Day 12 Success

Hello to all of you out there for a quick summary of the day's vegan delights.  I had a long day having to be at my first class downtown at 8 am and didn't get home until nearly 8pm and realized I didn't have the mushrooms I needed for tonight's dinner.  I am thinking there must be some truth to the notion that eating a raw diet really improves your energy level since I'm only a little tired as I sit down to write this.  Usually I'd be camped out in front of the TV completely inert by 7 pm most nights.

These last few days Ani is introducing some unusual recipes that mix things up a bit from the usual shakes and soups.  Most are inventive and tasty.  Some miss the mark, I think.  Different strokes for different folks I guess, hmmm?  Let's get to the recipes for the day.

Since some of these recipes were more involved than others I switched things up a bit.  I felt like the shake and soup were a little easier to travel with so I made the Peach Crumble for breakfast.  I didn't have peaches so you may notice I made this with apples - so apple crumble, if you will.  The crumble portion is pecans and dates along with some sea salt and coconut oil.  The apples are tossed with some vanilla and they are put together and yum - at least for the first bite.  this would make a terrific dessert.  The dates are so, so, so sweet - I just couldn't eat it for breakfast.  Yikes!  So - great idea and I'll definitely give it an A for dessert but for breakfast food it's probably a C. 

For the mid-morning snack we have a Orange Vanilla Shake.  In addition to oranges, almonds, vanilla and some green tea.  This very refreshing drink is a perfect tangy, sweet morning drink.  I give this a solid B+. I'm sorry I forgot to take a picture of my two travelling drinks today.  

For lunch we had an Italian Salad.  This is an unusual salad minus greens has tomatoes, avocados, black olives, basil, scallions and some herbs.  This salad is quite wonderful and I will definitely be making it again.  It gets an A from me. 

Mid-afternoon snack is Curried Zucchini Cucumber Soup.  In addition to zucchini and the ever present cucumbers and miso there's some celery, curry and lemon juice.  This soup is a definite winner.  Spicy but miso mellow.  A definite A from me.  Sorry again, no picture.  

Lastly, there's the Marinate Mushrooms in Lettuce Wraps.  The mushrooms are marinated in soy sauce, agave and sesame oil.  The big lettuce leaves are slathered with miso and then layered with the mushrooms, carrots, cucumbers and peppers.  Roll it all up and eat.  The mushrooms tasted good from the marinade but these lettuce leaves don't hold up to a roll as well as yesterday's collard leaves.  Because the leaves fall apart so easily these rolls fall apart faster than you can eat them I give this a C.    

 There you have today - short and sweet.  See you all tomorrow.

Name	Category	Diet	Day	Page number		Rating
Vanilla Blueberry Shake	Shake	Fat Blast	eight	128		D
Red, White and blue berry salad	Salad	Fat Blast	eight	166		B
Kreamy Chipotle Salad	Salad	Fat Blast	eight	136		A
Kreamy Cucumber Soup	Soup	Fat Blast	eight	146		A
Zucchini Noodles	Dinner	Fat Blast	eight	160		C
Pineapple Cilantro Shake	Shake	Fat Blast	nine	124		B
Cucumber Guacamole	Dip	Fat Blast	nine	158		B+
Cabbage Salad with Cucumber Miso Dressing	Salad	Fat Blast	nine	131		C
Garlic Bell Soup	Soup	Fat Blast	nine	142		A
Celery Almond Pate'	Dip	Fat Blast	nine	158		A
Pear Lime Ginger Shake	Shake	Fat Blast	ten	122		B
Watermelon Grapefruit Salad	Salad	Fat Blast	ten	168		A
Zucchini Hummus	Dip	Fat Blast	ten	159		B
Curried Cilantro Cucumber Soup	Soup	Fat Blast	ten	141		C-
Mixed Vegetable Seaweed Rolls	Roll	Fat Blast	ten	154		B
Green Grapefruit Shake	Shake	Fat Blast	eleven	119		A
Mshredded Sesame Salad	Salad	Fat Blast	eleven	137		B-
Coconut Miso Soup	Soup	Fat Blast	eleven	140		A
Collard Rolls w/ Cashew Pate	Wrap	Fat Blast	eleven	152		A+
Orange Vanilla Shake	Shake	Fat Blast	twelve	121		B+
Peach Crumble	Crumble	Fat Blast	twelve	163		C
Italian Salad	Salad	Fat Blast	twelve	135		A
Curried Zucchini Cucumber Soup	Soup	Fat Blast	twelve	145		A
Marinated Mushrooms in Lettuce Wraps	Wrap	Fat Blast	twelve	153		C