our ingredients are the same, with the exception that I eat mine on hard-shells like a big, messy tostada (that is half-salad) and then just eat it with a fork. What’s on here (and on Q’s)? Cappello Chili, cashew queso, lettuce, green onions, quick-picked cabbage, shaved corn-on-the-cob, and Crystal Hot Sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597837614950-ANYAFD2MRE1S4SY9OT0U/IMG_20200814_125251.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Voila! <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597839208864-BTQF8OYC8ZSD92IWYTNY/IMG_20200818_185325.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Dessert (shared with Q): Cappello Brownies, mango, strawberry, and cherry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597837549601-L30MJ7IMMGT7Q0INMPCD/IMG_20200814_125051.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Ingredients needed: dark chocolate chips, vegetable oil of choice, salt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597839080957-DS4NVCXJU9MWEBFGGPRT/IMG_20200818_100800.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Get all the harm/destruction out of your life and you may find your days bursting with love and forward movement. I was painting, we had the Cappello Background/Foreground mix on (can be found on Spotify) and this sweet soul stood up from his desk, held out his hand like the lead in some movie, and said, “Mama, can I please have this dance?” <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597837985853-YCR1GZZ026ROEU1HB6T6/IMG_20200816_162314.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Baking Soda + Vinegar + Salt Dough Volcano made with Grandma. The joy in his childhood makes my heart flutter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597837806272-1TYNB24K38VTRKOPOVSW/IMG_20200816_114849-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast After breakfast dancing. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597842251361-6MHPUYQR0ALGXN2LR4UB/IMG_20200818_170612.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597839462604-JNO2570VZUITA7T41Z3I/IMG_20200818_175343.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Dinner for 2 (because poor Ian was still outside scraping paint): roasted potatoes, fresh corn-on-the-cob, and salads with: black rice, romaine, orange bell pepper, golden balsamic tomatoes, kraut, kalamata olives, green onions, and Q’s Sesame Dressing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597838890969-TGSLHOMYMA0I87RDHXDO/IMG_20200817_175656.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Family Feasting: roasted red potatoes, and bowls with: purple grits, quick-pickled cabbage, swiss chard, squash, yellow bell pepper, golden balsamic tomatoes, and green onions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597837954844-1NUKHRM7DVD3NEWUULBS/IMG_20200816_154038.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Making a salt-dough volcano with Grandma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597839362506-V35Y575209CFQIOJF2U1/IMG_20200818_162015.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast What’s it dragging itself toward? “The biggest plate of pancakes that has ever existed! And it’s oozing fresh berry sauce and maple syrup!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597839321498-AWV49R04H8AYN284ZV8N/PANO_20200818_150741.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast After. <3 (With Q over there working on summer schooling because I was both painting and instructing him at the same time.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597838254150-7OL716BXU972VEYILE16/IMG_20200816_215614.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Nightly Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597852098121-VW3MQ19CO4W3CHMBQG84/IMG_20200819_095058.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast From “Fiber Fueled” by Dr Will Bulsiewicz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597842138576-AZTEF6ZGR4RQVXGN0GZ8/IMG_20200818_170852.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast From “Undo It” by Dr Dean Ornish and Anne Ornish https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597838983846-THC5EA1KK1SHY2ZKZCIP/IMG_20200818_081734.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Plant-Based Kiddo Breakfast: whole oats & chia, topped with homemade apple sauce, watermelon, golden flax, and a little peanut butter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597837590551-4J81I7BKWDN8QEXW9PZZ/IMG_20200814_125101-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Add 1/8 cp chocolate chips to a small microwave safe bowl, add in 1tsp oil, pinch of salt. Microwave for 30 seconds. Stir. Enjoy. :-) That pic in the top right corner is how they look when they come out. Stir it well and see if they completely melt. You may look at it and think, “It needs another 30 seconds” but often they are done after a little stirring, because the oil continues to melt them as you are stir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597838367723-F2HMTMECR7NPOVXX240H/IMG_20200817_110807.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast When your awesome friend (thanks, Crystal!) has given you some plant-based whole-food cheese-sauce and you have a noon Zoom forum for the re-opening of your district school (<—you’re on the Board of Education), so you make an easy-breezy plant-based lunch to feed your son before said meeting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597838059388-DG09MJFP1N5S9IU80Z8V/IMG_20200816_182906.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Family Feasting: cornbread sliders with caramelized onion and Beyond Breakfast Sausage Patties (<—Ian invention), roasted red potatoes, and salads with: swiss chard, lettuce, squash, golden balsamic tomatoes, kraut, kalamata olives, and dressed with the leftover balsamic juice from the tomatoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597838950563-IZP4P3LOJ1YB2DJXE1I8/IMG_20200818_081024.jpg Home - Super Simple Chocolate Sauce Recipe (3 ingredients, 30 seconds to make) + Ways to Relieve Stress + Tips on How to Transition Plant-Based + Another Helpful Podcast Q - “I love it when breakfast involves steam. I could look at it all day, it’s just so pretty!” <3 https://www.jasquatch.com/home/cappello-cornbread-recipe-souls/days-that-set-your-heart-alight-metaphor-for-the-robbery-of-our-future monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231978899-IVD8CIYUA1X7Z10UWMK5/IMG_20200809_184018.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Plant-Based Dinner: j & Q - leftover arepa pizzas, balsamic tomato medley. i - purple mashed potatoes, mushroom gravy, lentil loaf, squash, swiss chard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231352428-WQ2ZM8ST31VB8K5XZKLJ/IMG_20200730_130031.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Tastes great on its own, but also tastes amazing in a bowl of our chili nestled next to some cashew queso. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231299512-EZQHUQF0ZYSCZ83S68HO/IMG_20200523_161331.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Voila! <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597234669308-0CPDHBWLBSK3O369YPAP/IMG_20200810_210552.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future My partner in life, advocacy, love, and chores. I do some dishes, but Ian definitely does the bulk of them. It’s our balancing act: I do all the cooking, so he helps out with the receptacles that have fed him. While he washes dishes and listens to mind-opening podcasts, I read Q to sleep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597234773870-DDII7H1KXNZSNWIELV5U/IMG_20200811_120802.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Dessert: mango, strawberry, blueberry smoothies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597234961697-2HCSDF6IW1ZSTEP9ZKK0/IMG_20200811_185847.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Dinner: Quinoa stirfry —with eggplant, garlic scapes, shiitake mushrooms, and peas— romaine, swiss chard, avocado, golden tomatoes, yellow squash, ruby kraut, green onions, sesame dressing, furikake, and kalamata olives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597245126749-TBA13SR1LR1RWZZGDK3K/image-asset.jpeg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future What Q was working on. <—Simultaneously eye-rolling and heart-squeezing over here. He is SUCH a mini-Ian!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597230874927-F7RKXB30X4OL5J5168GR/IMG_20200811_164544.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Ingredients needed for a batch of cornbread: baking powder, pickled jalapenos (optional as a substitute for using Apple Cider Vinegar, you can use pickled-pepper brine), corn meal, apple cider vinegar, oatmilk, dates, garlic cloves (optional), oatflour, flax meal, salt per taste. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597234709073-KL1OTIL82J2JNXL3X2VJ/IMG_20200810_214219.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Nightly Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597230934260-S7FA6FVM9DSTIVNQFBR5/IMG_20200811_170002.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Make a well in the middle of your dry ingredients, pour in the wet mixture, and stir from the middle out to slowly incorporate. This way prevents lumps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597234997542-8LP8VSZS17WMDMNCSL98/IMG_20200811_220529.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Nightly Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231865251-Z9C3NIR2YVZF2EOVZYB5/IMG_20200809_142354.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231597965-F419PAJLPA8PDAFA5QRJ/IMG_20200809_092848_1.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Picnic Lunch (that had been prepped that AM): salads for me and Q (Quinoa stirfry —with eggplant, garlic scapes,shiitake mushrooms, and peas— romaine, swiss chard, avocado, golden tomatoes, yellow squash, ruby kraut, green onions, and sesame dressing). And berry bread cups (to share) topped with peanut butter and cashew cream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597232108598-VUSTNWKQ7QVE26PLPG26/PANO_20200811_142612.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future After <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231659297-YSW75BLI90W7W5R201GJ/IMG_20200809_105653.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Except for me, no one in our group had been to this beach before, and for this lady it was an emotional whirl. Selkirk is where my mother brought us when we were kids. We came here every summer from birth through high school. It was where her mother and brought her as a girl with all her siblings, and it was where my grandmother had come in her own childhood. It’s also where my parents met (when my mother was 15 and bobbing in the water coquettishly hollering “Who wants to dunk me?!” and my father answered the call with his trickster gleam). Selkirk is seared into my childhood. It is one of my favorite places on this earth, and in all the years I was coming here I never once imagined I’d one day be bringing my own cub and continuing the tradition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231728796-KJ99AFTFJDCXVA1UHV0N/PANO_20200809_110122.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Another thing I could not have imagined: that one day I’d have a mother-in-law I love more than just about any soul on this earth, a soul so sweet it’s impossible not to fall in love with her, and I’d be standing on the pier of my youth watching her view sailboats with my spawn, while I swallowed a happy-tears lump in my throat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231831503-N6HTSOC7EPQC2DDYT712/IMG_20200809_130947.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future If you’re wondering if Q actually eats all these salads I make for him, the answer is not only YES: he also licks the dang bowl clean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597232700670-K2JX3Z7MPDWNQ56MQ2PJ/IMG_20200810_182912.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Worried plant-based cheese won’t melt like regular cheese or taste disgusting? Worry not. I would not come near this if it didn’t taste good, and these are so delicious that it turns into a battle of Cappellos over who’ll get the last piece. <—Hyperbole: we always give the last/best part to Q because we’re over-doting/loving parents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597234940571-S4EG70YVOTTBUW6M1D42/IMG_20200811_181023+%281%29.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597234728202-2CAMOXRKPUK1FUVE8NCD/IMG_20200811_075115.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Another plant-based kiddo breakfast: sprouted bread with peanut butter (Crystal gave us half a loaf and given that Q gets one slice a day he’s really stretching out the glory of this treat!) and a peach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597232030634-H1HHNERKJEKLRVG51V6T/IMG_20200809_214327.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Nightly Reading. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597234831871-LIT20LQY9NKEPN1O12SS/IMG_20200811_174503.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future While Q drew and drew and drew to his sci-fi heart’s delight, I mowed quadrants of our yard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231697553-6KEJSUP0P6HYNZF3UEO1/IMG_20200809_110234.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Q overjoyed to see his friends in the distance. We’d set up this beach day so he could see Steph’s two boys: friends he’s loved for years but has not seen since January. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597230988183-BGT7HF583OW1UR4GHNEY/IMG_20200811_170715.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Optional: sprinkle some paprika on top. No need to oil a pan, it’ll come out fine without it. Throw this into the oven @ 400 degrees for about 20 minutes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231952153-NPGYC56X7JE2U2MFAWFH/Screenshot_20200811-224228_2.png Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Someday Steph is going to get her own post, because she is one of the dearest/favorite souls in my life. Steph makes me belly-laugh, Steph is the kind of soul you can have long thoughtful conversations with, Steph is the sort of friend you can be absolutely quiet/still/comfortable with. Steph is a balm of love on this wild earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597232080989-2QNE0IAVCQA4HB9QBESO/PANO_20200810_103552.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future What my Monday and Tuesday mornings looked like: painting the exterior of the house while simultaneously homeschooling Q. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231008798-ICBAMVAO4CHHGX16X795/IMG_20200523_140940.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future If you have a kiddo around, they can be used for pre-washing the mixing bowl. :-) There are no eggs or other ingredients of concern. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231892114-ULR3UIW0MRDFEA2Y369Z/IMG_20200809_133340.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Ian wins the non-existent award for best dad bod. Hubba, hubba. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597234801225-J07POBOS3C7YHPYJQQM8/IMG_20200811_154638_1.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future When you’ve been painting and mowing in 90 degree temps, and then your body lets you know that you’re not pregnant again, and you come in deflated, explain “why” to your son when he asks (because he’s a little empath who can read everyone’s moods and we discuss everything openly in this house), and go to fix yourself a berry bread bowl, and your son hollers out, “Mama, I put all the comfiest pillows on the couch, and put the softest one where you always sit. Snuggle up next to me and you’ll feel better soon!” In all honesty I felt better as soon as I saw his love-filled face, but Boy Howdy is his sweet soul a balm for the heart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231375413-22WWMSKICQWIGLZQFEBZ/IMG_20200525_174652.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Also tastes delightful with a bit of pesto and balsamic tomatoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597232665356-YMX4C02OZUAUQRX8D8KE/IMG_20200810_180231.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Then I came in from mowing, and made us fresh arepa dough, a savory filling, and started work on another batch of arepa pizzas. What’s in that pan? Caramelized onion from Crystal plus green onions from our Stone’s Throw Farm CSA share, freshly grated garlic, and lentil loaf. Tastes like a savory, allium delight. Man, if only one had energy to spare on a plant-based diet. If only the food options were scrumptious. ;-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231423595-KEDFO94M30N10X0NUI8H/IMG_20200809_051019.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Sunday Song Day Start-of-the-Day. I get up at 4:30AM on writing mornings, and Wicket is my writing companion. Luckily for both of us, I’m always standing behind that desk so she has full reign of the stool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597232175693-WKEK0PGKG6X75QS2TQ00/IMG_20200810_124233.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Dessert: berry bread, cashew cream, peanut butter, and melted a little piece of chocolate with a bit of sesame oil and got this delicious chocolate sauce. Woot woot! <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597230853316-QC59M05CQNRFGF7SG5HA/IMG_20200811_205646.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future How to make oatflour? Throw whole-oats in a blender for a few seconds. How to make flax meal? Same thing. Don’t have dates? You could use pure maple syrup or some other natural sugar. We use dates because they are packed with fiber and minerals. OPTIONAL: grate in a garlic cloves per taste. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231488654-FIQ8DYLHKHR9L1RMD5IH/IMG_20200525_045541.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future For those folks that don’t care about the environmental impacts, here’s what your animal-product dense diet is doing to your cardiovascular system…AND YOUR CHILD’S! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231515333-OFT510LTQ245OPASPLPO/IMG_20200809_073021_2.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future My always happy, forever furry cub. <3 (<—Def got my Lalande Hairy-Hobbit genes!) I write in the dark for several hours and then get the pitter-patter of this little soul running downstairs to greet me with a hug and ask for breakfast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231465046-PT3DKU3APXKJFZLI5FI8/IMG_20200526_052032.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future From “Undo It” by world-renowned cardiologist Dr Dean Ornish and Anne Ornish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597232154992-GLF7V4TUV9KIBB2CVCWK/IMG_20200810_114755.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Lunch: Quinoa stirfry —with eggplant, garlic scapes, shiitake mushrooms, and peas— romaine, swiss chard, avocado, golden tomatoes, yellow squash, ruby kraut, green onions, sesame dressing, and furikake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597234604425-YR7I3J4YXYU3AI700XSA/IMG_20200810_183250.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Dinner: balsamic tomato medley, green onions, arepa pizza. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597230909177-QVPD7Y7OH2MZMFD085X5/IMG_20200811_165123.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future A lot of cornbread recipes involve throwing in sugar to tamper down the bitterness of the corn flour. In this recipe, we puree whole dates with the oatmilk and you’ll get a super-sweet, rich tasting base. You won’t miss those refined sugars at all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231628149-PCPNICVLDAP72PK89NUF/PANO_20200809_104834.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Sunday we loaded up the car and headed up to Selkirk State Park with Tara, with the intention to meet our beloved Steph and her boys. We’ve been working so hard on house projects and saving-the-earth projects that both Ian and I felt almost guilty taking a break and heading out for some family time, but BOY HOWDY was this a well-needed rest. We came with a bounty of zero-waste gear and a cooler stocked with earth-friendly/body-friendly feasting for us and to share. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597232052556-7FPC116D79JLKIYA8N6J/IMG_20200810_081415.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Plant-Based Kiddo Breakfast: sprouted bread with humus and bell pepper, with extra bell peppers and half an apple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231917341-Z1MS4CMD1ATIJ4F17BTF/IMG_20200809_134034.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Mothers and Sons <3 Our day was absolutely perfect. It was laughter, it was talking, it was reconnecting, it was over-filled with love, and we were in and out without leaving a bit of trace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597234752300-GUB2QDWDYK3JW3NIJQO8/IMG_20200811_111533.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Lunch: balsamic tomato medley, green onions, arepa pizza. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597234639169-01F0EO157KCQAOVEHUWG/IMG_20200810_192457.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Dessert: chocolate mint nice cream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231569307-0XVYYL3XIU29FXUJ3ALP/IMG_20200809_073615.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Plant-Based Kiddo Breakfast: Sprouted Hemp Bread (thanks, Crystal!), peanut butter, and peach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597234873844-5DYLILSKRF1NBJJYRH7Y/IMG_20200811_174521.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Speaking of stop-motion (from above), are any of y’all Laika fans? This household loves everything about them. This was Q’s Kubo drawing. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597232129626-RIZXRKQC7WRKZ2699XB8/IMG_20200811_104937-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future When you’re proud of yourself for reading a word correctly and then get right back to it. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231791063-ZL2Q55YEF0NBEH3E97GE/IMG_20200809_110917.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Two of the happiest, strongest-willed boys I’ve ever met having the absolute time of their lives getting walloped by waves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597231444203-15Z1N2GRU44FUSBN0OCF/IMG_20200526_051412.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future From “Undo It” by world-renowned cardiologist Dr Dean Ornish and Anne Ornish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1597232005094-7A8ZYGON7C0JR73VUQAL/IMG_20200809_195924.jpg Home - Cappello Cornbread Recipe + Souls/Days that Set your Heart Alight + Metaphor for the Robbery of our Future Sunday Family Movie Night (with homemade, zero-waste popcorn): “Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan” This was an Ian suggestion and was loved by all. If you’re a fan of stop-motion animation, old movies, impressive human craft, and science-fiction: check this out. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/opa-amp-our-chocolate-mint-nice-cream-recipe monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596649048660-C7T1H1XU0HUM7IED2NEC/IMG_20200804_190938.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Plant-Based Family Feasting: roasted red potatoes, corn on the cob, lentil loaf, and side salads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596649292054-QLXNVQKNF8OEKSZ6RXXW/VID_20200804_213447_exported_5094_1596591875067.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596647952552-FAP94AJ56XMQL7PZC2RT/IMG_20200803_130040.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Dessert: cashew cream, protein bars made out of the same ingredients as the cashew cream cake crust (just doubled the ingredients and added a little peanut butter), banana, and some homemade berry sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596647908928-ZRBZOC6CWQ719CAX4BZC/IMG_20200803_125706-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Nature fun. We have a larger compost receptacle in our backyard, but this blue bin is where we collect stuff until we want to bring it to the bigger pile. Q came running in to tell me that he couldn’t put the banana peel inside because there was a fuzzy caterpillar, “And I know those are the ones I should ask before touching!” We sorted out that it was a safe one, but it was so pretty he wanted to share the experience with Ian. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596647223907-FOKDT4EA5SVUTQF2TG5M/image-asset.jpeg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe We throw them into this reusable baking soda bag. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596648016904-W4KS60YCWFOALJEMP2ZP/IMG_20200803_142055.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Like my father had me do schoolwork through the summer, I do the same with Q. He continues to chug through his reading/writing book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596649161893-JNWOMF6L5DITCGRXLBA9/IMG_20200804_213407_1.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Here’s how every evening ends with these two. Sometimes I wonder if it appears I’m removed from all this joy, but my documentation flare has always centered around a deep appreciation for the preciousness of this short life. With these two I feel downright saturated in it. I document it, because that’s always been passion of mine. Not only do we enjoy looking back on many of these memories, but my aim is to keep them for my forever-imaging-something-else son so he can look back on them and remember how much love was crammed into his childhood. They do this running-jumping-catching thing, it ends with hugs and kisses from all, and then I get to snuggle up next to Q and read to him. Love abounds in this house and I wish you all the same. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596647640922-W5HEKTZLDYSNSCU2KYJX/IMG_20200802_210708.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Nightly Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596648699716-HJ9OZ5EPPG77SBV5MDW2/IMG_20200804_161815.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe The sweet side of my spooktacular cub: a letter he sent to his dear friend Aria (whose grandma’s dog had just passed away.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596647875060-EW87W67Q0ZYZ6PM5F840/IMG_20200803_121912.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Plant-Based Lunch: polenta, romaine, swiss chard, quick-pickled cabbage, easy avocado, green onions, and peanut sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596649103753-8B9AAWQTI6GVL35902QQ/IMG_20200804_190956.