This is one of those recipes that I repeat A LOT!! In it’s most basic form, I posted it here, but I mix it up all the time with what I add to it. The sauce is just so good!! And SO EASY!
Sadly, Maya can’t have peanuts or gluten anymore, so I made a few tweaks and made it work! I sold it as a healthy Pad Thai, and even our 18 year old son had seconds! Basically a gold medal on healthy cooking there!
Ingredients
For Sauce
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- 1/2 cup Almond Butter (use Sun Butter for Nut free or any nut butter if you don’t have any dietary restrictions!)
- 3 tablespoons Rice Vinegar
- 3 tablespoons Coconut Aminos (used in place of Soy Sauce)
- 1 tablespoon Pure Maple Syrup (used in place of Brown Sugar)
- 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger (I cheat and use this)
- 1 Cup Water
For the rest of the dish…
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- 1 medium onion diced
- 2 Tablespoons of Olive Oil
- 1 Tablespoon crushed garlic
- 1 Teaspoon Ginger
- 1 of each of a yellow, orange, and purple carrot (or really any veggie)
- 8-10 Mushrooms diced
- 2 blocks of Rice Noodles (or can use any noodle, quinoa, or skip it!)
- 1 Rotisserie Chicken Shredded (or you can cook chicken separately and shred)
Directions
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Pull chicken off your rotisserie chicken and shred. We always buy two chickens every week. Eat one, then pull all the meat off both to use for another meal!
- Add a couple Tablespoons of olive oil, ginger, and garlic to a large pan
- Add diced onions, mushrooms, carrots, and sauté til soft (5-8 minutes)
- Add back in shredded chicken
Make Sauce…
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In a blender, combine 1 cup water with the whatever nut butter you choose, rice vinegar, coconut aminios, maple sugar, and ginger. Blend until smooth.
Cook noodles….
- These particular noodles cook in less than 5 minutes!
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Add the sauce and noodles to the pan, stir, and let sit for 2 minutes to soak in all the flavor of the sauce.
- You could leave out the chicken for an amazing vegetarian Pad Thai!
Another healthy variation of this recipe here
Enjoy!
Of course this stuffy is in most of our shots, and you know what? Don’t care!
CRAB!
So, I had this idea in my head for a shot, but…it ended up being harder than I thought to capture haha.
Here’s me attempting to show Maya what I wanted her to do…
In the end…here’s a composite shot of three different shots. The best part about this, was the fact that Maya totally got into it. She even told me exactly where she wanted everything to be in this final edited shot 🙂 .
Loooooove all these next ones!!!!
Me telling her to NOT get any closer. Of course she wanted to go pet it!
Nailed it!! ha 🙂
I hadn’t taken pictures for the first 4 days of our vacation. I was so OVER my camera with my workload leading up to our vacation that I needed a break. But…I knew I’d regret not taking pictures, so I busted out the tripod outside of our room.
Not going to be able to do this much longer!!
Meanwhile…people coming down our walkway always….
But…the timer keeps going, so….carry on!!
Maya-
Mom…spread your arms out wide like you’re flying…
I KNEW what she meant, but…I mean. I had to.
Me once again not realizing where I need to be and dancing out of the frame…
This face…
As the sun went down, I switched angles…
Maya is actually wearing boys jeans. I am not afraid to buy from the boys section when thrifting! Roll them up, and they are super cute and comfy boyfriend jeans!
LOOOOOVE this next one!
A glimpse into the future tween and teen years…
BUT THEN…
My same goofy girl that just wants to run in for a hug!
and I want to eat her up.
So….I took a picture of Maya and then my camera went wonky. It would take a picture, but wouldn’t show me what it took.
And failing 🙂
She loooooves to play with my phone.
It’s actually fun for me to go back and look at all the pictures and videos she’s taken on my phone! I complain about it and tell her NOT to…but…I secretly like it later.
The trigger on the top of my camera fell off, so she was like “Uh oh…no more pictures!”
It was SO windy when we got to the beach, and I was worried we wouldn’t be able to get any shots! I actually LOVE how the wind made our hair crazy! Definitely good for a laugh!
I jumped in for a few 🙂
Looooove.
One of my favs!
Almost blew her over!
Because it was so windy, I couldn’t hear when the shutter would go off. SO…there’s a lot of me checking the remote.
Looooove!
And…I took another 
and then….so subdued…
But that LIGHT!???
I can’t even… 
Yeah, this is what I envisioned most of the images looking like haha.
Can you see what I wanted to do here?
These were one of the first flares that I chopped. They are my FAV!! And…the ones that started the chopping addiction ha!
Baby Birks!! DYING!
These next images are some of my absolute favs of us!
And….Maya totally schooling me on the art of posing!
Always a neighbor or FIVE that walks by…and usually when I’m taking pics ALONE!
