Taco pizza, pudding, and Octodon!

Yesterday was such a delicious day.

For starters, we made a delicious "taco" pizza.

                                                           So close, you could almost smell it...
It was pretty easy to assemble. We used pre-made crusts, but you could easily make your own! 

Ingredients
2 pre-made pizza crusts
2. C salsa
1 large red bell pepper, chopped
1 large yellow bell pepper, chopped
1 12 oz can of corn (or you could use fresh!)
1/2 can of black beans 
1 onion, chopped
2-3 cloves garlic, minced
2 avocado, cubed
vegan-rella 

Do I need to tell you how to assemble this? Really? Well, fine.

Preheat oven to 425! 
Caramelize onion and garlic in pan. Put salsa on crusts. Put everything except for avocado on crusts. Place crust directly on the rack, and bake for about 12 minutes (or crust maker's instructions). Remove from oven, top with avocado! EAT! You're so thin!

If you feel the beans don't add enough protein for you, you could always add some veggie ground round, or some actual ground beef (shame on you!). But I think there was definitely enough on the pizzas as it was. We all needed forks to gather lost pizza toppings off our plates!

While we were eating lunch, some hooligan came and vandalized our car!

Octodon!

                                                                      

Okay, not really. 

See, we've had this old Corolla sitting around in our parking spot for ages. No one would take it (not even the Kidney foundation!). John didn't want to get it towed since it had our brand new winter tires on it. So finally we got some old tires to put on it, then switched them... and then called our friend Adrian to come paint it! 

It was really sweet. He let me try out some paint on the back of it, but mostly I was content to just sit back and watch the master work! 

The beginning!

It's beginning to take shape.

Octodon! 

Close up of Octodon!

Rowan and I watching. 

 

 

 

  After a hard day watching Adrian paint in the sun, we came back in for some dessert!

I did take some pictures, but they aren't that nice looking... Hm. Anyway! This is a recipe I've made several times, changing it up a bit each time. This time, I realized I didn't have coconut oil after I had started. I think it turned out okay without it!

2 avocado, small (or 1 large!)
1 large banana
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/4 cup agave nectar
1/2 tsp vanilla

Blend it all together in a food processor!

Didn't you already have pudding today? 

Looks pretty tasty, hm? But kind of sad and lonely there in the dish all by itself...

I mixed it with my friend Allysia's 2 Minute Vegan Icecream recipe, which you can find here!
http://super-vegan.blogspot.com/2010/04/speedy-vanilla-pecan-chip-ice-cream.html
although I left out the cacao nibs, pecans, and jam!

Rowan really loves this treat, and I'm glad!

A fine chocolate mustachio!