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Romaine, swiss chard, beet greens, green beans, yellow bell pepper, quick-pickled beets (made the same way as the cabbage), shiitake mushrooms, and Q’s Sesame Dressing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596648420532-OVOGDKMWSIR28NGW4C1T/IMG_20200804_125540.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Mine: I like open-faced hard-shell tacos covered in toppings, like a big messy plate of tostada. So filling, so fibrous, SO DANG TASTY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596648227343-OR9X0O36TW0VM4C3OFDH/IMG_20200803_214029.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Nightly Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596648262173-SE2VOGQQE0TZUYKRM8HQ/IMG_20200804_074201.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Plant-Based Breakfast: another sprouted/whole-grain peanut butter sandwich (he’s been requesting them daily) and this time with a kiwi and some cashew cream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596647846894-RSE9BRCRVTNRYT9HDVLC/Screenshot_20200805-054256_2+%281%29.png Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Friendly reminder that the cognitive dissonance between caring for a dog and not caring for that animal on your plate is absurd. News Flash: pigs are categorically smarter than dogs, they sing to their young, they are a matriarchal species, and the way we treat them is unforgivable. Worse yet: while we are treating this species with utter contempt: we are also ruining the environment for ourselves. Grow forward, folks! Please! (And this is coming from someone who once LOVED bacon, pulled pork, and ribs, but I WOKE UP.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596626877762-T1ZT4WUQDXWU56GHQR53/IMG_20200802_091350+%281%29.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe The ease, breeze, and tasty nutrition of a simple plant-based breakfast: sprouted/whole-grain bread with peanut butter, homemade strawberry blueberry sauce, and an apple. Why not eat something like eggs? See these two posts for a longer explanation (if the reasons above weren’t enough). Why not bacon or sausage? Aside from all of the information you saw above, red meats and processed meats have been listed as a carcinogen by the world health organization (based off ***800*** studies) since 2015!!!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596648310330-4G80K45XHLDZRGQW38IO/IMG_20200804_100036-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe This goes on all day, every day and I forget to photograph it because I’m usually dancing too. How do we fit in the all-important cardio breaks into our busy days? We dance to songs Q’s jamming on (currently it is the Little Shop of Horrors soundtrack ALL THE TIME :-D) and throw in weights for added resistance. We follow Lifestyle Medicine Guidelines over here, so our days are focused on eating well, physical activity, loving the heck out of eachother, avoiding stress (AS WELL AS I CAN), and getting a good night’s sleep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596648161917-N5HI0CW6KY7VV5BJUU9L/Screenshot_20200803-171504.png Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe That same elated face is what I was rolling through (along with squealing) when I saw that one of my heroes (Dr Dean Ornish) shared my Sunday Song Day post. Who are the people that are inspiring you and lighting you forward? For me it is our leading health professionals and environmentalists. People who are waking us up to the imperatives of living as healthfully and kindly as we can in the brief time we have on this earth. (And for what it’s worth, he’s one of the souls that inspired Beyonce to go plant-based, and she’s one of the voices hailing him on the back on his amazing book “Undo It”.) What are you doing with this short, precious spell? Are you making the word better? Are you trying to protect the environment for the species and souls in your wake? Are you spreading light or destruction? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596739278005-M76J196IQLHGCUR10AN5/IMG_20200806_125308.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596648663756-5E7SMQBMDVSII4UHK432/IMG_20200804_135359.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Homeschooling a sci-fi enthusiast. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596648351862-4CET42EH94LXLSG0ZB84/IMG_20200804_125506.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Taco / Tostada Tuesday! Refried black beans, queso, corn shaved off a cob, chopped romaine, ruby kraut, and hot sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596647198920-3CRAD51SKGVG65G1NFNX/IMG_20200731_124758.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Best part? This is a zero-waste dish (especially because you can recycle the mint bottle and cocoa powder container.) When you have bananas that are getting too ripe for eating (and you don’t need them for some brownies or berry bread), simply peel them, break them into chunks, and freeze them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596649197170-5BUCKY951ZZ2RVSNKSLS/IMG_20200804_213408.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596648727495-VHXJ7UBV0JUS5R4DY36H/IMG_20200804_161849.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596647662773-FRLPCZROWKPLSRSG2JFV/IMG_20200803_081022.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Plant-Based Breakfast: another sprouted/whole-grain peanut butter sandwich and this time with roasted red potatoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596626844365-GHHKWT8A2MOSGNL43ZQY/IMG_20200804_174844.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe This has all the creamy mouth-feel and deep flavor of ice cream without any of the harm. You’d think it would taste like banana, but you don’t taste it at all: just dark chocolaty, minty deliciousness. :-) Best part, you can follow these Nice Cream guidelines and make just about any flavor you can think of. The options are endless. Other favorites in this house are peanut butter, a blueberry one, and if you add orange/raspberry/blueberry it tastes like sherbet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596647553797-UBOJ3GOU5457U70NUONK/IMG_20200802_202011.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Homemade/zero-waste popcorn and “Cabins in the Wild” as the family Sunday show for the night. We love reality shows that focus on human crafting. Not only are they helpful for showing Q a feast of different things humans can do when they use their powers for good, but they can also be a sociological delight and lesson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596648129123-7M4F8PRHK9UDGC3CWII1/IMG_20200803_185318.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Summer-Time Plant-Based Family Feasting: fresh corn on the cob, roasted red potatoes, ruby kraut, and cucumber/tomato salads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596626607774-V2UF0ZVHR1DNA6IG4NQD/IMG_20200804_161900.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Super simple directions for anyone who doesn’t want to keep on scrolling. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596647454720-TN5LUGF3D7EC8VL2E1CY/IMG_20200802_131601.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Leftover Lunch that is as tasty as it is healthy. j - Cappello Chili, whole grain cornbread, queso, easy avocado, green onions. Q - Polenta, gazpacho from his grandma Tara, queso, easy avocado, green onions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596648073713-9WF8711UCUTDWM0DDLXD/IMG_20200803_142115_1.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe “This is the face I was trying to convey on the man. Like he was really REALLY excited. It was tricky getting the lines on the face right, though.” <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596649403898-OMPCU9BV4ZZH3IF8TBQ6/IMG_20200804_213905.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Nightly Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596626796438-0MDYROTT7LHQLOOUY6IQ/IMG_20200804_174449.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Ingredients needed for a batch of chocolate mint nice cream: oatmilk, frozen bananas, mint extract, cocoa powder, salt. (Optional: add in some vanilla extract too.) Add to a blender, blend until creamy (with a nutribullet this can involve taking it off and shaking a few times), season per taste, and enjoy! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596648787627-9C8XOEUDP18U3CBNQ4WZ/IMG_20200804_142301.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe After-breakfast drawing: “It’s Beetlejuice and he’s so shocked by the sandworm that his hat flew right off!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596647713145-L2SVFIMJX5EODWPZQ91Q/IMG_20200803_085652.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe We did a trek to the farm up the road to buy some local corn and spotted one of our favorite farm dogs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596647517670-69OHA2O7QWD92CMPVCT8/IMG_20200802_185401.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Dinner: roasted sweet potatoes, and salads with romaine, swiss chard, green beans, yellow bell pepper, quick-pickled cabbage, quick-pickled beets (made the same way as the cabbage), and peanut sauce. For those new to this page: Ian’s dinners often look GIGANTIC because he does intermittent fasting through his weekend days and then has a kingly dinner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596648752204-3XJFTVG4L12NIBO0ZJU7/IMG_20200804_172234.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596648609259-JB9FXUL2MH991N4WZ8ZV/IMG_20200804_133540.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Dessert: cashew cream, protein bars made out of the same ingredients as the cashew cream cake crust (just doubled the ingredients and added a little peanut butter), banana, some homemade berry sauce, and kiwi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596648382446-XWX0HO5NQ6OM7PMHZHE5/IMG_20200804_125512.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe Another day of Q’s delayed gratification amazing me: he always chooses one taco to be “extra special” by requesting that it have queso, and to leave the other one, “a little less exciting, so that it is all the better when I get to the one with the queso.” I don’t have his dicipline. Both mine are slathered in cashew queso, but I love the heck out of his serious soul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596677134213-4LCZFWT4O7RKTKS61A5U/IMG_20200706_122652.jpg Home - Opa &amp; Our Chocolate Mint Nice Cream Recipe And also tastes good with our Cappello Brownies and Cashew Cream. Watch out because it melts fast, especially if it is next to a hot brownie. :-) https://www.jasquatch.com/home/cappello-chili-recipe-bean-benefits-qs-first-foray-into-political-commentary-tone-purpose monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596029788668-M3N0UXOL8A8N8YFCELI1/IMG_20200729_080853.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596031136565-EGRY10BSM4ZZXNLR9D05/IMG_20200728_111226.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose I spent the afternoon doing another run of a cornbread recipe that’ll be coming up soon. As usual, it’s flush with whole-oat flour. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596030627065-KGI5T50KH37CD0BTXA1R/IMG_20200727_080456.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose He’s been asking for black bean brownie sandwiches every morning now, and given that there are no refined sugars or flours, and they are packed to the gills with beneficial fiber (including black beans and whole oats), I happily oblige. Served with kiwi and half a peach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596040706174-G6K8OTK03W96SLAFV125/IMG_20200727_121145.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Dessert: brownie, cashew cream, cherries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596030983547-T97A91EP4S3Q0773QOD7/IMG_20200728_080957.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose He even designed this logo. <3 Ian frequently likens this whole mission as spreading light and illuminating (though I get a fair amount of standstill souls calling it “bullying”), he’s also the person who gave my voice the description of “klaxon” instead of “harpy” (<—my original word for it) because he had the keen-minded sense to know that a “warning siren” was an apt description for the purposeful passion behind the howl. Several years ago, we were on a completely different environmental and nutritional path. Our choices were reckless, selfish, destructive, and lacking compassion. We moved forward together toward plant-based whole-foods (<— and remember, he was the first person I turned this howl toward, and he was reticent at first) and are now healthier, stronger, keener of mind, full of compassion (with the added awareness that we're all connected and this perception of hierarchy is a farce), and more in love than we've been in our whole 15 years together. We could all grow forward, folks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596031006008-23YOC7E7I5Q59KSFS8S7/IMG_20200728_171825.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Post-breakfast homeschooling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596030179319-W441V34T20ISKC247E3N/11406558_10100871617328965_103892443019438179_o.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Remember that passionate David Barber essay and how I found my voice to move forward? Here’s another picture from that retirement party. At this moment in time, I was deep in the weeds of cheese and meat love (this party was at a BBQ joint and I was the person who planned this party!) and I had no idea that this sweet soul’s chronic ear infections and sinus infections were because of what he was getting from my breastmilk. Those infections would increase, and he'd eventually have failure-to-thrive despite the fact that we were feeding him grass-fed milk, organic/antibiotic-free/grass-fed/local meats, and meals flush with vegetables. I woke up to the science with a compassionate clap upside my head. I healed my son, I healed myself, my husband joined us, we became collectively healthier/stronger than ever; and we stopped participating in environmental destruction. We all could. It’s as easy as choosing even-more delicious food and stepping away from the cruel/harmful stuff. If I can cut the carnivorous cord, anyone can. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596030466582-TZJ7PN7C1AFPYK3XSZNJ/image-asset.jpeg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Sunday Soul-Lift with Grandma Tara: grandma came over and sculpted this Audrey 2 with Q. He made the Lego version too. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596030530291-DWVJJU27XAMHD3J9E4Z6/IMG_20200726_192223.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Movie Night Popcorn. (We watched Pan) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596029491771-7D9PRPVF9SI2GE6NMDQE/IMG_20200729_064752.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Like all my recipes: consider this the framework. You may have noticed that we eat things in bowls with all sorts of additional fixings. :-) As such, I don’t tend to throw a lot of extra things into the chili base, because I know I’ll be changing up the bowl toppings with each serving. (<— this is a good way to get a wide variety of plant diversity, and also keep those options available for other dishes). Looking for extra things to throw into this because you don’t like the bowl approach? Try peppers, roasted corn, carrots, green onions, etc. :-) Substitutions & Notes: don’t have pickled peppers? You could try subbing in apple cider vinegar. Don’t have berbere? Add in smoked paprika. (<—sometimes I also use smoked instead of regular or do 1TB of each.) **those are cooked lentils and cooked beans** https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596029652045-PMZFICOVJ8ZKAT6WX109/IMG_20200725_151531.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose We caramelize onions without oil by using water, because the nutritionally-focused, whole-food docs are harking that we need to limit our processed oil intake and this chili tastes great without it. Why isn’t there oil in this? Because “oils contain no fiber [like you get if you instead ate nuts, seeds, avocados, etc], no minerals and are 100% fat calories. Both the mono unsaturated and saturated fat contained in oils is harmful to the endothelium, the innermost lining of the artery, and that injury is the gateway to vascular disease.” . Which docs are advising against oil? Dr Caldwell Esselstyn (gold medalist turned cardiologist/heart surgeon, who was the first to prove that you can reverse and prevent heart disease through no medications, just plant-based whole-foods), Dr Dean Ornish (another doc who proved the same reversal and prevention, and is now showing all sorts of other diseases one can avoid following a plant-based whole-food diet), Dr Neal Barnard (who showed all of the above and that plant-based whole-foods can reverse Diabetes or completely prevent you from getting it), the list goes on and on. What you’ll do is pour 1/2 cup of water over the onions, salt it, cover it with a lid, and simmer on medium until the water has evaporated. Then you’ll add in more water, stir, and repeat the process until the onions have caramelized. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596030563436-C4EMFWJHYPO9BPBKYKOA/IMG_20200726_192410.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Did you know you can pop kernals right on your stove without oil or anything? Once they’re all popped you can throw the into a bowl and season them to your heart’s delight. (We do nutritional yeast, paprika, pepper, garlic, salt, and a little canola.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596030491514-BKHSOO5B3OS9NT75S1L3/IMG_20200726_183414.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Dinner: Cappello Chili, Queso, Squash, Fresh Greens (romaine and swiss chard), green onions, and diced pickled jalapeno… and Ian still intermittent fasts for a longer spell that Q and me, so his is loaded up with heaps of other things from our meal-prepped CSA stocked fridge. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596030962412-49IGAAJIKM6VJKYB9T3U/image-asset.jpeg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Woke up to this heart-swoony surprise from Ian. He had ordered me business cards for my site because it is coming up all the dang time while we are out and about. I was content to just tell people “It’s like Sasquatch, but with a J”, but Ian knew better and decided to make cards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596031217885-8710QN6R59NVVBMQNJYS/IMG_20200728_213445.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Nightly Reading We finally finished Dune and have moved on to the Harry Potter series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596029628374-1B17QGWZ0XFNL6SFLBXH/IMG_20200727_093645.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Ingredients: tomatoes (we buy whole and puree them ourselves) pickled jalapeno brine ( you could sub in apple cider vinegar if you want) paprika (use regular or smoked. Smoked can bring it a good smoked carcass flavor without the disease) medium onion, black beans, garlic, cumin, berbere (sub in smoked paprika if you don’t want to buy this, but I highly recommend getting yourself some), lentils, and salt per taste. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596029761055-NGOS6TOOD4Q100VTQUVP/IMG_20200728_131337.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose It also tastes great on tacos in lieu of where you’d usually put meat or re-fried beans and topped with cashew queso. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596031081235-B40RCJ85XUCZSN0QZIAY/IMG_20200728_131324.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Taco Tuesday Lunch: Cappello Chili tacos with queso, quick pickled cabbage, green onions, queso, romaine. Again, my serious Bear asked for “one taco to be really special, and the other without queso. It tastes better when there’s only one with queso and you can end on a high note.” <3 (<—blows my mind!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596029680152-5MC2L154BMU642GHD2T7/IMG_20200725_161256.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose What they look like when they are ready for adding in all the other delicious items. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596031113009-U3E1OJ1HZO889FK5R1RW/IMG_20200728_140921.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Dessert: black bean brownie, cashew cream, almond butter, cherries, mango, and banana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596030861346-8RDMP6XU5X2M2O312B5L/IMG_20200727_161027.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose “Ok, so up above there is a man in a meadow of rocks and cactuses [sic], and one cactus is staring at him because it’s alive. And there is a scorpion climbing up a rock because baby grabboids are a scorpion’s main predator, and it knows there is a grabboid afoot. Now get on your suits! We’re going under the sand! And now we’re under the sand where there is a fully grown grabboid (and I’ve shown what they look like inside). And there’s a sand sub with a man in it, and he accidentally rain into the roots of that weird cactus. And the teenager grabboid is checking out the sub’s camera, and the Papa grabboid is using his mouths to check out the man above, and the baby…well, he’s just looking around.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596030906668-K1TE73OOVLL2AIF39ORG/IMG_20200727_211157.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Nightly Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596029734204-DACU2S6LAAGQUAR4TE0B/IMG_20200727_113753.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Voila! We serve soups, chili, strews, just about everything in a bowl with an array of varied vegetables, and that’s the only reason this chili doesn’t have more things thrown into it. Again: add whatever else you love into this (as long as it’s not heart-harming/earth-ruining animal products!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596030883661-2XMMGOTBXI0APMOA2FBJ/IMG_20200727_182941.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Dinner: sweet potato, fresh greens (romaine, swiss chard, kale), balsamic tomatoes, quick pickled cabbage, quick-pickled beets (made the same way), green onions, furikake, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596030933340-MAJQIGMBCZD8Q7NQKD5K/IMG_20200728_080520.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Breakfast: brownie sandwiches for dayyyyys :-), with half an orange and some cherries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596030439573-7ZPI6F2Q0X9GUDJQQ5V8/IMG_20200726_115421.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Dessert: black bean brownie, cashew cream, cherries, mango, and almond butter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596031025376-5VNMYA2ICX4HUT6DJBNA/IMG_20200728_101458.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose This one shocked me for several reasons. 1) His artistic skills are ramping up each day. He’s already a better draftsman than I am (<—though that is admittedly not difficult :-D ), but he’s also taking in everything Ian teaches him. 2) The story behind this one involved a long discussion and unpacking. j- “Wow! What’s going on in this one? And is that person about to get eaten?!” Q- “Ok, so there is baby grabboid under the sand, and now we're above the sand where there is a giant grabboid with Papa riding it and waving his hat, and in front of Papa's grabboid the grabboid is about to eat President Trump, and in the sky there is me riding a jumping grabboid, and these letters are what it sounds like when it talks...and that is what is happening.” j - “Wow! Well…I love the humor in this, and the hilarious joy of Papa waving his hat, but we shouldn’t really be drawing folks getting eaten, Sweet Pea.” Q - But Trump doesn’t think that David should have the same rights as everyone else, and thinks it’s bad that he has a husband. And that makes me mad. That kind of thinking isn’t loving.” j - “Wow…well…fair point, but let’s draw that anger in a different direction next time…like maybe sandworms protecting David and Jim?” Q - “Ok, good idea!” First: understand that I’ll always teach Q that we don’t want anyone to be eaten by an imaginary creature. Second: understand that I’ll always be illuminating Q to the ways that our president is spewing hateful rhetoric through our land in a way that harms souls that mean the absolute world to us, and rolling back their protections for reasons that can only be described as myopic and heartless. Q’s going to be a protective world shaker for all the souls and species he loves, and he’ll have me backing him up all along his path. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596030246037-KQ67A9ZMAVOU3K20W3JW/IMG_20200726_110905.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Lunch: berbere black rice, summer squash, green beans, quick pickled cabbage, quick-pickled beets (made the same way), and topped with green onions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596030713159-F0Z2PA4MJU43XDWPWRIG/image-asset.jpeg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose The special Q-nique flare my dear Q brings to his summer homeschooling. He coulda just colored in those jackets, but instead one got a detailed sandworm design and the other is his attempt at a Spiderman jacket. <3 (I’d totally buy that sandworm jacket!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596030007852-ZR4S2340H8X0ZPYDAOFG/IMG_20200726_082657.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose What he eats (and LOVES) these days. (<—Spoiler in case you’re new: once we shifted to plant-based whole-foods he skyrocketed in growth and no longer has failure-to-thrive.) Plant-Based Kiddo Breakfast: black bean brownie sandwich with cashew cream and peanut butter, kiwi, and some apple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596030597950-L1GZ5VAYGM1AYR6F1RBX/IMG_20200726_215338.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Nightly Reading. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596031165403-KTKRHTQ5TN76QCT93VSQ/IMG_20200728_175744.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Another Board of Education night, so another dinner eaten while bobbing behind my mobile standing desk. Salad: romaine, green onions, quick-pickled cabbage, sweet potato, roasted chickpeas, furikake, and Q’s Sesame Dressing. Dessert: more brownie, cheery, cashew cream, and banana. :-) (<—eat plant-based whole-foods and you can gobble up deliciousness all day every day and feel GREAT.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596040659814-L3U55EH6NX358XDHZ8IO/IMG_20200727_113842.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Lunch: Cappello Chili, easy avocado, squash, romaine, roasted corn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596031186561-4SWX74Y6WTTNBG55JCEL/IMG_20200728_184525.