Living Rawesome Day #59 Jicama Broth pg. 164 entertaining in the raw
September 22, 2009
Today is the mark of Fall and Tomorrow is my 33rd Birthday. What an amazing year I had. So many blessings to be counted. I am more alive and grateful than ever before. Each day I count as a blessing and I am looking forward to this new year.
My original plan for tonight’s dinner didn’t work out as a I planned last night, but I must admit it turned out so much better. I went to Papa John’s after Sabby’s first guitar lesson. He LOVED it. He learned chords, and some part of a Green Day song. Awesome that my son likes Green Day, I remember listening to it when I was 17. They really are a great band. Despite how they went mainstream with their CD Dookie. I think they deserve their fame. I don’t mind when bands become popular I think if they are good then the world deserves to hear them. Anyway, I worked on Chemistry homework and then came home to make the Jicama Broth.
Ingredients:
cashews
jicama
olive oil
sea salt
black pepper (I omitted)
nutritional yeast
garlic
shallot
Soups always amaze me. They are similar to my green smoothies, because they are made in the Vitamix, but yet I don’t think of them as a smoothie, I actually think of them as a soup. Even though all ingredients are thrown into the blender at once.
I soaked cashews for hour, this allows them to be creamier in the soup. Jason stopped at the store to buy me jicama. Jicama is a pain to peel. I have been cutting the skin off much like I do with pineapple. It was so much easier tonight. I sliced the bottom and the top off, then I cut the sides off pretty deep into the jicama. I was peeling it before with a pairing knife, but I got smart tonight, actually pressed for time. I wanted to surprise Jason with dinner when he got home. After cutting the jicama, I threw it into the blender with olive oil and water, then added shallots, sea salt, nutritional yeast and I didn’t have garlic. So I blended it up.
After blending I poured it into a bowl and added the eggplant bacon, and cut a slice of onion bread. It was such a beautiful dinner for the man I love:)
He loves Becks beer so of course I had to get him one. He is such a good sport for eating all of my food. He loves Jazz music so of course I youtubed it and I found an amazing artist named Melody Gardot. We listened to her while he ate, it was very romantic. Words can’t express how the feeling and mood were in the room, one thing I do know is his love is explained in Corinthians. His love IS… I am the luckiest girl alive to be loved by such an extraordinary man!
Tomorrow is coming quick. This is the last day of being 32. It is only going to get better. I am looking forward to my 33rd year. I accept it with open arms. In years past I have not been so easy to accept things. This year has been a year of acceptance, forgiveness, and understanding, also filled with knew challenges and journeys. New adventures are coming this year, I will keep my eyes looking forward and around but not back in regrets. I will MAINTAIN INTERNAL HEIGHTS. Trevor Hall’s music really helped me through many challenging times this year. He is a blessing and a true artist. He will be one to make it big.
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”-Abraham Lincoln