First time cooking with tofu!

Tofu/Vegan dish!

~My sister told me about this recipe she found online~

For this recipe, I needed tofu, olive oil, mushrooms, variety of spices, zucchini, yellow squash, red bell pepper, onion, tomatoes, and fresh garlic.

 First, I diced the tofu and mixed into a bowl (it was 16 oz, drained tofu) with the seasonings I prefer which are paprika, dry mustard, powdered ginger, Italian spices, extra basil, sea salt & pepper. I used the amount of seasoning I normally would but do to the tofu not really having any flavor, I encourage going over board. You can really use any seasonings at all that you like here.

 Next, I diced all of my ingredients and finely chopped about four cloves of garlic. I always go a bit heavy as I love fresh garlic ;-) The garlic has a touch of red to it because I chopped it after I had chopped the tomatoes and the red bells lol- next time for presentation purposes, I will be sure to chop the garlic first ;-)

 I then heated up some olive oil and cooked the onions until they were beginning to become transparent.

 Then added in the mushrooms and let this saute together for a few minutes

 Next, I added the fresh chopped garlic and let that cook for a few more minutes.

 I then added all of my diced veggies and let this cook together for about five minutes, until the zucchini and the bells were almost cooked through, but still crunchy.

 Then I added the tofu and seasoning mixture. I let this cook together about five minutes, until the tofu was heated all the way through

This is my finished product!! Tasted very good! I kept the recipe as close to the 'vegan' as I could, however I was given the option to fry some egg and add that to it. I think that next time I will do that as the tofu is a very bland taste, if you go over board on the seasonings that will add more flavor to it. Over all I greatly enjoyed this dish :) Thanks sister for sharing it with me!!

Saturday morning juice!

Saturday morning's breakfast juice!

~Juicing with my power juicer express~

Apple, pear, kale, orange, carrots, cucumber, beet, ginger root, cantaloupe.

 You can tell I need to go to the store, lol ;-) Saturday & Sunday I usually just juice once so I will do a random mix of my typical breakfast juice and my typical lunch time juice, as you can see I just had a few leafs of kale left, no spinach or parsley or cilantro.

 Being as I share these with the bunny rabbit, Tom Sawyer, I blame Tom for eating a lot of the greenery lol.

Made about 38 ozs of juice and a bowl of lovely pulp for Tom Sawyer the bunny lol :) 

I always juice my beet last cause he doesn't like the beet, so I juice everything but the beet & a cucumber. Then I empty the reservoir into his tupperware I keep in the fridge for him, then juice the beet and the cucumber.

 I always do cucumber last because it is firm yet has a lot of juice in it so it is good to sort of clean out the blade of the juicer after it has juiced such a variety of other stuff and because it is so water like, none of the juice will stay in the base where the blade is, it all comes out.

Nutritional Qualities:

Kale:(antioxidants, calcium, iron, Vitamin A&C)

Apple: (Boron, cellulose & pectin)

Pear: (Vitamin C&E, potassium)

Carrot: (beta carotene, Vitamin A &C, pectin, flourine, potassium)

Orange: ( natural aspirin and boron)

Cucumber: (Vitamin A, C &K, pantothenic acid, manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium)

Beet: (folic acid, iron, calcium & potassium)

Ginger root: (Vitamin B, manganese, potassium, copper, magnesium, natural anti inflammatory)