Today's Indulgences:
Breakfast:
One yummy ripe and luscious mango (first one of the season!)
Lunch:
Pie!!!! Strawberry Cream and Chocolate Buttercup Mousse; 2 pieces of each
Dinner:
delicious pate of soaked sunflower seeds, soaked sundried tomatoes, mushrooms, dulse flakes, a little water, olive oil, sea salt and nutritional yeast
lovely vibrant mixed salad made by my dear friend Karyn for Mother's Day; drizzled with raw tahini
sliced carrots
sliced small avocado
Dessert:
1 sliver of chocolate buttercup mousse pie
Yes, we rocked between 1:00 and 2:00 PM today eating pie! We, meaning me, Lori and Wendy, another raw foodie. Karyn stopped by to have a slice of each before heading to the airport for Germany. Really, I think she should have taken a couple of slices to eat on the plane.
We ate the food of goddesses. What did I love best? The contrast between the two pie flavors; tart, sweet and creamy strawberry and smooth and silky chocolate. And, thanks to Jonji and Alex's recipe (the trick being to blend each crust ingredient separately, really creating a coconut flour and an almond flour), all three of us decided it was the absolute best raw crust ever. We were 3 blissed-out pie eaters! These pies were bursting with life force. By the way, there was no dehydration; these were purely raw pies.
So, feel free to try creating these pies yourself, and invite your friends over for a lunchtime pie party. It just might change your life....You can read Lori's comments on the pies and the party by clicking on the word 'comments' on yesterday's blog.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Making Raw Pies
Chocolate Almond Buttercup Mousse Pie (recipe created by Lori Trezza and Me)
Strawberry Cream Pie (recipe from Alex and Jonji's video - posted on my blog; pie made by Lori Trezza and Me). More about this later in T.H.E. blog!...
Friday's Food:
Breakfast:
Mango Smoothie with frozen mango and banana, water, cacao nibs, agave, Marine Phytoplankton
Snack:
Bag of Living Nutz Almond Bliss
Lunch: (non-raw at conference up at Yale)
2 half wraps: hummus, veges and a small amount of cheese; grilled veges and a small amount of cheese
Dinner:
Salad with romaine, daikon, pea shoot sprouts, carrot, 1/2 avocado with dulse, nutritional yeast, olive oil and sea salt
Foods Alive Italian crackers
Nighttime Gathering Raw Elixirs: with Thai coconut, water, frozen banana, cacao powder and nibs, vanilla bean, raw crunchy almond butter, psyllium seed powder and agave
Saturday's Food:
Breakfast:
Small amount of leftover salad
10 ounce glass of leftover cacao elixir
Lunch:
Bag of Living Nutz Cheesy Almonds
Afternoon Delight:
Making Raw Pies with Lori. I blogged about Lori a couple of weeks ago. She is my dear friend, who has been reading my blog, and on her own is getting super turned on to the world of raw. She made raw brownies a couple of weeks ago; I described how delicious they were. Saturday, we went to a lecture on calcium, and then came back and co-created raw pies together. The first is the Strawberry Cream Pie that inspired me the minute I watched Alex and Jonji's video and posted it here on T.H.E. Blog! I have to tell you, I have made many raw pies, cheffed and taught classes, and this was by far the best raw pie crust I have EVER eaten! It tastes like raw cookie dough! For the recipe, you'll have to scroll back through my older posts and watch the video. So, Lori and I licked the batter on that one, and since we had an extra crust made, we made up a raw chocolate mousse pie.
Crust: From Alex and Jonji's video
Filling (ours):
Blended in Vitamix: 1 Thai coconut, water and meat; 3 small avocados, cacao powder and nibs to taste (for more chocolatey and chip-like, add more) agave to taste, vanilla bean, a scooper-ful of psyllium seed powder
Fill the crust with the mouse, then line the rim of the crust with raw crunchy almond butter
Garnish with fresh mint leaves
We licked the batter on that one, too!
