What's For Dinner? Seared Ahi Tuna Poke Salad with Hula Ginger Vinagrette + Wonton Crisps

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This is the BEST salad!  It is easy to make, it's filling yet light, and it is DELIC!!  It is perfect for a yummy easy dinner.  Enjoy!!  Thanks Pinterest and Halfbakedharvest.com For this awesome recipe.

Seared Ahi Tuna Poke

20 square wonton wrappers, cut into strips (use corn tortillas to make this gluten free)

2 ahi tuna steaks

1/4 cup soy sauce

1 teaspoon corn starch

1/4 cup pineapple juice

1/4 cup honey

1 teaspoon chile garlic sauce or sriracha

2 tablespoons black and white sesame seeds, toasted

Salad

4-8 cup spring greens

1/2 cup fresh cilantro

1 cup fresh pineapple, diced

1 jalapeno or red chile, sliced

Hula Ginger vinaigrette

1/2 cup hot chile sesame oil or toasted sesame oil

1/4 cup soy sauce

2 tablespoons pineapple juice

2 tablespoon rice vinegar

1 teaspoon chile garlic sauce or sriracha (or more to taste)

1 tablespoon tahini

1 lime, zested + juiced

2 teaspoon fresh ginger, grated

1 clove garlic, grated or minced

back and white sesame seeds, toasted

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Arrange the wonton strips in a single layer (or as best you can get them) on a greased baking sheet. Spray the wontons with olive oil spray and a good sprinkle of sea salt. Bake in the preheated oven for 5-10 minutes, watching them closely to make sure they don't burn. They are done when they are a light golden color and crisp. Remove from the oven and set aside.
3. In a small sauce pot mix together 1/4 cup soy sauce and 1 teaspoon cornstarch until smooth. Add 1/4 cup pineapple juice, 1/4 cup honey and 1 teaspoon chile garlic sauce. Place the pot on the stove over medium heat and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer 3-4 minutes until the sauce is just beginning to thicken and coat the back of a spoon. Remove from the heat.
4. Heat a large cast iron skillet on high and add the sesame oil. Sear the tuna steaks in the skillet for 1-2 minutes, flip and brush the seared side with the soy sauce mixture. Sear another minute or 2 and then remove the steaks from the pan, brushing them with the remaining soy sauce mixture. Slice into strips.
5. Combine the spring greens, cilantro, pineapple chunks and jalapeño (or red chile) in a bowl and toss.
6. In another small bowl make the vinaigrette. Combine the hot chile sesame oil, soy sauce, pineapple juice, rice vinegar, chile garlic sauce, tahini, 1 teaspoon lime zest and the juice of 1 lime, the fresh ginger and garlic. Add 1-2 tablespoons black and white sesame seeds.
7. Divide the greens among plates. Top with tuna, avocado slices and wonton crisps. Drizzle with the vinaigrette. Dig in!

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Far Out: Sativa, Indica, Ruderalis, and Hemp

What is the difference?

Indica

Indica plants typically grow short and wide, they are better suited for indoor growing because of their short growth.  Indica tends to have a strong sweet or sour odor to it.  Smoking Indica gives you a strong physical high that makes you sleepy and provides a deep relaxation feeling this bud is perfect for treating anxiety, body pain, headaches, and sleeping disorders.  

Sativa

Sativa plants grow tall and thin and are better for outdoor growing because some strains can get up to 25 ft tall, sativa has a more grassy type odor its high is known to be more energetic and uplifting and is better for daytime smoking.  A sativa high is one filled with creativity and energy as being high on sativa can spark new ideas and creations.  Sativa gives you a feeling of being at ease, uplifting thoughts, increases focus, and fights depression. 

Ruderalis

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Ruderalis originated in Russia. It flowers earlier than both indica and sativa it doesn't grow as tall and it can withstand harsher climates but the THC content is extremely low. 

