Dill garlic pate + further wrap adventures

A great way to mix up your wraps and salads is to make different pates.  Here's one I made earlier this week.

Dill Garlic Pate recipe 

• 1.5 cups walnuts, soaked 2-3 hours
• 3 cloves garlic
• 1/3 cup chopped fresh dill
• 2 tbs. olive oil
• 1 tbs. apple cider vinegar
• salt and pepper to taste

Put all ingredients in the food processor and process until smooth:

Delish!

Now for the wrap-date:

I can't actually remember what was on this one, but I think I've written it down in a previous wrap post.

THIS WRAP.  IS SO GOOD.  Dressed baby greens, cuke, fresh dill, avocado, live garlic sauerkraut, wakame and tahini.

The second wrap was, if I do say so myself, a pretty brilliant creation.  It was heavenly.  I have a feeling this is going to be a wrap I make again and again and again.  And again.  I recommend.

In other news, Claire led her second JourneyDance class in Storrs on Saturday, and it was SO AMAZING.  If you live nearby and love dance, yoga or free expression of any kind, you should keep an ear out for her next class.  The class on Saturday was in this beautiful space:

Gorgeous!

In love and gratitude-
Mada

Why wraps are comparable to ambrosia

As if you needed more convincing!

More recent wrap-tivities:

Wrap 1: Dressed baby greens, red pepper pate, cuke, tomato and avocado on nori.

Wrap 2, part 1: Kale pesto, almond cheese, dressed baby greens, tomato, cuke, broccolette, snow peas and avocado on a collard.

Wrap 2, part 2: Drizzled with almond butter.  Hooooly moly.

And just when you think food bliss can't get any foodier or blissier, THINK AGAIN!  Yesterday, it was so warm (55℉) Claire and I drove our food train outside and ate in the SUN!

It was gorgeous.  And so was my wrap!

Dressed greens, tomato, cuke, avocado, kale pesto, snow peas and almond butter on a collard.

Ridiculously satisfying.

In non-food news, I held crow (bakasana) for the first real time yesterday!  I'm so grateful for my strong, stretchy body.

In gratitude-
Mada

Wrap-ture

Good title, right?

Oftentimes when people find out about how I eat, they say something to the effect of, "... so you eat, like, salad?"

Usually that's the point at which I try to convince our hypothetical person that I'm not a salad-crazed lunatic by talking about more complex dishes; nuts, seeds, dehydrated treats, pizzas, pates, cakes, cookies, etcetera.   But I have to say, deep in my heart of raw hearts, SALADS ARE MY FAVORITE.  And wraps?  Wraps are just another way to bask in the green glory.  (Shimmy shimmy.)

The past few days I have been living off the most simple, satisfying salad wraps you could possibly imagine.  Here's the basic recipe:

• Salad.  This can, obviously, mean a number of things.  Greens, dressing, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, whatevah.  Be creative!
• Sprouts.  Alfalfa, chickpea, sunseed, pea shoots, etc.
• Avocado, slice-y or dice-y.
• Optional: a nut/seed pate of some sort.

Then you basically just throw it all in a wrapper of some sort.  I've been using either collard greens or sheets of nori (or one on top of the other!).  Delicious, nutritious as all get out, physically gorgeous; what more do you want?

Wrap party.  (I'm hilarious.)

Camille gettin' down with a wrap-to-be.

So wrappable.

KALE PESTO!  (With a few changes, of course.  I can't help but personalize.)

Spreading the wrap-ture.

Avocado nirvana.

Camille taking a closer look.

Oh, isn't it beautiful?

Mia mamma creating her collard-nori wrap.

My lunch-wrap today.  Oh my god.

Featuring: Claire's red pepper pate.

Ahhhhhhh.  Highly recommended. 

In other news, as of last night I can officially hold a headstand!  YES!  After taking a long walk with the lovely Claire this morning, we both spent about half-an-hour experimenting with upside-down-ness in the family room.  I have videos.  And this picture of Claire:

I love this girl.

In love, gratitude and yogic excitement-
Mada