Dinner:
salad with romaine, daikon, carrot, pea shoot sprouts, 1/2 avocado with dulse, nutritional yeast, olive oil and sea salt
Dessert:
3 rolled dates in coconut
Today's Food:
32 ounces lemon water
Mother's Day Brunch at The Lotos Club, NYC (non-raw): Beautiful buffet of exquisitely prepared foods:
Hearts of palm and artichoke salad
Green and White asparagus with a creamy pimento dressing
Farro (a nutty grain) with pear and herbs
Many small chunks of delicious cheeses: Roquefort, Camembert and Reggiano with sliced fig and date
Whole Grain rolls with olive oil
Frisee salad with creamy balsamic dressing
And a little smoked trout
Desserts:
White chocolate cup filled with creamy dark chocolate
dusted dark and white cocoa almonds
small dark chocolate cup filled with whipped cream
mixed berries with Zabalione sauce
12 ounces water
Dinner:
salad with romaine, carrot, daikon, pea shot sprouts, 1/2 avocado with dulse, nutritional yeast, olive oil and sea salt
Dessert:
3 rolled dates in coconut
I want to offer gratitude to all women all over; those who have mothered children of their own; those who have mothered others' children; the ones who mother their beautiful animals; those who mother their friends; the women who model mothering for their patients who never received proper mothering; and all of the women who take time to mother themselves properly.
I also want to acknowledge those beautiful men who fill absent-mother roles with their own special mothering.
And to everyone who has come from a mother (all of us), let's acknowledge our mothers for giving life to us and allowing us all to be here now.
Finally, for all those mothers who have transitioned from life this year, we miss you and love you.
Happy Mother's Day!
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Be Who You are Meant to Be!
Today's Food:
Breakfast: more to come on my new relationship with Vibram Ten Finger shoes and new freedom in running - 5 miler
1 bag of Living Nutz Curry Almonds; Delicious! Whenever I have these, I cannot stop eating them.
Lunch:
Berry smoothie with frozen blackberries, raspberries, blueberries and cherries; w/ frozen banana, cacao powder and nibs, psyllium seed powder, water and agave
60 ounces
Snack:
container of herbed olives
Dinner:
Great salad made for me by my friend Lori:
lettuce, cuke, cherry tomatoes with dulse, olive oil, sea salt and lemon
10 ounces water
Late Dessert:
Organic Nectars chocolate hazelnut ice cream, while unpacking all my groceries and relaxing; after a wonderful Goddess drum and journey on the beach
20 ounces water
Question:
Who are you to be if not your greatest self?
When you hold back from being all you are meant to be, it serves no one and keeps you small. You have a message to bring to the world; what is it?
Please write in and share what is most important to you...
Breakfast: more to come on my new relationship with Vibram Ten Finger shoes and new freedom in running - 5 miler
1 bag of Living Nutz Curry Almonds; Delicious! Whenever I have these, I cannot stop eating them.
Lunch:
Berry smoothie with frozen blackberries, raspberries, blueberries and cherries; w/ frozen banana, cacao powder and nibs, psyllium seed powder, water and agave
60 ounces
Snack:
container of herbed olives
Dinner:
Great salad made for me by my friend Lori:
lettuce, cuke, cherry tomatoes with dulse, olive oil, sea salt and lemon
10 ounces water
Late Dessert:
Organic Nectars chocolate hazelnut ice cream, while unpacking all my groceries and relaxing; after a wonderful Goddess drum and journey on the beach
20 ounces water
Question:
Who are you to be if not your greatest self?
When you hold back from being all you are meant to be, it serves no one and keeps you small. You have a message to bring to the world; what is it?
Please write in and share what is most important to you...
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Move Your Exercise Outdoors
Today's Lovely Food:
No Breakfast - another run with my new Vibram Ten Fingers shoes
Lunch:
1 bag Living Nutz, 'I Love Vegan Cheezy Almonds!' germinated, marinated and dehydrated: almonds, pumpkin seeds, red pepper,olive oil, nama shoyu, fresh lemon juice, Celtic Sea Salt. I received a call from the wondeful Tommy K's letting me know that my reserved nuts had come in! I love Living Nutz; they have mastered the art of raw and happy.
