Just roast it!

Nothing is so easy and delish as oven roasted veggies! Tonight: cauliflower and red skin potatoes with a veggie burger and some avocado. Sprinkle with some olive oil and rosemary: Easy peasy!

Have a good one!
Xo be

For a hot summer night!

When summer comes around and it’s hot & sticky, I like to eat light foods and yes, grill! Where I started off couple years ago with big juicy (delicious!) steaks (and yes they are bigger and better in Texas), now it’s mostly V E G G I E S. And I’m loving it. All of it 🙂 This week some veggie inspiration for a nice warm summer dinner (preferably at a pool or beach of course).

Chop up all the veggies you can find and put them on a screwer, wrap them up in aluminum foil or just throw them on the grill. YUM! Season your veggies with olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, sea salt and some cumin for great flavors. I chopped up some collard greens, green squash, green bell pepper, mushrooms, onion.

Great as a side dish and provides good substance to your meal: Israeli couscous. After preparing the couscous, I added cumin, ground cilantro, salt, garlic, splash of lemon juice & red pepper to spice it up a bit. Then added some tomato, avocado, fresh cilantro cucumber. I could eat this all day.

The cauliflower is oven roasted (haven’t actually tried to grill that yet). Chop up a good size cauliflower and sprinkle it with some a mix of olive oil, garlic, lemon and whole cumin seeds. Roast it for about 25 minutes @375 F and add some sea salt and ground cumin. Done. 

ENJOY!! xo be

summer couscous for the weekend!

I love couscous: easy to prepare, it has a nice bite to it and fills you up too. For this salad i used whole wheat couscous, made with cumin and cinnamon, roasted sweet potato, onion, snow peas, carrot and cucumber, cumin and some chopped up almonds. First make the couscous, then sauté the veggies: done in 5. yeah.

have a great weekend!

xo be

Easy beet juice

Today a super easy drinkable beet juice! 2 beets, 8 celery sticks, a lime and a green apple: delicious!!

Have a great day!

It’s green! It’s red!

It’s green: it’s red Sunday morning juices; yeah! Beets+carrot+ginger & kale+lime+cucumber+celery

Party with the beets!

Check out my festive beet juice: totally party ready! “Birthday beets” has a nice ring to it right?

Beet juice: Beet+ beet greens+kale+cucumber+ginger+green apple+ splash of lemon.

Have a great day! xo be

stuffed breakfast pita

Pita’s are awesome! Looks great and super easy! I bought some whole wheat pita’s, cut them in half, and put them in the oven for a little bit. Sauté your veggies of choice, add some salsa, a veggie sausage if you wish and finishing touch: cilantro. Tata, feast!

xo

Link

 One to watch!! “A Place At The Table”. One nation underfed

From the makers of Food Inc. Want to see this documentary!

Go Fruit!

I always tend to eat more fruit in the summer. Don’t know why. So this year as part of operation “new year’s resolutions in action” , i’m doing the “year round”-fruit thing. And it is gooooooooooooood!
xo

Marathon: DONE! yay (veggie style)

Finally, Marathon Houston: done! And it was a rough one: wind, rain and freaking cold: not your typical Houston weather. My first all plant-based marathon, no cheating this time. And it felt great (for as far as a marathon can actually feel great that is). Often people ask me if i get in enough proteins by eating plants, or explain to me that i really should eat animal proteins when running so much. I disagree, but you do have to choose your “plants” wisely. And yes, sometimes in training i’ll take an extra hemp protein shake.
Long story short: plant based marathon was a success!
I had as much (or maybe even more) energy as when i was eating meat and dairy. Try it!!