Hemp

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Weed isn't only for smoking it has so many different uses.  Hemp is becoming a real hit because you can use it in almost every way you use trees and come on people we need to save the trees.  Here are 7 great uses for Industrial Hemp.  The first one is clothing.  People have been using hemp in textiles dating back to 8,000 BC.  These days it is being mixed with silk for lingerie and because of its durability it is being used for jeans, shoes, and sport clothing.  

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Hemp is also highly nutritious and perfect for foods and beverages.  The whole seed is about 25% protein, its a great source for calcium and iron as well as having more omega 3  than a walnut

it's also great for brewing into beer and fermenting into wine, oh and there's hemp milk too.

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Hemp has been used for paper for at least 2,000 years.  Unfortunately because of the small number and relatively old age of processing equipment hemp paper ends up being twice as expensive as wood paper.  

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I think we need some creative engineers to design a better way to make hemp paper because hemp is a far more quickly renewable and sustainable source.

Hemp provides all kinds of great building materials.  You can make it  into insulation, and it can even be made into hempcrete a stronger lighter more sustainable version of concrete.

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Hemp can take the place of plastics.  Ford famously made a car out of hemp in the early 1940s it never went into production , but you can see a picture on the internet  of Henry Ford taking an axe to the car to prove its durability.  More recently hemp has been being used for things like shower curtain liners, cd and dvd cases all sorts of stuff

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Yup you can make bio fuel out of hemp.  Like any kind of vegetable oil you can take hemp oil and process it into biodiesel

One of the most intriguing uses for hemp is cleaning up soil contamination.  I watched a pretty great youtube video on how planting hemp around the area of fukushima could help the soil from the nuclear disaster.  http://youtu.be/FldJS-BHp7M  its worth a try!!  Yup weed is good for more reasons than one!!  

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A Spring Time Poem

 Spring Time Poem

Oh my Gosh is it already spring?  

Oh shit that means it's time to clean!!

Don't worry family I'll make a list,

 believe me I'm not gonna be the only one doing this.

Opening drawers and cabinets galore.  

Oh geez this is gonna be a real chore

I'd rather be soaking up the sun by the sea shore. 

Shit I'd rather be chased by a boar.  

Pull Out the fridge and see what's hiding 

Watch out for that cockroach he's flying

Straight towards your head 

Don't worry I killed him, he's dead

Look at the windowsills

their covered in web

Oh no they're right next to my bed

Get a broom and knock them down

These spiders have really been going to town

These closets are such a mess

This is putting my patience to the test

I've got a big trash bag 

Almost everything must go

Stop crying kids 

you've never even played with this before

Now it's time to scrub the floor

this is by far the worst chore

don't forget the baseboards and cabinet doors

oh you missed a spot

scrub there a little more

Now the house is spotless and clean

It looks better than I've ever seen.

Im so glad it's over

I hate to spring clean

Happy Spring cleaning!! -Lex

Food For Health with Lex and Mais: Healthy Sweet Snacks

Food for health

Healthy Sweet Snacks

Pumpkin Pie Smoothie

Secret Weapon #1 tofu.  For those of you who don't have anything against soy, tofu is an awesome thickener.  It's great because you can put tofu with just about anything and it will take on the flavor of what you are putting it with.  It also gives the smoothie a creamy yummy texture, but dont add too much or you'll make your smoothie all funky.  Secret Weapon #2 Pumpkin puree we usually only use pumpkin for pies but it's really super healthy for you so throw it in your pumpkin smoothie.  We got that recipe from this blog called foodpluswords.com

Chocolate chip cookie dough

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This is by our favorite late night sweet treats, chocolate chip cookie dough dip.  Secret weapon Chick Peas.  Genius Blogger Chocolate covered Katie came up with this wonderful idea.  Chick peas are perfect to blend and then pair with sweets because of its neutral flavor. Get that recipe from chocolatecoveredkatie.com

Avocado green tea smoothie

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For a summer sweet treat try these Avocado green tea popsicles.  Secret Weapon Avocado.  Avo is perfect for a creamy texture. Secret Weapon #2 Green tea.  It's delicious when Paired with the Avo. check out munchinwithmunchkins.com blog for that easy recipe