1 wild berry smoothie with frozen cherries, blueberries, blackberries and raspberries, with frozen banana, psyllium seed powder, cacao powder and nibs and agave; so so good!
32 ounces water
Dinner:
salad with romaine, daikon, carrot, sprouts, 1/2 avocado and cuke with dulse and nutritional yeast, with olive oil and Herbamare
leftover sunflower seed sundried tomato pate with cut up carrot sticks
Dessert:
Bowl of Organic Nectars chocolate hazelnut rawcream
Move your exercise outdoors. The gym can be wonderful, but moving our bodies in a way that complements our anatomy is so important to our health.
Our evolutionary heritage is to run through the forests; to use our limbs to move long distances. I remember when I lived in NYC years ago, I met a man who had just come back from a year in Thailand. Though he was American, he had spent the last year walking 18 miles a day to get to the local store. He was in his fifties, yet he had the body of a much younger man; I remember being struck by that.
Raw food has the capacity to renew collagen growth, but food alone does not allow our bodies to regenerate. We must find time to make real movement; running on dirt, pavement or sand, swimming in the ocean, lake or sound, dancing on a large plot of land. This is as much or greater a priority than any daily priority we have. We want to age gracefully and with major range of motion and strong bones and spines.
Here's a secret: Moving your anatomy more will increase movement in other areas of your lifes; movement is a metaphor for movement!
Some of my most powerful creative ideas and solutions come during my daily runs. I don't need to obsess or fret over a problem; I merely need to take a long run and the answers come.
What has moved forward in your life as a result of physical movement? Please write in and share your story.
No Breakfast - another run with my new Vibram Ten Fingers shoes
Lunch:
1 bag Living Nutz, 'I Love Vegan Cheezy Almonds!' germinated, marinated and dehydrated: almonds, pumpkin seeds, red pepper,olive oil, nama shoyu, fresh lemon juice, Celtic Sea Salt. I received a call from the wondeful Tommy K's letting me know that my reserved nuts had come in! I love Living Nutz; they have mastered the art of raw and happy.
1 wild berry smoothie with frozen cherries, blueberries, blackberries and raspberries, with frozen banana, psyllium seed powder, cacao powder and nibs and agave; so so good!
32 ounces water
Dinner:
salad with romaine, daikon, carrot, sprouts, 1/2 avocado and cuke with dulse and nutritional yeast, with olive oil and Herbamare
leftover sunflower seed sundried tomato pate with cut up carrot sticks
Dessert:
Bowl of Organic Nectars chocolate hazelnut rawcream
Move your exercise outdoors. The gym can be wonderful, but moving our bodies in a way that complements our anatomy is so important to our health.
Our evolutionary heritage is to run through the forests; to use our limbs to move long distances. I remember when I lived in NYC years ago, I met a man who had just come back from a year in Thailand. Though he was American, he had spent the last year walking 18 miles a day to get to the local store. He was in his fifties, yet he had the body of a much younger man; I remember being struck by that.
Raw food has the capacity to renew collagen growth, but food alone does not allow our bodies to regenerate. We must find time to make real movement; running on dirt, pavement or sand, swimming in the ocean, lake or sound, dancing on a large plot of land. This is as much or greater a priority than any daily priority we have. We want to age gracefully and with major range of motion and strong bones and spines.
Here's a secret: Moving your anatomy more will increase movement in other areas of your lifes; movement is a metaphor for movement!
Some of my most powerful creative ideas and solutions come during my daily runs. I don't need to obsess or fret over a problem; I merely need to take a long run and the answers come.
What has moved forward in your life as a result of physical movement? Please write in and share your story.
It's OK to Be Abundant with Your Food
Yesterday's Abundance of Raw Deliciousness:
Breakfast: after an ecstatic 6 mile run in my new Vibram Five Finger shoes! http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/ Check these out
Amazing smoothie with frozen mango, banana and wild blueberries; with red chard, parsley and mint (and water)
Lunch at The Stand, Norwalk, CT:
Choco Cherry smoothie with cacao, date, nutmilk and banana; Yum!
