Beet Salad - with avo-basil dressing

Idea for a raw beet salad for 1 or scale to roast beets & pistachios then mix in raw blood orange and top with raw avocado-basil dressing. 

Raw or broiled beet/pistachio Salad

1.5 Tbsp Pistachios (chopped)

1 smaller Beet (diced)

1/2 Blood Orange peeled & sliced 

"Dressing" avo-basil - blend

1/4  avocado 

1 Tsp chiffonade sweet basil

1tsp McT oil

Natural sea Salt -to taste

Add plain almond milk to thin it

Make thicker dressing with avocado as base, chiffonade sweet basil, add McT oil , blend, add almond milk to thin dressing, after spooned on top of beet/pistachio/blood orange mixture add pinch of salt 

ChickPea Mayhem - Recipe

Grain-Free Chickpea Mayhem - Chickpeas aka Garbanzo's are the mainstay of many novice vegan protein plans. Loaded with Protein & Carbs by the can or cooked, these peas make the paste.

My 1st Hummus venture was out of a cookbook at my Great-Grandmother's old farm house. I was never allowed to receive funds from Japan, as the USA always threatened to jail me as an agent, so I took odd jobs. I went to work for A male Greek chef who owned the Cabbagetown Cafe before its closure. The only legitimate garbanzo cooking I had got me falafel'd out. I took a college summer month to serve falafels at NY State fairs for my summer rent money.
Over 30 years later, chickpeas are a rare main meal or salad item for me.  If chickpeas could walk, they are on my plank for taste fatigue. Though, I would plant them in the ground where they belong;- Here is my last Vegan-Keogenic-grain-free-fruit-free Chick Pea recipe from scratch.

Deconstructed Hummus Salad

estimated effective(net) carbs 20-25.5g 

estimated calories 227.5

1. 2 tbsp - 1/4 cup hydrated chick peas (carb 11.5g canned, calories 72) 
2. 1tbsp raw sesame seeds (carb 2.1g, calories 52)
3. 1Tbsp parsley (carb .2g, calories 1 )
4. Pinch natural sea salt to taste
5. 1 tsp MCT oil (carbs 0, calories 75)
6. 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
7. 1 Romaine or Other inner/outer lettuce leaf (carb .1g - .7g, calories 4)
8. 1/2 a 301g cucumber - cut lengthwise & scoop out seeds. (Carb 5.5g, calories 23.5) 
9. Optional 1/8 a Lemon= wedge (carb 5.5g)

• Halve the cucumber lengthwise and scoop out seeds. Keep them if u want to eat them. Dice lettuce and parsley.
• Mix lettuce leaf & parsley leaves, with sesame seeds, cayenne, salt, and sesame seeds (and cucumber seeds).
• Then mix MCT oil with the chick peas.
• After chick peas are evenly coated with oil, mix thoroughly with leaves & seeds mixture.
• Spoon the chick peas and leaves & seeds mixture into the hollowed out cucumber. 
• Let marinade overnight or its ready to eat.
• Squeeze lemon juice onto salad as desired

Additional extras:- white pepper to taste 

ChickPea Mayhem - Recipe

Grain-Free Chickpea Mayhem - Chickpeas aka Garbanzo's are the mainstay of many novice vegan protein plans. Loaded with Protein & Carbs by the can or cooked, these peas make the paste.

My 1st Hummus venture was out of a cookbook at my Great-Grandmother's old farm house. I later went to work for the man behind the Cabbagetown Cafe cookbook. I also got falafel'd out. over 30 years later, chickpeas are a rare main meal or salad item for me.  If chickpeas could walk, they are on my plank for taste fatigue. Though, I would plant them in the ground where they belong;- Here is my last Vegan-Keogenic-grain-free-fruit-free Chick Pea recipe from scratch.

Deconstructed Hummus Salad

estimated effective(net) carbs 20-25.5g 

estimated calories 227.5

1. 2 tbsp - 1/4 cup hydrated chick peas (carb 11.5g canned, calories 72) 
2. 1tbsp raw sesame seeds (carb 2.1g, calories 52)
3. 1Tbsp parsley (carb .2g, calories 1 )
4. Pinch natural sea salt to taste
5. 1 tsp MCT oil (carbs 0, calories 75)
6. 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
7. 1 Romaine or Other inner/outer lettuce leaf (carb .1g - .7g, calories 4)
8. 1/2 a 301g cucumber - cut lengthwise & scoop out seeds. (Carb 5.5g, calories 23.5) 
9. Optional 1/8 a Lemon= wedge (carb 5.5g)

• Halve the cucumber lengthwise and scoop out seeds. Keep them if u want to eat them. Dice lettuce and parsley.
• Mix lettuce leaf & parsley leaves, with sesame seeds, cayenne, salt, and sesame seeds (and cucumber seeds).
• Then mix MCT oil with the chick peas.
• After chick peas are evenly coated with oil, mix thoroughly with leaves & seeds mixture.
• Spoon the chick peas and leaves & seeds mixture into the hollowed out cucumber. 
• Let marinade overnight or its ready to eat.
• Squeeze lemon juice onto salad as desired

Additional extras:- white pepper to taste 

Food temperature, storage, contamination

The past week, I ate from the DTE vegetarian market Pearl City salad bar 2x in the morning. 1x afternoon. I felt like I have food poisoning and very sick yesterday. I actually spit out the raw avocado because they tasted wrong & threw out the remaining salad. My stomach felt a little better after ingesting some coconut charcoal & yeah I ate a whole sauce & veggies pizza last night. I fell asleep afterwards. I have extreme joint pain from the grain based crust. Today, I still feel sick. I woke up and ingested more coconut charcoal. Melaleuca tea seems to calm down my stomach. 

I grabbed some veggies at Panda Express and saw the server do a temperature check on the fried rice. Makes my mind a little at ease. At least they check temp. No thermometers I saw at DTE vegetarian market on the salad bar either, in years I've eaten there.