This is probably my favorite home made meal i make! Its so delicious and also reheats so well!
Heres what your going to need!
tortillas of your choice
enchilada sauce
pinto and/ or black beans
onions
bell peppers
mushrooms
zucchini
seasonings
lime/ lemon juice
cilantro
cashew cream (recipe below:)
avocado crema to top (optional but delicious)
any other veggies you want to add in!
In a bowl i mix together pinto beans, black beans, onions diced, bell peppers maybe mushrooms just any veggies I have to female the filling of the enchiladas.
Season mix with taco seasoning, garlic, lemon juice, and chopped cilantro if i have any.
I then cook the veggies in a pan with a bit of oil.
While the enchilada mix is cooking i prep my cashew cream and avocado crema! the best part!!
After veggies are all cooked i fill tortillas w the seasoned mix in a cake pan like normal enchiladas.
Then layer with enchilada sauce, i really lather it.
Layer of cashew cream sauce then more enchilada sauce and then more cream sauce just kinda use up the cream sauce
Sprinkle the top with nutritional yeast.
Bake at 400F for about 35 mins or until the sauce kinda soaks in.
Serve with retried beans and avocado crema and fresh cilantro! Enjoy!🤩🤩I hope you guys try this out and enjoy! Be sure to follow the blog on insta!! @brokeblondes
Guys my best friend shared this recipe with me, and it is so delicious! She isn’t vegan or plant based but she happens to be a nanny for a family that eats a vegan diet, which is where she found out about this recipe and tried them for the first time! And get this, there are only 3 ingredients!
So here’s what your going to need:
12 oz. silkened or soft firm tofu (i know this sounds weird but you would never in a million years guess there is tofu in these!)
1 1/4 cup chocolate chips
1 cup milk alternative (i use almond:)
Instructions:
Melt chocolate chips
Warm your milk alternative (i used a microwave)
Combine all ingredients in blender and pulse until smooth
Pour into popsicle molds
Freeze until solid
ENJOY!
Seriously try this out! so easy! and so delicious!!
After a long week of being in the sun and salt water, or even just working or studying, it is always nice to have a refreshing spa night! We make it a weekly ritual to make a special dinner, do face masks, hair masks, and watch a chick flickkk! It’s like hitting the restart button, setting you up for the week feeling rejuvenated!
First things first, SNACKS! We like to cover all the bases (sweet and salty.)
Vegan ice-cream sandwiches w/ popcorn and chips & guacamoleee
Next we bring in the face-masks! These are our go-to’s!
We loveeee this mask because it’s super affordable and makes your skin feel so clean! It works really well with acne prone skin.
Don’t forget to apply a hair mask! Being in the sun and salt water almost daily takes a severe toll on our hair, so this is a MUST!
We really love this hair mask we found at Target! It’s super affordable and you can get a few uses out of it! It strengthens, restores, and smoothes damaged hair.
Once you’ve got your masks on, go ahead and pick out your favorite chick flick! (could be a horror movie but we get too freaked out after those in our home aloneee..)
I’m always trying to find ways to pack leafy greens into my diet because if I’m being honest I am not the biggest fan of kale and spinach, like do people actually enjoy those greens? crazy. But I have finally come up with the best green smoothie recipe everrr! I swear you can add an entire bag of spinach to this smoothie and you won’t even taste it! Total bonus: kids love this smoothie too! You can’t even taste the greens and it’s soooo yummy.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup frozen pineapple
1/2 cup frozen mango
1/3 frozen banana
1-4 cups leafy greens (totally up to you how much but i love to pack in as much as i can!)
Liquid to blend (coconut water, almond milk, etc.)
optional:
lilikoi
fresh coconut
Blend!!!! and enjoy 🙂
Be sure to try this recipe out when you want a healthy boost, or just feel like a fruity smoothie!
We recently had the chance to try out this amazing eco-friendly and sustainable swimwear company!
We were sent two suits to try out and create content with. The suits came in their own adorable linen drawstring bag
The company was started in Southern California while the suits are made in Bali. The fabric for the bikinis are ethically made out of fishing nets, ocean waste, and regenerated nylon. Our love for bikinis is almost as strong as our love for the ocean and the beach, so we love to support brands that are eco-friendly and help keep our oceans clean!
