Here’s what was on the menu this weekend:

Friday night: Honey Mustard Cabbage Salad and BLTs (made with Tempeh Fakin Bacon):

Saturday Night: Sesame Chili Tofu with Quinoa and Honey Mustard Cabbage Salad:

Sunday Night: Lentil soup, Walnut Bread and Honey Mustard Cabbage Salad (no photo - guess we scarfed it down too fast - but hey, that’s what happens after a weekend filled with long, muddy trail runs!

In case you want to give this AMAZING cabbage salad a try, here’s the recipe:

Honey Mustard Dressing:

• 1 cup vegenaise
  1 cup dijon mustard
• 1/2 cup honey or agave syrup
• 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
• 1 tsp turmeric
• sea salt to taste

Put all ingredients into blender (Blendtec) or food processor and blend until smooth.

Cabbage Salad:

• One medium red cabbage
• 6-8 large strawberries, diced
• One cup sprouted sunflower seeds (we love Kaia Sprouted Sunflower seeds)

• 1/2 cup broccoli sprouts

Mix all ingredients in a large bowl and pour honey mustard dressing in. Refrigerate for about 2 hours before serving.

Any guesses on what else is in these glorious muffins besides chia seeds and vegan chocolate chips? I’ll give you one other ingredient: applesauce. Anything else?

If you’re looking for a power muffin, these will do the trick. They kept us full and strong for our 8 mile loop on a muddy, steep trail in Olema Valley.

I brought some in to work today and my co-worker literally said, “these are your best yet.” So thanks Matt and Christine for getting me some brownie points in the office and hopefully with the dinner guests. ;)

All the ingredients mushed together…

And the little macaroon balls getting oven ready…

Bear with me - I’ll post a photo of the chocolate topped final product when I get home this evening. For some reason, it didn’t load!

Here’s the recipe:

• 2 medium carrots, shredded
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/2 cup coconut oil (I love  Navitas Naturals Coconut Oil)
• 2 cups raw coconut flakes
• 3/4 cup brown rice flour
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 tbs raw agave
• one handful of vegan chocolate chips (Whole Foods 365 brand or Tropical Source are great)

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Mix all the ingredients together except for the chocolate in a large bowl. Lightly grease a cookie sheet (I just rubbed on a little more coconut oil). Pat mixture into 24 balls, slightly smaller then golfballs. Place balls on pan 2 inches apart and bake for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, melt the chocolate chips in a saucepan over medium-low heat. Drizzle or in my case DROP a little melty chocolate on the top. And Voila!

Since my bestest friend Tasha who also happens to be a bad ass blogger is moving to Portland in a week, we decided to spend the weekend doing a little drinking, dancing, pampering, yoga-ing and cooking. And since no going away party is complete without Mac and Cheese, we decided to make this fabulous recipe that we found on No Meat Athlete. I was a bit skeptical at first…I mean how can you have Mac and Cheese without the CHEESE??!

But omg, the mac and cheese was f*ing fabulous!

Here’s how we prepared the “cheeseless” sauce…

And here it is, the fabulous cheeseless Mac and Cheese with Chard sprinkles… :)

Anyway, if you haven’t seen the video yet — ENJOY.

All my veggies ready in the blender..

And the finished product…

Yum!

Over the past three months since we started GranolaFit Bootcamp, my bootcampers have been putting in the mileage and going the distance on everything from planks, pushups, jumping on one foot, running up endless amounts of stairs with weights in hand, mountain climbers, lunges, sprints and more.

And since I’ve always been a huge believer that overall fitness comes from a healthy diet and exercise, I wanted to help kickstart their diets in the New Year by offering them a fresh, organic blend of fruits and veggies every morning following their workouts.  Because let’s face it, we don’t all get the proper amount of fruits and veggies we need every day and  blending them up makes it that much easier.

This morning’s blend (one of my favorite blend’s thus far) was my Strawberry, Radish, Cucumber  blend.

Ingredients:

1 cup apple juice

1 cucumber

3 small radish

6 strawberries

1/4 cup parsley

1 carrot

1 apple

1/4 cup ice

Place all ingredients in your Blendtec, choose juices/smoothies button and blend away!

Once I master the art of pb, I think I will move on to almond butter. I love seeing big creamy jars of peanut butter in my fridge and thinking I made that. Not that its hard, its just this obsession I have with making things myself. First kombucha, then peanut butter and multi-grain bread, and next almond butter and strawberry jam.

We ALSO made this delicious chia seed bread in our Blendtec over the weekend. I used Sprouted Super Flour, added some dry active yeast, and a cup of chia seeds and voila, instant and amazing bread.

Ok, it wasn’t all that instant…Bryan did a little extra kneading for me as it was still a bit sticky.

Isn’t he cute?

Here’s my beautiful bread topped with a little homemade peanut butter…

Just wrap some kale around some Amy’s refried black beans, quinoa, avocado, and some yummy homemade salsa (thank you Blendtec!!).

Don’t get me wrong, its not that I didn’t enjoy my time off, or am especially excited to back to the daily grind; its just that a lot of family time often means a lot of eating bad food, drinking abnormal amounts of wine, and just generally being a lazy ass.  I mean, I worked out (if you count chasing my ridiculously cute niece around) but I also sat around A LOT, drank A LOT, ate rich and fatty foods (more than) A LOT .

This was one of the best workouts I had all week (and I was buzzed!!)– have you ever had this much fun at the gym?

 The absolute best thing about this holiday season (besides the AMAZING cauliflower soup and the bottles of wine I consumed) was the matching shirts my grandma bought for all the boys. They each got a polo with their name embroidered on the front. Absolutely wonderful. Totally and completely beautiful. Pure and total bliss. I can’t even describe how much I love this. Or maybe I just did…(Bryan won’t let me post the picture of him in the shirt…boo..even though he looks cute).  But here’s the other boys just to give you a preview of how absolutely wonderful this was.

Aren’t they cute? Love, Love, Love this. Hopefully someday someone will send me the shots we took of them all lined up on the stairs like it was prom. Thank you cousin Kevin.