Best Vegan Meal Ever

Best Vegan Meal Ever!

Veggie & Spinach Fettuccini

Serves: 4-6 ish

Time: 15-30 minutes

Preparation

Heat the coconut oil in a large nonstick skillet over

medium-high heat, cut tofu into small cubes and cook for a 3-5 minutes, turning on each side, flattening out so they cover the surface of the bot. of the skillet, but REALLY just until they start to turn a light golden color. Add salt, pepper, oregano, parsley, rosemary, and thyme, garlic. (If possible, fresh tastes better, but powder seasoning works fine) Turn skillet up to high. Wash carrots, broc, corn, and cut up carrots small slices, and heads of broc and throw in the skillet. Using organic canned corn I find is easiest toss that in next and continue cooking on med-high heat and toss well! Rinse your greens, Kale, Collard Greens, Chard, and Baby Spinach. Then dice/cut up very thin. Add all greens to the skillet in that order. Don’t add Spinach until the very end

(cooks the quickest) Here, I always toss in a few more garlic cloves☺ While placing greens in, I also boil the water for the pasta. Once water is at a rolling boil I toss in a little more than ¼ of a package of Spinach fettuccini or whatever noodles you choose to use. Next I add about ½ jar of Muir Glen Cabernet

Marinara Pasta Sauce, and 5 drops (aprox) of Arizona Peper’s Organic Harvest Jabenero or Chipotle flavored hot sauce. (Jabenero spicer, Chipotle a step down, but still hot!)

serve.

1-2 tablespoons coconut oil

2/3 block of Extra Firm Tofu

Salt, Peper, Oregano, Parsley, Rosemary, Thyme, Garlic (fresh if you can)

Aprox 4-8 Large Carrots

2-3 Large bunches of Broc

1 Large Can of organic corn

Kale, Chard, Collard Greens, Baby Spinach leaves- however much you want! I usually use 1 head of Kale, a little less Chard, and Collard greens, and layer a FULL Flat layer of spinach on top of skillet at very end! When the pasta goes

in the water, so it only cooks for less than 6 minutes –ish!

See below for rest of the ingredients:

Nutrition Info I found for the pasta sauce online:

1/2 cup (125g)Amount Per Serving

Calories 60 Calories from Fat 10% Daily Value*

Total Fat 1g 1%

Saturated Fat 0 0%

Trans Fat 0

Cholesterol 0 0%

Sodium 360mg 15%

Total Carbohydrate 11g 4%

Dietary Fiber 2g 9%

Sugars 4g

Protein 2g

Vitamin A 15% Vitamin C 15%

Calcium 2% Iron 8%

Info on Hot Sauce:

Ingredients: Habañero peppers, red ripened Jalapeño peppers, vinegar & salt.

Nutrition Facts:
Serving Size: 1 Teaspoon
Servings Per Container: 30
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 0
Fat Calories: 0
Total Fat: 0g/0%
Saturated Fat: 0g/0%
Trans

Fat: 0g
Cholesterol: 0mg/0%
Sodium: 150mg/6%
Total Carbohydrate: 0g/0%
Dietary Fiber: 0g/0%
Sugars: 0g
Protein: 0g

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Tango, Swing, Cha Cha Cha!

Tango was so much fun. My partner Dan and I went to Shall We Dance and signed up for 4 lessons. We began with the Tango the first time, but before we learned the Tango, our teacher Jessica, taught us the basic steps of dance, the triple step and the rock step. From there, we began with the man's part. For the man, he began by doing a forward step, or 3 long counts, that he drag his following foot, and the woman does the same but backwards, and then you do quicker triple step to the side. The upper part of your body should be held tall, tight, and the woman's left hand under the man's bicep, and right hand below his hand.

That is just the basic pattern of the Tango.

Our next class, taken only two days later we learned the West Coast and East Coast Swing. This dance was a lot different but just as much fun to learn. It can go to anything, hip hop to country music. Most top 40 songs, you could use either style of Swing. The basic is a triple step, and then a rock step.