Curried Collard wrap with curried almond pate, red pepper, cuke, avo and sprouts
Snack:
pack of Emmy's Mint Chip macaroons; Yeaow!!!
Late Snack:
Raw Revolution chocolate hazelnut bar
Dinner at One Luck Duck Juice Takeaway, 17th Street, NYC:
Shared meal of tortilla wraps, in mini flax taco-shaped filled with spicy sundried tomato spread and corn cilantro guacamole, with tomato lime salsa and cashew sour cream; Mmmmmmmmmm
Thai lettice wraps in collard greens filled with mango, pea shoots, carrots, savoy cabbage, cashews and spicy tamarind sauce; outrageous!
Desserts: I ate so much of these :)
Moonpie (modeled after the childhood moonpie or "Ho Ho") with coated raw dark chocolate, layered with a cream and chocolate
lemon square
raw vanilla almond butter cup ice cream
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! I had raw chocolate OD!
8 ounces water
I ate with abundance, savoring every mouthful of my raw meal while sharing a beautiful four-hour conversation with my male BFF (Best Friend Forever) Ron. The intimacy of the conversation, catching up on our lives after not seeing each other for awhile, complemented and supported our relationship with the food. Did I eat alot? Yes? Was it rich? Was it sweet? Was it filled with many ingredients, textures, colors and sensations? Yes to all of the above. In fact, it was directly connected to our conversation, which also was rich, sweet and filled with all the ingredients that make up who we each are and what we were sharing.
Allow your food to model your healthiest relationships. So much of our relationship with food is based upon our childhood models, which were often not supportive of our highest selves shining bright. Now we have the opportunity to cultivate food as a metaphor for the richness of our lives and our relationships.
Please write in and share a story about having a meal as extraordinary as the relationship that surrounded it...
Breakfast: after an ecstatic 6 mile run in my new Vibram Five Finger shoes! http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/ Check these out
Amazing smoothie with frozen mango, banana and wild blueberries; with red chard, parsley and mint (and water)
Lunch at The Stand, Norwalk, CT:
Choco Cherry smoothie with cacao, date, nutmilk and banana; Yum!
Curried Collard wrap with curried almond pate, red pepper, cuke, avo and sprouts
Snack:
pack of Emmy's Mint Chip macaroons; Yeaow!!!
Late Snack:
Raw Revolution chocolate hazelnut bar
Dinner at One Luck Duck Juice Takeaway, 17th Street, NYC:
Shared meal of tortilla wraps, in mini flax taco-shaped filled with spicy sundried tomato spread and corn cilantro guacamole, with tomato lime salsa and cashew sour cream; Mmmmmmmmmm
Thai lettice wraps in collard greens filled with mango, pea shoots, carrots, savoy cabbage, cashews and spicy tamarind sauce; outrageous!
Desserts: I ate so much of these :)
Moonpie (modeled after the childhood moonpie or "Ho Ho") with coated raw dark chocolate, layered with a cream and chocolate
lemon square
raw vanilla almond butter cup ice cream
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! I had raw chocolate OD!
8 ounces water
I ate with abundance, savoring every mouthful of my raw meal while sharing a beautiful four-hour conversation with my male BFF (Best Friend Forever) Ron. The intimacy of the conversation, catching up on our lives after not seeing each other for awhile, complemented and supported our relationship with the food. Did I eat alot? Yes? Was it rich? Was it sweet? Was it filled with many ingredients, textures, colors and sensations? Yes to all of the above. In fact, it was directly connected to our conversation, which also was rich, sweet and filled with all the ingredients that make up who we each are and what we were sharing.
Allow your food to model your healthiest relationships. So much of our relationship with food is based upon our childhood models, which were often not supportive of our highest selves shining bright. Now we have the opportunity to cultivate food as a metaphor for the richness of our lives and our relationships.
Please write in and share a story about having a meal as extraordinary as the relationship that surrounded it...
