Tahini "Cesar" Salad & Raw Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls

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How are you doing today?  Now that the week is playing out and moving right along towards the weekend, we can all let out a sigh of relief that some R & R time is right around the corner!  I’m going to be teaching a yoga class Saturday morning and am beyond excited!  As I had mentioned I was going to be doing, I took a yoga class at the studio today that I am going to be teaching at it and I love the vibe, the energy, the practice space.  It was wonderful!

Then I took Skylar to the Mommy & Me Pottery Painting activity we had planned.  It was too cute watching her paint.  Like a bad Mommy, I forgot my camera but I will post pictures of her plates after they are fired.  They were pretty much a smeary hodge-podge of paint; the paint-your-pottery equivalent of scribbles, but to me, it’s Picasso.  She also kept asking for Blue.  I am a pink girl but she was loving blue.     

I’m glad to hear yesterday’s Raw Vegan Chocolate Coconut Snowballs were a hitYeah, num-num in my tum-tum!  Shout out to my lovely friends, Lil Veggie Patch and Raw Juice Girl who both made these.  I hope you enjoyed your balls as much as I do, girls.  TWSS

Raw Vegan Chocolate Coconut Snowball on white dish

And of course the Raw Vegan Sugar Snap Pea Salad with Raw Vegan Creamy Tahini Dressing Recipe

Raw Vegan Sugar Snap Pea Salad with Raw Vegan Creamy Tahini Dressing Recipe in shallow dish

And your reports on whether you deem yourself to be creative and telling me about your creative outlets with everything from knitting to jewelry making was really fun to read about, too!

For today’s greenery, I made another salad and flooded it with the Creamy Vegan Tahini Dressing.  Romaine, Carrots, Cukes, Red Peppers, Tomatoes, Sugar Snap Peas, and the Tahini Dressing.  Then I added some spicy sesame-coated almond bits on top.

It’s my Tahini-ized Version of a Cesar Salad

Mixed greens and vegetable salad with Tahini Dressing on plate

Who needs anchovies and Cesar dressing or croutons and gluten when you’ve got Raw Vegan Creamy Tahini & Sesame-Coated Almonds?  Not I.

Close up of dressed salad
Tossed salad with dressing close up

For Dessert, here’s a recent Raw Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls episode.  For full recipe info, click right on over to here!  5 minutes til heaven in your mouth if you get started now, just sayin’.

Cashews & Oats

Cashews and oats in blender

Grind

Ground up cashews and oats

Add the Liquids (Maple and/or Agave or both, Vanilla Extract)

Ground up mixture with added agave, maple syrup and vanilla extract

Add the Chocolate Chips

Chocolate chips added to top of mixture

Blend for a Second

Mixture blended with chocolate chips

Make your balls

Dough shaped into balls and stacked on to of one another

 

Close up of shaped balls showing chocolate chips

After refrigeration they looked like this

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls after refrigeration on countertop

And as I got closer to inhaling a ball it looked like this…

Close up of Cookie Dough Balls showing chocolate chips

And unstuck balls look like this (TWSS)

Two Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls in clear container

Couple Shopping Finds Now..
For all you MAC users, I recently picked up the Magic Mouse.  It’s only been out about 2 weeks and I have to say, I love it.   It took a day or so to get used to, but now I am in mousey heaven.

Hand holding Apple Mouse

Lightweight, responds with a light finger touch, wireless and rather than clicking the Back Button on your browser to back out of webpages, you can finger swipe across the top of the mouse and back out of webpages that way.  Great little gadget if you’re a MAC user.

Hand holding Apple Mouse at angle

In light of the fact that I’m going to be teaching some yoga classes, I wanted to spruce up my workout duds a bit.  I found a Lululemon Sports Bra on sale, in pink, in my size.  Score!  That baby had my name written all over it!

Pink LuluLemon Sports Bra

And with my purchase I got a re-usable Lulu bag.  They must’ve known I had just been talking about all the green lifestyle choices I make.  It’s nifty to be thrifty.  Sorry, that just popped into my head and I had to write it.

Reusable LuluLemon Shopping bag on countertop

Yoga Today is Hanumanasana (Full Splits or Monkey Pose)

Woman doing Hanumanasana yoga pose

And after all that shopping, I just had to pop a few 3-Ingredient 5-Minute Dark Chocolate Fudge Balls, too.   Yum.

3-Ingredient 5-Minute Dark Chocolate Fudge Balls

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Second Tip of the Day: My Yoga Mat is the Manduka Black Mat Pro,  all the way.  People have asked me what I use, and in my opinion, that’s the best.  It will last you a decade whereas other mats will shred and erode and wear down but not the Black Manduka.  It’s a quality investment in your practice that will pay off.  

What’s your favorite brand of workout apparel?  Are you brand loyal or do you bounce around?  Do you shop based on price, function, cuteness factor, or what?  Gimme the dish!  I am Nike brand loyal to my running shoes.  For my yoga clothes, I love Be Present, Prana, Lulu, and there are some tiny niche lines that sometimes have cute pieces, but that’s very hit and miss.  And regional, at best, distribution on some of those.  For Sports Bras, that is extremely hard and hit or miss for me.  Target ones are too flimsy, some of the high-tech ones are too restrictive, so I am always on the hunt.  What kind of workout apparel do you buy?  Or do you just sport a hanes tshirt and call that your “technical fabric”?  Does it matter even?  What do you think?

Stay Tuned For A Great Use for Apples…

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  1. Maybe try to find a way to be constructive in your comment to the mom or smoker. Like bring a little bucket with some sand for the smoker to put out his cigs and say nicely, "hey, I noticed there is nowhere safe for you to throw away your butts, how about using this?" If he's a jerk then, hey, at least you tried. And to the mom, maybe offer a nice comment or try talking to her son – like, "wow, I really like your shoes, I bet they're good for hopping!" and then hop with him for a bit. Sometimes distraction can help both mom and child reset. Helping, or trying to, would be a much better way to approach, and would seem much less judgemental – which would, of coarse, put people on the defensive.

  2. I just came across your blog today as I googled peanut butter cup recipes, since I had an incredible craving (Its been about a year since Ive had chocolate!!!) and I love everything about it! I agree with Michelle, you should open a shop, I know I'd be there lining up!
    Anyway, I am just curious as to why yeast is added to the peanut butter. I dont usually cook with yeast.. and was wondering if it was nessisary to add it?? I made them tonight with Carob chips and no yeast in the peanut butter and they seemed to turn out okay (just cooling now)! But am I missing out by not adding it???

  3. I lurve the sound of the peanut butter cups. I'm going to try it out tomorrow. Buuut you use a microwave? And you're into raw food?? Girl, get rid of that thing!

  4. The PB cups look delicious! Is nutritional yeast the same as Brewer's Yeast? I live in South Africa and haven't found a product labelled nutritional yeast.

    What ratio would you recommend if using the cocoa/agave/coconut oil variation?

    Thanks for the recipe!