The quality of their suits does not disappoint, all while keeping their price reasonably affordable as well as maintaining a unique style and an ethical approach!
We were sent a two piece bikini from “The Minimal Range,” which is a collection that they have. They also sent us a super cute retro reversible one piece from “The Floral Reef” collection.
This one is for my natural blondes out there. Although I am grateful to have naturally light hair, some of us have unfortunately been cursed with practically translucent eyebrows. Like seriously invisible, and it seems the tanner my skin gets the lighter my brows get, and I gotta tell ya, this makes for quite the look.
I used to hate the way I looked without makeup because of how light my brows were. Before I found this easy and affordable 5 minute hack, I would fill in my brows almost every day even when I wanted to go makeup free. When I would look in the mirror, my eyebrows were pretty much invisible and I was not a fan. I have had my eyebrows dyed in the past but honestly the $25-$30 dollars I would spend every few weeks just wasn’t worth it!
I’ve been using mens beard dye for about 3 years now and it works wonders! When I told everyone at my mom’s salon what I had done they didn’t believe me! I feel like it is my duty to share this simple, easy, affordable, and almost no brainer beauty hack with ya’ll! Just for the sake of this post I let the dye fade out for almost 2 months, so you’re welcome!
BEFORE
AFTER
What you’re going to need!
“Just for Men” beard dye, mixing plate (I use a jar lid), and an angled eyebrow brush.
I use the medium brown shade but there are lots of other options!
This process is super simple. All you need to do is put one part color base and one part developer, a little goes a long way! Mix the two together as shown above.
Then use your angled brush to trace the natural shape of your brows.
Now let the product sit for 5 minutes. I have to warn you, you might look crazy for a minute, the dye turns almost black in just a few minutes. Don’t freak out, it’s just the color developing.
After your 5 minutes is up go ahead and wash off the dye, and reveal your visible brows!
This $7 beard dye lasts me almost 9 months, seriously the best decision ever!
And there you have it, at home, fast, and affordable brow dye! Hope this post helps somebody out! Just tryin to help y’all save that coinnnn!!!
Have you ever made a meal and just had the feeling that it was missing something? It can be especially hard when using only plant-based ingredients to really find the perfect sauce or “condiment” to add that special something to your food. Through trial and error we have found our favorite go-to sauces that compliment almost every flavor palette.
Marayah hears me constantly complaining about how the thing I miss the most in the Vegan diet is Sour Cream. Now with this cashew cream I don’t catch myself wishing for it’s unhealthy counterpart, Sour Cream. Marayah also has never been a fan of Sour Cream or cheese in general, but she lovesss the cashew cream! Below is the recipe for the Cashew Cream.
Cashew Cream
makes around 2 cups
Ingredients:
1 cup raw Cashews
1 cup hot water
1/2 lemon (juice)
1/4 tsp. ground black pepper
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. Apple Cider Vinegar(ACV) *optional- gives more of a Sour Cream flavor
1 TBSP. Nutritional Yeast *optional- adds a Cheddar cheese flavor
Instructions:
Place the Cashews and a 1/2 cup of the hot water in your blender (if you have more time, leave the cashews to soak for around 10 minutes)
Add the juice of 1/2 of a lemon as well as the salt, black pepper, and any of the optional ingredients.
Begin blending, as it comes together add more of the water until it creates a consistency that you like.
Blend until smooth!
Taste! – add more salt or lemon depending on your preference!
Our favorite part, EAT
This Cashew Cream is the perfect sauce to top off your tacos, burritos, enchiladas, chili, avocado toast, baked potatoes, and so much more!
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Avocado Crema (Whole Foods)
For a while last semester, after class Marayah and I would go share a Whole Foods burrito LOADED with our favorite, Avocado Crema. After running real low on money from spending at least $8.00 on a burrito every single day haha.. we decided to try and recreate the crema ourselves! I haven’t bought a burrito since, and instead of buying burritos I’ve bought more bikinis 😉 So here is the recipe so you too can save money for some much needed retail therapy…
makes around 1 cup
Ingredients:
2 ripe Avocados
1 lime or lemon
2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. ground black pepper
1/4 cup water
1 TBSP. Olive Oil
Instructions:
Place the Avocados into the blender (without skin and seed)
Add the juice of lime or lemon into blender
Add salt, pepper, and Olive Oil
Blend
Add water little by little to achieve the consistency you prefer.
