1/3/06
I hope you all had happy and healthy holidays!! I did indulge in a few treats here and there (cookies, and some french fries, Very scandalous!!) and felt very sluggish afterwards. It's Such a huge challenge to staw raw through the holidays, especially if your mom makes the best chocolate chip macadamia cookies in the world, and your family wants to celebrate by going out to eat, like mine does. Obviously, I need better willpower. Ha!! But I doubled and tripled my workouts throughout the holidays and just bought 2 huge trays of wheatgrass to help detox. Oooh, and I read Kevin Trudeau's book "Natural Cures They Don't Want You To Know About", and immediately bought noni powder, mangosteen powder, and acai berry powder. He says they are superfoods and filled with antioxidants! It's a fantastic book. He says goji berries are totally fabulous for you too, and I am looking into buying some organic ones online. They have them in the local asian market, but the label is all in Chinese, and I hope they aren't grown with pesticides or preserved with chemicals. They are so much cheaper at the asian market! Like a few dollars a pound instead of $24/lb. for the organic ones. Ouch! I bought hempseed protein powder too. It's Super good, it's Nature's Way EFA Gold, and tastes Great!! I made up a new dressing from tahini, fresh lemon juice, and fresh garlic. It's SO good!! Very tangy. I may make a version from fresh orange juice and lime juice instead of the lemon. And if I added namu shoyu, it would taste just like Goddess dressing! I will keep you informed of any new and exciting dressings I invent. Well, I have a Lot of juicing to do today. Too bad the Juice Fairy doesn't live in my kitchen, or I can't train the cats to do it. Ha! I just updated my Raw Food FAQ with a couple more raw food questions I get asked a lot, and I also added a list of all the raw food I usually have in my Kitchen. Have a beautiful day everyone!!
11/21/05
I finally found my favorite Hachiya persimmons!! Yay!! I got a big box, so they'll last for awhile. I'm going to celebrate Thanksgiving with friends and family. My boyfriend and I will be the only raw foodists, like usual, but I'll probably just bring my own salad, like last year, or have fruit. No one ever minds, they just think I'm strange, but I'm pretty used to that! I'm going to eat less all week until then, and eat a couple apples before I go so I'm not hungry. That way I'll be less likely to inhale brownies, cake, or whatever other blissful cooked food creations they may have. I'm praying there's no chocolate cake there! Ha! I think I'm safe against mashed potatoes. Here are some silly pictures of me making vegetable juice. In the bowls, left to right, clockwise, are apples, carrots and beets, celery and cucumber with 2 garlic cloves and some ginger root, sunflower greens, buckwheat greens, and parsley and cilantro. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving everybody!! Remember, Save a Turkey, Go Veggie!
11/14/05
Yay, it's warm again here, and I finally found some Fuyu persimmons! I like the other ones, the Hachiyas, Much better, they're softer and sweeter. But I made some yummy salsa with the Fuyus yesterday. I think I used 3 persimmons, 5 roma tomatoes, a handful of fresh cilantro, 1/2 cup raw onion, sea salt, 3 TB vinegar, and juice from half a lime, then "pulsed" all the ingredients in the food processor. Super salsa! I also filled the entire freezer full of frozen fruit for making smoothies so I'm ready for winter! I'm going to make cranberry-apple-carrot juice today. I wish cranberries were available year round, they make really good fresh juice, as long as you add enough apples to sweeten it. I bought 2 boxes of satsuma oranges too, I love those!! I added the Persimmon Salsa recipe and a new Totally Divine Chocolate recipe (Chocolate Heaven) to the Raw Food Recipe section. I just added a new page of the biggest challenges on the Raw Food Diet. I'll be adding to this list periodically. Have a gorgeous day everyone!
10/26/05
Hi everybody! I just added a raw cacao commercial to the video page! I filmed this for GotCacao.com, your source for the best raw chocolate! I've been all titilIated about persimmons lately, since it's the season for them, but I guess it's a bad year for them, so sad! I ate about a bazillion of them last fall. I LOVE persismmons! Oh well, I did manage to go through about 15 flats of raspberries recently, and that was wonderful. I put up a bunch of my favorite Raw Recipes including the Super Crunch salad, which I've been eating every day since I invented it. It's SO good!! It's been cold lately, which since it's southern California, just means I have to wear a sweatshirt with my shorts, but I always think it's funny how everyone says they need to eat hot food in the winter to warm up. The only time eating raw food in the winter makes me cold is when I make my fruit smoothies with frozen berries. Brrrr...that's cold! Otherwise I never mind eating cold salads, etc. even if it's cold out. Have a fun day everyone!!
