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Adventure Begins in the Kitchen

Monkfish!

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Monkfish Dinner

Whole Foods HQ is, by default, the grocery store I frequent most.  It’s perfectly centered in the middle of the three places I spend the majority of time: home, work, yoga.  It has everything.  And, buried in the back corner, is my favorite lunch spot in town.

Monkfish

On Fridays, the seafood bar {fav lunch spot} has monkfish as a daily catch. And consequently, the fish dubbed poor man’s lobster, has become my new obsession.  Along with steamed kale, sweet potatoes, and a side of tzatziki.

Coconut Oil & Maple Syrup Sweet Potatoes

I learned quickly that the reason why this can only be my Friday lunch is they only get a small delivery of this fish early on Friday mornings.  So to test this fish dish out at home, you need to pick up a piece no later than Saturday morning.  And let me tell ya, remembering to make a special trip is totally worth it.

Monkfish cooking instructions can be found here.

Favorite Snack

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Coconut Oil Popcorn

Can you imagine the look on my friend’s mom’s face when she served us popcorn and I asked if she had nutritional yeast {in 1987}?  True story. Popcorn with nutritional yeast has been my favorite snack for as long as I can remember.  But two things have changed.

Popcorn Maker

1. I have a popcorn maker that pops without spewing kernels all over the kitchen.  Or even worse, down your shirt.  Kernel burns are a real thing when you’re working with a dysfunctional popper.

Coconut Oil

2.  I’ve traded in butter for coconut oil.

I melt, drizzle, and sprinkle with salt and yeast.  And then I curl up on the couch with my cozy snack and call it a day.

Hummus Deviled Eggs

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Hummus Deviled Eggs

After reading one of the many things you’re doing wrong lists out there, I had to try peeling boiled eggs the right way.  I started with Martha Stewart’s instructions on how to make perfect hard-boiled eggs. And then finished by placing the boiled eggs in a large bowl filled with ice water and one teaspoon of baking soda.

Baking Soda for Boiled Eggs

Let me just tell ya, this was the least stressful egg peeling that’s ever gone on in my kitchen.  From this point forward, I’m a baking soda believer.

Hard Boiled Eggs

And then I went on to experiment with the ever so classic deviled egg.  Truth be told, I had some 365 light mayo in my fridge that tasted like poison and I needed an alternative.  Hummus seemed like the logical route.  This recipe needs some tweaking, but I’ll give you the ingredients and measurement starting points to get going.

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Cookie Butter Mousse

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Vegan Peanut Butter Mousse

As soon as I read this Minimalist Baker post, I knew what I had to do. And it went something like run straight to Trader Joe’s, pick up coconut cream and cookie butter, then make the most addictive peanut butter mousse ever.  Ever, ever. 

Trader Joe's Coconut Cream

Because cookie butter is already pretty sweet, additional sweetener wasn’t necessary.  Eliminating one ingredient turned this already super simple three ingredient mousse into an even more simple two ingredient mousse.

Peanut Butter Mousse

You just put a can of coconut cream in the fridge overnight, scoop the solid cream out of the can and into the bowl of a mixer, beat until smooth, and then add cookie butter {2 tablespoons at a time} until the mousse is as peanut-buttery as you like.