Monday, May 3, 2010
Next Steps in Getting Healthier; Gentle Changes Go a Long Way
Food for Today:
Breakfast:
Rockin' green smoothie with: water, 4 leaves of Red Chard, 2 large carrots, large handful of fresh mint and 1 apple
Snack:
3 Raw energy chunks (cacao, date, seeds, spirulina, chlorella, oat, barley and wheat grass)
Lunch:
soaked sunflower seed pate with sundried tomatoes, fresh thyme, olive oil, nutritional yeast, Herbamare seasoning, cayenne, paprika, Bragg's Amino Acids with 1 1/2 carrots cut up
Snack:
2 Emmy's Raw vanilla coconut macaroons (raw coconut, agave, coconut oil, vanilla and Himalayan sea salt)
Dinner:
salad with romaine, sprouts, daikon, mushrooms, 1/2 avocado and sunchoke! with dulse, nutritional yeast, olive oil and Herbamare
Dessert:
1 Emmy's vanilla coconut macaroon
3 rolled dates in coconut
16 ounces water
Gentle Changes Go a Long Way:
Choose one food/drink (coffee, chips) or food category (sugar, alchohol) that you know, if you let go of consuming, would be your next big step in getting healthier.
Now think how many times a day/week you consume that food.
If it's more than once a day, your Next Step is to decrease it to once a day. If it's five days a week, simply lower it to three.
Take some time and create a "Gentle Guide to My Health." Track all the foods that fall into this category; plot out how many times a day/week you eat or drink them.
Create a set of gradual goals to decrease the amount; chart out the dates as well.
For example:
Food: Chocolate chip cookies
Amount I Eat: 3 cookies 7 days a week
Week of May 10th: decrease to 2 cookies 5 days a week
Week of May 17th or May 24th: decrease to 1 cookie 3 days a week
Chart this out until you've arrived at the place you long to be.
Always be realistic, and don't take on a commitment you will not be able to fulfill; giving yourself daily success is vital to the process.
Please write in and share what foods you are starting to let go of and how it feels to be gentle with yourself...
Breakfast:
Rockin' green smoothie with: water, 4 leaves of Red Chard, 2 large carrots, large handful of fresh mint and 1 apple
Snack:
3 Raw energy chunks (cacao, date, seeds, spirulina, chlorella, oat, barley and wheat grass)
Lunch:
soaked sunflower seed pate with sundried tomatoes, fresh thyme, olive oil, nutritional yeast, Herbamare seasoning, cayenne, paprika, Bragg's Amino Acids with 1 1/2 carrots cut up
Snack:
2 Emmy's Raw vanilla coconut macaroons (raw coconut, agave, coconut oil, vanilla and Himalayan sea salt)
Dinner:
salad with romaine, sprouts, daikon, mushrooms, 1/2 avocado and sunchoke! with dulse, nutritional yeast, olive oil and Herbamare
Dessert:
1 Emmy's vanilla coconut macaroon
3 rolled dates in coconut
16 ounces water
Gentle Changes Go a Long Way:
Choose one food/drink (coffee, chips) or food category (sugar, alchohol) that you know, if you let go of consuming, would be your next big step in getting healthier.
Now think how many times a day/week you consume that food.
If it's more than once a day, your Next Step is to decrease it to once a day. If it's five days a week, simply lower it to three.
Take some time and create a "Gentle Guide to My Health." Track all the foods that fall into this category; plot out how many times a day/week you eat or drink them.
Create a set of gradual goals to decrease the amount; chart out the dates as well.
For example:
Food: Chocolate chip cookies
Amount I Eat: 3 cookies 7 days a week
Week of May 10th: decrease to 2 cookies 5 days a week
Week of May 17th or May 24th: decrease to 1 cookie 3 days a week
Chart this out until you've arrived at the place you long to be.
Always be realistic, and don't take on a commitment you will not be able to fulfill; giving yourself daily success is vital to the process.
Please write in and share what foods you are starting to let go of and how it feels to be gentle with yourself...