10/2/05
I've been juicing Major amounts of parsley juice lately, in a blend with other veggies, to help make up for not growing & juicing wheatgrass anymore. I've also been in Raspberry Heaven recently, eating a couple pints a day, but they just disappeared at the store, so I had to move on to cantaloupes. Not quite as exciting as raspberries! I do have a lot of mangos right now, and a huge bag of spinach that I'll mostly juice. I've been eating more apples lately too, which always seem boring, but are surprisingly crispy and sweet. Usually I never eat them and then when I do, I'm always surprised! I just watched Go Further, which is an excellent movie that talks about raw foods, among other great things. I wish they included the recipes for some of the dishes they show! Like the avocado "chocolate" cake...which I think is probably just avos, agave nectar or other sweetener, and raw carob blended together and scooped onto a crushed date and nut crust. Very yummy!! Avos, carob, and agave make an Amazing chocolate pudding!
8/31/05
Happy Last Day of Summer, everyone! I just bought a new blender, and have been having 2 and 3 smoothies everyday. YUM! The secret to a fabulous smoothie, in my opinion, is to add 2 bananas, instead of just 1. It makes it SO much creamier!! My last blender started smoking; it lasted a year, the same as all my blenders! I got some excellent, super sweet pineapples, peaches, pluots, raspberries, blueberries, and mangos. I LOVE summer fruit!! I also got some Pines wheatgrass tablets and have been taking them. Hopefully they're almost as good as real fresh wheatgrass. I juiced up a bunch of black grapes, spinach, and sunflower greens yesterday and it was so good! I was amazed. My favorite salad mix, organic spring mix, seems to go bad in the fridge SO fast, so if I can juice some of my salads it will save a lot of money. Well, that's all for now; we've been having a heat wave here in southern CA. lately, but it's a lot better today. Have a Gorgeous Day everyone!
7/22/05
It's my FAVORITE Fruit time of the whole year, time for Blueberries and Cherries!!! YAY!!! I have been eating so many of them. And I got some fresh figs a couple weeks ago too, from Costco of all places!! My wheatgrass has returned to its Moldy behavior, so I have decided to stop growing it for now, until I can solve this mold problem. I read that juicing moldy wheatgrass was worse for you than not having it at all, because the mold isn't good for you. Oh, dear! Freeze dried wheatgrass, here I come. I may get an automatic sprouter, because I've been having trouble with my broccoli sprouts and radish too, and I think it's the hot weather. I finally splurged and bought raw pine nuts, and I've been adding them to my salads. Oh, they're Soooo Creamy and wonderful!!
6/3/05
I'm estatic because my wheatgrass is finally emerald green!! It was getting uglier and wimpier by the week, and finally just surrendered to fuzzy mold, but then I started fertilizing it and Voila!! Perfect Grass! (I think I'm using Miracle Gro, just in case you thought I was using cow manure, fish oil, buffalo droppings, or something gross like that.) So I'm happy, and the rose bush, since I've been fertilizing it, has turned from pale peach to vibrant red. Wild! So I'm very happy now; I get cranky if I don't have pretty wheatgrass to juice every day. Hooray! Hooray for wheatgrass that looks like it's supposed to!!!! Yay!!
5/23/05
Well, I knew that the navel orange extravaganza might end, and it has. It is sad, now that they are 2lbs/$1! But I did have a wonderful stretch of super cheap champagne mangos, which are truly divine, and now regular mangos are 4/$1. And cherries are in season!!! Yay!!! I got mad at my sunflower and buckwheat greens and have stopped growing them for the moment. They're super nutritious, but so time consuming! And every time I have a good batch, the local field mice run around in the trays, creating havoc and uprooting everything. It's hard being a farmer! So now I'm making big salads with shredded carrots, cabbage, celery, and store bought lettuce and greens. I'm still growing regular sprouts, but I've been having trouble with the broccoli sprouts lately! Maybe because it's so hot. Broccoli sprouts are Very tempermental. I've also been buying Lara Bars lately, they're So yummy! I like the banana walnut the very best. I tried making my own version of the Ginger Snap ones, and of course created a huge, sticky mess in the kitchen. My ginger snaps have enormous chunks of ginger in them because I didn't cut them up fine enough, and the food processor couldn't handle the recipe because it was just a big glob of dates and nuts that got stuck in there. I've only eaten 2 (out of 15) of these homemade ginger snaps to date. This always happens when I make my own recipes! I don't even know if the local wildlife want these, with those huge ginger chunks!! For me, it's easier just to buy treats, even if they are expensive. Happy cherry eating everyone!