Last, but not least after only two lessons, I was hooked, and went back by myself, sans Dan and took a group class called, CHA CHA CHA!

Our next class will be after Winter break and I can't wait!

Check out this video from Youtube of Chichoek and Hakiel dancing the TANGO in the Spanish version of Dancing with the Stars!

Taking a little Break...with the TANGO

Well, I haven't been able to attend a bellydancing class the last 2 weeks, because of Thanksgiving break and a personal issue. So, instead I am going to write about a what I have been doing.

Since Dancing with the Stars began I have been infatuated with the Tango. I researched places in Tucson to take Tango and found what I feel to be the best place Shall We Dance Studios. It is located at 4101 East Grant Road and the phone number is (520) 327-7895.

It is $25 for either a single or a couple to have 4, 30 minute private lessons. They offer Tango, Waltz, Swing, and Salsa.

I went with my friend Dan and we had a Tango lesson. It was a blast. The teacher's name was Jennifer and she was really good. A member of the Southern Arizona's Dance Chapter, she gave us great instruction as well as helpful information in case we ever wanted to compete in Arizona or any other state. I am going back tonight at 8 p.m. and can't wait!

I am going to start up Belly dancing again, because I do love it, and am going to try an attend the 5 p.m. class tonight. I will update this post tonight after Tango!

New Instructor, New Moves

Class on Saturday was really different. It was taught by a woman named Leslie, who used the same warm up that I was used too, but introduced new moves. Moves I have never seen before!

Leslie begun with a "shimmy." Usually, when learning the shimmy we pretty much just kept our knees soft, with a slight bend and our feet about shoulder width apart and just shimmied by moving our hips and core side to side and using our legs.

This time around it was, "Keep your feet a little bit closer than shoulder width distance and shimmy by moving your diaphram in an up/down and side to side motion. It was very different than what I had learned before and difficult. I loved the challenge.

My best friend from home, Vanessa was visiting me this past weekend and attended this class with me. Vanessa's mom is from El Salvador and she has the genetics of being able to move her hips in ridiculous ways. She caught on right away, and eventually I think I improved and at least got the hang of it for a few seconds.

After we spent about 15 minutes shimming, we began practicing drop kicks, a move that was not anything new, but it was the first time I heard it called that. Next, was interesting, because we practiced walking around dancing, as opposed to just staying stationary in one place turning and dancing.

We took long strides, then stepped together and popped our hips out. It looked great when we all did it together and it was a lot of fun.

I am going to go back tonight (Monday) and hopefully learn some fun new moves!

I finally did it! I posted my first picture! This is the 3 disc DVD called The Goddess Workout by Dolphina.

The difference of doing this DVD v. going to the actual class that I have been attending is that Dolphina uses a fitness approach towards belly dancing instead of a dancer's approach.

The backdrop of the DVD is a little bit distracting, because she is standing on a white circle in the middle of a pool of water.

Something a little different...

Class on Wednesday was taught by a substitute named Ivan. She was great. The class was more crowded than usual, and there were 9 of us. She began with the same stretches we are used to, but we learned slow motions to change things up a bit.

The first move we did was the figure eight. We did it very slowly, but deliberately. (If that makes any sense) This move could be done with the arms moving up and down your face, snake arms, (which we also worked a lot on) and behind you. The most difficult part was switching directions and getting your hips to move back and to the left first instead of forward and to the right.

We worked on 3/4 turns, where your hips move up and down on a 1-2-3-count and while you walk at the same time. That was interesting!

Ivan even went through arabesque turns with us. She had us all line up by 3's at the end of class and walk to the other end stepping 3 times, and then turning our hips inward and out lifting our toes. This move was beautiful, and could be worked into a number of routines we have been learning recently.

My favorite part of the class came last when she taugh us a drum solo. This was hot. The music was loud, upbeat, and the energy the moves gave off was high! While doing the dance you couldn't help but giggle with excitement as was the entire class.

Overall, this week was great in class, and my friend Ashley and I even did our moves out when we went dancing this weekend! Huge success and a lot of fun!