1. The Plant Cafe California Veggie Burger
I am constantly in search of the best veggie burger, and I found it here! So much deliciousness, with patty made from organic lentils, beets, mushrooms, cashews and bulgur, topped with avocado, grilled onion, tomato and white cheddar cheese!
I got it twice, and both times were amazing!! I am definitely going to try to recreate this one!
2. Good Earth Pizza
The slices of pizza from Good Earth Natural Foods Store (picture the next step up from Whole Foods in terms of environmental impact), were always soo delicious! It was always tempting to pick up a slice when we stopped by!
This was called "Medicinal Mushroom", and was vegan, gluten-free, and Ashley's absolute favorite, so I had to try it! It was good!
This one was my absolute favorite, and I loved the amount of veggies!
3. The Plant Cafe Dino Kale Salad
Other than homemade kale chips, I had never been a huge fan of kale, despite it's superfood qualities. However, this salad changed my mind! The flavors were amazing together, with the red quinoa, toasted almonds, avocado, arugula, cherry tomatoes, carrots, cucumber, and tossed in a lemon-cumin vinaigrette! I hope to attempt to recreate my own version of this salad!
I had this yummy sandwich two ways, both with bread, and one time with tostones, or fried plantains, instead of bread. It was topped with avocado (notice a trend? haha), roasted red pepper, white cheddar cheese, tomato, and a chipotle lime mayo. Here it is pictured with the tostones.
5. Straus Creamery Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
As I am on the search for the perfect veggie burger, I have been on a quest to find the best vanilla ice cream ever as well! This organic, local dairy is incredible, and I ate lots of their yummy products throughout the summer! I also enjoyed topping it with fruit from the farmer's market,
I even tried topping it with olive oil and himalayan salt (I'm not trying to sound fancy, this is just a pink salt that the person we lived with had in her house), and that was a really cool flavor combination!
6. Farmer's Market produce
While this is general, I loved our weekly visit to the farmer's market in Mill Valley. This picture is from the first week, when I bought the most!
7. Homemade Stovetop Popcorn with Coconut Oil
Prior to this summer, I hadn't made stovetop popcorn, but it was really fun! We used mixed colored corn kernals from the bulk section of Good Earth, and used some of Dr. Bronner's Coconut Oil to cook them in, which gave it a mild coconut flavor!
8. The Plant Cafe Lemon-Blackberry Cupcake
This cupcake was a wonderful surprise! When I saw that the flavor was lemon-blueberry, I didn't know it would be filled! The buttercream frosting itself was incredible!
9. Hemp Pancakes and smoothies!
Following my discovery of hemp, I bought some vanilla hemp milk to make hemp milk pancakes! They were very yummy! Also, I loved making smoothies every morning, and it's something I hope to continue in the future!
10. Good Earth Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies
11. Whole Foods Vegan Donut
This was a fun discovery on my second to last day in San Fran! I had been craving donuts earlier (well, really craving all sweets haha), and this donut really delivered! I'm always impressed when vegan treats taste no different than their conventional counterparts.
12. Bi-Rite Ice Cream
When my family visited me and while my sister attended a fashion camp in San Francisco, we indulged in this wonderful ice cream and I had a hot fudge sundae with a scoop of lavender-vanilla and a scoop of brown sugar ice cream with a ginger caramel swirl, in honor of my boyfriend's love of brown sugar!
12. Salads!
While my salads never looked this beautiful (I took a picture of Ashley's), I actually really enjoyed making salads, especially with farmer's market heirloom tomatoes, avocado, carrot, shredded white cheddar cheese, and olive oil!
Yum! That was a fun post to write! I think I might love taking pictures of food a little bit too much :)
As always, thanks for reading! Enjoy your day!
Well that just made me hungry...
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