4/3/05
Can things get any more exciting?? Navel oranges are now 10bs/$1!! And I bought 5lbs of raw organic shelled hempseeds and it's SO heavenly! I've been making a garlic spread with them by grinding them up, adding a little water, salt and dried garlic, and it's So good. Very creamy. It makes a super salad dressing mixed with fresh lime juice. I also grinded up some hempseeds and added raw carob powder and honey, and ate that on top of strawberries. Oooh, so decadent!! Very Delicious. I bought a bunch of mangos that were on sale but they are stringy, so sad. Oh, well! So now I have 10 mangos I will have to be creative with. That's all the fruit news for now!
3/5/05
Wow, just when I thought life couldn't get any better, navel oranges went on sale for 8lbs/$1!! And I got 5lbs of broccoli sprouts seeds online for very cheap. 5lbs is a LOT of seeds, I am awestruck everytime I behold them. I also got a box of young coconuts, some red papayas, globe grapes, blueberries, plums, and a lot of bananas this week. So I decided to celebrate and make Fruit Salad!! I sliced papaya, banana, globe grapes, and added some frozen mango chunks from Trader Joe's and Voila!! A fabulous fruit salad! Ever since I lived in Hawaii, I have just loved papaya and banana sliced up together. I can't wait to open the coconuts, since I adore fresh coconut milk, but it's a huge, messy process to open them. It involves a large hammer, courage, and several plastic bags. I might be able to live on coconut milk alone, if I could just get someone else to open the coconuts for me! Ha! In other Fruit News, I'm mad at my blender, which has mysteriously stopped blending very well. It's So annoying, and I need to find a better one Fast. I can't be without smoothies for long, who knows what might happen! I have a lot of wheatgrass growing right now, but all the rain ruined my buckwheat. Well, time to make salad!
2/11/05
Yay!! Navel oranges have been 6lbs/$1 for Weeks now!! I've been juicing them everyday, I LOVE fresh orange juice. I also got Agave Nectar at the health food store, they just started carrying it! It's really yummy, like honey, but less sticky, with a spectacular flavor. It comes from a cactus! I've been planting my wheatgrass trays almost every other day, to make sure I always have enough to juice. I drink around 4oz. every day. It's a wonder I haven't turned green yet. I've been growing a lot of sprouts too, I'm having more success with my broccoli sprouts, Yay!! They're a little tricky to grow. Whew!! All the juicing, planting and sprouting is Shockingly time consuming. I feel like a Farmer!! Did I ever tell you about the enormous quantities of dried sea veggies I ordered? Several pounds!! More than a pod of gray whales would eat in a year, probably. Hopefully I haven't depleted the entire eastern seaboard of seaweed. Dulse is BY FAR my favorite, the others, like laver and alaria, are So fishy tasting. I cut it up and put in my sprout salads. I also have a 10 lb. bag of raw carob I ordered awhile ago, when I was making lots of raw carob and nut cakes. Now, I'm pretty much totally over carob cakes, and I'm wondering why on Earth did I have to buy the 10lb bag??? My favorite desserts these days are dried mangos, fruit pudding, fruit ice cream (frozen fruit run through the Champion juicer, comes out JUST like soft serve ice cream!!) and now, agave nectar!! Feeling guilty for owning the largest bag of raw carob in the state of California, I did make some cashew-carob-coconut cookies last night, and they're pretty good. But I'm famous for making treats and recipes that sit in the fridge until I feed them to the local wildlife, so we'll see if who ends up eating them...me, or the bunnies and crows!! The seagulls and crows in the Walmart parking lot got most of the last batch of date, honey, almond balls I made; I hope they liked them!
1/6/05
I Finally finished eating all my persimmons!! Amazing! I think I had about a hundred. I'm now enamored with Mayan onions, and eating them in big sprout salads. They're so sweet and mild!! I'm adjusting to my Winter Menu, which includes lots of "fruit pudding" made with bananas and frozen berries in the cuisinart. Or mangos, if I'm feeling tropical. I'm SO glad oranges are cheap right now! I've been making fresh orange juice, yay! I made some coconut Snowballs last night from soaked almonds, raisins, dates, all blended together with almond extract, a little honey, and rolled in shredded coconut. They're very good, and even tastier with a cut up banana! Not as good as the variation I made last month, with just honey, non-soaked dates and almonds, and almond extract. I rolled them into balls, stuck them in the fridge, and oh my gosh!! They tasted just like cookie dough!! A truly perfect, easy dessert.
