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Spicy Thai Crunch Salad

So Ryan and I had this great salad the other night at California Pizza Kitchen and we decided to replicate it at home, while spicy-ing it up some. The main ingredient is cabbage and yeah I know, doesn't seem that interesting and it smells a little, but did you know that cabbage is included in the top 100 foods? It falls under the category of Cancer & Long-term Illness Prevention. So eat up!

Here are the ingredients:

Cabbage- green and red, shredded
Cucumber (cubed)
Carrots (shredded)
Edamame
Green Onions (chopped white and green pieces)
Avocado
Wontons and/or Crispy Rice Noodles
Peanuts

Dressing:
Cilantro, about 1/2 cup
Olive Oil (use your eye)
1 Lime
1/2 clove of garlic
Green Pepper (we get ours from our garden)
1 teaspoon of rice vinegar
black pepper

Thai Spicy Peanut Sauce (bought from the store) with a little smidge of sesame oil.

Ryan made the dressing in our mini food processor so that pepper and cilantro were finely minced. Basically we just combined all the ingredients, tossed with the dressing, then to add some spice we added the Thai Spicy Peanut Sauce. I think it would also be good to top with some Salmon, or other fish. Basically it's a very simply and easy salad with a lot of flavor.

Breakfast Tostada

So I titled this recipe as Breakfast Tostada, but really it can be eaten whenever. I had it tonight as a late snack since I ate an early dinner. I have to say it was quite amazing in taste and simple to make.

So I saw Tyler Florence, a famous chef, on Oprah teaching a mom how to make healthy & simple breakfast for her kids. He made scrambled eggs, turkey bacon and I believe some cheese, wrapped into a tortilla. Then I watched 60 minutes and saw a clip on Alice Waters, this amazing chef in Berkeley that started the slow-cooking/organic/local movement. She made breakfast and what she did was toast some fresh wheat bread, cut up some heirloom tomatoes and fried an egg by cracking it in a metal spoon and holding it in her wood-fire store. She assembled the egg and tomato on top of the bread and it looked mouth-watering. The interviewer even claimed it was the best breakfast she has ever had. So I decided to combine the two and first wanted to do a wrap, but I ended up cooking the tortilla too much and it became a tostada, but I think that's what made it even better. Here it is:

ingredients:

• egg
• a couple slices of soy bacon (meat free-I get it at Trader Joes)
• whole wheat tortilla
• arugula
• baby heirloom tomatoes (or whatever tomatoes you have, that is just what I had)
• a little bit of shredded cheese

directions:

I used a flat, long frying pan that had enough space to cook everything, you can probably use a large frying pan and just move things around as you need space.

First I cooked the "bacon" for a couple minutes on each side. When those were looking almost done I moved them away form the direct heat, then I cracked an egg and started to fry it. At this point I put my tortilla down on the frying pan (I told you it was a big one). Once I flipped the tortilla on the other side I sprinkled some cheese on it to melt. As I flipped the egg, I put the chopped tomatoes in the pan to heat them up some. As the egg was finishing I assembled the tortilla (while still in the frying pan) by placing the bacon on top, then tomatoes, and some arugula. Once the egg was done I topped off the tostada with that. Then a sprinkle of salt and pepper, and I little more cheese, cause I love cheese, and waa-laa- a breakfast tostada good for any time of day!