Taste! – add lime/lemon juice and salt to your preference
Enjoy!
We consider this crema a staple, we eat it on pasta, in burritos and tacos, with chips, and even sometimes with veggies as a dip. It is literally the. BEST..
Garlic Lemon Hummus
When Marayah told me she had never had/made homemade hummus I was baffled. It is one of the easiest/ most affordable things to make and is in my opinion, much better than store bought hummus. Down below is the recipe!
Ingredients:
2 cans of chickpeas/garbanzo beans (rinsed and drained)
Juice of 1 lemon
1-2 cloves of garlic
1 TBSP nutritional yeast (optional)
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. paprika
2 TBSP olive oil
Instructions:
Blend all above ingredients in a blender or food processor until smooth.
Top with a sprinkle of paprika and enjoy!!
We hope you guys enjoy these sauces/dips as much as we do!! They’ve become a staple in almost all of our meals!
Hey guys, today we wanted to introduce ourselves a bit more.
I’m Marayah (mu-ray-uh)(my friends call me graeyah), one half of The Broke Blondes. I was born in Southern Oregon and grew up spending lots of time on the island of Maui, enjoying the outdoors, surfing, and living in the salt water. I always said that I would move to Hawaii someday, so that’s exactly what I did. I grew up in a full house with my parents, three brothers, and two dogs. I was truly living an American dream lol. Most of my childhood was very active, fun, and family oriented. When I was in the fifth grade my parents got a divorce which really wrecked my world (I will talk more about their separation in a future post). After their divorce I began seriously struggling with weight and body image, I also plan to go more into detail in the future about the weight gain, and loss. It wasn’t until I was a junior in high school that I was able to take control of my health. I began living on my own when I was 16, started my homeschooling, and working as a full-time nanny. These major changes have pushed me to be extremely independent, and self-motivated. I moved to Maui the summer after my high school graduation and I have to say that had to be the best decision I have ever made. I am obsessed with the lifestyle I have created for myself here and have finally learned to live completely in the moment. I am super stoked to be launching this blog with one of my closest friends! I absolutely love writing so I’m looking forward to using this outlet to share my passions with anyone that is interested. Follow me on insta! @graeyah
I’m Anja (on-yuh), the other half of The Broke Blondes. I was born in Florida and moved to Colorado at a young age. From there my family and I moved around many times on the search for “home.”I was homeschooled throughout middle school and high school. In 2014 my family of five moved to Maui, Hawai’i. The move affected my life in many ways, uprooting my two siblings and me from our current home in Durango, CO and shifting our life to a whole new culture and climate. However tough the transition to Maui might have been, the results have been beyond worth it. Surfing became a huge part of my life, I began surfing competitively from 2015-2018, but now I like to call myself as a free surfer. I love anything that involves using my hands, jewelry, art, pottery, cooking, sewing, and writing! I can’t wait to explore this new platform with my best friend. Check out my instagram!! @anja.liotta
Be on the lookout for our next post coming in the next few days involving our favorite thing, FOOD!!
We are The Broke Blondes, not by choice, but currently that is our situation
Our names are Marayah & Anja, we’re currently living in paradise, on the island of Maui, Hawai’i. We met in our first year of college and instantly connected through our passions including fashion, food (AKA eating wayyy too much), beauty, and traveling.
On this blog we hope to share many stories from our lives (good & bad), plant-based recipes, fashion & beauty reviews, as well as our travels. We plan to be as transparent as possible because everyone knows instagram is simply a highlight reel of the best possible moments in life.
Hopefully we will succeed in being as real as possible while keeping you all entertained. Hope to see you all on the next post!!
I hope you guys try this out and enjoy! Be sure to follow the blog on insta!! @brokeblondes 
I hope you guys try this out and enjoy! Be sure to follow the blog on insta!! @brokeblondes 
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