Hey munchers it's Alyssia here and I have with me today a very special guest, HELLO
Sarah Lynn from The Domestic Geek I'm sure you know her channel if you don't I don't know what
you've been doing with your life.
Go check it out she makes awesome healthy delicious meals. So today in this
video we are going to be sharing bowls, because everybody is loving to put
meals in bowls. Breakfast in bowls, lunch in bowls, dinner in bowls. I'm gonna be sharing my
three bowl ideas here
Alyssia is sharing her ideas on my channel. So once you're done watching this
yumminess you need to head over there to check out her yumminess and I'm kicking things off today with a
breakfast bowl. What's in the breakfast bowl? This breakfast bowl is actually inspired by one
of my favorite desserts, carrot cake. That's what I'm talking about. I'm obsessed with carrot cake.
So it is a carrot cake breakfast bowl. Now I want to ask you a question there are two camps in the
carrot cake world there is the yes pineapple camp and no pineapple camp. Do you put pineapple
in your carrot cake? I'm a yes. I mean by put almost anything. So the base of this amazing breakfast
bowl it's actually my carrot cake smoothie and that of course all starts with some carrot juice in your
blender. To that you're gonna add some bananas I've also got some fresh pineapple.
Again if you're part of the no pineapple camp you just leave that pineapple out it's totally fine. Then I'm
going to add some dates for sweetness. I've pitted my dates and soaked them so they're nice and moist. Then
we're going to add some of that yummy carrot cake flavor with a little bit of vanilla extract, some ground
cinnamon, and some freshly grated ginger. Ginger is a key ingredient. So you put the lid on your blender, you
blend that all up and then once it's nice and blended we're gonna pour it into a bowl and the we're gonna top
it with all sorts of deliciousness. So we're going to add some granola for some extra fiber.
I mean you could use any granola. But didn't...isn't this a special one? Ginger zing granola. That I
found at the grocery store. It goes perfect with the carrot cake, It's like you thought about this. There are no
accidents. And then we've also got some crunchy pecans. PECANS.
What do you say? I think I've
asked this to my viewers before. I switch back and forth. I get in trouble every time I say it. Which one do you say?
I usually say PEEcans. I think I say peCONS. What do I say? If you want to make really sophisticated
breakfast bowl you add peCONS. If you want an unsophisticated breakfast bowl you add
add PEcans. Or PEEcans. Oh my gosh there are three ways to say it? I know I'm like what!?
You just put whatever you want in that carrot cake bowl and it's gonna taste delicious. I've got some
finely chopped pineapple that I'm adding
and then we're going to finish it off with some coconut chips which are our new obsession. I can't stop eating
them. Really beautiful. We're going to put the coconut chips in
So this is actually my first ever smoothie bowl. I thought it was absolutely amazing.
So yummy. Yeah I did a smoothie bowl episode a few weeks ago which was my first real experience with them.
I know you're like the smoothie queen. I'm not nuts about smoothies but putting it in a bowl,
making it a little bit thicker so that you can eat it with a spoon it like
turns it into magic. And then adding some crunch to. It's a nice texture and
flavor. And when your food is beautiful it is soo much more fun to eat it, especially when it's healthy.
Alright so tell me about lunch. Today's lunch is actually inspired by my
favorite salad which is a waldorf salad. OOo that sounds sophisticated.
It sounds very sophisticated. Do you notice she's wearing glasses today? I'm wear glasses.
I'm like I should have brought my glasses, I didn't know you were going to wear yours or I would have brought mine.
I know I think it's actually hilarious because if you check out our last collaboration up there over there
somewhere. I'm wearing glasses and you're not.
Ok so the classic waldorf flavors we're going to be using today we've got some
apples, some celery, some grapes, and some walnuts. It's gonna be delicious trust me. For the base of this
salad I am using some chopped kale. You could do this with any greens you
want you could also do this with some grains not greens. You can do this with some quinoa
or some rice if you wanted to. #GRAINSnotGreens that's me I hate greens.
You know what though, the one thing I love about putting kale in
this salad is that we're actually going to toss the kale in the dressing ahead
of time so that they have a chance to get nice and soft. That is my favorite. No honestly for dressings tossing the
greens in the dressing you have to use so much less dressing and every piece has a little
bit of dressing on it and then once all of that kale is tossed you're going to top it
with some walnuts for crunch, some celery for a lot of crunches well and then I've got a
beautiful apple. I'm a Gala fan. I'm a Fuji fan. Apple makes you happy
and then some grapes. You top this all off with some chicken for protein. But if you didn't want
to use chicken here what could you use? You could use some tofu. You could use some white beans.
Even the nuts have good protein. Yes that's is absolutely true. Honestly all these flavors are so good that
if you don't want it you don't need it. Exactly. So we topped it with some chicken, added a little more of that
yummy dressing and this salad is a true meal. As a general rule I am NOT actually a big salad
fan but this salad actually eats like a meal and doesn't feel like a salad and remember grains not greens
you can swap everything. Exactly. How about dinner? Sarah Lynn. What did you make for me? Oh we are
starving to death around here. What I made for you is actually a deconstructed fish taco,
that's what I'm calling. That is so clever. So I'm starting with all of
this yummy rice in my bowl and then I'm just gonna top it with some finely shredded
red cabbage which has a ton of crunch. I just love red cabbage. It also looks really beautiful. And so purple
You eat with your eyes first so I love that. Then I'm adding some black beans. I of course
am cheating with canned black beans cuz that's really how I roll and then I'm adding a nice big scoop of mango
salsa. If you've never made mango salsa before you know have no idea how easy it is.
You literally dice up some mango, add some finely chopped red onion, some minced jalapeno,
and then just a good squeeze of lime juice. Oh that's perfect.
And just seed the jalapeno if you don't want it hot. Exactly. Because the jalapeno still has a lot of
flavor even if you don't like the spiciness. And then I'm gonna finish this beautiful bowl off with some
avocado slices because everything is better with avocado. And then for some added protein I
have basically just cooked some Tilapia in some lime juice and some chili powder somes spices and
then I just finished it off with a good squeeze of fresh lime juice and some fresh cilantro.
For you cilantro haters just leave that cilantro out. Why do people really hate cilantro that much? Because
apparently to half of the
population it tastes like soap. Who was it on Food Network, someone talked about how you can
learn to love cilantro. I actually did. To be honest I kept coming to Los Angeles and
you cannot eat anything in this city it without cilantro in it.
I just basically forced myself to learn to love it and now I could like eat it on its own.
Dinner is served! How simple was that? That was amazing. Breakfast, lunch, dinner in a bowl.
Why is it so much more fun when it's in a bowl?
Admittedly these portions are a little large
We got a little enthusiastic, we're going to share these. We did
get a bit carried away. But you can eat as much as you want. This is like bigger than my face.
So those were Sarah Lynn's three amazing bowl
recipes. I have also created three bowls, a breakfast, lunch, and dinner and I am
sharing them on Sarah Lynn's channel. I really hope you guys love these bowls. Now head over to my channel
and check out Alyssia's bowls they are delicious. It's a fun episode. All sorts of yumminess happening
over there. You're not gonna wanna miss it and while you are over at Sarah Lynn's channel watching her episode
with my bowls why don't you hit subscribe? Sure you can. And a thumbs up. And in the meantime
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