Vegan Avocado Pasta Salad

Ingredients
1 pound whole wheat fusilli
a pinch of coconut oil
3 tablespoons lemon juice
2 garlic cloves minced
1-2 teaspoons salt
2 cups cherry tomatoes halved
1 cup basil cut small
2 ripe avocados cu into small cubes
Black pepper

Steps
Bring a pot of water to a boil. Cook pasta according to package. Drain, rinse and return to the pot. Toss the noodles with just a small amount of oil to keep them from sticking.

Add all the other ingredients. Season with black pepper. Toss noodles, Drizzle with a little bit more oil as needed then season with salt and pepper.
Enjoy! You can serve this dish hot or cold. Wonderful for the summer.

BASIC COOKING FOR CACTUS PADDLES

 Today I will be talking about basic cooking for cactus peddles. I find that they taste like green peppers pretty much. One thing I will say is be careful when cleaning the peddles I don't want you to prick yourself.

Ingredients
3 cactus peddles (mine came in a pack of 3)
water
a small spoon of oil if you wish

 So the first step is to clean the peddles.
Take your paddle and place it flat on your cutting board. Then take your knife and cut away from you you want to take off the darker bumps where the thorns grow as well as the thorns, trying not to peel off all the outer dark green skin. Once you do that you will take a peeler peel around the hole outside of the peddle. You can see all of this in this top photo.

 Cut the peddles up how ever you would like

 Time To boil the peddles for 10 min till they become olive green like the next photo

 Then Its time to fry with a little bit of oil or just some water till all the slime comes out of them, and they start to brown.

And here is how I had them. With my beef less tips, mashed potatoes, broccolini. You can also eat them in a tortilla! Just have fun with it. Have you ever had cactus paddles? And if so what did you do with them?