Superb On-The-Go Dinner

Dinner

I packed myself a tasty dinner indeed. When I set my plate up with everything on it one of my supervisors said, "What a lovely looking dinner". Why thank you!! On the plate tonight:

• the rest of the roasted broccoli
• two servings of mushroom soup rice and kindey beans
• 1 cup of Kaboucha squash topped with yellow mustard and black pepper

Spectacular on-the-go dinner!

I even brought a little reading for my break! I love Mariska Hargitay.

Dessert

I also packed a dessert, naturally! A thick slice of the raw cashew coconut cookie bar and the other half of a banana. Together it tasted like a banana coconut pie! A winning combo for sure.

Now, in an effort to make myself completely healthy and ready for anything I am going to bed! I also want to get a workout in tomorrow before class. I'm thinking workout DVD and the yoga routine from the Health I was reading at break. I would run but it's lookin like rain and my path is surely muddy.

Good night blog world! Sleep well cause tomorrow is Hump Day!

Ants on a Log Brings me Back

Monday morning I got up early to finish that Ethics paper I so wonderfully put off till the last minute. Sometimes I actually work better under a deadline. (That doesn't mean I like it!) I perked up with this mug of peppermint tea.

Breakfast

For breakfast I had a beautiful bowl of fruit and yogurt. Fresh fruit is so pretty!

• 1/2 cup soy yogurt
• 1 slice banana bread
• mixed berries
• 1 Tbsp. of Kelsey's raw flaxseed coconut banana pancake mix

I also made sure to take my Cleanse tablets and a Women's One a Day.
This morning was my dress rehearsal for my recital. All that really means is that I get the chance to sing in the room that I will be performing in but it's exciting because the sound is totally different in there. It felt really good to be in that space and I am getting super excited about my recital. I decided to treat myself to something warm to drink: tea latte! I asked them to use mostly water and some steamed soy. I went with mint tea, my classic favorite.

Lunch

After classes I came home and made a crazy salad for lunch.

• chopped cabbage
• snow peas
• tomatoes
• cucumber
• yellow onion
• 2 Tbsp. Tahini Salad dressing

The carrot sticks served double as snacks and salad tossers! Like my yellow carrot from the farmer's market?
I also had ants on a log! I had been craving some ants on a log for a while now and I finally got 'em. It just brings me back!
Later I ate this juicy orange. There is so much juice in these, they just fill me up!
I bought too many lemons when I was on my cleanse so I decided to make strawberry lemonade something.
I ended up putting everything in the blender and eventually transferring it to the ice cream maker to make Strawberry Lemonade Sorbet! The mix included

• 2 cups lemon juice
• 1 1/2 cup frozen strawberries
• 10 Tbsp. Agave
• 4 dates

It came out pretty tangy and I probably should have cut the lemon juice with water but it's whatever!

Snack

On our way out to choir I smeared a slice of banana bread with almond butter. Ok seriously, this snack was dangerously good. And I mean dangerous! This is the kind of thing I could get addicted to so I better just be careful!

Dinner

After choir I was in the mood to cook. I came up with quite the feast if I do say so myself! On top we have Kabocha Squash with Roasted Beets, garlic and onions. The lower left is rice cooked in left over Raw Creamy Portabello Bisque topped with marinated portabello. And on the lower left is Tina's recipe for Roasted Broccoli. Doesn't this sound like a menu at a restaurant!?
The roasted broccoli recipe does call for sugar which I was wary of but I wanted to taste what Tina had been raving about and also what I will be aiming to replicate without using refined sugar. I altered the amount of oil from 2 Tbsp. to 1 and the sugar from 1/8 cup to 3 tsp.
Warning!!! If beets are not cooked completely they will be very bitter. I'm embarrassed to say but I didn't cook my beets enough. I should've known and just boiled them to finish them off but I was hungry and stubborn. I tried to doctor it a bit with some mustard. Next time will be better!

Dessert

For dessert I had a serving of the Strawberry Lemonade Sorbet, half of a raw cashew coconut cookie bar, and some fresh berries.
Look at that yellow raspberry! So tasty.
Being back on cooked food is good but I am still feeling the effects of the raw diet and I like it. What would I do without my veggies!?!?!

Belated Saturday Post

Workout

I used Savannah's workout DVD which ended up being a really good workout! It was Strong Body, Ageless Body with Erin O'Brien.

Breakfast

For breakfast I whipped up another SIAB. This time I used

• 1 cup frozen strawberries
• 1/2 banana
• handful spinach
• 1/4 cup almonds
• 1 carrot, shredded
• 2 pitted dates
• just enough water to get things mixing

I topped my SIAB with

• the other half of the banana
• 1 tsp. chia seeds
• 1 tsp. sunflower seeds
• 1 tsp. pumpkin seeds
• 2 tsp. cacao nibs...cause it was Saturday :)

Such an opera singers breakfast with all those flowers! hahaha

Snack

Later, Savannah and I spent the day shopping around for our recital dresses and we were successful! We both were getting really hungry by the time we finally made out decisions so I split my Cherry Pie Lärabar with her. All the credit goes to Savannah on this shot!

Lunch

Even though it was really late in the day to be having lunch it was technically lunch for us. We decided on Silvergreens where I built my own salad. This is why I love Silvergreens, all the nutritional info comes on the receipt.
My salad had

• baby spinach
• almonds
• apples
• broccoli
• carrots
• cucumber
• green onions
• cabbage
• snap peas
• tomato
• sprouts
• lemon-tahini dressing.

Devoured! That salad was humongous!
On my way to opera I had one of Kelsey's Coconut Cashew Cookies. yum!
In between acts I throughly enjoyed the last of this Righteously Raw chocolate.
soooo good!

Dinner

When I got home I was pooped. But I was also hungry so I had the other half of this Polenta with Mushroom Ragout.
And one more of these Coconut Cashew Cookies!
This was my last day of being raw and I stuck to it. Recap of the raw-ness coming soon!

Backstage Magic

Snack

After some more serious lounging I needed a filling snack. I went after the last of the Spanish Scramble. I can't eat this stuff at breakfast anymore but there's no sense in wasting it completely.

Then, for a little something sweet, I had two dates with 1/2 Tbsp. of cashew butter.
All mashed together it tasted like a Cashew Cookie lärabar :)

Dinner

Dinner before my opera call at 7 was half of the Raw Polenta with Mushroom Ragout. Love this dish! But it is pretty dense so it just made more sense to split it up.
Then I had a cabbage leaf spread with the last of the Spring Pesto and some salt and pepper.
When I got backstage there were flowers!!!
This card was from out assistant directors with a drawn picture that looked just like me!
This lovely bouquet was from Simon the director. So sweet!!
Then Rebecca passed out goodie bags and individual notes! Everyone is so sweet and really got the energy flowing for opening night.

Dessert

After the show I was exhausted and my throat was feeling a little funny. When I got home I had to sample this amazing sounding creation of Kelsey's: Raw Cashew Coconut Cookie Bars! They are meant to be dehydrated so instead she put them in the freezer. I took these pieces out and in no time they were thawed and ready to be devoured!
These are killer! So coconuty and sweet. I wonder if they change a lot when they're dehydrated? I passed out shortly after these were consumed :)