Mushroom-Turkey Egg Bake

Good evening.

I started to experiment this evening with my leftover RAW "cheesy" sauce and decided to make an egg dish.  I'm one to never eat leftovers but I didn't want to put this to waste.  So what I've come up with is something quick and easy- well I don't know quick because it requires a little chopping- egg bake that is PACKED with protein and a "clean eat" breakfast.

Mushroom-Turkey Egg Bake

(with added raw cheesy sauce)

Ingredients:

A handful of pre-sliced mushrooms (baby portabella) - Coarsely chopped

A handful of baby kale - Julienne-cut

4-5 slices of Turkey meat - Julienne-cut

2-3 heaping spoonfuls (the BIG spoon) of Raw cheese sauce 

        - This is optional.  If you haven't made it then you can always throw in any regular cheese

3 large brown, organic eggs

1 egg white

Black pepper

Dash of Sea salt

Red pepper flakes (optional)  

First, preheat your oven to 375 to 400 degrees, depending on your oven.  Slice/ chop/ julienne your mushrooms, baby kale, and turkey meat.

Then throw in all the chopped ingredients in one bowl and slowly mix in the raw cheesy sauce until it's even distributed.  Again, if you didn't make the sauce, just incorporate your choice of cheese or any other component to the dry mix.

In a separate bowl beat eggs together with fork then add the seasonings of black pepper, a dash of sea salt, and red pepper flakes (optional).

Spray a small baking dish (preferably a small, wide-mouth ceramic) with cooking spray.

Transfer the dry/ raw cheese ingredient in the baking dish and spread out evenly.  Then pour in the egg mixture on top.  Sprinkle more with black pepper and pepper flakes, if you like.

Bake for 20-25 minutes.  Just keep an eye on it... then voila!!

 

RAW- "Cheese" Sauce

Yes, you heard right, a cheese sauce that's raw.  Again, inspiration had hit me to make this sauce, well more like a thick, cheese-like cream.  Ok I'm probably straying you away aren't I? But trust me, it's quite delicious and on top of that, it's vegan, paleo, and husband-approved haha.  I stumbled upon this recipe because my husband was hungry for dinner but he wanted something other than the usual healthy dish.  And who said, beggers can't be choosers. :P JK  Even though I wanted to reach for that back-up Velveeta mac-n-cheese, I instead started googling.  I came upon a couple of raw recipes for mac and cheese and the one I took to liking was the Rawtarian's mac and cheese.  I added a few ingredients to make it my own and also to please my husband's palate.

Oh btw, I keep putting quotation marks on cheese because it's not really cheese.  It base is cashews.  My favorite nut, by the way. :P

Broccoli and RAW "Cheese" Sauce

 

Ingredients: (For the cheese sauce)

2 cups of raw, organic cashews

3/4 cup Water - added 1/4 cup of water during processing

1 tablespoon Lemon

1 teaspoon Sea Salt

1/3 cup Nutritional Yeast

Dash Cayenne pepper (optional)

Couple dashes of Garlic powder

LOTS of Black pepper 

Ok if you have a Vitamix, well you're in luck, this will be easy for you.  But for myself, I don't have one nor do I feel like I need to spend that kind of money for it because I probably won't use it as much.  So instead, I blended everything in my food processor. 

PREP: Before I started making this sauce, I had soaked the cashews overnight which helps in blending but also beneficial in SOO many ways for the digestion. (Just google benefits of soaking nuts)

 

I submersed the cashews in purified water- room temperatured- and covered with a (clean) dish cloth overnight.  You don't have to soak the nuts overnight, you can soak them 2-3 hours in advance.  Once you're done doing that, rinse thoroughly and throw them in the food processor. 

Pour in the 3/4 cup of water (hold off on the added water until processing) and pulse a couple times until you're comfortable enough to fully process it.  I stopped occasionally to clean the sides of the container and to allow air into the bowl with a spatula.  As you continue to process, this is the time to drizzle in the additional water - I put an additional 1/4 cup of water, but you can put as much as you want as long it stays in that thick-like consistency.

(it should look like this as the final product - see how thick it is)

 Once fully processed, I then added the remaining ingredients- nutritional yeast, salt, lemon, cayenne pepper, garlic powder, and black pepper.  Then you're done!  Keep tasting and adding to your liking.

Since I still wanted to keep this a healthy dish, I made my husband eat it with steamed broccoli and cauliflower hehe He was kinda sad and hesitant but once he tried it, he was AMAZED!  He even threw away the Velveeta mac-n-cheese in the trash!! Yah. Crazy! haha

Ok i'm done here.  I gotta shower now because I just got done working out and tanning.  Can we say GTB- Gym, Tan, Blogging! HA!

- Abigail

Inspiration, again.

Why hello there... I know, I know I've been MIA, yet again.  But the school year is winding down and I made a promise to myself to keep up with my postings, at least, until Spring semester.  Also, I like to take a side note to thank, Caroline, for inspiring me to get back into blogging.  I stumbled upon her page, After Dinner Dance, after I had a hankering for some cake batter frozen yogurt.  I know, weird huh?  But anyways... her recipe, along with others, looked quite healthy and yummy.  I then navigated to her 'About me' section and found some similarities between us.  First, we're both from Houston (well, I'm from Sugar Land) and second, we both have a passion for living a healthy lifestyle BUT in a practical, "real world" matter.

 I say "real world" because even though we like to think we can automatically throw ourselves into this total-health- no carb, low cal, paleo, raw foodist- diet, we all know that's totally impossible.  We're human for goodness sake!  I'm all for eating healthy but don't restrict yourself to where you're compromising taste, your health but most importantly, your sanity!  I'm a big believer in having indulgences.  I "eat clean" 80 to 90% of the time but the other percent, I'm savoring those pieces of dark chocolate or diving into Laloo's goat's milk ice cream.  MMm..

Ok where was I? Haha Sorry I was rambling again.  But yes, thank you Caroline and to Instagram.  Instagram, by the way, has completely changed my outlook on health and fitness.  I've never been so inspired in my life than this past year because of it.  I'm lifting more and finding new ways to eating healthy.  So again, it's because of my followers and those I follow on Instagram that has gotten me more excited about health and fitness.  And if it weren't for you guys (and Caroline), I'd probably be sitting on my couch munching on a bag full of Fritos. jk :P

Also, stay tuned because I have an AWESOME recipe for a "raw" cheesy sauce. 

- Abigail