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Even a Weekend Makes a Difference
Friday's Food:
Breakfast:
banana with raw crunchy almond butter
20 ounces water
Snack:
6 Foods Alive Mexican flax crackers
Early Dinner:
Salad with romaine, carrot, daikon, 1/2 avocado, sprouts and dulse with nutritional yeast, olive oil and Herbamare
20 ounces of water
Dessert:
Shared pint of Organic Nectars raw chocolate hazelnut ice cream while driving up to Woodstock, NY
A taste of raw kale chips with cayenne and othe cheesy raw seasonings
Saturday's Delicious Meals: (raw and non-raw)
Breakfast: after a killer mountain hill run!
green smoothie with Swiss chard, carrots, apples, water and honey
Lunch: at the Garden Cafe in Woodstock, NY
arugula and white bean salad with a delicious creamy mustard vinagrette
small appetizer vegan cheddar and cashew tart
1 organic kumquat (hard to find)
1 raw energy chunk with date, cacao and seeds
'Big Chill Dinner': cooking with dear friends; this meal was extraordinary!
Rockin' Guacamole with avos, tomatoes, purple onion, garlic, sea salt, chili powder, cilantro and dulse with organic blue corn chips (Lizzie)
Beet, fennel, sunchoke and onion extravaganza: steamed red beets sauteed with fennel, sunchokes and purple onion, with a balsamic agave reduction and some rosemary; 1 small log of chevre goat cheese tossed in to melt (my creation)
Wild Ramps (local, seasonal greens) sauteed with olive oil, garlic and sea salt (me)
Michael's Hari Krishna Burritos!
Recipe:
2 cans organic kidney beans heated in a pot
Make a "chaunce" (Indian) of 1 1/2 tablespoons ground cumin and 1 teaspoon "Hing" or Asvete spice (Indian), along with 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
The chaunce is made by heating oil in a small skillet until hot; then you throw in the spices and it opens them wide up (taught to me by Michael Hoare)
Then you add the chaunce to the kidney beans; add 8 ounces or more (to taste) of tofu sour cream, all the while mashing the beans to a pulp (you can use a potato masher if you like)
mash it to a pastry-like form
Once done, wrap it inside sprouted flax or grain wraps and stick a toothpick to seal.
You can also add other ingredients, such as sliced avocado to the burritos
warm olive foccachia bread with olive oil
2 Corona Light beers:)
Fabulous Midnight Ramble concert at Levon Helm's home in Woodstock
Late Night Dessert:
Raw kale chips
Coconut Bliss ice cream (Naked Coconut and Chocolate Hazelnut)
Today's (Sunday) Food:
Breakfast:
Green smoothie with purple kale, red chard, strawberries, water and honey; YUM!
Snack: at the top of a mountain with amazing overlook, after a great hike
trail mix of raw nuts, seeds and raisins; an apple
Lunch: back to the Garden Cafe
Ambrosia berry smoothie with strawberries, blueberries and banana with coconut water, orange juice and maple syrup
Arugula and white bean salad repeat with amazing vinagrette
Snacks:
6 raw energy treats with dates, cacao, spirulina, chlorella, oat, barley and wheat grasses
leftover foccachia bread dipped in fantastic olive oil
a couple of forkfulls of leftover beet salad
a couple of spoonfuls of Coconut Bliss ice cream
33.8 ounces of water
I encourage you to "take a break." I can find infinate reasons to continue focusing on whatever project I need to complete; I know you can, too!!
Just getting away for two days is completely rejuvenating. Not once did I check email! though I did feel a tinge of missing writing to all of you. It was so great not to be with "technology." I had fabulous meals with fabulous friends; hiked, ran, saw an unbelievable concert and shared intimate, fun and interesting conversation with dear friends. Oh, yes, and just 'chilled.'
What I am left with tonight, after unpacking, is the desire to take such good care of myself always. Taking care of ourselves reminds us to continue taking care of ourselves more intimately. In order to remember this, we need to continue doing it. I plan to log off now and crawl into bed with a good book, starting my next week with a great night's sleep. Please write in and let me know how you have been nurturing and nourishing yourself lately...