12/9/04
Today I made the Best Juice!! 1 Pineapple, 10 oranges, 4 pears , 9 kiwis, 2 apples. Totally amazing!! It came out all frothy and thick because I juiced it in the Champion juicer, except for the oranges, I used my citrus juicer for those. I also made Tons of veggie juice this week, the usual: parsley, celery, cucumber, carrot, beet, apple, ginger, garlic. I think the apples were extra sweet because it came out way better than it usually tastes!! I used twice the usual amount of carrots and beets, so that made it sweeter too! I've still got wheatgrass to juice today and some parsley and cilantro too. Busy busy!
12/3/04
Wow!! It's almost Christmas!! The holidays are Zooming by!! I made persimmon salsa and sprout salad with pomegranite seeds for Thanksgiving, and have been eating the it every night since!! It's SO super duper! It's sunflower and buckwheat greens, brocolli, red clover, radish, alfalfa, fenugreek and cabbage sprouts, lots of pomegranite seeds, shredded dulse, with the salsa as dressing. The salsa is equal parts persimmons and tomatoes, a lot of fresh cilantro, some red onion, salt, a tiny bit of raw apple cider vinegar. It's amazing!!
11/15/04
Whew, I made a LOT of juice this morning!! 2 pineapples, 30 mangos, 5 kiwis, 1 pear, 1 bunch grapes, 1 orange, and 5 apples!! It was SO yummy!! The mangos made it really thick and tropical tasting!! I made my regular veggie juice after the fruit juice; it was a marathon juicing session!!
11/14/04
Yay!!! I've got Lots of pineapples!! 4 Boxes of persimmons!! Lots of honey dates!! And of course the 3 bowls of mangos, but sadly, they are stringy, so I might juice those. I wonder how much juice I'll get from them!
11/5/04
I am still surrounded by persimmons, but I ate all the ripe ones! Drat! I wish the rest would hurry up. Tonight I'm going on a Madcap Mango Mission...mangos are two for a dollar at the store!! Hooray!!! I need at least 30, maybe 40. My wheatgrass, buckwheat and sunflower greens are greener and more wonderful than they've been in months, I'm so happy! And I've been cutting off a huge spear of aloe every week for beauty recipes, and the plants are growing faster now! My fenugreek, radish, and broccoli sprouts are doing better now that I'm putting them in the fridge just as they get ripe. Otherwise they ripen way too fast because it's so warm out! Coming from Seattle, where I kept all my oranges, apples, carrots, and beets out on the deck (we're talking bags and bags here), it's weird to have things ripen Super Fast, and have to be in the fridge. Hmmm...Hot weather=fast ripening fruit & sprouts. It's not rocket science, but it's taking me awhile to grasp!!
10/25/04
I am officially in Mango & Persimmon Heaven. I have 3 boxes of enormous persimmons, a huge bowl of super sweet mangos, and a big bowl of kiwis too!! Yay!!
10/11/04
I went to my favorite fruit stand this past weekend and got 2 HUGE boxes of persimmons!! Wow! Life is fabulous!! They were very cheap. I also got crispy purple grapes, cantaloupes, big soft dates, and oranges!! I got mangos too, but they're stringy and bad, and nectarines, but they're spongy and gross. Oh well! I told myself not to get any more mangos and nectarines, and did I listen? No. I am taking a big long break from making anything more gourmet than salad dressing in the kitchen. I go through phases like this. First, it's tons and tons of raw food recipes! Then I never eat them, they sit in the fridge, and I go back to eating fruit, juice, and salads. I'm eating Way less these days too! Weird! Did I accidentally have gastric bypass surgery and not know it?? I can eat two pears in the morning and be stuffed until dinner time! Very strange. Well, it is that Special Time now, the time when I spend two hours getting completely splattered with green vegetable juice. My arms, my sweatshirt, and yes, sometimes even my face! So attractive, so mysterious. Who is that girl wearing vegetable juice all over herself? Oooh, so sexy. Have a fruit filled week, everyone!
10/4/04
Yay!! I got persimmons, pomegranites, plums, pineapples, pears, peaches, mangos, and LOTS of oranges this weekend!!! Yay!!! And I have a lot of sprouts too!! Happiness and excitement in the kitchen!!!
