Is everyone ready for hours of football, crazy commercials, and snacking until you want to pop? And by some mysterious law of science I’ll have gained 10lbs by Monday morning. Not this Super Bowl.
I decided on light fare this year…
Kale Chips
(I know they don’t sound that good but give them a try—they are so yummy and addictive)
1 bunch kale
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon salt
Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F.
With a knife or kitchen shears carefully remove the leaves from the thick stems and tear into bite size pieces. They srink up so make them big bite size pieces. Wash and thoroughly dry kale. Drizzle kale with olive oil and sprinkle salt, and spices. Coat well and then place in large baking dish or on a cookie sheet.
Bake until the edges brown but are not burnt about 15 minutes. Sometimes I flip them and moved them around.
Cowboy Salsa
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1 1/2 to 2 teaspoons hot sauce
1 1/2 teaspoons salad oil [I use olive]
1 clove garlic, minced
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1 firm-ripe avocado
1 can black-eyed peas (when I’m out I've used black beans & it’s really good too)
1 can corn kernels
3 scallions (green onion)
2/3 cup thinly sliced green cilantro
4 or 5 Roma tomatoes, coarsely chopped
In a large bowl, mix vinegar, hot sauce, oil, garlic, and pepper. Peel, pit, and cut avocado into 1/2-inch cubes. Add to vinegar mixture and mix gently to coat.
Drain and rinse peas and corn. Add peas, corn, onions, cilantro, and tomatoes to avocado; mix gently to coat. Add salt to taste. Let refrigerate for 30 minutes or longer.
Serve cowboy salsa with tortilla chips or I like to make a huge bed of lettuce and put a healthy helping on top. This is really yummy to make during the summer when you have a lot of the ingredients in the garden.
Spicy Vegetarian Chili
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 medium yellow onion, diced medium
4 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
1 teaspoon chipotle chile powder
Coarse salt and ground pepper
1 medium zucchini, cut into 1/2-inch dice
3/4 cup (6 ounces) tomato paste
1 can black beans, rinsed and drained
1 can pinto beans, rinsed and drained
1 can diced tomatoes with green chiles
1 can diced tomatoes
In a large pot, heat oil over medium-high. Add onion and garlic; cook, stirring frequently, until onion is translucent and garlic is soft, about 4 minutes. Add cumin and chile powder, season with salt and pepper, and cook until spices are fragrant, 1 minute. Add zucchini and tomato paste; cook, stirring frequently, until tomato paste is deep brick red, 3 minutes. Stir in black beans, pinto beans, and both cans diced tomatoes. Add 2 cups water and bring mixture to a boil. Reduce to a medium simmer and cook until zucchini is tender and liquid reduces slightly, 20 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Raw Cookie Dough
(these sound like a lot of work but they really aren't. Everyone LOVES these)
1 3/4 cups ground raw cashews
3/4 cup ground raw oats
1 tea spoon of cinnamon
Dash of salt
1/4 cup Agave Nectar or Honey (I do a little of each)
2 teaspoon vanilla extract (if the vanilla has alcohol in it use one 1 tea Van and 1 tea water.)
1/4 cup coconut oil
Raw chocolate chips
2 Tablespoon coconut oil
1/2 cup carob powder
1/2 cup cocoa powder
4 T agave nectar or Honey (I do a little of each)
2 teaspoon vanilla (Same as above if it has alcohol in it)
Dough: Grind up raw cashews and raw oats in a food processor or blender (I used a coffee grinder and left mine a little coarse).
Place all cookie dough ingredients into a large bowl and mix by hand or with a spoon. Mix until a dough forms and you can make a large ball. Refrigerate dough while you make the chocolate chips.
Chips: Mix all chocolate chip ingredients together in a medium sized bowl. Roll the dough out onto parchment paper and place in the freezer for about 30 minutes. Optional: Half way through at 15 mins., flip the chocolate sheet over for even freezing. (I found this to be a lot of chips and I used only half so you might be able to cut this in half depending on how much chips you want in the dough)
When chocolate is frozen, cut into chips. I used a pizza slicer.
Mix chips into dough. Roll into balls & place on wax paper in the freezer for about 15min. Once they are hard and won't stick together put them in a bag and store in freezer.
~type you soon~