Breakfast:
banana with raw crunchy almond butter
20 ounces water
Snack:
6 Foods Alive Mexican flax crackers
Early Dinner:
Salad with romaine, carrot, daikon, 1/2 avocado, sprouts and dulse with nutritional yeast, olive oil and Herbamare
20 ounces of water
Dessert:
Shared pint of Organic Nectars raw chocolate hazelnut ice cream while driving up to Woodstock, NY
A taste of raw kale chips with cayenne and othe cheesy raw seasonings
Saturday's Delicious Meals: (raw and non-raw)
Breakfast: after a killer mountain hill run!
green smoothie with Swiss chard, carrots, apples, water and honey
Lunch: at the Garden Cafe in Woodstock, NY
arugula and white bean salad with a delicious creamy mustard vinagrette
small appetizer vegan cheddar and cashew tart
1 organic kumquat (hard to find)
1 raw energy chunk with date, cacao and seeds
'Big Chill Dinner': cooking with dear friends; this meal was extraordinary!
Rockin' Guacamole with avos, tomatoes, purple onion, garlic, sea salt, chili powder, cilantro and dulse with organic blue corn chips (Lizzie)
Beet, fennel, sunchoke and onion extravaganza: steamed red beets sauteed with fennel, sunchokes and purple onion, with a balsamic agave reduction and some rosemary; 1 small log of chevre goat cheese tossed in to melt (my creation)
Wild Ramps (local, seasonal greens) sauteed with olive oil, garlic and sea salt (me)
Michael's Hari Krishna Burritos!
Recipe:
2 cans organic kidney beans heated in a pot
Make a "chaunce" (Indian) of 1 1/2 tablespoons ground cumin and 1 teaspoon "Hing" or Asvete spice (Indian), along with 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
The chaunce is made by heating oil in a small skillet until hot; then you throw in the spices and it opens them wide up (taught to me by Michael Hoare)
Then you add the chaunce to the kidney beans; add 8 ounces or more (to taste) of tofu sour cream, all the while mashing the beans to a pulp (you can use a potato masher if you like)
mash it to a pastry-like form
Once done, wrap it inside sprouted flax or grain wraps and stick a toothpick to seal.
You can also add other ingredients, such as sliced avocado to the burritos
warm olive foccachia bread with olive oil
2 Corona Light beers:)
Fabulous Midnight Ramble concert at Levon Helm's home in Woodstock
Late Night Dessert:
Raw kale chips
Coconut Bliss ice cream (Naked Coconut and Chocolate Hazelnut)
Today's (Sunday) Food:
Breakfast:
Green smoothie with purple kale, red chard, strawberries, water and honey; YUM!
Snack: at the top of a mountain with amazing overlook, after a great hike
trail mix of raw nuts, seeds and raisins; an apple
Lunch: back to the Garden Cafe
Ambrosia berry smoothie with strawberries, blueberries and banana with coconut water, orange juice and maple syrup
Arugula and white bean salad repeat with amazing vinagrette
Snacks:
6 raw energy treats with dates, cacao, spirulina, chlorella, oat, barley and wheat grasses
leftover foccachia bread dipped in fantastic olive oil
a couple of forkfulls of leftover beet salad
a couple of spoonfuls of Coconut Bliss ice cream
33.8 ounces of water
I encourage you to "take a break." I can find infinate reasons to continue focusing on whatever project I need to complete; I know you can, too!!
Just getting away for two days is completely rejuvenating. Not once did I check email! though I did feel a tinge of missing writing to all of you. It was so great not to be with "technology." I had fabulous meals with fabulous friends; hiked, ran, saw an unbelievable concert and shared intimate, fun and interesting conversation with dear friends. Oh, yes, and just 'chilled.'
What I am left with tonight, after unpacking, is the desire to take such good care of myself always. Taking care of ourselves reminds us to continue taking care of ourselves more intimately. In order to remember this, we need to continue doing it. I plan to log off now and crawl into bed with a good book, starting my next week with a great night's sleep. Please write in and let me know how you have been nurturing and nourishing yourself lately...
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