9/29/04
It's been pretty sprouter-ific around here lately, and I haven't made any recipes except for a carob & papaya surprise cake, the surprise being that carob and papaya are a weird combination!! My boyfriend likes it though. And it's pretty, with a black layer and an orange layer..a good Halloween cake!! Like a fool in love, I bought some gorgeous pluots and nectarines, both have remained hard as rocks and will probably follow their predecessors into the trash. Why? Why do they all do this? I'm still breathlessly waiting for persimmons, and thank heavens for cantaloupes and figs, I've had lots of good ones lately! I bought a huge bag of pears too, even though I think they're boring. They're good with bananas in smoothies! I've been having lots of sprout salads this week, and I still have a couple good mangos left. I just want to eat Mangos all the time!! Ooh, the shock of winter. I did discover a Super Juice last week, with pineapples that I didn't want to eat because they were tasteless and stringy. Well, they made amazing juice!! I added grapes and apples, and it was Divine!! Like nectar of paradise!!! Whew, major sugar rush. I sure miss oranges. Left to my own misguided devices I would guzzle gallons of fresh o.j., and probably pufff up like a beach ball from too much fruit acid. I need to find cheaper oranges to make juice. The ones in the store are either from Australia or Africa, and they're So expensive! It would probably be cheaper to just fly to Australia or Africa, juice all the oranges I see, O.D. on O.J., and fly back!! Don't they grow oranges here in southern California?? I thought sure they did!
9/22/04
Wow, I made a LOT of recipes this past week!! I was like a rawfood Betty Crocker on speed!! Besides the usual salsa, zuchinni pasta with bell pepper sauce, sprouted sunflower sour cream, and flaxseed crackers, I also made carrot bread, marinated bell pepper salad, curry hummus, mini pizzas, strawberry & carob cake, and a Super Yummy carob & coconut cream pie. Oooh, I'm so in love with coconut cream. If I get fat from eating too much, I'll have to get a tatoo on my butt that says "100% coconut cream". I'm craving durian, and I need more young coconuts Really bad!! I wish they were easier to open, because I'm seriously addicted to the milk inside. It takes a big sharp knife, a huge hammer, a plastic bag, and pure courage. Most people take knives and other sharp objects away from me when they see me using them, so I usually do the coconut routine when no one's watching!!
I was also very excited last week because I bought persimmons, mangos, pineapples, figs, and more cantaloupes. Alas, the persimmons were ALL rotten inside!! Perfect on the outside, brown on the inside. The mangos were bad too!! Gorgeous on the outside, stringy and pale on the inside. Break my heart!! $20 of bad fruit!! This summer I've had to throw out a bunch of stuff, like every plum I bought (lots, as I was ever hopeful about the plums), most of the nectarines, half the apricots, 1/3 the pineapples, and almost all the peaches I got. I also got some really bad raspberries and strawberries. Was this a bad summer for fruit? Is it southern California? I thought this was Fruit Land down here. I shopped at 5 different stores. I never remember ever throwing much fruit away in Seattle, and I bought a ton of it every summer. It makes me want my own fruit trees!! A lot of fruit is picked unripe and shipped far distances. Still, I was so disappointed at what I thought was going to be the Fruitiest Summer yet!!
I do have one good box of mangos, thank heavens, I hate throwing the others away!! It will be a relief, with winter coming, to not have to constantly be running back and forth between multiple stores, seeking out the best deals on summer fruit and exotic tropical stuff. I am anxiously awaiting good persimmons, but after that, I'll put my efforts into sprout growing, juice making, and revert to my winter frozen fruit smoothie routine. Not as tasty, but no heart aches. I still have a big bag full of perfectly good longans that I'm ignoring. They'd be good for throwing at people, if there were any meanies around, or maybe crows would eat them? Maybe not. Oh well, I must sever my emotional ties to produce!! Maybe I'll write a book: Fruit & You, How to Let Go!!
9/13/04
I tried dragonfruit today! I took pictures, I'll put them up soon! I ate it with longans, which are called "dragon eyes"! Longans are tiny and round, with gel like fruit inside a brown peel. They're like lychees, but not as good!! Dragonfruit is HOT pink, gorgeous, and white/grey inside with tiny seeds, like a kiwi, and not very sweet, at least, the one I had! It's a Cantaloupe Week, since they were four for a dollar, and some friends gave me fresh baby greens from their garden!! Yum!! I was ever grateful since the 100F temperatures this last weekend frizzled and wilted my sunflower greens. I think I'm getting a teensy bit tired of salsa, I want more sprouts and salads now. And I have 3 trays of wheatgrass to juice!! Yipes!! Start the juicer!! This past week I Mostly Fasted, which is my way of fasting on fresh juices and water, with a little bit of fruit when I get too crabby or hypoglycemic. I also started adding spirulina, chlorella and Vitamineral Green to my veggie juice again, for extra protein and nutrients, since I'm working out so much.