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose Board Views in Pandemic Times and the stomach-rolling nausea of remote meetings while planning for in-person classes. We have appealed to start meeting IN-PERSON and will start doing so for the August meetings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1596030778743-PF700A5F73FE4I09X3GG/IMG_20200727_123135.jpg Home - Cappello Chili Recipe + Bean Benefits + Q's First Foray into Political Commentary + Tone &amp; Purpose He sure does! :-D “It’s a sandworm, a ghost kraken, an Audrey 2, and a grabboid.”. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/super-simple-sesame-dressing-recipe-plant-based-pediatric-nutrition-why-you-need-to-speak-up-for-the-health-of-your-kin-before-its-too-late monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594118226154-5NR8R2ZKZD175V42RUTQ/IMG_20200706_174017.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late If you have soy sauce, soy aminos, or tamari on hand: you can use those instead of aminos, just season per taste. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594119605454-TRCCEJ93WPCVEHPKHWZG/IMG_20200706_193044.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Last night Grandma and Grandpa came over to share some of their fireworks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594119702036-UM8CJFXS0PXMHUBTOXMK/IMG_20200706_203528.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Q’s plant-based buddy munching on some romaine we grew from seed. (Need to clean Rad’s terrarium today. He keeps it clean, but the frog kicks up dirt everywhere.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594118821762-3XACUL2TX1G3WHGQY5J6/IMG_20200705_124125.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Plant-Based Whole-Food Lunch: a deep bed of greens covered in easy avocado, roasted squash, braised carrots, quinoa (that had been seared with scapes, peppers, mushrooms), ruby kraut, and tomatoes prepped like the balsamic tomatoes but done so with a pickled jalapeno brine (makes the dressing for the whole dish). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594119235346-YC7KCV12XAMOZL2PO8OD/IMG_20200706_113231.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Q spent the latter half of the morning continuing to work on his latest creation: a Lego Beetlejuice sandworm. Here seen: him showing his progress to Ian. He’s made a hinged mouth! <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594119772614-MVYRXS2LU5VI0HG72HVO/IMG_20200707_053340.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late How are our lunches so colorful? I prep up a bunch of food and have it easy to pull out for meals. This is what our fridge currently looks like. To save on space (and to make sure things don’t go bad) I often puree up greens into fun sauces (like those jars on the door and the top shelf.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594118899390-AYJY1UYOX1ZD3HF62Q4M/IMG_20200705_193017.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Plant-Based Whole-Food Family Feasting Ian had missed lunch and breakfast, which is why his side looks like a trough of food. :-) We had an array of leftovers from a family barbecue Ian and Q had attended, so our bowls are a vibrant mix-match. I’m not going to list it all out here (you’ll see it all in the log below), but suffice it to say this was a highly varied, fiber-forward meal that was absolutely delicious. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594119444715-M24JW94GYJP2BSZ8F81P/IMG_20200706_181309.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Making the most of every scrap and dicing up the roasted peppers and tomatoes left from that barbecue to add to some dinner salads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594118493346-T3I229J2E9DQZNZ2TKIS/IMG_20200706_171804.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Add the vinegar to the jar first and grate in the garlic. If you don’t like a strong garlic flavor, let it sit in that acid for a bit to mellow out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594118517449-ULVGXPNWGH7O5B2A1WNU/IMG_20200706_172438.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Add the oil and aminos (or soy sauce), cover, shake, season to taste, and enjoy. Q loves this dressing so much he’d drink it, but use it in moderation. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594119154973-Q4ZF1NXANKDU32L4V4CJ/IMG_20200706_093246.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Folks, if you’re local: get ye to Navarino Orchard! They have so many unpicked raspberries that are just rotting away uneaten. You could be filling yourselves with delicious fiber, vitamins, and minerals! <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594118844369-ZU9CKWH0TK85Y4TKE0OR/IMG_20200705_132536.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Dessert: cashew cream cake (working on recipe) with raw raspberry sauce and peaches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594119464561-MU6LWB0SHMA9O2VIHU7Y/IMG_20200706_182445-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late What it looks like while I’m in the kitchen: prepping food, listening to podcasts, and making notes for illuminating folks who don’t have the time to do any of the above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594119490987-BQ1M3W2AMP89OY6YMOX0/IMG_20200706_183629.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Over here we ditched the harmful animal products and moved forward. I loved Q too much to knowingly fill him with disease, and he loves every single food we set before him. Here seen: Q helping me prepare some “breakfast for dinner” with side salads dressed in his favorite sesame dressing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594119752323-YZPB7GZ7ZXP2D1TJ1YSZ/IMG_20200706_213003.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Nightly Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594119414229-R73NMJQTUFRGNHL5FENM/IMG_20200706_174146.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late This sci-fi enthusiast thinks about bizarro creatures all day every day. <3 ”Look, Mama! It’s a mama sandworm, and little kid sandworm —like me— and she has two more babies she’s going to have soon!… and that’s the house from Beetlejuice and they have no idea that there are so many baby sandworms afoot!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594119265782-KA09ZSRUN1BT90MP8DNO/IMG_20200706_114722.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Plant-Based Whole-Food Lunch: that same quinoa medley (<—cook a big batch and you can pull from it for days!), fresh greens, tomatoes, squash, ruby kraut, and the last cucumbers from those barbecue leftovers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594118873621-50EHI289K1BE7CALK8CS/IMG_20200705_160734.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Made a fresh batch of Cappello Brownies and didn’t have any bananas on hand, so tried subbing in a cup of blueberries and BOY HOWDY was that a good idea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594119022109-J5XHLR1LCL4EP3RYQDZO/IMG_20200706_075235.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Q’s Quick Breakfast: Cappello Brownie (<—sugar free, black bean based, protein dense), cashew cream, peanut butter, and an apple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594119101643-FCHRQ849JIZOZJUTA1I3/IMG_20200706_085121.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late We spent the morning picking raspberries for Q’s grandma and were both shocked that it was in the 90s by 10. It’s the first time we haven’t filled both buckets: our polar bear selves could not stomach such heat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594118556390-ZIFLTL3L3YXFYPY8ICQ8/IMG_20200702_195635.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Almost identical to above, but with the added joy of Ruby Kraut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594119293737-EVL602LW9MLRMRY14QIA/IMG_20200706_122652.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Dessert: Cappello Brownie, Chocolate Mint Nice Cream, and Cashew Cream. Man, but plant-based eating is a drag, right? ;-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594119724058-B0RUV93FUQIAOTOMP4VL/IMG_20200706_203455.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Rad checking us out. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594118760072-VCB92AQ50INEY8WKSJYE/IMG_20200705_090503.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Q’s Plant-Based Whole-Food Breakfast: sweet cinnamon oats topped with a crumbly crust from the cashew-cream-cake recipe, cashew cream, peaches, and little raw raspberry sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594118468529-JQRJ3CJ4QVAS2YHFFRWE/IMG_20200706_170439.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late All you need to get started: apple cider vinegar, toasted sesame oil, soy sauce alternative or soy sauce (<—we can’t do soy), and a clove of garlic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594118980207-3QJCZNHIBB786Y5FL0C9/IMG_20200705_215745.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Nightly Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594119884371-72WKV42ENWC6OEIDB3R0/IMG_20200707_061714.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Just realized garlic wasn’t on this list (or the last one) because it is so omnipresent I fail to think of it singularly. So make it 83. :-) How’s your weekly plant variance going? The best nutritionally-focused docs recommend that you get at least 30 different plants into you within the week. Why? Your microbiome is bettered by diversity. Our input is so robust because we participate in a local CSA (<—saving a LOT of money over traditional shopping) and we eat plant-based for optimal health. Is your diet a rotation of meat and grains? That’s what mine used to be. You only make what you measure, and America is sadly known to be severely deficient in fiber. Gut health = whole health so it is worth focusing on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594119393041-6GDB8ZJIUBU1GVTRCA65/IMG_20200706_164032.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late I homeschooled Q through the Spring quarantine and have continued to do so through the summer. He works though some kindergarten workbooks and this Kindergarten prep book from Highlights. Here seen: he was supposed to draw a self-portrait. “It’s me to scale next to a Tremors* sandworm, a Beetlejuice sandworm, and a shai-hulud: the biggest sandworm of them all!” *he hasn’t seen Tremors, he’s only seen pictures of grabboids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594119515399-D9DF9KVRNZQ8G8VI0OWM/IMG_20200706_184158.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Cappello Breakfast For Dinner Salad: bed of kale/swiss shard/romaine, snap peas, green onions, quick-pickled medley (radish and red cabbage this time), squash, shiitake mushrooms, and that mix of peppers/tomatoes/onions, dressed in the sesame dressing. Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats: with peaches, banana, raw raspberry sauce, cashew cream, flax meal, golden flax seeds, and crushed pecans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594119334039-7I1ZSBAAQA1Y70F4ZTKC/IMG_20200704_123741.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Tastes great on any vegetable you can think of. Here seen: a bed of fresh greens, easy avocado, snap peas, green onions, squash, braised carrots, and a stir-fry (of mushrooms, lentil loaf, and peppers), topped with furikake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1594118949174-7KM7OTUR55PR8RBNK9JT/IMG_20200705_201110.jpg Home - Super Simple Sesame Dressing Recipe + Plant-Based Pediatric Nutrition + Why you need to speak up now for the health of your kin before it's too late Sunday Night treat for family movie time: homemade, zero-waste, plant-based popcorn. <3 https://www.jasquatch.com/home/sweet-cinnamon-overnight-oats-recipe-planetary-imperatives-from-a-5-year-old-worried-for-his-future-children monthly 0.5 2021-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593684099937-GFW3YNQKBKNRDQGB9JEF/IMG_20200701_125534.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Plant-Based Whole-Food Lunch: Romaine, green onions, snap peas, red peppers, Ruby Kraut (<—red cabbage), leftover seared mushrooms and peppers from those tacos, sunflower curry sauce, quick-pickled medley, and a purple sweet potato for me and roasted golden ones for him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593684513057-DO6WXQYV285PZN2HENDZ/90707946_10102640737492975_3142188646300385280_o.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593684226731-BOLA4IZBZ5FKV7AJ8456/IMG_20200701_170237.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Zero-Waste Low-Budget Meal-Prepping. We kept all the reusable bags from frozen fruit that carried us through Spring’s quarantine, and have been filling them with freshly picked fruit and throwing them back in the freezer to get us through the winter. Navarino Orchard is not organic, and if you want to make sure you get all the pesticides off of your fruit, make sure you soak them in a solution of 1 tsp baking soda per 2 cups water. It removes all of the pesticides that may be on there. I never knew about this pesticide hack until I heard it on this brilliant interview with Nutritionist James Marin titled “Bettering Your Health With Environmental Nutrition”. Not only will you get an illuminating overview of the toxins that are commonly found in our foods, you’ll get one of the best explanations of how your microbiome and digestive system work together, how the Standard American Diet causes diabetes, how keto is ruining your health, and much more. I listened to that podcast 6 times over the last few months and I’d happily listen to it again. Set yourself aside the mental space for a listen and you’ll have you whole mind and world opened up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593703136219-BCARPQ0RQEHBN3ZRZAXJ/IMG_20200623_072244.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children An on-the-go breakfast for Q. What fills my kiddo up so he doesn’t even mention food until I holler “Lunch time!”? Complex carbs like this apple (which is full of fiber) and protein dense walnuts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593684359475-ABVNGBEW6DAXD5T2WGER/IMG_20200701_202718.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Even Rad got a raspberry. :-) (This was completely gone by this morning.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593684751085-LFQZ3TZHS6HUSKFT4DRK/IMG_20200322_075343%2B%281%29.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children From We Are The Weather https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593683596605-R94K31OOV5CS125G2Q4A/PANO_20200630_115126.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children “What I like most about picking raspberries is that I don’t have to hunch over like I do with strawberries. Raspberries are a nicer fruit.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593683672750-JBCHPPNHAHYQEEFT43ZR/IMG_20200630_131755.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Plant-Based Whole-Food Lunch Prep https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593684259368-E4N4R2B2BW412NXKYQF1/IMG_20200701_192056.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Plant-Based Dinner Salads are not my favorite meal, but we’ve hit summer, and as seen in Sunday’s-post I have a lot of greens I need to eat through, so we are making the most of what we’ve got. Here seen: kale, lettuce, pea tendrils, green onions bell peppers, quick-pickled medley, and steam-seared mushrooms & lentil loaf. Topped it all with a toasted sesame dressing and it was so good Q asked for seconds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593683631230-L3WZAFEXTIKH8Z9O404W/IMG_20200630_131712_1.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Our ash was killed by emerald ash bore and felled by Apple Valley Tree Service. Huzzah for firewood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593683386666-TAX5JUARD6BOWMNYKZ1U/PANO_20200630_111824.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children He has energy for days! (That’s two of him because he moved fast while I was taking the shot.) Worried your kid won’t get the nutrients they need on a plant-based whole-food diet? I’ve covered that in spades, and here’s a direct link extolling the health BENEFITS from the Physicians For Responsible Medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593701952749-JS7RU5CPU1TA0799K6OK/IMG_20200702_103910.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Homeschooling a Sci-Fi enthusiast continued. :-) What’s a shai-hulud? It’s a sandworm from Dune (<—part of our nightly reading.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593683126207-VWVGULTG8PSODOE8WJQQ/IMG_20200626_091539.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Similar to above, but if you add crushed up pecans it tastes like berry cobbler. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593684334902-804M1E6OH00NIL9IIJIU/IMG_20200701_195348.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Plant-Based Whole-Food Dessert: sweet cinnamon oats with raw raspberry sauce (simply pureed berries we picked in the morning and added a little lemon juice and cinnamon), flax meal, and “breakfast cereal” cashew cream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593683165417-219XI5QWHPMHQAYGOW4T/IMG_20200625_094414.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Or skip the berries and just go with nuts and flax meal. (If you’re doing maple, that’d be delicious on this.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593683975968-SUPUOXUBH6HHXJB9AL0K/IMG_20200630_184819.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Plant-Based Taco Tuesday: black beans, steam-seared mushrooms with peppers, green onions, fresh lettuce, “Holy Moly!” sauce, and quick-pickled medley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593684145895-UA6YHTXH7MU4NAW4MBXD/IMG_20200701_133249.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Plant-Based Whole-Food Dessert: cashew cream cake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593682928361-5FYZ0HLTNODBQSXOSUR6/IMG_20200625_165746.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children You can use any plant milk as a sub. Don’t have dates on hand or want this to be even easier? Add whatever low-glycemic sweetener you prefer. Don’t have nutritional yeast? It isn’t necessary (just adds a creamier, deeper flavor) and you could add more vanilla to punch up the flavor. Though, for your health, you should start buying nutritional yeast. :-) You can also make this super cheap if you make your own easy oatmilk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593683706231-M81QCQSX0CLN58SPC66F/IMG_20200630_132025.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Romaine, green onions, snap peas, pepitas, black rice, sunflower curry sauce, and quick-pickled medley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593683897293-1Y6H04VHL2FV3T6UZXJW/IMG_20200630_134443.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Plant-Based Dessert: Chocolate Mint Nice Cream https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593683214614-Y4E4O3UGRJY7OA1PBCR4/IMG_20200624_093353.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children And if you don’t have fresh berries on hand, frozen ones can be reheated. This is another Q favorite: strawberries and peaches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593684048242-EBBIV0OV5O9V3YEJ7MEL/IMG_20200701_094017.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Another morning of berry picking with my favorite old-soul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593683314569-S6LBCZZFQCDYJXJ3BPWJ/IMG_20200630_074618.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children We ditched the dishwasher (<—never worked right, and we like saving resources by handwashing/air-drying) and put in a little fridge to catch the overflow from our CSA, and to give Q a space where he has easy access to the foods he prepares for himself. (That container between his head and arm is a double batch of sweet cinnamon oatmeal in a container he can easily open.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593683337598-MC0IF1X98T7VWZU2YPXA/IMG_20200630_080631.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Plant-Based Whole-Food Kiddo Breakfast Q made himself: cinnamon sweet oats, apple, golden flax, a little peanut butter, and 2 pecans. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593701826383-31NPOQCMYPVVGQ57Z7QT/IMG_20200702_103525+%281%29.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Ingredients for a batch of sweet cinnamon overnight oats: whole oats, oatmilk, cinnamon, dates, vanilla, and nutritional yeast. (salt per taste) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593683997947-256WE0UJDAX22Z9260MV/IMG_20200630_213047.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Nightly Reading (with some interesting discussions about how disgusting and harmful “green eggs and ham” would be and how we need to keep illuminating people about the benefits and deliciousness of plant-based whole-foods.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593684075876-SUYOB2A8HNB0P2MTBWY7/IMG_20200701_095430.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children We picked 8lbs of raspberries, and then I went home and mowed the lawn before lunch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593684195663-RUTTA7S9L8AMHFPU2SOA/IMG_20200701_154824.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Continued sci-fi enthusiast homeschooling: Shai-huluds are on the mind! :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593684403068-EN9RPCOKXL1D1REY7YWN/IMG_20200701_220338.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Nightly Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593683256005-ISD9OE0JK59KE1CLGHF9/IMG_20200630_073504.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Q’s Morning Chalkboard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593683039880-7HOPBTZFDZTCIXTQQNWO/IMG_20200628_073408.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children My favorite: banana, berry sauce (<—add berries to a pan, simmer until they’ve reduced their liquid, puree, add seasonings-per-taste), flax meal, and cashew cream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593683003029-L3NM49EK6YX6XOQJSB8Y/IMG_20200625_085127.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children There are so many topping options! <3 Here’s a Q favorite: blackberries, golden flax, and peanuts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593684474990-BQNYRSTEJ2V5RGCEG72L/IMG_20200507_062954.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children From Undo It by Dr Dean Ornish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593683472883-TFCIJM6X4HXETE6A5GQ0/IMG_20200630_113614.jpg Home - Sweet Cinnamon Overnight Oats Recipe + Planetary Imperatives from a 5 Year Old Worried For His Future Children Berry picking in pandemic times. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/grilling-up-amines-sulfides-secondary-bile-salts-how-animal-products-are-giving-you-cancer-colitis-diabetes-and-cardiovascular-disease-especially-if-youre-grilling-them monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593081280018-44OL5M3C5W6FAMX4GJJ8/IMG_20200624_114216.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) How’s summer homeschool going? All Chtulhus all the time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593082905716-IJZW0N2I9S9MM8WPW6JX/IMG_20200624_160359.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) Kids, Cats, and Boxes. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593081581799-YDJ8WELE6U2PIFW1QB7E/IMG_20200623_191903.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) Onondaga Board of Education <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593084321071-POR2VYYZTUK1K5CONQXM/IMG_20200625_070804.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) Remember how I said that our best doctors are advising you to eat at least 30 different plants a week? I used to log this on our computer, I kept failing to document on multiple systems, so I’ve started a new place for it within the log. We started this list on Monday and this is where we’re at by Wednesday: 40 different plants so far. Y’all need more fiber in your diets and you need more diversity in the plant line-up delivering it you. Start logging it and you’ll see where improvements can be made. You only make what you measure. <3 I started this thinking we were going to be low in greens, but that category keeps growing and I find myself realizing we need to be adding more in the beta carotene and anthocyanin realms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593081505421-L1DHKEDSSIZ0C3IAOU4Y/IMG_20200623_144616.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593082757569-E2IJHMUMJS2MNRJTS1V6/IMG_20200624_134857.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) Q calls this the “Blackest Black Smoothie”: blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, spirulina, and oatmilk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593085016199-VSXONMH0XYYIFSGPS6BW/IMG_20200625_052212.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593081189124-8AZLB2WQOL6AINAWFUDR/IMG_20200623_081248.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) Plant-Based Kiddo Breakfast: cinnamon oatmeal with golden flax and frozen raspberries. (“Don’t heat them up! I like how they taste like little jewels of delicious ice!”) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593081558919-ON0SWNT1AP7P0GF1CRAL/IMG_20200623_175720.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) Had a short break before the 6PM Onondaga Central Board of Education Meeting and prepped this Plant-Based Whole-Food Dinner: quinoa with seared mushrooms and peppers, steam-sauteed mustard greens, romaine, quick-pickled cabbage, balsamic tomatoes, avocado, roasted corn, and enchilada sauce. Dessert? Sweet cinnamon oatmeal (<—overnight oat recipe that’ll be coming up soon, has dates in it for sweetness) with peanut butter and unsweetened flaked coconut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593081214910-BWKET3XYXMSTOTWRR93N/IMG_20200623_084714.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) Q gets 30 minutes of solo TV a day and he chooses to do it over his breakfast. Usually he watches PBS kids, but he asked to watch Charlotte’s Web this week, and we spread it out over several days. A) I loved this movie (and book) as a kid and I love it even more now. B) If you do as well, but you’re still eating the pig-flesh, how do you reconcile the sympathy for the cartoon pig, but not the smarter-than-your-dog, sings-to-its-young, real-live pig needlessly slaughtered just for taste? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593081604335-8RSMOOUWZ5HARN26OZV2/IMG_20200623_212141.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) Nightly Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593081656622-073SIQXZ85XSMGPE4O2R/IMG_20200623_222151.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) I’m reading about the necessity of cardio and remembering with alarm that my day was full of movement but I’d forgot to factor in cardio (spoiler: I’ll do the same thing the next day, and we’ll get to that in the wrap up.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593081708945-56EHHK4YMJDVS0TNV6NM/IMG_20200624_115807.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) “It’s two people so shocked by a shai-hulud that they are scared right out of their shoes!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593081447481-7BMY1DCNA8TD4J5YGEGD/PANO_20200623_153244.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) How Q spent an afternoon in the 90s: “Mama, I built myself an ice cave!” (I was working on paperwork in the room beyond.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593082707171-4YP8TN75Z6J323H8QSN1/IMG_20200624_132245.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) The beauty, health, and deliciousness of plant-based whole-foods! <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593081164205-Q7DB5ZBDF6T1Y841BVAP/IMG_20200623_101035.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) Q’s Morning Chalkboard: we’re up to page 365 in Dune, he’s talking about it all the time, and this long spate of 80+ degree days coupled with no rain is making for lots of dry dirt outdoors for him to imagine as Arrakis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593081531048-ODCGEW6MG05M2Y4QLQN7/IMG_20200623_171559.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) Real Life Sometimes things are a topsy-turvy mess. Tuesday was a bit of swirl because we woke up to the news that there was a water-main break and we shouldn’t use our water through the day without boiling it. The alert was lifted in the late afternoon, so I was in the process of running every line in the house (per the OCWA recommendations), making oatmilk, and searing up some mushrooms/peppers/quinoa for a eat-it-during-your-Board-Meeting meal, when two things happened simultaneously: I noticed the lid had leaked oatmilk every where and I received a text saying that an Audit Meeting I thought was at 5:30 had started at 5. I laughed out loud at the comedy, responded to sweet Board President Maggie pronto, hopped on over to Zoom, and cleaned up this chaos while absorbing a brief about how our district is going to navigate these alarming times… which come with financial hardships to districts as well as all the logistical labyrinths. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593081331878-WVT4YWBCO068F7OD1D5B/IMG_20200623_124252.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) Lentil Loaf Tacos with: quick-pickled cabbage, bell peppers, romaine, sorrel, roasted corn, and “Holy Moly!” sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593084351099-UEWFA8SOETSBCR513OOA/IMG_20200624_215528.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) Nightly Reading One of my oldest friends bought “Big Orange Splot” for Q and it is one of our favorite and dearest books. It’s all about the importance of representing yourself truthfully and not blending in with what society expects of you. Love this book as much as we love Mark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593081682899-ZIK07RKEFNDU9B9KGHJO/IMG_20200624_093353.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) Plant-Based Kiddo Breakfast: sweet cinnamon oats with strawberries and peaches. I remembered “Peaches” (by the Presidents of the United States of America) when Q pulled some peaches victoriously from the freezer, laughed at the memory of that ridiculous creation, asked if he wanted to hear a funny song from my childhood, and the result was dancing and “We NEED to add this to our mix.” :-D https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593081413255-8ECWQKTBOOXUQNRZBQNK/IMG_20200623_131614.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) Vanilla coconut nice cream that partially melted while I got distracted cleaning up the counter. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593083155868-L0A5UNPGME8MH5WKYQP4/IMG_20200624_190036+%281%29.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) Plant-Based Family Feasting: vegetable red curry (cauliflower, peas, mustard greens, kale, broccoli), hempeh, pea shoots, green onions, roasted corn, furikake, and peanuts for Ian and Q who were going big-time. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593083083696-VJXELWGBXKEOPUFDOQ64/IMG_20200624_155245.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593081479007-EOX4LX09H3DAPQ273Z1C/IMG_20200623_153236.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593082732987-5HH3DU8JCI3MG919Z84B/IMG_20200624_132205.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) Plant-Based Whole-Food Mama Bear & Cub Lunch: quinoa (with mushrooms and peppers), peas, broccoli, romaine, quick-pickled cabbage, and “Holy Moly!” sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593081309578-FA67YJU3VGURMD5SNTGI/IMG_20200623_124021.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) What lunch prepping looks like. On the docket: even more lentil loaf tacos. :-D https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593082804481-ZDR0R9YWZ9JG4BKVU92A/PANO_20200624_161604.jpg Home - Grilling Up Amines, Sulfides, &amp; Secondary Bile Salts: How animal products are giving you cancer, colitis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. (ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GRILLING THEM!) Q found a good way to stay out of the sun but keep me company while I trimmed bushes. <3 https://www.jasquatch.com/home/holy-moly-sauce-recipe-perpetual-planetary/health-imperatives monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592911497028-JL2MWW53GTVLYYQ78UZ6/IMG_20200622_131905.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives What’s Q doing these days? Drawing all the dang time. This is less than 48 hours of drawings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592912055199-8NUDUL4852Z6L7K0FYT6/IMG_20200622_132911.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives And Q: forever drawing, talking, eating. Repeat. Here seen: Boba Fett and the Sarlacc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592911079365-CSNGX8YXUDVYRTDBO1MQ/IMG_20200621_182417.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Q’s “Weird” Morning Chalkboard: Telling him he had popcorn on his horizon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592912162553-S3KKTHHZ4A2ENQVEF27O/IMG_20200622_182451.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Shwarma-Style wraps for dayyyyyys. At this point we’re trying to work through Crystal’s tzatziki, but really we’d eat these dang things for every meal and still be food-dancing. These are so good that I have stuff piling up in the fridge that we could be eating, but we keep wanting to eat these instead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592910942344-92UPB95VAY56JUISYAW7/IMG_20200622_173840.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives How easy is this sauce? You’re going to take the ingredients from above, shove everything into your blender, and it’s done in under a minute. Don’t worry about chopping the onions or cilantro! The blender will do it for you! <—made the first batch this way, and the only reason the onions are cut up in the above pic is that I had diced them all up as a meal-prep and they were the only ones on hand; but the first batch had 2 long green onions as a swirl in there and they were pulverized soon thereafter. (The pic at the very top of this post is from Batch 1) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592911949535-MBSSVPE4OU9A526A98CW/PANO_20200622_082213.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Belly full with plant-based power, we were up to Navarino Orchard by 8 to start picking more strawberries. Why so much berry picking? It’s cheaper to pick them yourself, we can conserve waste by putting them in our own reusable freezer bags, and it gets this kiddo out into the sunshine for physical activity before it gets too hot. (He’ll start on schoolwork as soon as he’s home.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592910995126-BJTFSPG0G4OR4YC1Z213/IMG_20200621_192011.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Tasted AMAZING alongside a bowl of quick-pickled cabbage, fresh greens, that turnip-radish salad we made, Crystal’s amazing tzatziki, and I took some quinoa and “refried” it (didn’t use oil, but heated it in a pan on the stove) with leftover seared mushrooms-with-peppers, and MY GOODNESS that was so easy and delicious! That recipe will be coming up soon. You could eat it hot, you could eat it cold, I could eat it attached to my face like a horse feeder and eat it all the livelong day. ”Holy Moly!” would also taste good on any wrap you’d put guac on, or any meal you’d serve quac with. You could eat with chips or vegetables as a dip too….Q would eat it right out of the jar with a spoon if I let him. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592912368707-SQIVOW17319IUI3GQ8ZF/IMG_20200622_194410.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Lemon Verbena: my favorite scent in the yard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592911558344-ZSBSQ8K9500RUD59BOCS/IMG_20200621_152513.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Q’s current favorite smoothie: black smoothie. (<—blueberries, raspberries, spirulia, and oatmilk.) Spirulina is a health wonder, and is a good source or iron, copper, and a great source of Omega Fatty Acids (it’s a vibrant DHA source). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592912340530-UVPL5ERZKX5HHQWM26F7/IMG_20200622_194031.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives The roses seen straight ahead from that hop arbor. These guys could not be more neglected and yet they thrive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592911989111-OYXN4G5KZXUVL8IC5B0T/IMG_20200622_083228.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Berry picking companion. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592911536935-YIHI3YTIKLZZZ4MR37TF/IMG_20200621_115426.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Current Plant-Based Crush: making shwarma style wraps with Crystal’s tzatziki. Here seen: siete tortilla, lentil loaf, tzatziki, quick-pickled cabbage, romaine, and steam-seared mushrooms-and-peppers, with a side of radish-turnip salad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592911752267-FQ2N9S6ZCY3OB920VNUR/IMG_20200622_064206.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Monday Morning view. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592912290835-C1K43JHLG393NHP26CC1/PANO_20200622_194614.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Evening Yard Time: a yard parched from the span of hot/dry days and thankful for the afternoon’s rain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592911252031-QMYYYESMLOD9D2MLRCSX/IMG_20200621_085657.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Plant-Based Kiddo Breakfast: berry bread, fresh strawberries, cashew cream, and peanut butter tentacles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592912141373-AMIOHMHOMHS1HCFZB0IB/IMG_20200622_132949.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives “Mama, I made you a drawing of a man in the moonlight talking to his Watcher pet.” <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592911813200-LTULE6T82BW4SH169OY4/IMG_20200623_072244.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Q’s on-the-go plant-based breakfast. When you’re on the run, do you tend to shove some refined carb delight down your gullet? Does it feel momentarily delicious, but then you’re ravenous soon thereafter? I used to do that and used to do the same with Q; and then I started learning about macro and miconutrients and how to fuel us with power instead of disease. Now an on-the-go-breakfast is the whole-food filling wonder of fibrous fruit and some protein-dense Omega 3 Fatty Acid awesome walnuts. Guess who isn’t saying, “I’m Hunnnngry!” within the hour? The same two souls who can also continue on merrily until their plant-based lunch, even after picking strawberries in hot sun and 83 degree morning temps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592912401177-P4PFGYLG0OXK0ITH5NWC/IMG_20200622_204541.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Nightly Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592911231999-9OSHC1NBZKOSISTGBLBO/IMG_20200621_054202.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Dawn nemesis. Our neighborhood has its own community of roaming yet-owned-by-some-local-soul pets and this one likes to come into our yard and attack Wicket. When Malaprop was alive she’d chase him out of the yard with a vengeance, but now that she’s passed away, we have to keep an eye out for him and chase him ourselves. Why can’t Wicket defend herself? Wicket is deaf. She has no idea he’s coming until his tooth and claw are already in her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592912018380-55UCXQC8GSRAENBXD96C/PANO_20200622_115632.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives June in House Cappello: scraping paint outside, prepping up berries inside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592911673947-EYZFDKI3Z6JSBUIZ2VLY/IMG_20200621_183426.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Have some quinoa on hand? You can reheat with whatever leftover vegetables (or mushrooms) you have on hand, and it makes a delicious dish akin to fried rice: but bursting with way more protein. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592911698178-U3H6GI55GX37XKYP65XF/IMG_20200621_192011.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives “Holy Moly” sauce, quick-pickled cabbage, fresh greens, turnip-radish salad, Crystal’s amazing tzatziki, and “refried” quinoa. This is a new filling family favorite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592912080747-W2BE7UOQDZARGSE6XSJZ/IMG_20200622_121544.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Plant-Based Lunch: Loaded Potato Soup, quinoa, broccoli, steamed mustard greens, and that radish-turnip salad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592912114389-ZIUBLMAL0U95R1YJNTCE/IMG_20200622_125534.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Vanilla Nice Cream with a peanut butter swirl. Q - “If people know about peanut butter, how could they possibly still eat meat?? Peanut butter is just SO good! It’s… it’s better than anything in the world!!” j - “Well, that’s a great question, and I hear you on the peanut butter love —I Love it too!— but some people are allergic to peanuts.…” Q - “Well yeah, I know that…but if they aren’t allergic: they should be eating more peanuts, and if they aren’t allergic to bananas, then they should be eating Nice Cream instead of ice cream because it tastes better and it isn’t ruining the earth, it’s healthier for you, and it is DELICIOUS!” Preach it, Tiny Sage. Preach it. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592911716857-F9L650HF7Z0NA5HDRA56/IMG_20200621_215313.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Sunday Night Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592912318883-QXZRQ4EJ3DHKF9RTJV99/IMG_20200622_194437.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Platycodon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592912201103-AGVIH3P1WD41J6K95X5H/IMG_20200622_182416.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Here seen: siete tortilla, lentil loaf, tzatziki, quick-pickled cabbage, romaine, roasted corn, bell peppers, and avocado. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592910664143-CXYV6T0Z9S1POS96JWVV/IMG_20200623_054740.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Increase, decrease, swap out any of these ingredients per your own preferences or allergies. In case my chicken-scratch is too hard to read: 1 bunch of cilantro, 2 green onions, 1 clove of garlic, 1 tsp lemon juice, 1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar, 1/3 cup raw almonds (let me know how it is with roasted ones if that’s all you have), 1/2 cup water, and salt per taste. Allergic to nuts? Try raw peptitas (pumpkin seeds) and adjust the rest of the flavors accordingly. Pepitas are a little less sweet than almonds, so you’d maybe want a touch more apple cider vinegar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592910741879-TZSQ4S14D9JQ6CSPICQN/IMG_20200622_173137.jpg Home - "Holy Moly!" Sauce Recipe + Perpetual Planetary/Health Imperatives Everything needed for a batch of “Holy Moly” Sauce (minus the 1/2 tsp of apple cider vinegar I forgot to add) https://www.jasquatch.com/home/loaded-potato-soup-recipe-more-planetary-imperatives monthly 0.5 2024-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592303673224-WYL1C6B76YBPP0746ICX/IMG_20200614_105321+%281%29.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives Before https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592304336413-SVQQ4JY6W7WX0HR2Y11J/IMG_20200615_190359.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives I spent Monday afternoon meal prepping for us and then preparing these meals for my father: loaded potato soup, lentil loaf, garlicky peas, and steam-sauteed mushrooms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592303326118-JRV9ANJQEMJQR2AYJIGZ/IMG_20200601_172702.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives Season and cover with water. Bring to a boil and let simmer for about 30 minutes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592303935295-2QAL9CJO4J6TKRSXW3I9/IMG_20200614_144143.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives Q: drawing any moment he isn’t speaking or eating. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592305305289-XIFBC2RWS5K4CTLGUQ18/IMG_20200615_212951.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives Last night’s reading. (Opted for less picture book and more read-aloud Dune.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592303713385-T5YM42S3WWLWP4T6OPHF/IMG_20200614_125143.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives Amazing discovery: you can slice up the lentil loaf and throw it on a hardshell taco and top it with seared peppers/onions, fresh greens, quick-pickled cabbage, and hot sauce and it is AMAZING. As soon as I can have people over to the house THIS is what the appetizer will be, because I could also attach a plate of these like a feed trough and eat happily all the livelong day as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592303422231-8NM1B15VPR5WG948MWMP/IMG_20200601_183231.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives We eat it in big bowls with all sorts of additions like: roasted broccoli, mushrooms, quinoa, and garlicky kale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592302913870-O71FY5FJRSCO56PPTWLU/IMG_20200616_053245+%281%29.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592304165517-H7JAU8N1B6GFNWXJ99FT/IMG_20200615_124110.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives Plant Based Lunch: left over black bean and hempeh enchiladas, green beans, quick-pickled cabbage, and sorrel from the yard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592303446578-A9CXLUPB5NC2DI4KDAMC/IMG_20200602_123132.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives Or buffalo hempeh, brussel sprouts, broccoli, and garlicky kale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592303466617-8KS5R68VH2J9F6HZ0KN2/IMG_20200410_193323.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592303773460-MNG27S6F2ITNHECU9BST/IMG_20200614_141103.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives Old wood for a tongue, and Q make this tiny Fremen. <3 Grandma - “Interesting. Why did you decided to not give him legs?” Q - *sounding like a total teenager* “Grannnndma, it’s a robe. Fremen wear robes.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592303302066-JYC005A98UOV8H9TUB67/IMG_20200601_171528.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives Chop up the potatoes and add them to the pot of onion and garlic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592303973687-BT0YTINDJG21POWN9ULY/IMG_20200614_183312.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives We still have Good Planet Cheese kicking around, so I made black bean and buffalo hempeh enchiladas, and served with seared onion-and-peppers, fresh garden greens, and quick picked cabbage and it was AMAZING. I’m going to try to post how to do our homemade enchilada sauce soon, but if you want to buy some Frontera makes a great sauce https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592303262439-GRWZKV29QSBD803VNE0R/IMG_20200601_170625.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives And when I say “grated garlic” to truly mean freshly grated garlic. Not granulated garlic. :-) This imparts a totally different flavor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592304089977-2TSI6MJ6GGIJF8GOTKC3/IMG_20200615_085047.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives Monday morning was also a whirl and I caught Q making his breakfast midway, and it was gone before I remembered to take another photo. :-) It was strawberry oatmeal, a sliver of black bean brownie, banana, and oatmilk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592303213106-RB3ARE4J028Q816PS5XK/IMG_20200601_163120.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives Dice up the onions or shallots first and add them to the pot so you can start caramelizing them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592303584320-0XSW2BSG4H1HU508I2R7/IMG_20200614_094219.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives Sunday Plant-Based Breakfast: strawberry oatmeal, a bit of the black bean brownie, apple, “breakfast cereal” cream, and peanut butter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592303356552-HJHNS35MD9P4ZA3I8WW9/IMG_20200410_115901.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives Remove the bay leaf (and keep to put back in) and use and immersion blender to puree once the potatoes are soft. Add more water if necessary. Season to taste. Add back in the bay leaf. Simmer for another short spell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592304063832-SX0HKDZ3IQYFYUFTGH0Y/IMG_20200614_183329.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592305242448-JCQPWQDRGPLXU7L80OFE/IMG_20200615_203407.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives Ian’s late night dinner bowl. :-) That long-working man works remotely from 6-3:30 that transitions to working on the house til after 8. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592303646677-RSDX27K21QXISEX90C1Q/IMG_20200614_144626.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives After Did my best to turn the hedge in the back into a sandworm for Q. It’s total j-level art: haphazard and impressionistic. (Ian is a total meticulous meaningful realist, Q is fantastical with a Wes Anderson quirk of doing so precisely as he views it.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592303747878-PS25YCWKICQD0GPQQJEF/IMG_20200614_132322.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives Also amazing (and a plant-based whole-food): blueberry and mango nice cream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592303907521-ZVN9P7122Y8RRPWMN1W4/PANO_20200614_171423.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives Sunday Grandma and Grandpa came over for a distant spell. Q ran back and forth showing Grandma Tara all his latest fantastic drawings, and eventually they just sat and chat. (I’d spent the afternoon trimming the quince bush and lilac tree on the back of the house, and Ian continued preparing the East wall for me to start painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592303385784-QGHIHJOYDLYGQE58OSP7/IMG_20200410_121250.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives Enjoy immediately or throw it in the fridge and use it throughout the week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592303234792-MP51TUZWOZY49V4F7TW6/IMG_20200601_163848.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives You’ll do this with water and salt, just like in the lentil loaf and refried bean recipes. Or you could do oil too, if that’s your jam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592305203865-XGP6NOQUA0NDOUVW4H5G/IMG_20200615_191631.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives Lentil loaf tacos for dayyyyyyys! With steam-seared peppers/onions/garlic/mushrooms, quick pickled cabbage, and yard sorrel. Covered this heavily with hot sauce but forgot to document. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592303509761-70HSMIHOBXKN54HWL2G6/IMG_20200614_104614.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives Q’s Morning Chalkboard (sandworm and an octopus) and a visual reminder of why I need to cut back mornings of typing: we need to paint this house ourselves and this body is needed outdoors helping with that venture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592303120040-GXF9DEH2M4YJ7OBA1005/IMG_20200601_161920.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives What you need to get started: onion (or shallots), garlic, potatoes, smoked paprika, nutritional yeast, salt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592305558358-XDLZ8BG409PVZOPTXSRK/image-asset.jpeg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1592304208044-2Z258W55FNWLSZR3Q9ZM/IMG_20200615_131522.jpg Home - "Loaded Potato Soup" Recipe &amp; More Planetary Imperatives Blueberry, strawberry, oatmilk smoothie. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/polenta-recipe-how-diet-causes-pcos monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591871979015-3OXTGJZQL3F42MHSN98D/IMG_20200605_181900.jpg Home - Polenta Recipe + How Diet Connects to PCOS Add it to your stove and bring to a boil. By the time it is at a boil almost all the excess water has been absorbed. Keep stirring until all the extra water is gone and it is at the consistency of a thick porridge. Most polenta recipes can take between 30-40 minutes of continuous stirring. This is always done in under 15. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591872622372-0LUCJQ3EO0LJXZ5RZ1P7/IMG_20200610_212844.jpg Home - Polenta Recipe + How Diet Connects to PCOS Nightly Reading: the Pout Pout Fish book we like most of all, more Dune (“Mama, let’s just do one picture book tonight, I want to get more pages into Dune), and Fiber Fueled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591872676820-GMBACSWOF3JM9YUSZRVX/IMG_20200611_054016+%281%29.jpg Home - Polenta Recipe + How Diet Connects to PCOS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591871958456-X6AKAKA9ORP3JQPJHS1O/IMG_20200605_181427.jpg Home - Polenta Recipe + How Diet Connects to PCOS Add the water slowly and stir continuously so you prevent clumps. This is going to look too watery, but I promise it’ll all be absorbed super quick. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591872457861-VQQXDCIIL9UNQ5SUBQC4/IMG_20200610_125756.jpg Home - Polenta Recipe + How Diet Connects to PCOS Plant-Based Whole-Food Lunch: black rice noodles, vegetable red curry (garbanzo beans, carrot, kale, peas, broccoli, and asparagus), bell peppers, and avocado. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591871998656-NOZSWM1XWAGK5WOG5P1Y/IMG_20200605_182204.jpg Home - Polenta Recipe + How Diet Connects to PCOS When it as at the desired consistency, pull it off the burner and let it rest for 5-10 minutes. It’s going to retain its heat, but it is also going to solidify even more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591872393881-7QNUWZZZ87SNVGR8DOLI/IMG_20200610_141716.jpg Home - Polenta Recipe + How Diet Connects to PCOS Q’s morning chalkboard: another reminder that the day would be hot, so he could go to the pool with Ian once he finished his school work and helped me do some cooking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591871670240-PNBM5GFT2DXBE460EL62/IMG_20200605_184707.jpg Home - Polenta Recipe + How Diet Connects to PCOS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591872656269-U5910JC2Q9RUABP0LG4V/IMG_20200611_054046.jpg Home - Polenta Recipe + How Diet Connects to PCOS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591872329970-GDHPXKH6891Q22Z81TZC/IMG_20200609_123145.jpg Home - Polenta Recipe + How Diet Connects to PCOS Or throw it into a bowl and serve with lentil loaf peas, and marinara. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591872482092-212CQ1515VWB2P6EMZB8/IMG_20200610_133131.jpg Home - Polenta Recipe + How Diet Connects to PCOS Yesterday’s Nice Cream: vanilla peanut butter. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591872030582-Z3MHL4FH5YUOTJ8ZKXWI/IMG_20200605_191013.jpg Home - Polenta Recipe + How Diet Connects to PCOS Spoon it into a bowl and serve with fibrous vegetables, pesto, and balsamic tomatoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591872560694-PGT2T9Y3K9GLDT11DUIS/IMG_20200610_181741.jpg Home - Polenta Recipe + How Diet Connects to PCOS Solo dinner (caught midway through). I’m on the Onondaga Central Board Of Education and we have Zoom meetings that span several hours. I perch myself behind my standing desk and work my way through kind feasting. That’s a fresh black bean brownie with cashew cream and peanut butter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591871910284-72DR3IRWZRTUJV9PRLTN/IMG_20200605_181155.jpg Home - Polenta Recipe + How Diet Connects to PCOS Ingredients you need to start: polenta, paprika, bay leaf, salt, garlic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591872422751-CBKZ2ORPLCJKCUKH2WAR/IMG_20200610_085903.jpg Home - Polenta Recipe + How Diet Connects to PCOS Plant-Based Kiddo Breakfast he made himself: apple, watermelon, berry bread, and a little peanut butter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591872596038-H7B7H2RYJ3PH842H96JA/IMG_20200610_191614.jpg Home - Polenta Recipe + How Diet Connects to PCOS What Ian and Q ate (Ian took this photo and prepared this dinner): lentil load, crispy brussels, steamed kale, quick-pickled cabbage, bell peppers, purple sweet potatoes, and smoked paprika hummus I’d made earlier in the day. (I had the same meal, sans the potato which was a good idea by Ian.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591872509519-2ZC91FECA7PJAIA3EW8B/IMG_20200610_162456.jpg Home - Polenta Recipe + How Diet Connects to PCOS “OOOoooOOOH! Mama, it’s the best day EVER! THANK YOU!” <— What he bellowed when he saw a fresh batch of brussels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591872364024-HM80VXRLG90ZN3FSILGO/IMG_20200609_123244.jpg Home - Polenta Recipe + How Diet Connects to PCOS However you choose to eat it, it’ll be a tasty addition to your lineup. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591871932693-1AIMYFTAZZPL6BLNFPI0/IMG_20200605_181223.jpg Home - Polenta Recipe + How Diet Connects to PCOS Mix all the dry ingredients together in your pot (up the garlic ratio if you’re a garlic lover, this one was kept low because it was going to be covered in super garlicky pesto and marinara) https://www.jasquatch.com/home/lentil-loaf-recipe-type-2-diabetes-increases-your-cancer-risk-why-my-klaxon-howls-so-loud monthly 0.5 2024-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591784979098-WPUY5TDKXO3T2C50UD22/IMG_20200608_183515.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD How they look after 2 more cycles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591785072864-6JLVNVS49SXB69W4YHLO/image-asset.jpeg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD While the onions are caramelizing, prep your dried ingredients. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591785268338-WSBM6LMH59C8QAWCAOGO/IMG_20200608_184421.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD Add to a loaf pan, spoon on glaze, and distribute evenly over the top (Q loves helping with this part). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591838336696-9HEZC9W7C9TP0VX8P3CP/IMG_20200608_184750.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD Glaze ingredients. Simple enough. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591784858803-DM05C4O8H89SGAUWASOR/IMG_20200608_190021.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD NOTE: those are COOKED lentils. Forgot to write that on the paper. Change the seasonings per your taste. We’ve made it with only paprika (when we didn’t have other seasonings on hand) and it was still delicious. Other seasonings just give it a different flare (ie oregano and thyme make it taste like a meatball loaf.) Have a big family to feed? Double this and it fits in a lasagna style pan. Can be used in all sorts of meals through the week. (Plan to do this later today, actually.) Any plant-milk can be subbed in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593091301676-8ISZHC9TPSVFAMF46OFY/IMG_20200617_184517.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD You can also slice this thin and use it on open-faced tacos. We can’t get enough lentil loaf tacos these days! They are perfect for a hot night when you want a quick meal that is delicious, yet won’t heat up your house. Go get yourself a hot sauce you love, make yourself a big batch of quick-pickled cabbage, make a big batch of lentil loaf, and start slicing that deliciousness onto hardshell tacos and topping it with your heart’s delight. Just like “meatloaf” tastes like saucier ground-up muscle; lentil loaf tastes just-like/but-better muscle-meatloaf, and it holds together better than ground beef. If you add it to a taco, you get all the flavor you want from muscle-meat, but you have it in an easier-to-eat-form. Plus it is healthier for you and better for the planet than the cow carcass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593091961459-V7C6U2KQHJH2ZWAXLTSH/IMG_20200621_115426.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD Another shwarma-style but it had steam-seared mushrooms-onions—and-peppers on it too. GOOD GRAVY. I could eat this all day, every day, all of the days! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591785146298-8VKJS3Y8SQ9928DZR4DU/IMG_20200608_183540.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD Onions with the grated garlic. Simmer for a few minutes until the excess water is gone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591785947519-AZSNQWSMUV05TV7ZC3VJ/IMG_20200610_052737.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1593091329090-ZJPJLEV817TN5HMN94Q5/IMG_20200620_181446.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD This amazing delight was sparked by Crystal gifting us some amazing, plant-based tzatziki. We put it on a wrap with thinly sliced lentil loaf, quick-pickled cabbage, peppers, greens, and hot sauce, and it tasted like shwarma! <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591784919514-628D63QCDUX8JUHE4AZL/IMG_20200608_180355.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD How to saute your onions without oil? Sear them in water and salt with the lid on. If you want to add some oil, go right ahead. Why wouldn't we use oil?? Because all the nutritionally-focused, whole-food docs hark that we need to limit our processed oil intake and this dish really doesn’t need it. Why are oils considered processed? Because “They contain no fiber [like you get if you instead ate nuts, seeds, avocados, etc], no minerals and are 100% fat calories. Both the mono unsaturated and saturated fat contained in oils is harmful to the endothelium, the innermost lining of the artery, and that injury is the gateway to vascular disease.” . Which docs are advising against oil? Dr Caldwell Esselstyn (gold medalist turned cardiologist/heart surgeon, who was the first to prove that you can reverse and prevent heart disease through no medications, just plant-based whole-foods), Dr Dean Ornish (another doc who proved the same reversal and prevention, and is now showing all sorts of other diseases one can avoid following a plant-based whole-food diet), Dr Neal Barnard (who showed all of the above and that plant-based whole-foods can reverse Diabetes or completely prevent you from getting it), the list goes on and on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591784835875-ALU0HLUDNGJVMNUG5VZY/IMG_20200608_190014.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD NOTE: those are COOKED lentils. Forgot to write that and someone made this with uncooked lentils much to their/my horror. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591784941294-SBK1T81HAP23M1XS5R0O/IMG_20200608_181922.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD How they look after the first 1/2 cup has evaporated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591785201392-RX7O23PJBTFZEXCPTIVK/IMG_20200608_184024.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD Puree with an immersion blender. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591785909353-AW835WBFRGR9TWMAKTYL/IMG_20200610_052625.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD How many folks do you know with the diseases seen above? My son has eosinophilic esophagitis and has a gluten intolerance bad enough it called for an endoscopy, my family is filled with eczema, and my mother died from sarcoidosis. I have friends and family with a many of the other diseases listed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591785482120-F8PSLMS5EQHQH7B3OOC1/IMG_20200609_123248.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD Voila! With polenta, peas, and homemade marinara. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591785967526-FIMU6J56WQ6GJDSXN56M/IMG_20200610_052933.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591785052894-218I7K3VPP95JHWT1LOI/IMG_20200608_182745+%281%29.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD You can also prep your grated garlic (I like to grate it into the last 1/2 cup of water so it can simmer and brown with the onions) and your glaze (recipe was above and will be coming up again below) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591785456160-I8HQYKL4G6XFKGE10ZW0/IMG_20200608_184603.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD One of the best things about this lentil loaf is that you can taste-test it throughout the process without worry of toxoplasmosis, e coli, or salmonella. Throw it in the oven @ 375 for about 40 minutes, or until set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591785240080-P67C1ZPTQGDI00U2918X/IMG_20200608_184053.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD Stir in dry ingredients. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591784879999-8LFC611FUW3YLNLRXPOO/IMG_20200608_175136.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD What you need to get started: oats, flax meal, oatflour, oatmilk, cooked lentils, garlic, onion, seasonings. (To make oatflour or flax meal, just add whole oats or whole flax seeds to a processor/blender/grinder.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591785172651-ZQ5A1BB01QOYVJMLPZE3/IMG_20200608_183805.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD Add the lentils and oatmilk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591785286618-1RT25EXQJ4HC7JBG6R6B/IMG_20200608_190014+%281%29.jpg Home - Lentil Loaf Recipe, Type 2 Diabetes Increases Your Cancer Risk, &amp; Why My Klaxon Howls So LOUD https://www.jasquatch.com/home/sweet-potato-meal-prepping-recipe monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591707450180-0KDHO9WSMLBLW1YO12X4/IMG_20200609_081511.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe The Balcony is another favorite. It has gorgeous illustrations and a great message. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591697955012-6TLQ8155I8V4FHHB3G9N/IMG_20200608_112226.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe For Aria “It’s a coconut octopus walking through a field of wheat with a big sign that shows how much he loves her. See all the hearts? It means he loves her a LOT. And underneath, there is a trapdoor spider in a green burrow, the coconut octopus’ burrow full of extra coconuts, and this lobster has the best burrow of them all!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591697867099-Y85BE3NY6X1E8I0GXN9X/IMG_20200608_111950.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe Q’s Morning Chalkboard: continued discussions of race and how to use his voice/privilege. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591698540849-B257GU5TLFDH7HATJIKW/IMG_20200608_193154_1.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe Q’s favorite way to keep moving fast and having fun? Playing tag. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591698565084-EFTP855K5LVAD13WGUQ3/IMG_20200608_194405.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe Plant-Based Whole-Food Dinner (for 2 , because Ian was working late in the yard: caulking the house to prep for painting.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591697729878-5SX9TX603KRKW7A8NAMB/IMG_20200603_152552.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe Pierce those spuds so they can let out some steam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591697924712-5TPDSI5Z45AAF90T9IIX/IMG_20200608_094553.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe “Mama, look! I made a monster face. See his snaggly tooth?” Homemade whole-oat bread. apple, cacao cream, and peanut butter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591698355224-SFIXMSIZYM9T5Z1YNS5Q/IMG_20200608_192941.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe Evening cardio before dinner: running through the yard with weights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591698011575-TEXX4RHQTBLUAH7DDPBY/IMG_20200608_191901.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe For me <3 “It’s you and me, Mama. And we’re at an aquarium that has a Kraken! And he has this giant cave with stalactites and stalagmites and he’s gathered old driftwood to make these arms (so it looks like the house from Monster House) and he’s found red diamonds to use as eyes.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591697903820-4JE6DTCGZU4EK29BIP1C/IMG_20200608_094501.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe A plant-based kiddo fixing his own breakfast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591697750518-O9HY22XPL52A8QFNFVGB/IMG_20200603_153840.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe Line them up on a baking sheet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591697823191-CPJ3OQS5MUZA3R12OIB6/IMG_20200528_184649.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe They taste swell with pesto, balsamic tomatoes, mushrooms, steamed kale, and polenta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591698280128-5TXJPVQBVFQ3SMNEA6PB/IMG_20200608_132517.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe Giving him a haircut and realizing my own needs to be thinned. Misguidedly worried that Plant-Based Whole-Foods will leave you nutritionally deficient? These days, my hair is so full I have to take thinning shears to it every few weeks or I look like Sideshow Bob. “Diet’s Impact on Hormones and Hair Loss” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591698661832-5NZLE39JG0VAK5F9LKU7/IMG_20200608_214846.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe Nightly Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591698077654-H6YSG15OYHP2H6EF4UMN/IMG_20200608_144308.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe Dessert: berry bread, peanut butter, and cashew cream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591698049723-XB08S7U8QG9JRN6QD0J7/IMG_20200608_140313.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe Plant-Based Lunch: Vegetable Red Curry (carrots, garbanzo beans, broccoli, peas, asparagus, and kale), bell peppers, and black rice noodles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591697704764-DVSXDDLAGUKX6780CL1W/IMG_20200603_152500.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe First step: clean some potatoes. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591698303929-UR52EIY80UDZQOJ61TBG/IMG_20200608_170346.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe <3 He is the soul who insists on that front, dangling lock. He refuses to let me cut it because he says he likes the way it looks, he likes that he can pull it over his eyes “like Violet from the Incredibles”, and that it looks like a tentacle. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591872074480-SQXAJ0CB6SE3SKMZ38E0/IMG_20200604_190354.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe They go great with red lentils, quinoa, steamed kale, sorrel (you can go get this from your yard), and enchilada sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591698587539-4F26TUI4SJ0AX6BK3E2S/IMG_20200608_194522.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe Polenta, Lentil Loaf, Homemade Marinara, Steamed Kale, and Peas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591697628714-3XK3PTDC2C74B3PVFORM/IMG_20200609_052136.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591698519822-JXJZFWYQQZOGY25I8DGU/IMG_20200608_192959.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe We run through the yard to whatever song he’s feeling (last night it was “Champion” from Game Changers again) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591697796105-Z7AUVWF9N9HK4LIWHD2N/IMG_20200605_124857.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe Also goes well with peanut sauce, peppers, black rice, green beans, and easy avocado. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591697774425-DP22M00A6L7MVFDRUWTT/IMG_20200603_164720.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe Roast @ 425 for about 55 minutes. You now have prepped potatoes waiting to flesh out your meals, fill you with fiber, and they are exploding with vitamins. Sound hyperbolic? One cup of sweet potato has: 769% of your Vitamin A, %65 of your Vitamin C, it even has calcium (among many other minerals)! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591698494630-SWKAHFLDVTMITVT8WIG2/IMG_20200608_175136.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe Spent my afternoon documenting and writing up the process for our lentil loaf. That nutritious and environmentally-kind recipe will be posted soon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591698609959-B80HDNQJJB56ABQHHN92/IMG_20200608_201944+%281%29.jpg Home - Sweet Potato Meal-Prepping Recipe Rainbow Sherbet Nice Cream: banana, strawberry, raspberry, and orange. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/pesto-recipe-plus-added-info-on-dysbiosis-your-immune-system monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612383104-9SNL9O6D39GR6FKIUM97/IMG_20200605_191013.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System It’s done in a jiffy and tastes great over polenta, with a side of balsamic tomatoes, mushrooms, kale, and green beans. Get ye all the fiber you can! <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612683011-P2VGQN1JTBQJX3VX4KTO/IMG_20200607_160742.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System Treating my father with health and vitality: this is nice cream I made to taste like rainbow sherbet (banana, strawberry, raspberry, orange, and a dash of lime juice.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612277102-C9C82OG3I3GRRJFYPEQ8/IMG_20200605_170538.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System This makes a big batch for a family of three. Cut it in half if you are a lone wolf or small-portion duo. :-) NOTE: -Almonds make a great/cheaper substitute. - Any plant-based milk could be subbed in for the aquafaba, and/or you could sub in olive oil. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612952058-EUACJI5EX0HKMMVD2N8W/IMG_20200608_053317.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612717029-FHXWUC509IJ9YFQC0902/PANO_20200607_171326.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System After Opa left, we continued to work in the yard. Q sprayed the plants with Neem (have a beetle frenzy out there) and I worked on weeding and cutting back our vigorous hops. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612837148-1FAE3VYJY5BYM0254HNL/IMG_20200607_214320.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System Nightly Reading https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612929945-HNK5GRZYF37BYTSEXQGI/IMG_20200608_061704.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612349283-KT6EL52PBVQN0PMXN04R/IMG_20200605_174537.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System Throw everything into the blender: including the stems! If you (like I once did) think that you need to chuck the stems you (just like I was) are wrong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591613040243-VDPJ56SGLFDKWB1V56GC/IMG_20200608_053417.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612260169-F8DGM5VGSH3883X0XBGV/IMG_20200605_173719.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System What you need for a batch of PBWF pesto: a blender, 2 bushels of basil ($3.68 at Wegmans right now), balsamic vinegar, nutritional yeast, oatmilk, pine nuts, aquafaba, garlic, and salt. (Forgot to photograph lemon juice in this line up and can’t recreate it because who has two extra bushels of basil about. :-) Add in lemon juice too, or skip it and just add more balsamic.) Why isn’t there oil in this? Because all the nutritionally-focused, whole-food docs are harking that we need to limit our processed oil intake and this dish really doesn’t need it. Why are oils considered processed? Because “They contain no fiber [like you get if you instead ate nuts, seeds, avocados, etc], no minerals and are 100% fat calories. Both the mono unsaturated and saturated fat contained in oils is harmful to the endothelium, the innermost lining of the artery, and that injury is the gateway to vascular disease.” . Which docs are advising against oil? Dr Caldwell Esselstyn (gold medalist turned cardiologist/heart surgeon, who was the first to prove that you can reverse and prevent heart disease through no medications, just plant-based whole-foods), Dr Dean Ornish (another doc who proved the same reversal and prevention, and is now showing all sorts of other diseases one can avoid following a plant-based whole-food diet), Dr Neal Barnard (who showed all of the above and that plant-based whole-foods can reverse Diabetes or completely prevent you from getting it), the list goes on and on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591621365428-MI3BLVTN9SGXBKA1LVSG/IMG_20200607_123134.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System Plant-Based Whole-Food Lunch: polenta, pesto, balsamic tomatoes, bell peppers, and kale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612763336-6HTO7CJMXFOVPWB8AMX0/IMG_20200607_181636.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System Plant-Based Whole-Food Family Feasting: Vegetable Red Curry (carrots, broccoli, peas, kale, asparagus, and garbanzo beans), with bell peppers, easy avocado, and quinoa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612975825-0HDWIBCC31KKU3Q68RRA/IMG_20200608_053325.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612404824-CYSL4056MA4WQV9SJ997/IMG_20200513_123220.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System Also tastes great with fresh arugula, balsamic tomatoes, and polenta. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612806041-AKYSKB3153LQWTHAI3A3/IMG_20200607_213510-COLLAGE.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System I often get the impression folks think it’s all seriousness around here. In reality, that kiddo is talking happily to us all the livelong day; and any moment he isn’t talking, he’s either drawing or laughing/giggling wildly, and playing with his amazing Papa. We’re the sort of family that have smile-lines from days filled with laughter, we’re the sort of family that does multiple family hugs through the day (Q’s favorite is when Wicket gets in on the action, and this always causes him to squeal-sigh “Family hugs are the best with Wicket!!”), we’re the sort of family that has never felt better/closer/healthier. I go to sleep every night with a heart full and a face slightly sore from all the smiling, I’m just equally sizzling with protective passion for a planet that needs us to wake up before it’s too late. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612741447-0W87VFB1FEI5LCXOPDVK/IMG_20200607_180248.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System He’s often dancing and I’m often cooking (and dancing) :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612324101-DNUW9M875URYCU45X9PE/IMG_20200605_173118.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System What the heck is aquafaba? It is simply the water that your beans have been cooked in, or from within the can of beans you bought. You may be throwing out this wonderful ingredient, and you should definitely stop: it’s a handy addition to a all sorts of meals, you can make vegan mayo out of it, and I’ve read that you can turn it into all sorts of fun dishes (<—I want to make just about everything on that link! <3 ), but I haven’t tried them out yet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612544818-X11ELT9ZADDBJ4NJKLQC/PANO_20200607_162158.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System Q still deadheading during an Opa visit. :-D <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612788861-R7HD334WHF2MB1WZHLI8/IMG_20200607_190337.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System Q’s favorite weekend treat: plant-based zero-waste popcorn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612510531-HTOHFKUO4HDY53C2G8BS/IMG_20200607_190014.