Recipe Guest Post | Vegan Crackers

Ladies & Gentlemen I have a treat for you! A guest post by Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures! We are blogging buddies and run The Great Blog Train blog hop together with Angie @ God's Growing Garden...check that out here-it runs on the first Wednesday of every month! Anyway, enjoy this recipe which she has put together to share with you all today!

 

Vegan Crackers

Hello! My name is Marci. Our home is an old rock farmhouse built in the 1930s. There are two greenhouses, a vegetable garden, herbs, several flower beds, lots of hobbies and too many pets. Thankfully, our neighbors love us! They say being our neighbor is like living next door to Old MacDonald and Martha Stewart! My blog is Stone Cottage Adventures. 
 

 

Thanks to The Vegetarian Mother's Cookbook, I've discovered this wonderful recipe for vegan crackers.  Perfect for my goals in 2013.

The recipe calls for specific seeds, but I just used what I had on hand.  I used equal parts:  lentils, broccoli, and mung bean seeds for sprouting, pinto beans, hulled sunflower seeds and four grain oatmeal. 

Cover the seeds with water and let soak overnight in the fridge so the seeds are softened.  The recipe doesn't mention herbs, but I have a couple of greenhouses.  So some herbs were snipped from them.

I chose garlic, sage, thyme and rosemary. 

I used my food processor to puree the softened seeds along with the herbs.

Next, the puree is scooped onto a cookie sheet and given a generous sprinkle of sea salt. 

They are baked in a 200 degree oven until dehydrated.

 

Happy, healthful snacking thanks to The Vegetarian Mother's Cookbook!

 

I hope you reach all your goals for 2013!  ;-)  -Marci

Recipe Wednesday: Cilantro Lime Tilapia Tacos

Today's recipe was submitted by Erica @ From Thick To Thin! Thank you Erica for sharing your lovely Taco recipe with the Exercise Encouragement Group! If any of you readers would like to submit a healthy recipe, please check out the details here!

View the original recipe @ From Thick To Thin!

This recipe makes about 5 fish tacos!

Ingredients

3 filet's of Tilapia

Tony Chachere (for seasoning)

Olive oil (for frying fish)

Fresh cilantro

limes

tortillas

Feta cheese

Red onion

Directions

1. Cool the tilapia in the olive oil and season.

2. Chop up the tilapia into small pieces.

3. Place your tilapia in the tortillas.

4. Squeeze the lime on top of the tilapia.

5. Chop the cilantro and put it in the tortilla.

6. Sprinkle bits of the cheese on next.

7. And enjoy your tacos!

 

Be sure to check out the other delicious recipes over at From Thick To Thin! They look quite delicious!!!

Recipe Wednesday: Western Chili Mac

So many times we have no problem coming up with healthy breakfasts or snacks, but dinners...a whole different answer! Well, today I want to share with you this recipe from my blog which is actually quite healthy and has great flavor!

If you are interested in submitting a recipe please view this post!

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Today's recipe comes from Blue Eyed Beauty Blog (my main blog, in case you didn't already know!). I wanted to share this recipe with you because I know that for me finding healthy options for breakfast or snacks is never hard, but finding a filling dinner is usually a difficult task.

View the Western Chili Mac Recipe @ Blue Eyed Beauty Blog!

This recipe makes 12-15 servings.

Ingredients
1 large onion

1 lb. ground beef
2 Tablespoons chili powder
1 Tablespoon garlic powder
2 cans (15 oz.) Tomato sauce

1 can (12 oz.) Tomato paste
2 cans (15 oz.) diced tomatoes
1 lb. elbow macaroni noodles

Directions
1. Chop up the onion and put it in a large skillet. Add in the raw beef. Cook on medium heat until the beef is browned.

2. In a saparate pot, bring water to boil to cook the noodles.

3. Add in the chili powder, garlic powder, tomato sauce, and tomato paste to the browned meat.

4. Cook the noodles in boiling water.

5. Turn the meat and sauce mix down to low and let it simmer for 15 minutes.

6. Pour the cooked noodles into the sauce mix. Add the diced tomatoes and stir well. Serve warm.

Sumbit A Recipe

I'm so glad you're visiting this post! I hope this means you are interested in submitting a recipe for me to share with the readers of Exercise Encouragement Group Blog! If so continue reading for directions!

