Soaken it up!

What a Sunday! We're totally soaken up this weather. 80 degrees today, nice! Plus the husband is soaken up his victory! We won his race today. First race of the season, small and local but he felt good and hopefully this is a good start to the season! Another thing that were soaken up were my seeds. I soaked pumpkin seeds/sunflower seeds and sesame seeds in order to make some yummy crackers. They were super easy and tasty! I borrowed this recipe from Girl GOne Primal and tweaked it to make my own. Again, this saves me money from buying the fancy GF crackers (which I still LOVE but my wallet doesn't). Anyway, here goes.....


Pumpkin Seed/Sesame Crackers

• 1 cup sesame seeds
• 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds
• 1/2 cup sunflower seeds
• I soaked these at room temp for 4 hours beforehand.
• 1 tbsp flaxseed
• 1 tbsp nutritional yeast (gluten free)
• herbs
• sea salt
• black pepper
• A little bit of water – about 1/4 cup

Instructions:
In a food processor, create a sort of flour from the sunflower and pumpkin seeds. It will take about 2-3 minutes for the seeds to break down and turn into a more flour-like consistency, although it might be a little thicker than regular flour.

Add the sesame seeds and pulse a few times and then slowly add flaxseed meal, nutritional yeast and then water, pulsing until a thick paste forms that can be rolled out.
Between two greased pieces of baking (parchment) paper, roll out the paste as thinly as you can. Remove the upper piece of parchment.
Lightly score the batter into squares with a knife, and sprinkle with salt and pepper/herbs.

Bake at 350 degrees until browned and crisp, about 20-25 minutes depending on thickness of batter.  Cool thoroughly then gently break into squares. This is a great dip with cottage cheese or any other hard cheese.

 
Since I had a little bit of sesame seed leftover, I decided to make Sesame Salmon with Broccoli slaw for Sunday dinner. The hubs needed some Omega's for recovery tonight!
 

 
Here's to a great week. Cheers!
LC