I just got back from Anatomy class. It was not very good for the first half of it. I thought my assignment was due on Wednesday and everyone else turned it in before class tonight. I couldn’t believe it. I was so stressed out trying to finish the lab assignment and trying to take notes for the class at the same time. After lecture was over some students told him they didn’t do it because he said it was due on Wednesday. I was relieved. I will finish it tomorrow. I am really behind because I went away for the weekend. It was worth it though. I will remember my weekend and probably won’t remember the struggling I did tonight in class. I tend to remember all the exciting things in my life and not the challenging times of school. At least not the details of the hard times. I will always remember this trip to Raw Spirit though.
I decided to make the gnocchi tonight. Jason really loves gnocchi. When we first started dating and the first couple of years of our marriage, he would eat gnocchi once a week at least. A whole box of it. Now he doesn’t buy it. I figured I would make my wonderful hubby happy. It has a red pepper sauce, that goes with it. I have to dehydrate the pepper for 12 hours so I did that tonight. This recipe will be perfect with candle light and romantic Italian music;)
I feel like I need to have a romantic dinner with him. I was gone for 2 days but yet I missed him so much. I am hoping tomorrow we can eat together while the kids are at school. If not, we can all have a family dinner.
Gnocchi ingredients
jicama, cashews, sea salt, nutritional yeast, lemon juice, cashew flour, arugula
I chopped jicama before putting it into the food processor. I blended it until it had the consistency of rice. The directions say to strain it. I didn’t because it looked dry enough. I guess it was a mistake, I should’ve tried it even though I thought it looked dry enough. The other ingredients were thrown into the blender with the jicama and blended until it was pasty. It blended very well, probably too well. The gnocchi came out very wet. I had to add 4 times the amount of cashew flour in order to just form the gnocchi onto the parchment paper. By the directions I am assuming they are too wet, because it states that I am supposed to “roll” the gnocchi on the tray to get the appearance of gnocchi. If I were to put the gnocchi on the sheet without my parchment paper, I would have a mess. I scooped the gnocchi out with a baby spoon that my children used while they were really small. It brought back so many memories of them being so little. They are growing so quickly. Christian will be a teenager this year. Pardon the mom moment.
They do resemble gnocchi and they taste incredible. I am sure they will taste 10 times better tomorrow, enjoying them with my favorite man.
Posted 16 years ago at 11:28 pm. Add a comment
I am back from my little vacation to my Paradise. Raw Spirit Festival in Maryland. What a fantastic time. Very Enlightening for me. I stayed true to my project, I did two recipes. Jason bought me a personal blender or else I wouldn’t have been able to do it. I brought almonds, and my nut milk bag. I bought strawberries, bananas, raspberries, and mangoes from a grocery store called Giant. On Friday, I put a reminder in my phone to soak the nuts before going to sleep, so I could make almond milk the next day. I have been using my phone for the alarms and reminders for the many things I do each day. I have so much going on these days, school, homework, assignments due, recipes, work, the kids meetings and school projects. It is a handy tool to have around. On Saturday morning, I took out the blender and made almond milk. I only made 1 cup, which uses 1/4 cup almonds. The blender worked! I never trust any blenders but the Vita-mix or Blend-tec. But this little blender worked like a charm for my vacation. I am pleased. After I made the milk I threw in srawberries and bananas into the blender and made a beautiful smoothie for Destiny, D’Adjoa, and I to share. Nothing like a raw smoothie before going to a festival filled with raw people, food and seminars. Smoothies are the best to share with loved ones. I wanted it to be sweeter but they thought it was perfect. I drank some of it then I figured I should add in some Spirulina and Macro Greens. Oh boy that was not such a good idea, the Spirulina stuck to the sides of the blender, I spent 10 minutes cleaning it out. It took me longer to clean out the blender than it took for the nut milk and smoothie to be made. I learned my lesson, do not put 3 T of greens and spirulina into the blender with very little smoothie.
I do love smoothies:)
Day #36
I saved the almond milk from day #35 for the Mango and Raspberry smoothie. I stored it in a coconut oil container that I brought. The refrigerator was too cold and the almond milk froze. I couldn’t get it out and we were leaving to Raw Spirit soon. I expected to make a quick smoothie and then go. But God had other plans. I didn’t shower yet so what I did was took the container into the bathroom shower and took a long hot shower. When I was done the almond milk was melted enough off of the sides for me to be able to take it out in chunks. The blender couldn’t handle the ice milk. It took me probably about 15 minutes to get the almond milk and fruit to blend. I put all of it in at once, then ended up taking it out and only doing a little at a time. It was like chunky sorbet. After poking and prodding the smoothie, it finally started flowing. It was funny but I started to lose my cool at about the 11th minute. It worked though. We all tried it then we added Spirulina and Macro Greens. It was delicious. I brought the Vanilla-Almond Granola and we put that on top of the smoothie. It was the best breakfast I’ve had in a long time. I usually have a green smoothie in the morning, this was a most welcomed change. I will repeat this again. We all loved it.
Posted 16 years ago at 10:03 pm. Add a comment
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