To submit a recipe you've already published on your blog:

Just leave me a comment below with the link to the direct post. If you would like me to contact you via email when I have the post ready and scheduled to go out please say so in the comment! Also, you may (or may not) need to leave me an email address to contact you at. If you're not sure, go here to see if you're a No Reply Blogger!

To submit a recipe that's not already online:

If you've tried a recipe from your own cookbooks at home or you'd like to submit a family recipe that is just as good too! Feel free to leave me a comment with the type of recipe you have that you'd like to share and a way to get in contact with you (aka your email address!). I will email you as soon as I can to have you send me the recipe and a photo of how it turned out so I can share it with others. When I have the post scheduled to publish I will let you know when it will come out!

RULES
1. Please do not submit recipes that are not your own or aren't of your own creation! Thank you!!
2. Please include a way to contact you (an email address) so that I can email you if I have questions concerning your recipe and so I can let you know when it will be scheduled to be published.
3. Please include a photo. If you don't have one on the original post that is okay, I will email you and then you can email me the photo for the post on EEG. Otherwise I will not be able to post the recipe, sorry!

I will include all recipes on a new page so that they can be easily seen and scanned through. I will also include a link directly to the blog where the recipe came from (where this applies of course) so that others can find you!

Thank you all for submitting a recipe! I can't wait to see what all comes of this new feature to EEG and I can't wait to see what all you have to share with the group!!

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Recipe Wednesday: Frozen Yogurt Bites

To kick start this Wednesday recipe series I've decided to start with recipes from my own blog since that is what I have at this time. Of course if you have a recipe that you wouldn't mind sharing with others in the group feel free to comment below and leave me a link! I will work on a 'submit a recipe' tab much like the 'get featured' and 'submit a tidbit' tabs I already have. Basically what I will do is add the photo (which I hope you will already have for me!) and then the recipe ingredients & directions as you have them on your post. I will also write in the beginning who submitted the recipe or where it came from so that everyone who reads it will find the original creator and have the opportunity to visit your blog(s)!

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Now, on to today's recipe, which is obviously from Blue Eyed Beauty Blog (my other blog, in case you didn't already know). This is one of my favorite snacks on earth. I could sit and eat these all the time and they only take a few minutes to fix and then a few hours to freeze so they're totally worth it! Especially if you're like me and you love ice cream, but are trying to be healthy...this is a great choice for you!

View the Frozen Yogurt Bites Recipe @ Blue Eyed Beauty Blog!

Ingredients
4 6 oz. containers of yogurt (any flavor)

Directions
1. Use a cookie sheet and cover it with wax paper. Once you measure and cut the wax paper flip it over so the rolling edges are held out by the edge of the pan.
2. Stir the yogurt before you use it to make the bites. Take a small spoon or teaspoon and fill it with yogurt. Let it drop off the spoon onto the wax paper. Continue until the pan is full or the yogurt cup is empty and go on to the next cup until they are all done. MAKE SURE to keep each drop separate from the others around it!! I can usually get 48 drops on one cookie sheet.
3. Place in the freezer for 2-3 hours, or until they aren't soft to the touch.
4. Pull the wax paper up off the pan and pop each bite of yogurt off the paper. Put in a bowl to eat right away or in a zip lock bag to store in the freezer immediately. Make sure not to keep them out of the freezer for more than a few minutes when you transfer them off the pan because they will start to melt quite fast

Notes
~You can also use Dannon Vanilla yogurt which is what I used for the bites in the photograph for this post. Those are my absolute favorite and that is the best yogurt for you that you can buy from WalMart, or so I've been able to find out thus far.

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That's all! I hope you all will give this 'recipe' if you could call it that, a try! And if you've written a healthy recipe yourself send it to me so that I can see if it's something I can share here on Exercise Encouragement Group!!!