Chocolate banana ice cream

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Secret weapon #1 Frozen banana bananas are so good for you for so many different reasons.  Secret weapon #2 Cocoa is great for promoting serotonin the happy chemical in the brain.  Take the banana blend it with the cocoa and viola a yummy and healthy ice cream! Gotchocolate.com came up with this genius idea

Quinoa  pudding

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We use quinoa in our house for a lot of different things because it is packed in protein and as being mostly vegetarians we need that good for you protein but who would've thought it could be a sweet treat too?  If you like rice pudding check out this recipe by honestfare.com  instead of using rice they use quinoa and top the pudding with different fruits

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What's For Dinner? A three ingredient recipe, Glazed Coca-Cola Chicken

So I don't eat meat but if I did I'd try this recipe out.  I recently stumbled upon a great website that has 33 different 3 ingredient recipes.   

http://buzzfeedfood.tumblr.com/post/80393695680/33-genius-three-ingredient-recipes 

They have so many great ideas anything from desserts to appetizers to easy dinners like this one. Yummy!  This would be good with some mac salad and rice, plate lunch style.  Let me know how this turns out for anyone that decides to use this recipe.  Enjoy!!  Hey while you are making dinner tonight why not put on some Lex and Mais?  Just click play.

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Screen Time…is it bad, or just the future?

I’ve been seeing these posts about humans and their screen time, and I’m wondering what all the fuss is about?!  I mean, I realize that kids these days are on screens a majority of the time at school and at home, as well as their parents.  I myself am often guilty of this.  I get home from work, and in my attempt to unwind definitely turn to the screen.  Whether it’s my phone, my tablet or my laptop.  My kids as well come home and go directly to their screens to unwind from school(I give them a good 30 minute screen time before doing homework).  I understand the subject of the screens causing the children to have ADD, however I have to disagree.  

Due to the fact that I have two humans that I am raising, I realize that children(mine especially) are night and day.  Both have been raised under the same roof with the same rules and the same freedoms of the screen.  My oldest lived on the road with us for about 6 years and was watching movies at 9 months old.  I was ecstatic when I discovered screen time, and that it gave me the luxury of having a little break.  That child is totally self motivated, pays attention in class, doesn’t disrupt, super obedient and over all a great kid.  The youngest one basically had all the same upbringing, only a few years of traveling, but still raised without the help of family and with the assistance of the screen every once in a while.  This one is all the opposites of the oldest.  In other words, my challenging child but still great. Always getting held after class for disrupting, has a hard time staying on task(at home and at school), has a small fibbing problem, still intelligent but definitely drives me and the teachers a little cray cray!

                    

                                 

Do I blame this on the screen? Absolutely not, I blame genetics.  My mother recently went through all of my old report cards and called to tell me that I had all the same comments on them as my youngest.  I can tell you that my parents didn’t necessarily have the option of letting me have a whole lot of screen time since all we had was a TV and a Nintendo, but regardless made me play in my room and outside a lot more.  I send the kids outside and to their rooms to play quite a bit, and they really do enjoy it but the screen is where they'd rather be.  

I know the studies show what they show, but ADD has been a prominent thing over the last 20 years.  I don’t think it’s the screen that’s to blame, my opinion is that everything is speeding up on this planet. Maybe it’s because I’m entering the time of being old-er where time is just passing by at the blink of an eye, but I’m pretty sure it’s not just me.  We have more and more instant options.  Some of these options are poisonous, and some are just evolution.  For example, processed food(aka GMO) that we pop into the microwave(don’t get me started on this) is pretty much poison, as well as fast food(or the Devil as I refer to it) but so convenient.  Traveling by plane, speed train and possibly soon by teleportation, I believe is intelligence and evolving.  Everyone wants everything instantly these days, which translates to no patients and lack of attention span.  Thus, everyone on the planet will probably eventually start to suffer from ADD.  It would be nice to have something to blame for our imperfections, but it's about time we take responsibility for ourselves.

At the end of the day have a drink & lighten up, it's not the end of the world.....yet.

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