9/2/04
I haven't updated this in awhile because my journal has been overtaken with Fruit Talk! Sigh. You'd think I could find Something else to talk about besides fruit all the time!! People are going to think I'm like, enamored with it. So true. Well, we have to note all these passing Fruit Love Affairs, so here we go! August saw a lengthy Orange Juice Obsession, which only petered out due to rising orange prices. That was followed by a brief Grapefruit Gala, then a Fresh Salsa Fiesta, with flaxseed crackers, and creamy nut & lemon juice dip. Salsa Frenzy is still continuing, along with Mango Mania, and a huge Lychee Party. All these fruit affairs are a combination of what's on sale, and my ever changing taste buds. Oh!! And don't even get me started on the sordid Spicy Carrot fest. Just the words, spicy carrots, arrest all rational thought. White peaches were gaining momentum, but I couldn't find enough good ripe ones for a full blown romance. What will be next?? Only the produce manager knows for sure!
7/15/04
Cherries, fresh figs, nectarines, apricots, plums..summer is heavenly!! I made the VERY best juice from apricots, plums, apples and a few carrots. It came out super thick, orange, and sooo good. To conquer annoying pizza cravings, I've been once again experimenting with the Perfect Raw pizza crust. It's coming along, I think!! I made some really good veggie patties out of shredded carrots, mushrooms, a few sprouted sunflower seeds, and some herbs and spices, and they turned out really good!! And I finally made spaghetti with zuchinni noodles in my spiral slicer!! It was SO good, it tasted just like spaghetti!! I want to have raw alternatives to any and all possible junk food cravings, but they need to be super light. Hardly any nuts or seeds, and low on salt, unlike so many of the raw recipes out there. Plus they need to be quick to prepare, because who knows when a Big Pizza craving is coming along! So that can be challenging..to make the raw versions of these foods super tasty, but not heavy, oily, and full of nuts. That's all for now...of course pineapple mania continues!!
6/11/04
Yay!!! Cherries and plums and persimmons are here!! I'm in Fruit Heaven!! My love affair with pineapples continues. I have more of a system of planting my wheatgrass so I have grass to juice everyday. Whew! I want to be drinking 5 or 6 oz. every day. Powerful stuff!!
5/9/04
I am really, super duper in love with pineapples right now, have been for awhile. And still drinking Lots of vegetable juice everyday!! Do you know that when you juice lots of buckwheat and sunflower greens it makes the juice really thick? It's cool!! I have to juice a lot of the greens I grow because I can't eat them fast enough!! And I just started making raw almond/carob "milk"..it makes a super yummy dessert!! Very creamy!!
April '04
Who knew that food trends could be so mysterious?? Last winter, I ate at least one durian every day, and grew wild and unbridled. Last spring while living on Kauai, I ate at least 5 papayas, 3 bananas, and some pineapple everyday, and had so much fun I never slept. Last July and August, back in Seattle, I was seized with a Purple Fruit obsession. All fruits that were purple, I ate like a starving wildebeast..plums, figs, pluots, and um...more plums and figs!! They kept me going through all my hot, sunny clown parties and picnics!! During the fall and winter, I reverted back to my pre-last-winter habits of berry fruit smoothies, big sprout salads, and veggie juice.
Now that it's spring again, my eating habits are completely different, but I feel great all the time!! I drink a quart or more of fresh, very green veggie juice every day, with a couple oz. of wheatgrass, and a huge salad of sunflower, buckwheat greens and sprouts for dinner that I grow myself. I make cucumber/hemp protein powder dressing, and am just learning to make fermented seed cheeses!! These days I have to force myself to drink a smoothie, and hardly ever want fruit, which is totally crazy, because I used to be the Hugest Fruit Addict on the planet!! Right this minute I have 3 pineapples, a bowl of kiwis, a large bag of figs, several bunches of bananas, and about 30 plums in the kitchen, plus an entire freezer crammed full of frozen berries and durians. Am I eating any of them?? No!!! So scandalous. Anyway, that's all the culinary excitement around here, if and when I get obsessed with other interesting foods I'll let you know!!
