Hey, my Munchies!
Welcome to the channel if you're new, I am Alyssia, and today is a VERY special episode,
because I have my good friend Sara Lynn here.
Hello everybody! I'm so excited to have you!
So much fun.
I know, we have a blast, and a lot of you guys probably already know Sara Lynn.
Her channel is The Domestic Geek.
We have collabbed like, two, three, four times?
I can't even remember, we've done so many collabs, but you guys always ask for more!
Today, is a very special episode.
We are going to be doing what we do best!
Yes!
Absolutely!
Apparently.
We are making some BOWLS.
We are making POWER BOWLS.
We are!
And we're going to actually share Sara Lynn's recipes on my channel, and then, after this,
you can head over to her channel, YouTube.com/TheDomesticGeek1, and check out my recipes over there.
If you don't know, Sara Lynn on her channel, The Domestic Geek, shares TONS of cooking
recipes.
A lot of them are healthy, some are a little more indulgent.
It is true, because I am all about balance.
She's got a good balance on her channel.
Let's get to the bowls.
Yes!
So, Sara Lynn, tell me about the three bowls you're going to make for me today.
I am so super excited to share these.
Now, speaking of breakfast, lunch, and dinner, these are inspired by those three meals.
So, I have an incredible, delicious Tropical Breakfast Bowl that I am just loving right
now, I'm obsessed with, it's full of gorgeous tropical fruit.
I am also making a salmon, spinach, and strawberry lunch bowl, which is basically like taking
a spinach salad, but putting it on steroids.
Because you and I do not enjoy salad as a general rule.
No, I'm not a salad gal.
It's one of the things that she and I have bonded over from the very beginning of our
relationship.
We're like, "salads?
Ugh!"
We never eat salad, actually, except for when we do these collabs.
It's true!
It's true.
But this is like, this salad eats like a meal, not a salad, which is why I am happy to call
it a power bowl, not a salad.
Yeah.
And then the final one is a really, really, super tasty, super green, crunchy bowl that
I love.
It's really herbaceous, it's made with some tasty quinoa, and all sorts of green vegetables.
It's green, it's lean - it's the green, lean bowl.
Oh, yes!
No, it's the lean green bowl, I was like THAT'S what it was!
The green lean, lean green.
It's the green lean lean green.
Say that four times fast.
What are the ingredients we're going to need for your breakfast bowl?
Alright, so for this breakfast bowl, it all starts with some yogurt.
Now you have lots of options, you can use vegan coconut yogurt, that's what I'm using
today, but you could also do this with some regular, vanilla flavored yogurt would be
tasty, Greek yogurt would work really well, and if you are not into yogurt, you could
do this with some oatmeal.
Yeah.
I think.
Or you could do it with cottage cheese, you know.
Cottage cheese would be a great option.
Super, super great.
And then, for our fruit, we have some banana, some pineapple, some mango, and then we've
got some granola, I'm using ginger-flavored granola, and some coconut chips, which I absolutely
love.
I'm obsessed.
Right?!
Just remember, the last collab where we discovered coconut chips from a smoothie bowl you did.
And we ate like a huge pack, that's all we ate all day.
We actually devoured two or three bags, and since then we've discovered every flavor of
coconut chip you can imagine.
Sriracha, and there's also a wasabi-flavored coconut chip that is one of my favorites.
I don't know if I can handle that.
After the coconut chips, you've got the chia seeds, and then a little freshly grated ginger.
Because I LOVE ginger with all of that tropical fruit.
Those are some good flavor combinations, I must say.
You thought about this.
I might've given it some thought.
And then, really, it's just a matter of layering it all up.
So you start with your yogurt, you put in your bananas, your pineapple, your beautiful
mango, top that with a crunchy granola and lovely coconut chips, sprinkle your chia seeds -
healthy fats, protein, SO super good - and, finally, that ginger.
It's a POWER breakfast bowl!
It IS a power breakfast bowl!
And it's something that you'll want to eat on the regular.
And, if you use the coconut-flavored yogurt, you cannot go wrong.
It makes it even more tropical.
It's almost like pina colada for breakfast.
Yeah, and that one's also vegan, for our vegan viewers.
And you want to put some rum in it, I wouldn't judge you.
Well that breakfast looks DELICIOUS, why don't you tell me what you're going to make for
lunch.
Oh, I'm SO excited about this, it is a strawberry, salmon, spinach salad, but it's NOT really
a salad, we already talked about this.
It's a POWER bowl.
And, I love it, because it just starts on a bed of spinach, but then it gets really,
really tasty and interesting.
Now the ingredients for this tasty power bowl are some spinach, we've got some cooked salmon
that I've just flaked, some nicely sliced strawberries, and we've got some red quinoa
that I've just cooked up, you can do that during your weekly meal prep, super simple.
I also have some crunchy pecans.
Pee-cans.
Puh-kahns.
How do you pronounce?
I go back and forth, and I ask my viewers all the time.
And everyone has - it's a mixed bag.
I mean, but there's three ways - there's puh-kahn, there's puh-kan, and then there's pee-can.
Which, that one sounds kinda gross.
I'm the one who says pee-can, but that's okay.
