I made a KILLer salad yesterday :)

Notice the mochi on the side, stuffed with leftover chili. Officially obsessed with mochi. I picked up cinnamon raisin mochi at WF and plan to stuff it with something delicious!!!

The salad:

Arugula [new favorite..love the peppery bite!]
1 clementine
1/2 pear
chopped almonds
chopped pecans
sprinkle of shredded parm cheese

I cut 3, 1” x 1” squares of mochi. Puffy + delicious!

This was the best salad I have had in a really long time. I threw together a super simple salad dressing as well. It went something like this:

Fruity Vinaigrette

2T apple cider vinegar
1T olive oil
1T balsamic
s+p to taste
2T cranberry raspberry juice [from WF]

It was tangy and delicious. The dressing was a tad on the runny side but I kind of liked that. I like having all of the lettuce covered but at the same time not have thick dressing all over it. [if that makes sense! :)]

Loooved the dressing.

The salad had such awesome contrast. It was peppery, fruity + nutty, with a nice tang from the dressing. Mmmm Mmmmm Mmmm

Last night we had the leftover chili, as I said in the previous post. I posted twice yesterday, wowow! haha Check out the recipes for veggie chili + cornbread. Super easy + such a crowd pleaser! It was nice having friends over to enjoy the food and help us eat the leftovers. I added another 1c of corn and 1 can of black beans along with a little more veggie stock. So good.

Then we went to help them at their new condo. I painted all night! My arms were really tired from 2 days of the 20min core yoga workout. Down dog always makes my arms super tired!

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I already want more of this morning’s bowl of oats!! I need to use up the can of pumpkin I opened yesterday, so another bowl of pumpkin oats were in order.

I made some peppermint creme while my oats were cooking away.

The best pumpkin oats yet!

1/2c rolled oats
rice milk/vanilla almond milk/water
1/2 banana
2t chia seeds [mixed in for extra thickening]
vanilla splash
1 rounded tsp cinnamon
shakes of nutmeg + ginger

Topped with: Annie’s Bunnies + TJ’s Pumpkin Butter + WF Organic Pnut Butter + Back to Nature Pumpkin Seed Granola + Almonds

Because 2 scoops are better than ONE! :) I had to use 2 spoons for each of the butters so I decided to use both while eating. They both had residue on them from the pumpkin + pnut butter so I kept switching spoons.