Quinoa tacos

Lately Ive been enjoying playing around with new ideas for meals & I came up with these delicious quinoa tacos. Scarlett is a vegetarian and its so much easier to just make a dinner that we can all eat instead of making her something separate without meat, and thank goodness she loved these! 

Ingredients

1 cup of rainbow quinoa

1 can of organic peeled tomatoes

1 can of organic black beans

3-4 cloves of garlic

1 yellow onion

1 lime

1 avocado

cilantro

veganaise

mini corn tortillas 

olive oil

(pepper jack cheese)

Quinoa 

Wash and cook the quinoa according to the package. Mince the garlic and chop the onion and sauté with olive oil until the onions are a little soft. Meanwhile dice up the tomatoes and add them to the onions and garlic along with the black beans. Let those cook together for about 5 mins and then add the quinoa. Season with cumin and garlic salt. I also added a handful of pepper jack cheese right at the end to melt in. 

Sauce

Mix a few spoonfuls of veganaise with about half the juice of your lime & sprinkle some salt. 

Tortillas 

Brush your tortillas with olive oil and warm in a pan

Add a spoonful of your quinoa on your tortilla and top with avocado, veganaise sauce, and cilantro & viola! 

This recipe makes a lot so I usually have leftovers for lunch the next few days :) 

Boo!

This Halloween I found the most amazing thing ever, I wish I could say I thought of it myself but I'll give the credit to Walgreens.. "halloween hunt eggs". They had spooky eyeballs and little pumpkin eggs to do a fun egg hunt. Since Scarlett was obsessed with the Easter egg hunt this year I knew she was going to love it. & she did. She made me re-hide the eggs over & over...  This year Scarlett was a little kitty & Sadie was a bumblebee.. If I wasn't such a procrastinator they both would have been kitties.. oops! Good thing Sadie is adorable in everything! We went trick or treating with our good friends & their neighborhood is so fun & totally in the Halloween spirit with so many cute decorated houses and haunted houses, we had so much fun! After Scarletts' huge candy binge (a lollipop, candy bracelet & cheese its) she cried that her belly hurt & that mommy & Sebastians' mommy gave her too much candy & it was not nice! But she forgot all about that the next morning and asked if we could go trick or treating again :) ...  Now that Halloween is over I'm ready to put up my Christmas decorations.. 

Daddy carved Scarlett a kitty pumpkin since thats her current obsession

Her favorite thing ever was her tail

 I seriously can not handle the cuteness between my girls. They already have the most special bond with each other. From the second Scarlett wakes up she needs to hug & kiss Sadie & now she's obsessed with holding her. This evening Scarlett asked me to put Sadie on her lap even though Sadie was super fussy and tired.. So Sadie started crying and Scarlett kept saying "Whats wrong Sadie, your teef hurt? Its okay I got you." Then when Sadie finally fell asleep Scarlett ran over to her & woke her up... Well of course I got upset and Scarlett said in her saddest little voice "I just want to kiss her, hers my best friend." Im not makin this stuff up. How did I get so lucky with these angels?! Scarlett doesn't just love her baby sis, she's also very protective over our pup. Our BOY dog Beasley drives me crazy by always jumping up onto our table so the other day he jumped up there and I said "Beasley you want me to put you outside!!?" & Scarlett yells "NOO Beasleys my sister!" haha

      

Making sugar cookies today with her bestie Noah <3