Frozen Tahini-Banana Bites + Sunbutter-Tamari Salad Dressing

We have two recipes for you today! Both are painfully simple and use the painfully cheap tahini and sunflower seed butter. We have been loving bananas + tahini ever since seeing it on Pure2Raw. It's such a good flavour combo. You wouldn't think by the sounds of it, but you just gotta try it! 

Bananas and tahini with cinnamon, coconut and quinoa puffs

Knowing the flavours work so well together I made a frozen treat using only a few simple ingredients. And it came together so quickly, making more time for munching!

What you need:

1 banana, frozen and cut into slices

2 tbsp tahini

2 tbsp coconut oil

4 drops of vanilla stevia (optional)

Sesame seeds (optional) 

Gently heat up the tahini and coconut oil ( just until the coconut oil melts, make sure the mixture stays room temperature). Dip slice of banana in the tahini/coconut oil and flip over to coat evenly. Scoop out with a fork and place on a piece of parchment. Sprinkle with sesame seeds. Repeat with the rest of the banana slices. Store in the freezer or the fridge (if you have sensitive teeth lol) until the outside shell is firm. 

Now for the second recipe. It's the easiest asian-inspired salad dressing ever! I don't usually make oil-vinegar dressings just because I prefer creamier dressings. I've always used tahini to make creamy dressings, but never thought to try sunbutter! And it worked so well! All you need is:

2 tbsp sunflower seed butter

2 tsp tamari

5 tbsp water

Mix together until totally smooth. Drizzle over salad!

Arugula, grated carrot, avocado, sauerkraut, lightly steamed broccoli, cucumber, dulse flakes, sesame seeds, hemp seeds, Sunbutter-Tamari Dressing

No salad is complete without avos

Sesame!

This is definitely a restaurant worthy salad. Mmmmm!

Here's some other dressings/sauces made with tahini that we love:

Pumpkin "Cheez" Sauce

Miso-Tahini Sauce

Smokey Tahini Dressing

White Tahini Cheez Sauce

Juice Report: 

Cucumber, Celery and Kale = Surprisingly delicious

Carrot + Celery + Grapefruit = Surprisingly Yucky

Hearty Guaca Kale Salad with Chickpeas

Hey all you health freaks! I've been on a "green" kick lately. I've had a green smoothie almost every morning and I recently bought some black kale at an organic grocery store near my house. It looked like the deepest, darkest, richest green vegetable I could see in the produce section so I picked up a bunch to use in my smoothies. I decided I wanted a massaged kale salad because I haven't had one in a million years (since our raw food cleanse) and I felt like pulverizing something (note: punching kale can help release anger).

This salad has very simple ingredients: Kale + Chickpeas, and a very simple dressing: Avocado + Salsa + Salt. I don't really need to write down the recipe right? I should mention that you should massage the kale for about 3 minutes to get it nice and wilted.

I personally like non-salady salads...I mean, I like salads that you can really stick your fork into. None of these frail salads with feathery lettuce leaves and thin slices of cucumber.

Feel free to add cherry tomatoes or any other veggies you desire!

Kale salad is hard core

Do you guys like seeing daily eatings or do you prefer recipes? Or both!? We're enjoying the simplicity of posting daily eats with recipes here and there and will probably continue that once MoFo is over. Although we probably won't be posting everyday like we've been doing the past 2 weeks.

See you tomorrow!

-Jenn

Golden Beets + Smoothie

Whoo! I can't believe we've posted every single day! It's a miracle! It's kinda fun just posted everyday pics instead of planning out recipes. I think after this month of posting everyday we'll continue to do more everyday stuff along with recipes as well. It's just more interesting to look at!

Anyway, this weekend our uncle brought us a bunch of stuff from his garden including golden beets which I've never cooked with before. We decided to make a citrus-beet salad, but I added avocado which kinda ruined the texture...it was still pretty good though!

Golden beets basking in their glory

Golden beet-Citrus Salad made w/ golden beets (roasted), orange segments, cherry tomatoes, avocado, chopped mint, and dressing made with lime juice, orange juice, olive oil, salt and pepper. 

I couldn't believe how long the beets took to bake! it took about 1 1/2 hours at 425F. Maybe I didn't have them on a high enough heat?

He also brought us swiss chard which I blended up into a smoothie. Made with bananas and frozen peaches!

Green-y and smooth-y