We can say puh-kahns for the purpose of this.
Alright, so we've got some PUH-KAHNS, and then we top that all with some crumbled goat
cheese, because goat cheese makes EVERYTHING better.
I agree.
If you are a goat cheese hater you could use feta.
But goat cheese is SUPER complementary in this dish.
With the strawberries, with the salmon, everything goes together.
SO good.
And then, we're gonna top it all off with some shredded basil, and then I made a really,
really simple poppy seed vinaigrette, so instead of like a creamy poppy seed dressing, we made
a poppy seed vinaigrette.
That was just some olive oil, some white wine vinegar, a little bit of minced shallot, which
I love, we add some honey for some sweetness, some mustard to keep it all together, those
poppy seeds, a little salt, a little pep, a little stir, and you just pour that right
over your salad.
So to put this bowl together, it's really, really simple.
We're just going to start with our baby spinach and a bowl, and then top it, so you can't
even taste the spinach.
We've got that tasty salmon, we've got those strawberries, that lovely, lovely cooked red
quinoa - I like the red just for color, you can use any kind of quinoa you want, I thought
it looked beautiful.
Then we have the pecans, the crumbled goat cheese, the shredded basil, and then we're
going to top it all with that poppy seed vinaigrette.
Lunch is served, y'all!
I'm not disappointed in that lunch, those are some of my FAVORITE flavors, all put together.
I might even used smoked salmon.
Oh my gosh!
So, yes, lunch!
That was delicious, and now, for my FINAL trick of the day, something really tasty:
a fantastic, lean, green power bowl.
This one incorporates kale, which you may or may not know is NOT my favorite thing.
It is a SUPER food...
That's the thing, but I DON'T super love it...
Show me, what did you do?
What do you need?
Okay, so for this recipe, we are going to start with my tasty lemon-herb quinoa.
All I do is cook my quinoa in some vegetable broth, and then I add some beautiful herbs.
So I've got some fresh parsley, some freshly chopped chives, AND some freshly chopped basil.
I also give it a really good squeeze of lemon, salt and pepper, stir it all together - this
stuff is SO, so good.
So, that is the base of my bowl.
On top of that, so we've got my lemon-herb quinoa, and then I also have some kale, that
I've just massaged with some olive oil to soften it up a little bit.
So does that make it taste better?
It just makes it softer and easier to chew.
It really, really helps.
You can massage it with some olive oil, or, if you wanted to, you could do it with some
lemon juice.
I mean I do massage kale when I make kale chips.
Like, just to get it coated with the oil fully, but I've never thought about just massaging
it just for eating.
Maybe that's why I hate kale salads.
It's the ONLY way I can actually eat kale in any civilized way.
So I've got my massaged kale, I've got some steamed edamame beans, I've also got some
chopped cucumber, which is nice and crunchy, I've got some broccoli - I am adding them
raw, but if you wanted to quickly steam them you absolutely could.
And then, for protein, in this dish, because it's dinner, I'm actually using some cooked
shredded chicken and mixing that up with a little bit of pesto, and, instead of dressing,
I'm just doing another squeeze of lemon juice.
But you could add a dressing!
And you've got the pesto in the chicken to also kind of dress it.
Dress it!
Exactly!
And then the lemon-herb quinoa...you know.
It all comes together.
It's a thing.
So I start with my lemon-herb quinoa as my base, and then I top that with a good helping
of that massaged kale, a little bit of those edamame beans, that crunchy cucumber, some
beautiful broccoli.
Next, I've just mixed my chicken with some pesto sauce.
In this case, I used a store-bought kind, but you can definitely make your own, it's
really, really simple to make your own pesto.
Just mix that with some chicken, pile it on top, and then serve it with a wedge of lemon,
as opposed to any sort of fancy-dancy dressing.
Perfect!
Yeah I LOVE lemon juice as dressing.
It's low calorie, it doesn't have to add any heaviness, it keeps it light.
Plus, you have so many other flavors going on.
AND you massaged the kale in the olive oil, so that's going to give it a little bit of
moisture, too.
Exactly!
It's a REALLY, really hearty bowl, TONS of protein in here, there's a lot to love.
Sara Lynn, these all sound DELICIOUS.
Thanks!
I've gotta say, I'm impressed.
It's like you planned it.
You'd almost think we do this for a living!
So crazy.
It's like you didn't just make them up.
Well, thank you SO much for sharing those amazing bowls.
We will leave the recipes to all of Sara Lynn's bowls in OUR description box.
Now, I hope you all head over to her channel, make sure that you subscribe of course, and
then check out our collaboration video over there, where you will see MY three power bowls,
they're pretty fun as well.
Oh, they're DELICIOUS!
And LOADED with all sorts of crazy, delicious things.
I really can't wait to share them with you, so, please, head over there, if you like when
we do collabs, please give this video a thumbs up.
We have so many exciting projects that we really want to share with you guys, and your
enthusiasm and energy is really what keeps us going.
So we appreciate you!
Thank you guys so much for hanging out with us today, I hope that now you'll go check
out our video on Sara Lynn's channel, and, remember, it's all a matter of Mind Over Munch.