Ugly but Delicious Food!

I've been trying to eat more pumpkin seeds to get more zinc in my diet. I keep forgetting to toss them in with my salads so yesterday I experimented with adding some to my smoothie. It worked out well, they blended in nicely with all the other ingredients. Between the hemp seeds and pumpkin seeds who needs protein powder!!

This is such an ugly picture of what was a really, really delicious meal! I had some pesto that needed to be used so I made a cashew pesto cream and tossed it with cauliflower gnocchi from Trader Joe's. I had it with a butter leaf salad. This meal was so satisfying. Gluten free pasta has a certain firmness, especially bean pasta so it was so nice to have something soft and pillow-y. I've heard people say the cauliflower gnocchi is too dense, but to me potato gnocchi are dense, at least store bought. I really, really enjoy these!!
I just read the best article ever yesterday. Cover Girl cosmetics is now cruelty free! I'm sure a lot of their make-up might not be vegan, I don't know but they've stopped animal testing which is a huge, amazing start! You just know that other companies will follow, that's just how things go. I remember when one of the big fashion houses announced they were going fur free tons of other fashion designers followed. So this is amazing and in a world that seems to get crueler by the minute this is encouraging. Here is the article if you'd like to read all about it!

Etta rather ungracefully forced a cuddle with Kiki. She pretty much just plopped down on her. Kiki didn't mind though and they napped like this for hours!!