Spicy pickles carrots and lemony red lentil soup (Kacie)

I was super skeptical of these carrots. 

And then it turned out that they were delicious!  Hot and tangy and crunchy! So good! I would never have made this were it not for our challenge!

I also made the lemony red lentil soup. Mine is not as pretty as it should be because I already had organic sprouted lentils on hand, but they were not red!

 Soup was delicious, and it made a lot, which I like in a soup recipe.

I even are these two together for dinner.

I'm doing a whole30 right now. I'm on day 6. (I put that Greek yogurt on those legumes before the challenge). It's no sugar, grains, dairy, soy, legumes etc. the idea is to try getting rid of all possible inflammatory foods for a month). It means that j am very much not vegan right now! Lots of fish and eggs for me. I've always liked experimenting with food, and I needed to do something different for a little bit. 

I think there are some compliant recipes still left for me to make! Plus, I need to write up my pad Thai blog too!

Veggie Pad Thai with dry-fried tofu (Sparkles)

Did you already make this KD? 

Pretty hilarious recipe and very tasty end result. Do not make all of the noodles unless you need more than 5 servings. Add more broccoli and tofu if you really want to use all of the noodles. 

The sauce with the tomato paste is interesting - I wonder if you could use tamarind paste without fish sauce like a lot of Pad Thai recipes use.  

My favorite instructions from the recipe: 

-“get all the rest of your veggies and herbs on lock"

-“Don’t eat this all at once because that is too much salt for one day. F@$&.”

-“You’ll hear the steam escape from under the tofu as you do this. It sounds like screams, but keep the f@$& on.”

Warm the Fuck Up Minestrone (Kacie)

Yum. Pretty straight forward. I used stars, simmered it longer than the recipe, and put in extra kale. We ate it for days and it was delicious.