A Weekend With My Mom

My mom came to visit this weekend! Evan was out of town visiting his family, so my mom and I took the opportunity to have a girl’s weekend. She got here Friday night and we got right to work, putting some raw onion bread in the dehydrator.

After cleaning up the kitchen, we headed off to bed, woke up, and created two batches of cheesy nacho kale chips and some cashew pizza cheese.

For breakfast we had some of this amazing raw granola in rice milk, that is mainly comprised of sprouted buckwheat groats and cacao.

Chewy, crunchy, filling, and delicious.

I really want to create my own version of these in our dehydrator because they’re expensive to buy at Whole Foods. However, I think it’s okay to initially splurge a little in order to be inspired for all of the possibilities in the future. Similarly, we picked up the same brand’s pizza flax snacks and I was further inspired to create something like these wonderful little crackers. They tasted just like pizza and I highly recommend a small handful of them for an afternoon snack.

Really, almost too good to be true. I’m finding myself thinking this way about most raw food lately!

And green smoothies…

After breakfast, we headed to the Winter Park Farmer’s Market to browse. Nothing really popped out at me as necessary, so we continued on to Cafe 118 to get some raw drink treats.

I got the Tropical Mint Shake that had young thai coconut, agave, pineapple and mint in it. I’m craving it now! So incredible.

My mom had the Rain Forest Rapture with blueberries, acai, pomegranate, ginger and apple in it.

She loved her drink as well and we stopped by there on Sunday to get our drinks again, but sadly, they are closed on Sundays.

We walked around Park Avenue for awhile, spent some time in William Sonoma (I got a lemon squeezer) and one of my favorite stores, Synergy. I needed a new hat and thought this one was completely appropriate.

“have a green day”

Eventually we ventured to Infusion Tea in College Park for lunch. My mom and I split the Pesto Panini on whole wheat bread and the Concorde wrap. Perfect food.

The afternoon was quite rainy, so we hopped into Whole Foods quickly, then went home to rest up a bit. After a few hours, I made us a dinner of raw onion bread sandwiches, grilled yucca from the WF hot bar, and cheesy nacho kale chips.

Mmm, mmm, mmm!!

Later, we headed out to Anthropologie to drool over expensive home and body decorations until the mall closed, and then spent the rest of the night in Barnes and Noble browsing vegan/raw cookbooks and Michael Pollan books. I walked away with , The China Study a book I’ve been meaning to read in its entirety since April.

Sunday morning we woke up and quickly headed out to brunch at Ethos Vegan Kitchen. My mom said a woman snarled at me while I was taking pictures of our food. Hmph!

Mimosas were in order

Vegan biscuits and gravy…A family favorite of ours and this is the only place I can get them!

Chocolate chip pancakes topped with walnuts and maple syrup, and home fries on the side! Mmmm…indulgence at its BEST!

Then we headed to Lake Eola to walk around and explore the Sunday Farmer’s Market.

As an Orlando resident for 6 months now, I can’t believe I’ve never been to Lake Eola! I loved, loved, loved it! It sure was coooold on our walk though.

The farmers’ market wasn’t all that great, but it could have been the cold, drizzly weather . I’d be willing to give it another shot.

We had such a FUN weekend and I hope she comes back soon for more adventures in Orlando!

What kinds of things do you do with your parents when they come to visit you?

Have a great night!

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