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System Worried about pediatric nutrition and mental prowess with a plant-based diet? First, both those links will set your mind at ease and both are from doctors. Secondly, this is what Q drew after breakfast: “It’s a T-Cell and a Macrophage and the Macrophage is gobbling up the corona-virus.” He’s 5 now, and 2 years ago, he already knew/loved macrophages enough for them to be in contention for his yearly Halloween costume (he instead went as his own creation: Cephalopod Guy, “His super power is cleaning up the oceans!”) Want your kiddos to be the healthiest souls they can be while also protecting their environmental future? Switch to plant-based whole-foods. Also watch StoryBots* because it is great for teaching kiddos all sorts of science info! <3 *We explain every time that he watches this, that the boss is a terrible example of a leader and you should never ever ever act or talk like that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612879011-HF9A6X53LA9A6N944KXR/IMG_20200608_061728.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System We got this fantastic book from friends as a birthday present for Q, and it has long been a favorite of this word-loving soul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612429489-SJCDDXKT0BFSJARXKW3Y/IMG_20200607_064442.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System Q’s Morning Chalkboard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612897358-081DKOBH4TPR1MRBZARC/IMG_20200608_061751.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System My favorite part, however, is how Q always bellows when we hit this page, “Ugh! I get that he’s happy to share, but he should NOT be littering like that!!!” <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612489684-XKBGY3ZAPRDGA9EKPNVA/PANO_20200607_141458.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System An afternoon of working in the garden. What’s Q up to? Deadheading that flowering bush. “I find this really fun and calming, Mama! Wanna try?” <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591612461871-U1LAH2BIBE30L3730FO7/IMG_20200607_090136.jpg Home - Pesto Recipe, plus added info on Dysbiosis &amp; Your Immune System Plant-Based Whole-Food Kiddo Breakfast: berry bread, watermelon, and some leftover (melted in the fridge) cacao nice cream with peanut butter. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/balsamic-tomatoes-and-seeing-red monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591179783407-0UALNVRG8X8JI9Z84ONM/IMG_20200528_182316.jpg Home - Balsamic Tomatoes Recipe and Seeing Red Dice the tomatoes, add it all to a jar, and let it rest for 30+ minutes so the salt and acid can start pulling juices from the tomatoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591179804251-ZYHHX2FT28QSWLNLKAUM/IMG_20200528_182326.jpg Home - Balsamic Tomatoes Recipe and Seeing Red Voila. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591179720617-3HY8IH8W49TZ5IGOD3K9/image-asset.jpeg Home - Balsamic Tomatoes Recipe and Seeing Red https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591179707006-X2TF8EUVLNNYPWYSX1ZP/image-asset.jpeg Home - Balsamic Tomatoes Recipe and Seeing Red This is is the base quantity (those 2 tomatoes equal one large tomato). If you have a whole bunch of tomatoes, just increase per this framework. Items needed: balsamic vinegar, tomatoes, fresh garlic, and salt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591179827829-DG5OLQ36YJEKGF0Y6XN6/IMG_20200516_190413.jpg Home - Balsamic Tomatoes Recipe and Seeing Red Tastes great next to delicious (and also super-cheap) lentils, easy avocados (remember Aldi often has these for as low as 59 cents!), and kale & quinoa salad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1591179852336-6PDD4K5CV222OXOE99KA/IMG_20200513_123220.jpg Home - Balsamic Tomatoes Recipe and Seeing Red Also tastes great with PBWF pesto, polenta, and fresh greens. (Recipe for the first two coming soon.) https://www.jasquatch.com/home/simple-sweet-cashew-cream monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590241104339-D43RHTXFGEQLX2S0ILSX/IMG_20200520_121634.jpg Home - Simple, Sweet Cashew Cream Recipe Also tastes great with a black bean brownie and peanut butter. :-) Live Kindly, Feast Kindly, Grow Forward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590241016008-R0RW54YXBJOFCMR6SHL6/IMG_20200518_121953.jpg Home - Simple, Sweet Cashew Cream Recipe Blend until creamy. If it is too thick: add more water, or add oatmilk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590241042179-UHP56DJZHH0N6GB251SY/IMG_20200521_121530.jpg Home - Simple, Sweet Cashew Cream Recipe Done and delicious. Store in the fridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590240969535-XEAFU7YFZ3JFMQFDG81L/IMG_20200521_070535.jpg Home - Simple, Sweet Cashew Cream Recipe What you need to get started: cashews, water, salt, lemon juice, and pitted-dates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590250668928-Q849SBRMYLX2ODC4RBPF/IMG_20200523_121540.jpg Home - Simple, Sweet Cashew Cream Recipe NOTE: If you don’t have dates, any other sweet alternative will work. Sometimes we add a little maple syrup, sometimes it is a bit of date sugar (<—just dehydrated/granulated dates). Options: add vanilla or almond extract, add a little cinnamon, add some other spice you love, or you could also leave out the dates entirely and you’d have a more standard cream. Season per taste. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590241065340-I4JS373G2FEDBKDG95N2/IMG_20200521_065856.jpg Home - Simple, Sweet Cashew Cream Recipe Tastes great on top of oatmeal (here seen: cacao oatmeal with peanut butter too) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590240993057-H6VJSHCKJEFAIES118MK/IMG_20200521_070815.jpg Home - Simple, Sweet Cashew Cream Recipe Add everything to a blender and let them sit for an hour. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/cappello-brownies-plant-based-whole-food-gluten-free-sugar-free monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590237132695-NOSQOJGTMM9RO52V0502/image-asset.jpeg Home - Cappello Brownies Recipe: plant-based, whole-food, gluten-free, sugar-free Add your beans to the blender and then mix it all up. (Why not do this before? It crowds the blender and doesn’t allow all those dates to fully puree. You are better off doing it as advised, and I have learned the hard way that cutting corners makes a mess and an ill-distributed batter.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590237511272-NS33BS5XK9LBQS8RQFVV/IMG_20200519_183228.jpg Home - Cappello Brownies Recipe: plant-based, whole-food, gluten-free, sugar-free Voila! Tastes like a fudgy oreo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590237489563-JWTI8EJHIIHZKUFHU95I/IMG_20200519_110619.jpg Home - Cappello Brownies Recipe: plant-based, whole-food, gluten-free, sugar-free Add to your favorite 8x8 pan (we use this old 9x7). Optional: sprinkled hemp hearts on top for added omegas. Bake at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes. (I check on it at 15, but it usually needs a few more minutes) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590237024654-K3CJ725QCL4K1GAR9S5K/IMG_20200519_104549.jpg Home - Cappello Brownies Recipe: plant-based, whole-food, gluten-free, sugar-free Add the pitted dates to a mixer. We do 5 dates because we don’t like things super sweet. If you’re used to the Standard American level of sweetness, maybe up the dates to 6 or 7. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590237546071-M9PY94W802ZJUTMSGU12/IMG_20200519_123528.jpg Home - Cappello Brownies Recipe: plant-based, whole-food, gluten-free, sugar-free Eat plain, or serve with a little cashew cream and/or peanut butter. Live Kindly, Feast Kindly, Grow Forward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590237334087-KANF1UZXG5H0OLH7SCJD/IMG_20200519_104418.jpg Home - Cappello Brownies Recipe: plant-based, whole-food, gluten-free, sugar-free Get all your dry ingredients into a big ol’ mixing bowl and mix them together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590237349658-9ZIJEKDGU655Z45DDZ8L/image-asset.jpeg Home - Cappello Brownies Recipe: plant-based, whole-food, gluten-free, sugar-free Note: if you like things super-sweet you’ll want to increase the date count. And if you don’t have dates: just sub in whatever sugar you do like. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590237044209-9P014H6QEH2J3RMZCJOZ/IMG_20200519_112855.jpg Home - Cappello Brownies Recipe: plant-based, whole-food, gluten-free, sugar-free Everything you need for a batch of Cappello Brownies: oatflour (you can make this in a blender with whole oats, that’s what we do), baking powder, oatmilk, dates, banana, vanilla, salt, black beans, cocoa powder or cacao powder (per your preference). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590237112858-QQ72OD8VIY1U1IIER20K/IMG_20200519_105521+%281%29.jpg Home - Cappello Brownies Recipe: plant-based, whole-food, gluten-free, sugar-free Blend until all those dates have been well pulverized (this takes several minutes) and you’ll have this super sweet, tasty batter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590237459125-Z4H96MUS5HE7UQZKKBXH/IMG_20200519_110119.jpg Home - Cappello Brownies Recipe: plant-based, whole-food, gluten-free, sugar-free Super serious brownie mixer. :-) Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and fold with a spoon. This part is fun for kiddos and a good arm workout. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1590237093957-N4JP0VO3SSLD6UB177YH/IMG_20200519_105147+%281%29.jpg Home - Cappello Brownies Recipe: plant-based, whole-food, gluten-free, sugar-free Add one banana or a cup of banana (this was from the freezer, so I melted it first), the oatmilk, vanilla, and salt. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/new-resources-podcasts-interviews-with-doctors-2-long-2-short-explaining-the-evidence-based-benefits-of-plant-based-whole-foods monthly 0.5 2021-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1588172539143-5IFVQ9IL82KBNETC2K6H/IMG_20200423_102844.jpg Home - New Resources: Podcasts Interviews with Doctors (2 long, 2 short) Explaining the Evidence-Based Benefits of Plant-Based Whole Foods Recent view from a family walk around our rural block: 3 miles of beautiful views, yet sadly strewn with human litter. Plan for the next walk is to bring litter grabbers and a container for cleaning it up as we go. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1588182250867-VEGKHCPGYSYZ5TYJBA93/image-asset.jpeg Home - New Resources: Podcasts Interviews with Doctors (2 long, 2 short) Explaining the Evidence-Based Benefits of Plant-Based Whole Foods Small changes that are BIG steps forward in health (and environmental sustainability): stop consuming sugary breakfast cereals, refined carbs, and animal products as your nutritional start to the day. Not only are you ruining your microbiome and setting yourself up for inflammation/mental health issues/cardiovascular disease/diabetes, you’re also harming your endothelium with every serving. Instead, try whole oats covered in fruits and flax. This was Q’s breakfast this morning: blueberry oatmeal, pink lady apple, golden flax seeds. No added sugar and full of fiber. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1588160017041-O6UH11A803DMCRMM7CN4/IMG_20200426_100517.jpg Home - New Resources: Podcasts Interviews with Doctors (2 long, 2 short) Explaining the Evidence-Based Benefits of Plant-Based Whole Foods The reality of lifestyle medicine in action: a family thriving on plant-based whole foods, embracing connectedness (we’re all working on different crafts here: Ian is writing, Q is sculpting, I’m hand-sewing face masks, and we’re all listening to the same podcast), and keeping active together (I do most of my daily tasks standing/foot-pumping/squatting/pacing/bopping/dancing/etc and Ian is also usually on the move, so Q can see the importance of avoiding prolonged sitting) and we aim for one physical activity together a day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1588186432249-BDRK1TNDK1PIVWN66ZR3/IMG_20200429_121236.jpg Home - New Resources: Podcasts Interviews with Doctors (2 long, 2 short) Explaining the Evidence-Based Benefits of Plant-Based Whole Foods Today’s fibrous filling feasting for a Mama Bear and Cub: stoneground polenta, quick-pickled cabbage, kale & quinoa salad, balsamic tomatoes, and oil-free pesto. (<—made this with aqua faba and oatmilk and once basil season hits —or soon because I won’t be able to wait any longer— I’ll post the recipe, so you can eat pesto all the livelong day.) https://www.jasquatch.com/home/refried-beans-plant-based-amp-oil-free monthly 0.5 2021-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1587820265326-Y1R4DZ6C0QKFQNNJZT6V/IMG_20200423_155831.jpg Home - Refried Beans Recipe: Plant-Based &amp; Oil-Free There is no need to chop up all those cilantro stems and leaves! Cilantro stems are safe to eat, and you’ll save yourself some time by just ripping them into a size that’ll fit in your pan, and then just pureeing them with everything else. Puree and then let it bubble away until it is at your desired temp and thickness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1587819654504-MJIN0NWT0RSO7SVACPGU/IMG_20200425_081116.jpg Home - Refried Beans Recipe: Plant-Based &amp; Oil-Free Double the above for a family-sized portion, this is a small batch that would serve well for a couple to split or for a lone wolf to enjoy through a few meals of tacos and bean bowls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1587820000538-DME5F1ZZR01KYN27JUTM/IMG_20200423_155216+%281%29.jpg Home - Refried Beans Recipe: Plant-Based &amp; Oil-Free When the beans are dried enough and it’s time to start adding incremental list of ingredients, I start with paprika (stir around to well coat), then I add a table spoon of the garlic (stir around and mellow a bit), then add in the rest. Why space out garlic? Garlic produces different flavors based on how long it’s cooked. I enjoy the mellow-caramelized flavor of garlic and I love the bright-sharp-spice of fresh garlic. If you stagger it, you get both. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1587820402733-E5IIU5BAF2MSN8EKM3O7/IMG_20200418_120324.jpg Home - Refried Beans Recipe: Plant-Based &amp; Oil-Free Tastes good on it’s on, tastes good with tacos, and tastes good in bean bowls with black rice, easy avocado, kale & quinoa, quick-pickled cabbage, quick-picked radish, and enchilada sauce (recipe coming soon). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1587819931281-VGWCFTT8XYAFEWNO4H7F/IMG_20200423_152556.jpg Home - Refried Beans Recipe: Plant-Based &amp; Oil-Free Framework for beans. Truly all you need are the beans, garlic, tomato, and salt. Smoked paprika gives it a deeper flavor that is akin to smoked meat. Lemon juice lightens up the density of the bean’s flavor palate. We love cilantro and I was amazed to learn how much health is packed into it, but you can cut it out if you’re not a fan. Want it spicy? Throw in whatever peppers or hot sauce you can get your hands on. We often put pickled jalapeños in our batches. Why isn’t there oil in this? I’ll copy from previous posts. :-) Because all the nutritionally-focused, whole-food docs are harking that we need to limit our processed oil intake and this dish really doesn’t need it. Why are oils considered processed? Because “They contain no fiber [like you get if you instead ate nuts, seeds, avocados, etc], no minerals and are 100% fat calories. Both the mono unsaturated and saturated fat contained in oils is harmful to the endothelium, the innermost lining of the artery, and that injury is the gateway to vascular disease.” . Says who?! Well, we have Dr Caldwell Esselstyn (gold medalist turned cardiologist/heart surgeon, who was the first to prove that you can reverse and prevent heart disease through no medications, just plant-based whole-foods), Dr Dean Ornish (another doc who proved the same reversal and prevention, and is now showing all sorts of other diseases one can avoid following a plant-based whole-food diet), Dr Neal Barnard (who showed all of the above and that plant-based whole-foods can reverse Diabetes or completely prevent you from getting it), the list goes on and on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1587820309019-ZPWZ8J56KEH14B371YEJ/image-asset.jpeg Home - Refried Beans Recipe: Plant-Based &amp; Oil-Free Finished product. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1587819971192-CF4YPVKTIJ72WFVEJZCC/IMG_20200423_154300.jpg Home - Refried Beans Recipe: Plant-Based &amp; Oil-Free Time saving trick: while the beans are simmering away and drying themselves out, you could add your measured tomatoes to a pouring vessel and grate your garlic on top. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/berry-banana-smoothie monthly 0.5 2024-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1587743481519-GLHAKM1O6JNRGDLW1ARP/image-asset.jpeg Home - Berry Banana Smoothie Nutritional yeast is also an add-on option. Gives it a richer, buttery taste. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1587743181935-HFU7X831QGRMCXRAUFP5/IMG_20200424_074301.jpg Home - Berry Banana Smoothie Ingredients needed to start: homemade oatmilk (or any plant milk), frozen strawberries, frozen blueberries, frozen bananas, vanilla extract, and optional: peanut butter and almond extract. Add to a blender and puree until smoothie consistency. Re-season to taste. [Those berries bags are great for reusing (we use them in the fridge to wrap veggies and in the freezer again too), the bananas are in a many-times-reused Ziploc, the extract bottles can be recycled, though we’re looking for a better source/container option.] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1587835472484-4M2OKKXMZ9NNFJ1XXED7/IMG_20200425_132220.jpg Home - Berry Banana Smoothie OPTIONAL: almond extract and the peanut butter. If you have allergies or are avoiding the extra protein of the PB, simply skip it. to bump up flavor, you could add more vanilla, a date, or add a dash of nutritional yeast to give it a creamier/deeper flavor. Maple syrup also works for extra sweetness, if dates aren’t on hand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1587738342747-KWLYRRD2Z1DY49IU8O28/IMG_20200419_130033.jpg Home - Berry Banana Smoothie Drinking this berry smoothie (and securing it in a basket because I’m clumsy and I’ll take no chances :-D ), hand-sewing Ian’s face mask, using the ironing board as my workstation so I can stand/pace/stretch/foot-pump, and listening to this heart-melting/mind-opening podcast with Dr. Dean Ornish and Anne Ornish about lifestyle medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1587743667784-JO7YWNNB0OG9CNZOE1NL/IMG_20200423_150825.jpg Home - Berry Banana Smoothie The color of health, folks! Split this in two and share with a loved one, or enjoy at your leisure. Live kindly, feast kindly. <3 https://www.jasquatch.com/home/5g1n1k2lsqqv3ozgi24ri87dgatxzk monthly 0.5 2024-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1586878806542-3LBGBOVVIQC0XK4AEX8Z/IMG_20200414_113719.jpg Home - New Resources: A Short Video, 2 Podcast Interviews with Doctors, A Book, and Dozens of Studies/Articles Supporting Them https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1586877497587-U0X5MK041VA4ALEHC7MG/image-asset.jpeg Home - New Resources: A Short Video, 2 Podcast Interviews with Doctors, A Book, and Dozens of Studies/Articles Supporting Them https://www.jasquatch.com/home/berbere-black-rice-w-tomatoes-and-cashews monthly 0.5 2021-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1586522273544-5NHUQT7SF5J2MGSYAIAX/IMG_20200409_155301.jpg Home - Berbere Black Rice w/ Tomatoes and Cashews Recipe After the second batch of water has evaporated, it should look like this. Turn off the heat, grate one of the garlic cloves into the pot, throw the cashews in, stir to combine. Turn heat back on and cook on medium-high for a minute or until the cashews are just lightly browned. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1586522251005-YIFUL2Z9UVA7XH6FKGC0/IMG_20200409_153612+%281%29.jpg Home - Berbere Black Rice w/ Tomatoes and Cashews Recipe After 10 minutes of simmering with the lid on, your water will be gone and your onions lightly browned. Add in another 1/2 cup of water. Stir to make sure they are flat to the pot and put the lid back on for another 10 minutes or so. Keep an eye on it because sometimes they brown/evaporated quicker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1586522118418-QAZVV7A3SUNRG6QPTLQY/IMG_20200410_082851.jpg Home - Berbere Black Rice w/ Tomatoes and Cashews Recipe This can be made with 1 cup of cashews if you don’t have 2 cups on hand. Ian needs more daily protein than Q and I, so I pack more into the recipe and then give him nuttier scoops. :-) If you don’t have crushed tomatoes, whole also work fine: just break them up a bit with a spoon. If you don’t have berbere, try using a combo of paprika, cumin, and ginger (or tumeric) if you have them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1586522220575-A1XI9FVQ5LCQCX68LQAR/IMG_20200409_151954.jpg Home - Berbere Black Rice w/ Tomatoes and Cashews Recipe This is another recipe that caramelizes onions without oil. (Here is the same info copied from the Ethiopian lentil recipe.) Why no oils? Because all the nutritionally-focused, whole-food docs are harking that we need to limit our processed oil intake and this dish really doesn’t need it. Why are oils considered processed? Because “They contain no fiber [like you get if you instead ate nuts, seeds, avocados, etc], no minerals and are 100% fat calories. Both the mono unsaturated and saturated fat contained in oils is harmful to the endothelium, the innermost lining of the artery, and that injury is the gateway to vascular disease.” . Which docs are advising against oil? Dr Caldwell Esselstyn (gold medalist turned cardiologist/heart surgeon, who was the first to prove that you can reverse and prevent heart disease through no medications, just plant-based whole-foods), Dr Dean Ornish (another doc who proved the same reversal and prevention, and is now showing all sorts of other diseases one can avoid following a plant-based whole-food diet), Dr Neal Barnard (who showed all of the above and that plant-based whole-foods can reverse Diabetes or completely prevent you from getting it), the list goes on and on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1586522344976-D6Q3G7TWGAELUUI87ZW9/IMG_20200409_163846.jpg Home - Berbere Black Rice w/ Tomatoes and Cashews Recipe It’s done when all of the liquid has been absorbed and the rice is tender. (Be forewarned: black rice will always have a bit of chewiness to it, though.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1586522197512-KT8CH1YF6Q6I1GYQG694/IMG_20200409_151448.jpg Home - Berbere Black Rice w/ Tomatoes and Cashews Recipe Ingredients to start: one onion, water, roasted (unsalted) cashews (we get ours from Aldi’s now that we can’t get them from a bulk bin, those containers can be reused indefinitely to store other dried goods), black rice, crushed tomato, berbere, bay leaf, garlic, and salt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1586522298530-NCWER5ORXKKWL0Z5RI5B/IMG_20200409_160037.jpg Home - Berbere Black Rice w/ Tomatoes and Cashews Recipe Next: add the black rice, the tomatoes, and the other three cloves of grated garlic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1586522321980-KHKF93QDXX3BBIFTPX3T/IMG_20200409_160426.jpg Home - Berbere Black Rice w/ Tomatoes and Cashews Recipe Add the 3 cups of water and then 1 bay leaf. Stir. Put lid back on. Bring to boil. Stir. Turn down to medium-low and let simmer for 30-40 minutes, stirring occasionally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1586522369150-JD8BCS65WTDQP7LGPLFD/IMG_20200409_185406.jpg Home - Berbere Black Rice w/ Tomatoes and Cashews Recipe This rice could be paired with a lot of fun fiber-filled vegetable sides but here’s one example of how we’ve eaten it: with kale & quinoa salad, quick-pickled cabbage, and fresh bell peppers. Live and feast kindly, Folks! <3 https://www.jasquatch.com/home/pqky1uaxe6ig9aqhwrxdckyo6rqf9h monthly 0.5 2021-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1586102899566-G7EK5PARF7KTHYER7C3D/image-asset.jpeg Home - Quick and Easy Apple Sauce Recipe You could puree this further, but we like things a little chunky over here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1586102841634-3MRAMYWTW4RREJZPM6YD/image-asset.jpeg Home - Quick and Easy Apple Sauce Recipe I add seasonings after it’s cooked so they taste brighter. We freshly grated some nutmeg and Q scooped in some cinnamon. Season to taste: you may want more or less of both spices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1586100580012-7V9O1CDDOVG3XL1ZK0DD/IMG_20200404_093029+%281%29.jpg Home - Quick and Easy Apple Sauce Recipe If you’re going to make this recipe and you have kiddos afoot: get them involved. It’s good to see where your food is coming from and how it is made. It’s also good for the heart to get time with this soul I treasure more than anything on this earth. Excuse our rumpled, braless, old-clothing cloaked selves. Didn’t know we’d be photographed, but I appreciate realistic documentation. (Photos by Papa Bear Ian.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1586102585874-K6NEUBEBVOP7N7J24L78/image-asset.jpeg Home - Quick and Easy Apple Sauce Recipe Throw your roughly chopped apples in the pot, and throw those cores into your compost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1586100150397-LHZ087ULS2L99D9OS4T6/IMG_20200405_111756.jpg Home - Quick and Easy Apple Sauce Recipe Don’t have 5lb of apples? This could easily be halved or even quartered. Simmer with the lid ON. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1586102636131-VTHTL8899B1K8X8Q0UXV/IMG_20200404_095757.jpg Home - Quick and Easy Apple Sauce Recipe When the apples have simmered for about 30 minutes (with the lid on) and have gotten nice and soft, stick an immersion blender in the pot and blend until it’s at your desired state. Real Life: a janky immersion blender that takes two hands to operate properly; old paint-covered leggings; cub wearing a handmade Guster shirt a dear college friend once crafted for me, and whose hair could use some touch-ups and evening out (<—my fault). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1586102948830-95HZ4FDN2LWTQ5K59IZ0/image-asset.jpeg Home - Quick and Easy Apple Sauce Recipe The recipe makes enough to fill 2 quart jars. Throw them both in your fridge, or split one of those jars in half and leave some on a neighbor’s doorstep: as we did with Q’s grandmother. She lives across the street, but we haven’t been able to hug that sweet soul in weeks. This was Q’s way of saying, "I love you and I miss you!” Live and feast kindly, Folks! https://www.jasquatch.com/home/ethiopian-style-red-lentils-qs-favorite monthly 0.5 2024-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1585742284642-92FC1BS8572922NI90UF/IMG_20200331_143503.jpg Home - Ethiopian Style Red Lentils Recipe (Q's Favorite) They are done when they get to this consistency (about 30 minutes) Salt to taste! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1585776050409-FYVMIM4QK6A89SG0AL6T/image-asset.jpeg Home - Ethiopian Style Red Lentils Recipe (Q's Favorite) Until were have injera (Ethiopian bread) in the house again (and I’ll be testing recipes for that soon), we tend to eat these lentils next to salads. Today, this is what Q and I had for lunch: kale and quinoa salad, quick-pickled red cabbage, butternut squash, easy avocado, (some buffalo seasoned hempeh on mine), and these delicious (heart-healthy/disease preventing) lentils. :-) Live and feast kindly, folks! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1585742226725-NVZJD9RC4M7RN0C56TUR/IMG_20200331_140128.jpg Home - Ethiopian Style Red Lentils Recipe (Q's Favorite) I got distracted and forgot to stir the onions mid-way or to photograph for you what they looked like before I added to lentils. (Life! It happens :-) ) Take note: be nearby to check on them and see if they’re getting browned earlier than 10 minutes (which I obviously didn’t and regretted :-) ) When the onions are browned enough to your liking: add in 2 tbl berbere, the lentils, 6 cups of water, and the freshly grated garlic. Stir. Let it simmer uncovered for 20-30 minutes. Stir occasionally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1585742171213-4ZML47HH7I96CJ378PU2/IMG_20200331_134822.jpg Home - Ethiopian Style Red Lentils Recipe (Q's Favorite) This is what it looks like after 10 minutes on medium heat, and before we’ll add more water and the seasoning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1585742027575-6CL5VPHZMIUT2VNER7JG/IMG_20200331_171415.jpg Home - Ethiopian Style Red Lentils Recipe (Q's Favorite) An optional addition would be a 1/4 crushed tomatoes when you throw in the lentils. Not needed, but if they are at-hand it adds to the flavor and also gives you some good lycopene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1585742045146-LC1I46LNL4LJKR8IHZPA/image-asset.jpeg Home - Ethiopian Style Red Lentils Recipe (Q's Favorite) Start with a medium onion (chopped, diced), top it with 1/2 cup water, 1tsp lemon juice, and some salt. Save the red lentils for a bit and get out a grate to start grating that garlic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1585742194453-4GB0IOGXJU4J8Z558E63/IMG_20200331_135132.jpg Home - Ethiopian Style Red Lentils Recipe (Q's Favorite) You won’t miss the oil because this dish is flush with flavor. After about ten minutes on medium heat, the onions will have absorbed the first 1/2 cup of water. Add in another 1/2 cup of water and 1 tbl of the berbere. Stir. Cover. If you feel like adding oils, now would be a fine time to add some in, but it's not needed. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/orange-you-glad-you-made-overnight-oats-another-immune-boosting-superfood monthly 0.5 2024-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1584795880464-LL5BPJ9WHFB32IQ8Y0KC/IMG_20200320_140315.jpg Home - Orange You Glad You Made Overnight Oats? (Another immune boosting superfood Recipe) What you need to start a batch: oats, chia seeds (<— also high in Omegas, calcium, and protein), water, salt, and orange rind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1584796220442-N9KYJT3XG9VN6VL32SOS/image-asset.jpeg Home - Orange You Glad You Made Overnight Oats? (Another immune boosting superfood Recipe) The beauty, health, and zero-waste joy of using up orange peel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1584796248488-IL5C9IBEZQI1AQIW3FL0/IMG_20200320_141647.jpg Home - Orange You Glad You Made Overnight Oats? (Another immune boosting superfood Recipe) What they are going to look like when you put them away for the night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1584797370419-HGYMUOSZJE66RYU2Y1D2/IMG_20200321_092617.jpg Home - Orange You Glad You Made Overnight Oats? (Another immune boosting superfood Recipe) As seen, the chia seeds are optional (if you don’t have them and don’t want to risk going out to a grocery store to get them) this will still work just fine. We add the chia for added protein and Omegas, and the vanilla is just a flavor punch. If you don’t have an orange, you could do the same with any other citrus rind. And lest you’re new to zesting and think you need to grate the whole rind: you’re just taking off the aromatic, bright colored outer layer! <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1584796271066-YNRVC0MGKP65Y6JC27KS/IMG_20200321_065459.jpg Home - Orange You Glad You Made Overnight Oats? (Another immune boosting superfood Recipe) What they’ll look like the next day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1584796299690-CRJXPGI0O7J2V3F0WKRR/image-asset.jpeg Home - Orange You Glad You Made Overnight Oats? (Another immune boosting superfood Recipe) Voila! Easy, breezy, super healthy, and environmentally friendly. Throw a cup of it into a bowl and microwave for 30-60 seconds to warm it back up. Q topped his with hemp hearts, cinnamon, and the tiniest drizzle of local/pure maple syrup. Feast and live kindly, Folks! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1584796201764-1U93DWP6L70D95Z8PBLN/image-asset.jpeg Home - Orange You Glad You Made Overnight Oats? (Another immune boosting superfood Recipe) Me: always freshly grating something. :-) Grate that orange zest right into the jar and save yourself a dish to clean. Fun new thing I learned while researching for this post: 1 tablespoon of orange zest has 14% of your daily Vitamin C. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/roasted-butternut-squash monthly 0.5 2021-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1584638684235-2ZHPO2EPWIZUYA06BDY9/image-asset.jpeg Home - Roasted Butternut Squash Recipe: Immune Booster and Tasty Wonder Food They are done in about 40 minutes, or when they are soft and slightly caramelized. Enjoy however you desire, but they always taste great with black rice, next to mashed potatoes, with easy avocados (<—also a nice Vitamin C source), on a kale and quinoa salad, the possibilities are endless. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1584636948627-3EQC0T33EI3MCOQZ0NW5/IMG_20200302_132346.jpg Home - Roasted Butternut Squash Recipe: Immune Booster and Tasty Wonder Food I find it easier to tackle peeling the squash if I divide it in half and handle the rounded bottom separately. Throw the skins into the compost or reserve for a veggie-scrap broth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1584637611709-Q9XRJ57XL0W30TK7NCOP/IMG_20200302_134255.jpg Home - Roasted Butternut Squash Recipe: Immune Booster and Tasty Wonder Food Chop that sweet, buttery flesh into roughly 1in/3cm cubes. (If making a scrap broth, combine those skins with whatever other compost items you have, throw it all into a pot, salt it, add some garlic (and herbs if you have any handy), and boil ‘em down until you have a delicious elixir.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1584633810772-E0DZOTCKK8HE2T4IPPYR/image-asset.jpeg Home - Roasted Butternut Squash Recipe: Immune Booster and Tasty Wonder Food Why not preheat the oven? It saves energy (gas or electricity pending on your source) and it’s going to cook just fine without a preheat. Why wait on adding the garlic (for both the squash and the seeds)? Garlic has a tendency to burn faster than the squash/seeds and causes a bitterness you want no part of; so if you wait, you’ll get all the delicious garlicky taste you want without the burn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1584637667377-7ZCUVB2YAOP61DUSTZ3C/IMG_20200317_162712.jpg Home - Roasted Butternut Squash Recipe: Immune Booster and Tasty Wonder Food Add all the squash to a pan, drizzle with the tiniest amount of your preferred veg oil, stir to coat, then season to taste. Why not as much oil as I want? Oil is delicious, but it is processed and coming at you hot without any fiber attached to it, so the nutritional docs are recommending that you limit ravenous consumption of oil, and state it’s best to get it when you’re eating whole-foods (ie the oil found in a nut, avocado, etc). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1584638864106-XWYH5V27MUBIQ10N1L2O/image-asset.jpeg Home - Roasted Butternut Squash Recipe: Immune Booster and Tasty Wonder Food They are even kiddo approved. :-) Live and feast kindly, Folks! <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1584637368370-GJLCIFS7S0CR2EPIG8VO/IMG_20200302_132718.jpg Home - Roasted Butternut Squash Recipe: Immune Booster and Tasty Wonder Food Scoop out the seeds, but KEEP THEM and put them into a separate baking dish. We use a glass loaf pan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1584638367785-FNVH64O51W8U0PF7LD3B/IMG_20200317_170643.jpg Home - Roasted Butternut Squash Recipe: Immune Booster and Tasty Wonder Food Finished roasted Squash Seeds As seen above, season the seeds with salt (no oil needed) and then add them to the un-preheated oven with the squash. Flip them at 10 min, and then throw back in for another 10. Seeds are silly. Sometimes they are done after those combined 20, sometimes they must have more water weight and they take a little longer. Take them out when they are at your desired level of crunchy and season with paprika and garlic powder while they are still piping hot so they seasonings stick. This only makes a few, but it is a great way to use up as much of the squash as possible, and they are delicious and super nutritious! <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1584643250187-Q64DLAH9LUC5QD4R6HGT/IMG_20200228_090552.jpg Home - Roasted Butternut Squash Recipe: Immune Booster and Tasty Wonder Food First step: go get some squash. On a budget? We love Aldi’s. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/endothelial-function-and-jasquatch-howling monthly 0.5 2024-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1584189377406-X8OEUN5WULBHH2SFLRVS/image-asset.png Home - Endothelial Function: how it works, how it's harmed, how even our children are showing signs of cardiovascular disease, and how you can reverse it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1584189396686-PF791KEE8FMOPV55IYGU/Screenshot_20200314-074413.png Home - Endothelial Function: how it works, how it's harmed, how even our children are showing signs of cardiovascular disease, and how you can reverse it. And stories like this are what fill me with heart-swelling hope and keep me hollering. ON A STATIN? The above should hopefully inspire you to make some changes that are better for your health and the health of every other species on this planet. To deny any the above and continue on your current path is acknowledging that there is a proven way to be better and you’d rather just not. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1584104186382-B0HPQ5O4F7SNJM4HZF0Z/IMG_6003.jpg Home - Endothelial Function: how it works, how it's harmed, how even our children are showing signs of cardiovascular disease, and how you can reverse it. I loved ice cream and custard so much, I made sure my first job was behind the counter of Jarling’s Custard Cup. Though I received scoop-after-scoop during working hours, I would go in and get more during days off. On visits back to Champaign, I’d go multiple times a day and sometimes get two favorites at the same time. When I wasn’t gobbling up custard, I was eating daily mounds of cheese, reveling in weekly chicken wings, and every day involved consuming an animal product of some sort. So lest anyone see the above and think my involvement with animal products was easy to give up, you could not be more wrong. I’m just also the sort that when I learn something beneficial I move forward with the knowledge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1584113561394-I4UVX0K23YFF2VXRVE74/IMG_20200313_112930.jpg Home - Endothelial Function: how it works, how it's harmed, how even our children are showing signs of cardiovascular disease, and how you can reverse it. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/three-good-listens monthly 0.5 2024-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1583863680234-IP823JQQYNIGLUX6FYID/IMG_20200308_214132_01.jpg Home - New Resources: Three Good Listens and a Documentary You Need to Watch Sunday stick sword-fighting with my son at Filmore Glen State Park. Previously, this would have been a day to be on the couch wrapped around an ice pack and full of ibuprofen, yet now I’m full of fiber and free from pain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1583788741534-VF34TAJQGL25XHRHEV4V/image-asset.jpeg Home - New Resources: Three Good Listens and a Documentary You Need to Watch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1583858562060-L6B9XYC63G8RCSER9B2Z/IMG_20200307_122445.jpg Home - New Resources: Three Good Listens and a Documentary You Need to Watch What my hands were working on while my brain was buzzing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1583854760592-UEXA3EC7DOXOMU8G9Y1E/IMG_20200309_175131.jpg Home - New Resources: Three Good Listens and a Documentary You Need to Watch Started the weekend with the Dr. David Katz interview. This is a slice of what my daily logs look like. They are mostly filled out after something has been done, but with cooking I’ll map out what I’m aiming to accomplish. We had a visit from my father (who has been gone since early January), so that butternut squash and black rice were tabled for another day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1583865036918-QE24B5W33EZL985JZFEH/PANO_20200309_143327.jpg Home - New Resources: Three Good Listens and a Documentary You Need to Watch Monday: Vitamin D on a 65º day with a transplanted Coney Island Polar Bear Club cub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1583866424414-X27Z3P4HX46X90CX2SJA/IMG_20200308_150139+%281%29.jpg Home - New Resources: Three Good Listens and a Documentary You Need to Watch Sunday with the two souls most precious to me on this Earth: healthier and happier since shifting to plant-based whole foods. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/berry-banana-bars-nut-free-plant-based-no-added-sugar monthly 0.5 2020-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582918297587-J5A2OPCIUU798KP1SQE6/IMG_20200223_132045.jpg Home - Berry Banana Bars (Nut-Free, No Added Sugar, and Plant-Based) Recipe Unlike the first two bars, this one is doubled up so it thoroughly fills a 9X13 and will power a family of 3 for a week. (Cut the recipe in half, share some with friends, or put extras in the freezer if this amount seems overwhelming.) Those berry bags are resealable and make great reusable bulk-food bags, or can also be recycled where plastic bag recycling is accepted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582918466694-K66OU314RRRGQPL37DLQ/image-asset.jpeg Home - Berry Banana Bars (Nut-Free, No Added Sugar, and Plant-Based) Recipe This is the batter consistency you’re looking for. If yours is too thin: add a few more oats. If it’s too thick: add a little more oatmilk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582918380536-HIROPQMOKDBILP3075O0/IMG_20200205_132958.jpg Home - Berry Banana Bars (Nut-Free, No Added Sugar, and Plant-Based) Recipe Items needed to start a batch: oats, berries, bananas, baking powder, chia seeds, apple cider vinegar and oatmilk. In this house, each batch is a little different. This one had some nutmeg and cinnamon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582917941458-ATD970WPQWNXYWR5U1U0/IMG_20200228_142015.jpg Home - Berry Banana Bars (Nut-Free, No Added Sugar, and Plant-Based) Recipe Use whatever berry you desire. We like to do half cranberries and half blueberries, but this would also work with strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, etc. Get those berry flavonoids in you however you can. If your berries are frozen, nuke them in a microwave with the vinegar for a minute, let them sit out until thawed, or throw them in a pan on simmer. However you wanna get them unfrozen is fine. Additional Flavors: add cinnamon, nutmeg, other sweeteners, and more salt per taste. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582918713940-UNZP1STOEZ470XS4NZPB/image-asset.jpeg Home - Berry Banana Bars (Nut-Free, No Added Sugar, and Plant-Based) Recipe Another occasional-add: nutritional yeast. Adds a buttery flavor and gives you some nutritionally needed B12. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582923781281-H8AVDBL4W94SM1QTHVRZ/IMG_20200228_120209+%281%29.jpg Home - Berry Banana Bars (Nut-Free, No Added Sugar, and Plant-Based) Recipe If you’re free of nut allergies, they taste fantastic with a side of peanut butter. Like all my recipes, these will you fill you up with power, health, and kindness. Enjoy! <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582918496634-NIIE9GSZ0SBVPSKONMGW/IMG_20200223_132838.jpg Home - Berry Banana Bars (Nut-Free, No Added Sugar, and Plant-Based) Recipe Sprinkle hemp-hearts on top if you want added crunch and health benefits. (<—full of protein, minerals, vitamins) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582918344033-GGB8OYYLUK6K8BOIONFS/IMG_20200223_131837.jpg Home - Berry Banana Bars (Nut-Free, No Added Sugar, and Plant-Based) Recipe If you don’t have oatmilk on-hand, you can make some quickly by adding oats and water to a blender/nutri-bullet. In this case, I combined 1 cup oats (plus the baking powder) and 2 cups water. I used the same Pyrex that held/heated up the berries so I could siphon off a little more berry flavor, and blended it for a minute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582918531364-M8Q57P3OUKADULXHAXFJ/IMG_20200205_142152.jpg Home - Berry Banana Bars (Nut-Free, No Added Sugar, and Plant-Based) Recipe Take them out when a toothpick pulls out clean, but you’ll note that they can still appear too gooey when they come out. There are no eggs in here to worry about and they will solidify as they cool, so leave them be. <3 https://www.jasquatch.com/home/fmf27anr93tgt6zjphi9nudamumfww monthly 0.5 2024-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1583095295564-470CB67EYRAHKMV04QE5/IMG_20200227_102817+%281%29.jpg Home - Jasquatch's First Foray into Public Speaking - "Environmental Kindness: How to Care for the Earth and Yourself" A recent power lunch for Q: easy avocado, kale & quinoa, black rice, peanut sauce, and apple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1583093976984-VYG3IKVX17ICNSPLU5OE/image-asset.jpeg Home - Jasquatch's First Foray into Public Speaking - "Environmental Kindness: How to Care for the Earth and Yourself" Brought examples of cutlery, plates, napkins, mason jars, Glasslock containers, how to bring food home zero-waste, rag options, and Ian’s every day drink containers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1583095084090-E7QKVWEVTWL45YLOND8P/image-asset.jpeg Home - Jasquatch's First Foray into Public Speaking - "Environmental Kindness: How to Care for the Earth and Yourself" My every day carry: tiny, mighty backpack (that spreads equilibrium across my back) and can carry a large canteen, two U-konserve containers (one full of nuts, the other empty just incase), cutlery for Q and me, and knitting for moments where my hands are free. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/kale-amp-quinoa-salad-base monthly 0.5 2020-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582829095371-NJB565WPX44NOXWOSAFP/image-asset.jpeg Home - Kale &amp; Quinoa Salad Base (Zero-Waste) Recipe This fills a large Pyrex mixing bowl and stores well in the fridge for a full week. Handy tip: make with warm quinoa as it breaks down the kale a bit and helps them meld together. Smoked paprika adds a nice flavor too, if you have it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582830067768-7ODLMIUXWD1A5GWV926H/IMG_20200227_102817.jpg Home - Kale &amp; Quinoa Salad Base (Zero-Waste) Recipe A favorite Q lunch: kale & quinoa, black rice, easy avocado, peanut sauce, and apple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582829828290-JMTR8DJ6QA03ANWQ509S/IMG_20200227_102846.jpg Home - Kale &amp; Quinoa Salad Base (Zero-Waste) Recipe How I power through greenhouse shifts: full of plant-based protein, fiber, complex carbohydrates, and environmental kindness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582829766718-RWM1290PWCLUD50KPHL5/image-asset.jpeg Home - Kale &amp; Quinoa Salad Base (Zero-Waste) Recipe Start the simple dressing first so that the acids have some time to eat away at that garlic and develop a better flavor. Like all my simple dressings it is a mixture of apple cider vinegar (1/4 cp), lemon juice (1/4 cp), salt (1/4 tsp), paprika (1/2 tsp), and freshly grated garlic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582830585399-466DBY9H413IR5QP188V/IMG_20200223_134058+%282%29.jpg Home - Kale &amp; Quinoa Salad Base (Zero-Waste) Recipe Super simple: quinoa, kale, dressing, and extra salt if needed. Full of power: protein, vitamins, minerals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582830019371-P2SNO2MQ9J5WW8HZW2UO/IMG_20200225_112621.jpg Home - Kale &amp; Quinoa Salad Base (Zero-Waste) Recipe However you eat it, it is good to the last scrap and will power you through your day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582829798420-PEZYS20FHBSS6XLZ8C5D/IMG_20200223_101529+%281%29.jpg Home - Kale &amp; Quinoa Salad Base (Zero-Waste) Recipe The beginnings of a heart-healthy bowl: kale & quinoa, quick-pickled cabbage, roasted butternut squash, and, easy avocado. Top with your favorite dressing and protein. (Should I post individual salad ideas in the future?) I prefer it closer to room temp (or super lightly warmed up) when eaten through the week as that’s the temp profile you get when you’ve mixed the warm quinoa with cold kale. Adding a hot dressing (like peanut sauce) does that for you. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582829857171-MM98XPQHSODSGBSFZSSN/IMG_20200223_102249.jpg Home - Kale &amp; Quinoa Salad Base (Zero-Waste) Recipe If you can eat soy: if tastes great with quick-pickled cabbage, easy avocado, roasted butternut squash (gotta post that soon) and seared tofu. <—-We’ve learned tofu is not for us (GI wrought and wail), but if it is for you: this is a great combo (top with Aminos or Tamari)! https://www.jasquatch.com/home/quick-quinoa monthly 0.5 2020-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582828254011-RRLQ233B1TBDNKKITNKQ/IMG_20200227_102619.jpg Home - Quick Quinoa Recipe Works well on its own, mixed with black rice, or mixed with kale and added to bowls of veggies. In a busy week this is how we prepare quick meals that will give us power and not an inflammatory/refined-carb-crash. Our lunch: kale & quinoa, black rice, avocado, and peanut sauce. Q’s is the one with an apple, mine is celebrating roasted carrots. Power, Health, & Kindness <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582825669905-H5L29HYXC13DINJX79AP/IMG_20200227_123509.jpg Home - Quick Quinoa Recipe Smoked paprika is a delicious substitute, add more salt or other spices as you please. If you have broth on hand (or have a pot/pan you can deglaze and reuse some flavor) it can also be a nice addition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582806866268-IY29D8DVMSR8P9H7JJLC/IMG_20200227_072856.jpg Home - Quick Quinoa Recipe Here in Onondaga County you can find organic quinoa in the bulk section. If you bring in your own bag you can bring pounds of protein home without any wasteful packaging (woohoo!) Here seen: a repurposed Trader Joe’s nut bag (handy because they can be sealed), but we also use cloth canvas bags as you’ll see in the next pic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582812442507-FXHR0SW2O33G0B8MR3WF/IMG_20200223_124038.jpg Home - Quick Quinoa Recipe Hopefully the above convinced you that you want this healthy food in your rotation; if so, here’s everything need for a batch of quick quinoa: quinoa, garlic, salt, bay leaf, paprika, water/broth (in this case, I used water to deglaze a pan used for roasting broccoli and squash). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1582828141979-25G6E52AO2AXA55IJGGQ/IMG_20200223_125952.jpg Home - Quick Quinoa Recipe Add it to the pot and bring to a boil, then let it simmer uncovered on medium low for 15 minutes or until the liquid has mostly absorbed, then cover it for 5 min, and fluff with a fork. Season to taste. Enjoy immediately or store in a fridge and add to meals throughout the week. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/how-we-make-mashed-potatoes monthly 0.5 2021-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1581519341469-RFXDWOW7JICJIKZTJSA4/IMG_20200106_160716.jpg Home - How We Make Mashed Potatoes Recipe Twice I have forgotten to take a photo before getting this far. :-) I started with about 10 potatoes, we prefer reds (purples are my personal favorite), but use whichever spud you prefer. I like enough to cover the bottom of the pot, and I chop them into chunks around 3cm/1.5”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1583587471621-UJIMGILG4PWBTDUR2XIR/IMG_20200305_093633.jpg Home - How We Make Mashed Potatoes Recipe Remove from heat so you can work with the blender and at the sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1583587644587-9PE2DYDDUTID4DFS5H6F/IMG_20200305_094337.jpg Home - How We Make Mashed Potatoes Recipe They are all set when they are spoon-sticking consistency. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1581520246400-K9QMK6QN6X892FIT7EWA/IMG_20200207_120441.jpg Home - How We Make Mashed Potatoes Recipe When it gets to this stage of thickness (you can move the spoon and get bare spots for a moment) it’s time to turn off the heat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1583587565463-L4K6W0XT9K30HP6SQ5BE/IMG_20200305_094306.jpg Home - How We Make Mashed Potatoes Recipe You could keep going and get a far more processed potato (like the first completed shot, which was from a different night), but my potato loving man likes ‘em chunky so this is often where we leave it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1581522400863-0KPKSS7915QO7FQNAXKP/IMG_20200207_131934.jpg Home - How We Make Mashed Potatoes Recipe Try these out! You will not miss the dairy or the sickening-over-stuffed feeling of traditional mashed potatoes. These are packed with flavor, are actually good for your gut, and kind to the environment & other souls! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1581507130325-LSC6XT9BWZAP6CC7J1CR/image.jpg Home - How We Make Mashed Potatoes Recipe A finished batch of our mashed potatoes: full of flavor and good for your heart! <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1583586710668-0R184VMQ6AWSG6AAPQ79/IMG_20200306_145846.jpg Home - How We Make Mashed Potatoes Recipe We prefer red potatoes, but this’ll work with whatever potato is on hand. We mix it up often. You mainly want enough potato to cover the bottom of your pan. This is a good backbone, and you should spice it up as you desire. We err on the side of low salt and added oils, but you may want this more oily (add more oil) or with more seasonings. NOTE: if avoiding oils, simply sub in more plant milk. When doing the garlic sauce, start by heating the garlic in the oil (this browns it better and makes for a nice flavor) and then add in the rest of the ingredients. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1581519750569-L181LAVBLNMWF2LUCZAT/IMG_20200106_160920.jpg Home - How We Make Mashed Potatoes Recipe Season with paprika, salt, grated garlic, and a bay leaf. Top with 4 cups of water. Cover and bring to a boil, but once it’s boiling take that lid off, bring it down to a simmer and let them soak up that water (uncovered) for the next 30 min. This reduction process makes for a much more flavorful dish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1581520138066-POX2WQPPCKRHHC4TME3L/IMG_20200207_120951.jpg Home - How We Make Mashed Potatoes Recipe If you slightly tilt the pan you can get more in each swipe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1583587299251-3YOADMGXX4I4QWHWXP3F/IMG_20200305_092319.jpg Home - How We Make Mashed Potatoes Recipe While the potatoes are bubbling away, start the plant-based garlic butter sauce. Nutritional Yeast (B12, an essential vitamin) has a complex, cheesy umami flavor; by combining it with oatmilk (or whatever plant-milk you have on hand), garlic, paprika, and a little sunflower oil: you get a rich, creamy, garlic sauce. Special Notes: Remember to microwave (I put everything in that pyrex and throw it right into the microwave so I save on the gas emissions of my old stove) or simmer the oil and garlic on the stove for a spell until the garlic has mellowed and browned a bit. If you’re the sort of soul who loves the sharp brightness of raw garlic, skip that step and rock on with your allium loving self. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/super-easy-oatmilk monthly 0.5 2021-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1581433006947-D0K9PRZ3UWQ1RM9DDVHB/IMG_20200207_102805.jpg Home - Super Easy Oatmilk Recipe Done! Can be used in: Nutbutterscotch Bites, Strawberry Banana Oatbars, Cranberry Dark Chocolate Chip Oatbars, and a Mashed Potato recipe that’ll be posted tomorrow. Had some mom-life distractions, ran out of time to sing the praises of potatoes, am now headed to work. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1581432442113-VR3HFH00MTPI4E41D133/IMG_20200207_102247.jpg Home - Super Easy Oatmilk Recipe Everything you need for a (half) batch. :-) If you only need a cup (or half a cup) for a recipe and you don’t think you’ll be able to use up the rest of it (especially given this isn’t a drinkable oatmilk) do a half batch = 1/4 cup oats, 1 cup water, pinch of salt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1581426639662-2YRQ1MMLVR7H73G0CJUG/IMG_20200211_075328.jpg Home - Super Easy Oatmilk Recipe ***This batch should be used for baking and binding purposes*** It is thick, so I do not recommend using it as a drinkable oatmilk (<—-still working out a good recipe for that). For the delicious kind you want to throw in coffee or shakes: I recommend Chobani and Oatly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1581432802809-LY89IAJ7VYEN8CTNH0C3/IMG_20200207_102347.jpg Home - Super Easy Oatmilk Recipe If you given them a moment to soak (while you’re doing whatever else you’re doing) they’ll make for a creamer milk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1581432976042-FAPIDZKAFWO8I2Y9RRE4/image-asset.jpeg Home - Super Easy Oatmilk Recipe Blend for about a minute https://www.jasquatch.com/home/green-lentils-the-oft-avoided-plant-based-powerhouse monthly 0.5 2021-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1581173833227-GFTAFOYRED5C7KR6O6XO/IMG_20200208_081046.jpg Home - Easy Green Lentils Recipe: The Oft Avoided Yet Delicious Plant-Based Powerhouse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1581173575079-77MT7V71GPQFSX14SGZN/image-asset.jpeg Home - Easy Green Lentils Recipe: The Oft Avoided Yet Delicious Plant-Based Powerhouse I prefer to reserve a few cups of cooked lentils and throw them into dishes like this super-quick lentil soup. Recipe soon! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1581173897374-CVGN1PPYX51WT1Q4PRE2/image-asset.jpeg Home - Easy Green Lentils Recipe: The Oft Avoided Yet Delicious Plant-Based Powerhouse Another great thing about lentils: they sell in bulk at Wegman’s so if you get yourself a bag and switch to reusable glass-jarred paprika (like the first ingredient photo) you can eat lentils with zero waste! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1581173156790-KQ1Y1SIRNS2AIVBCI42L/IMG_20200207_112906.jpg Home - Easy Green Lentils Recipe: The Oft Avoided Yet Delicious Plant-Based Powerhouse Done! Dash with a bit of lemon juice and season to taste. These are “pleasant-enough” (<—my take) as a side, but Ian gobbles them up joyfully. Top them with freshly chopped herbs! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1581173054308-2V4EW6LDLTXQ79WDLN02/IMG_20200129_130945+%281%29.jpg Home - Easy Green Lentils Recipe: The Oft Avoided Yet Delicious Plant-Based Powerhouse I mean it about freshly grated garlic. :-) It’s written as such in every recipe, because I’m always grating it fresh. It makes a brighter flavor and the garlic goes farther through your dish (ie you will use up less garlic). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1581173741738-Z5RZ9AO7RD98LN37RF1T/image-asset.jpeg Home - Easy Green Lentils Recipe: The Oft Avoided Yet Delicious Plant-Based Powerhouse If you use broth (or bouillon) it’ll definitely punch up the flavor. We’ve been erring toward water and adjusting the salt flavor ourselves because we feast with a fair amount of souls who have to limit their salt intake. Consider these recipes as a spinal cord for whatever flavor/salt/spice you wanna add. I’m always throwing in more at the end per the taste of the evening. Oh! And chopped parsley (or even cilantro) can also be good topper if you have some on hand. The bright taste of parsley plays well with the earthiness of lentils, and did you know how much nutritional power they have in 2tb? It’s astounding! 154% of your Vitamin K! (<—That isn’t a typo!) Plus Vitamin C, Vitamin A, and Iron! (<—Will have to do a whole separate post on parsley, because it is a gobsmacking superfood.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1581172589612-8N6BVU1D2CCB81DW1ZY4/image-asset.jpeg Home - Easy Green Lentils Recipe: The Oft Avoided Yet Delicious Plant-Based Powerhouse Everything you need to start a batch of lentils: 2 cups lentils, salt, paprika, bay leaf, and freshly grated garlic. Pour water over it all, stir, bring to a boil, let simmer for roughly 40 minutes or until desired consistency. (Some people like their lentils toothsome and chewy, we like them broken down a bit more.) https://www.jasquatch.com/home/nutbutterscotch-bites monthly 0.5 2024-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1580998167784-5BS57UA6NSNEY45J9B44/IMG_20200205_141455.jpg Home - Nutbutterscotch Bites Recipe Nutbutterscotch Bites: One batch makes 15 squares, and 1 square is packed with plant-based protein (6.4g), heart-healthy oats, and essential minerals. Try them out for a healthier snacking option. They’ll fill you up (won’t leave you HANGRY shortly thereafter), are kind to the environment, and good for your body and mind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1580997063889-34EB1Z5XKCFZ1V0J3DDM/IMG_20200205_090647.jpg Home - Nutbutterscotch Bites Recipe If you’re new to dates, take note that you need to open it up and remove its pit. (I’m fully aware that I have the scruffy fingers that reflect I’m working my dream job at a greenhouse. ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1580996908644-TBU5RJHN61LRR66LO48C/IMG_20200205_093028.jpg Home - Nutbutterscotch Bites Recipe Everything you need for Nutbutterscotch Bites (except the Trader Joe's vanilla I'd accidentally put away before this shot ) The clam-shell holding those dates was/is a frustration. We’ll reuse it within the house, but if you’re looking for zero-waste options try to avoid these non-recyclable jerks. Local honey in a glass jar is a good reusable, low-waste option. Same with pure maple syrup. You take the buttery/cheesy flavor of Bragg’s Nutritional Yeast, mix it with sweetened (by dates, in this case) oatmilk, and use the umami/smokey flavor of Aminos with the richness of vanilla to get the caramelized flavor you would’ve gotten from the browned up junk that’s bad for your heart. Once they set, divide it in 3 length wise and then make 5 equal cuts width wise to get your 15 pieces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1580931350612-U0DCY94GA4QMMOL07M3N/IMG_20200205_141746.jpg Home - Nutbutterscotch Bites Recipe The can be done in a blender, nutri-bullet, or tiny food processor. If you like coconut (and don’t have a husband who curses them with the heat of a thousand suns), adding in a 1/4 cup of that is a tasty option. (<—-i.e. 1 3/4 cp oats, 1/4 cp flaked coconut whole or chopped), so is adding in chocolate chips or topping with a little drizzled choc. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/easy-avocado monthly 0.5 2020-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1580771186854-6931ZUUKL97Y7KH2OTGD/image-asset.jpeg Home - Easy Avocado Recipe Once the knife is a little embedded you’ll be able to lightly jiggle the pit out. Knock into compost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1580771545255-J0BJFS6CTOTLUJFBSTMV/image-asset.jpeg Home - Easy Avocado Recipe Today’s application compliments of weekend meal prepping of roasted sweet potatoes and quick-pickled cabbage. Heated up the potato and topped it with Bragg’s Nutritional Yeast and Dinosaur Bbq Chipotle Garlic Hot Sauce (here in Onondaga County this is in just about every grocery store) and gobbled it up with a whole “easy avocado” and quick-pickled cabbage. Those colors are health and flavor! <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1580771453255-9T0IS7VL7CB7JLIFF4I1/image-asset.jpeg Home - Easy Avocado Recipe Once you have the avocado free of pit, lightly cut into desired shape (you can/should do this without piercing the skin), sprinkle with salt and paprika, dash with a little bit of lemon juice. Spoon into whatever dish you desire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1580770315728-A7GOVUQ3LTWYFCE9ZJIN/IMG_20200203_144704.jpg Home - Easy Avocado Recipe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1580771093773-24ULU912ZV6858D92BS8/image-asset.jpeg Home - Easy Avocado Recipe Aldi’s in Nedrow, NY 2/3/2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1580771333608-8RNOC79KLYPHMEHBR52B/IMG_20200203_140130.jpg Home - Easy Avocado Recipe Cut in half. Hold pit-containing half in your palm face-side up and lightly knock the pit with your knife so it embeds. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/strawberry-banana-oatbars-w-strawberry-reduction-no-added-sugar monthly 0.5 2020-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1580764094122-7VFPULA6SCU16WDGQ8TX/IMG_20200129_135958.jpg Home - Strawberry Banana Oatbars w/ Strawberry Reduction (no added sugar) Recipe All the ingredients for getting started. Frozen strawberries were what was best on hand at our closest market. If you have fresh berries you can simply chop them. If they are frozen, microwave them or simmer them in a pan until soft and then mash a little. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1581004891098-MACCAGDVJ2RZOFUXKZLA/image-asset.jpeg Home - Strawberry Banana Oatbars w/ Strawberry Reduction (no added sugar) Recipe Serve Oatbar with Strawberry Reduction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1580764208351-14KH72LPRGZAN3HOX48B/image-asset.jpeg Home - Strawberry Banana Oatbars w/ Strawberry Reduction (no added sugar) Recipe While the bars are baking, start the reduction, but keep close. You may be tempted to wander away for a sec, but these guys bubble up quickly when left to their own devices (see the high rim of pink from stepping away to water some plants). I highly recommend sticking around and stirring them occasionally so they do not boil over. While hovering, maybe pull out your phone and read up on this tasty berry’s benefits: ”Strawberries provide us with a rich variety of phytonutrients, including dozens of polyphenolic antioxidants belonging to the following nutrient groups: flavonoids, phenolic acids, lignans, tannins, and stilbenes. Strawberries are an excellent source of vitamin C (and our 5th best source of vitamin C at WHFoods); an excellent source of the mineral manganese; a very good source of fiber, iodine, and folate; and a good source of copper, potassium, biotin, phosphorus, magnesium, vitamin B6, and omega-3 fats (in the form of alpha-linolenic acid).” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1580764444843-YJZOSGN4LGEHDCPB5EDA/IMG_20200201_092630.jpg Home - Strawberry Banana Oatbars w/ Strawberry Reduction (no added sugar) Recipe These are tasty, environmentally sustainable, body-healthy for your kiddos (or yourself), and good to the last lick. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1580760497720-YBQB3KG8M24C87JQ8FJX/IMG_20200203_144741.jpg Home - Strawberry Banana Oatbars w/ Strawberry Reduction (no added sugar) Recipe If you have frozen berries: just microwave them for a second with the vinegar and then mash, or simmer in a pan until soft and then mash. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/quick-pickled-watermelon-radish monthly 0.5 2020-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578953569438-I6G5W49N0Q3M7R0EQSQY/IMG_20200113_130330.jpg Home - Quick-Pickled Watermelon Radish Recipe Quick-Pickled Watermelon Radishes. Tasty on their own, or a fun addition to black rice and peanut sauce bowls. Also tastes good in miso, chopped up and added to tacos, or just about anywhere you wanna throw a pickled veggie. :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578952348744-QBMYRP22EFV95C2UVS84/image-asset.jpeg Home - Quick-Pickled Watermelon Radish Recipe You’d be correct in assuming that the bright color of these sweet veggies means they are packed with flavonoids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578951520353-E9Y6SR3NMFQ4YFEG0X52/IMG_20200113_141809.jpg Home - Quick-Pickled Watermelon Radish Recipe If you’ve got small radishes, use three. This recipe is specifically for sweet radishes like watermelon and purple. Regular radishes will make another fun quick-pickled quart, but know that they pack more heat than these guys. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578953302344-ADAYCQ8TTK7O500RVOR4/IMG_20200113_125030.jpg Home - Quick-Pickled Watermelon Radish Recipe Much like the quick-pickled cabbage, this is based off our favorite combo of apple cider vinegar, lemon juice, salt, paprika, and grated garlic (take note that when I say 1 clove, our CSA gives us beautifully LARGE cloves, so up yours to 2 if you’re getting piddly ones). Special Tip: grate that garlic into the liquids before you start cutting into the radishes (and add the salt and paprika), so the brine has time to start working together. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/cranberry-chocolate-chip-oatbars monthly 0.5 2024-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578949413774-B5D32GEVT1INYM44U7J6/image-asset.jpeg Home - Cranberry Dark Chocolate Chip Oatbars Recipe If you follow the directions above, you should be able to fit the dry and wet ingredients within these two containers before incorporating. Mix the dry ingredients in a large bowl. I start the chia eggs in a separate measuring cup. Add the cranberries/vinegar/oil to a large pyrex pourer and microwave; add 1.5 cup milk (2 won’t fit) and chia egg; stir; fold into dry ingredients; add remaining 1/2 cup of oatmilk to batter; fold in dark chocolate chips. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578949065811-E4QF0CWL4197NI7N4EYF/image-asset.jpeg Home - Cranberry Dark Chocolate Chip Oatbars Recipe For this recipe, start with 2tb chia seed and add 5tb water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578946202840-LWO5ME034Q9CMXKWICVB/image-asset.jpeg Home - Cranberry Dark Chocolate Chip Oatbars Recipe What you need for a batch: (choose maple or honey per your preference, and if you cut it out completely the cranberry and chocolate add enough flavor that you won’t miss it), 2 cups whole oats, 1 cup almond, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 cup of cranberries, 1 tbl apple cider vinegar, 1/4 cup sunflower oil (or any vegetable oil), (1tsp extract: optional), 2 chia eggs, 2 cups oatmilk, and extra dark chocolate chips. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578944182559-X5HNGIFUZ4VOT5K8VG45/IMG_20200113_141653.jpg Home - Cranberry Dark Chocolate Chip Oatbars Recipe Start those chia eggs first (2tb chia mixed with 5tb water) in a separate cup so they can gel. (I started to write that first, but then it was hard to incorporate with the other wet ingredients within the flow chart.) If you have a large pyrex pouring/measuring cup, you can handle the rest of the wet ingredients within in, and save yourself some dishes. Start with the cranberries (they are FROZEN hence the microwaving. If you have fresh, you could skip this step) and follow the directions above. Chocolate Chips are optional and thrown in for “treat” purposes. Bananas, blueberries, strawberries (really any berry) are good alternate additions. This is not a very sweet treat because we err on the side of moderation in House Cappello, but bounce up the sweetness per your own tastes. ALLERGIC TO NUTS?: just use a cup of oatflour (or whatever other whole-grain flour you love). The almond meal isn’t even needed, we just use to throw it in to everything. These days we save money and just use oatflour for everything . :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578949711602-AIGZM4SE9ARZ26GEEYW9/image-asset.jpeg Home - Cranberry Dark Chocolate Chip Oatbars Recipe Lightly oil the pan, spread the batter. If you want a slightly-crunchy/delicious top, hemp hearts are a fun topping to sprinkle. They taste like delicious shaved nuts, and are another superfood: high in protein, minerals, and omega fatty acids. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578949245110-CH6B2T5DXUHG096AJP0M/image-asset.jpeg Home - Cranberry Dark Chocolate Chip Oatbars Recipe 2 “chia eggs” + the chia nutrition panel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578951311526-BOISNOW3U1Y3NHSTMCAG/image-asset.jpeg Home - Cranberry Dark Chocolate Chip Oatbars Recipe Glorious Cranberry Dark Chocolate Chip Oatbars: packed with protein and flavonoids that’ll fill you up and fight inflammation. They also taste great with the chips out and replaced with blueberries (or ay other berry) or with bananas. A side of peanut butter is a good addition too. :-) https://www.jasquatch.com/home/black-rice-delicious-nutritious-protein-powerhouse monthly 0.5 2021-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578605025782-DE7ORZ2CP7WPLM31NA1G/image-asset.jpeg Home - Black Rice Recipe: Delicious, Nutritious Protein Powerhouse Purple anthocyanin beauty! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578605300937-TJFQ0L97L616GEJJS98I/IMG_20200108_155218+%281%29.jpg Home - Black Rice Recipe: Delicious, Nutritious Protein Powerhouse 1/2 avocado with lime, 1/2 cup of black rice, 1/4 chopped Pink Lady apple, quick-pickled carrots (<—-will post that as soon as I get more carrots!), topped with 1/2 cup of peanut sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578603325897-NE3MI8UXQZZOPB8LTTP6/IMG_20200109_154950.jpg Home - Black Rice Recipe: Delicious, Nutritious Protein Powerhouse Vegetable broth can also be subbed in if you’re looking for something extra savory. Give it a stir midway. <3 IF YOU HAVE AN INSTAPOT: favorite way to do this now is 3 cups rice, 4 cups water, same seasonings, cook for 18 min. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578604942645-0ZNR1JS99WVP40QZMYJW/image-asset.jpeg Home - Black Rice Recipe: Delicious, Nutritious Protein Powerhouse Throw all the dry ingredients in a pot, cover with water, stir, cover, wait. :-) https://www.jasquatch.com/home/curried-peanut-sauce monthly 0.5 2024-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578597090827-FQ1NLHX2Z96Q0SAIFAT4/IMG_20200108_140634.jpg Home - Curried Peanut Sauce Recipe The above recipe fills one 12oz mason jar with a little to spare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578597328937-0GHRXPL0HJ7OM62VW88J/IMG_20200108_155218+%281%29.jpg Home - Curried Peanut Sauce Recipe 1/2 avocado with lime, 1/2 cup black rice, 1/4 chopped apple, and quick-pickled carrots. <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1630238440730-U4C1QH3T6139WGMI96R5/PXL_20210826_184919467.jpg Home - Curried Peanut Sauce Recipe This is the framework for most batches I make, but it gets adjusted in different vectors each time. :-) Don't have lemon or berberearound? You don't need it. We often make it without those at all, and it makes it more Thai style. This recipe is built from our zero-waste peanut butter recipe. If you sub in store bought peanut butter, take care to adjust the salt (liquid aminos or soy sauce if using that as a replacement for the aminos) or sweetness (store-bought often has added sugar). Add more heat or garlic, as needed. The berbere is purely personal taste and not necessary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578596448548-QYBTP5L0UQVJCWHI6OZD/IMG_20200108_140903.jpg Home - Curried Peanut Sauce Recipe If you’re a fan of cumin and heat, this is a nice alternative. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/zero-waste-peanut-butter monthly 0.5 2020-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578524131161-Y566B9E9K3E2ORUM27J2/image-asset.jpeg Home - Zero-Waste Peanut Butter Recipe Made 2 jars of peanut butter, and 1 cup reserved for peanut sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578523818775-IJZD1GSENWQ6GPOLIAVA/IMG_20200108_132614.jpg Home - Zero-Waste Peanut Butter Recipe Done! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578523853180-AZBGJ1LH8AQC0OEN8Z5I/IMG_20200108_131932.jpg Home - Zero-Waste Peanut Butter Recipe If it gets jammed, redistribute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578519685326-C24FYPA3PVCAK2E1NEMI/IMG_20200108_150758.jpg Home - Zero-Waste Peanut Butter Recipe Get ye to your local bulk-foods section! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578520209945-SXM2U9YTXCRH48IDYCVN/IMG_20191126_173835.jpg Home - Zero-Waste Peanut Butter Recipe Wegman’s Bulk Section. We get the the unsalted cocktail peanuts on the left. We usually get 2lbs in a reusable canvas bag. https://www.jasquatch.com/home/why-we-switched-to-plant-based-whole-foods-how-it-made-us-healthier-and-how-it-can-save-the-planet monthly 0.5 2024-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578152148970-JGK9RU8SJ4PHQQQJ5IHD/474831_855087460995_1517613171_o.jpg Home - Why we switched to plant-based whole-foods, how it made us healthier, and how it can save the planet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578151552273-LRWK7LFYBFNAUI75I68K/IMG_20200101_072934_766.jpg Home - Why we switched to plant-based whole-foods, how it made us healthier, and how it can save the planet. 2019: a year of change and growth. Those trees in the main pic are in Stony Brook State Park, and where we spoke our 2011 wedding vows. A line in mine was how I would love him even through the chicken farts: gaseous wallops so bad they’d wake you up from a dead sleep! The toots I could/can still take, but needlessly gobbling up a chickens at the cost of the earth’s health, the body’s health, and that chicken’s suffering was a habit we needed to collectively grow over. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578232714499-Z8UXEFH7GFJCNBLGBAO7/IMG_1915.jpg Home - Why we switched to plant-based whole-foods, how it made us healthier, and how it can save the planet. The sort of melancholy self-portraits I took in college (that’s a whole floor made out of nails). I eye-roll now, but I dearly wish I knew then what I do now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578150177019-LZX565OJDEVEP2D33M9V/PANO_20190518_172234.jpg Home - Why we switched to plant-based whole-foods, how it made us healthier, and how it can save the planet. Glorious mulch from the same guys who chopped down that dangerous Norway Maple alongside the house. Local, waste-free, shoveling fun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578146584384-YT9Z0Y8X4PFBKOA4OZ4D/IMG_20170920_072631_445.jpg Home - Why we switched to plant-based whole-foods, how it made us healthier, and how it can save the planet. Photo I took of beloved South Onondaga, NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578324183235-XBCVOM001903BIUY7O2J/IMG_20200106_101812.jpg Home - Why we switched to plant-based whole-foods, how it made us healthier, and how it can save the planet. Q’s lunch Jan 6, 2020: 1/4 of a navel orange, 5 big slices of purple radish, 1/3 cup roasted broccoli sprinkled with furikake, with a bowl of homemade hummus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578146305465-0AV2TGZDNPOG8K9B909C/IMG_0264.jpg Home - Why we switched to plant-based whole-foods, how it made us healthier, and how it can save the planet. 2004 and a typical meal: large piece of pepperoni pizza, soda, and Skittles for dessert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578150673970-FRW90PGNP5QXZA1IN68Z/IMG_4037.jpg Home - Why we switched to plant-based whole-foods, how it made us healthier, and how it can save the planet. Ian and I as Team Zissou in 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578164953535-887OONVA0LE6QKPNNTMG/PANO_20191230_131058.jpg Home - Why we switched to plant-based whole-foods, how it made us healthier, and how it can save the planet. Hike Q and I did over the 2019 holiday break. We started level with that pond in that distance. Powered by peanuts, we walked a 1/2 mile loop to a waterfall, then hiked 2 miles and 700ft up to this view, then laughed and slid the rain-slick 2 miles back down. We completed the whole adventure in under 90 minutes, still smiling, and the only soreness the next day was a minute pang in my bicep from hefting the 42lb cub the last stretch up the hill. You could be saving the earth and your body with your food choices, and still go out and power through a day of adventure! <3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3b061355a82b00017fb3f0/1578488743419-JNPN9MZ310PNKV0KD2V3/image-asset.jpeg Home - Why we switched to plant-based whole-foods, how it made us healthier, and how it can save the planet. What our counter looks like after a CSA haul. 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