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January 23, 2010
I made the complete meal today. The recipes that I did make were Mushrooms (I didn’t have enoki mushrooms or trumpet mushrooms) and Broth. Jason really loved the meal. I didn’t include the white asparagus because we couldn’t find it at the store. We bought it at Target last time in Orlando. We really didn’t care for the flavor of it, anyhow. The meal had a strong ginger and sesame flavor. The sweetness of the tofu worked perfectly with the dressings. The texture of the tofu is similar to a paste. It melts in your mouth unlike the soybean tofu that we buy sometimes. The texture is similar to silken tofu. Jason did enjoy it and he actually asked for more:) I tried a bite, but I was more in the mood for chocolate. So I ate some chocolate.
Mushrooms Ingredients
1 cup enoki mushrooms (I substituted cremini)
2 T sesame oil
1 t nama shoyu
sea salt
Mushrooms marinated for 1 hour. Then I put them on top of the meal.
Broth Ingredients
1 cup water
1/2 cup nama shoyu
2 T dried dulse
1 T wakame
1/4 cup miso paste
I combined all ingredients. Placed in dehydrator and strained. I only added a little to the dish, because of the saltiness.
I added the cremini mushrooms to the salad dressing I made two nights ago. This dressing is my favorite part. I am addicted to ginger right now.
I am sure Jason will be enjoying this meal for the next few days. I really think it turned out beautiful:) I love the way black sesame compliment the dish. The recipe didn’t call for scallions but I added them anyway. The color green always goes well with black and white.
I had such a perfect day today! Sabby played like a superstar at soccer. He kicked hard, played hard and even used his head numerous times to stop the ball. The team lost but I really think he played the hardest he ever has! I am very proud of my baby:)
We went on the kayaks today for 3 hours. The weather was cool, windy, and sunny. It was a perfect day to kayak. We crossed the entire lake and went to my favorite spot on the lake between my trees. While Jason and I sat and watched two dogs play in the water, our boys went and found some shrimp and fish. I miss it there. I haven’t been there for weeks. The weather has been too cold and rainy. I will go back again soon. I would have stayed there longer but it was getting late, so the boys returned the shrimp and fish back to the lake and we headed back home. Christian was my partner on the kayak today. On the way back we really had to paddle to not be pushed back by the wind. We counted how many strokes we took. He had me laughing hysterically, he was acting like an aerobics instructor. He makes me laugh! I love my boys and love our days together!
We are going to play Wheel of Fortune on Playstation now, so this is Goodnight!
“Love would never leave us alone”
Bob Marley quote
Posted 15 years, 10 months ago at 8:49 pm. Add a comment
January 22, 2010
Well, my plan was to make the entire meal tonight, but I didn’t get to make the black tofu until almost 9pm. Oh well! AND it is not even black:( It looks grey and spotted as you can see from the pictures. It doesn’t even resemble MK’s pics but there is one good thing..it is delicious! Tomorrow it will be done and the entire meal will be eaten by my hubby and I:) I think Christian will like the tofu, but without the mushrooms. I love this version of tofu, it sure beats soy.
Black Tofu Ingredients
1 cup cashews, soaked 1-2 hours
1/2 cup fresh young Thai coconut meat
1/2 cup carageenan (irish moss and water)
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup black sesame paste (I used black sesame seeds, I should’ve used more I guess to make it darker)
1/4 t sea salt
All ingredients were blended in Vita-mix. I lined a glass pan with plastic wrap, I just recycled the wrap from last night. It is in the refrigerator hardening now. Yummy!
Jason is off tomorrow night, so maybe we can actually sit down together as a family:)
To know the truth is easy. To serve the truth? Ah, to serve the truth is another matter entirely.”-a great scholar, from the book The Quest
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January 21, 2010
I got an A on my hormone test in Anatomy and Physiology 2 class! I can’t believe it. I am ready for this semester now. It was kind of like a nudge for me to get started studying and be strong! I can get through this. I am dreaming awake. I love this lifestyle and I want to always live like this, FOREVER, but to a higher power:)!
I realized a few things today..
1. I want to be a party starter. I don’t like to do clean up. This analogy came to me today in class. I feel like many people want to help people when they are sick, I want to be on the other end of it. I am on the wellness side. The beginning of the party and during the festivities, if you know what I mean. I have never been good at the clean up crew at a party. I know my family can vouch for that.
2. I feel like my life is consistent with inconsistency. I feel amazing most of the time, but sometimes I don’t. I feel like there is always something in this Universe pushing me to be a positive person, and do positive in the world. Sometimes I get away from that and turn inward and self reflect. I think that I do a little self healing then I can go out and heal others.
I am learning so much about myself. I feel like I am finally taking time to see the real me. I am happy!
And I did start making one of the raddest meals tonight. It is going to be so beautiful!
White Tofu Ingredients
1 cup cashews, soaked 1-2 hours
1/2 cup fresh young Thai coconut meat
1/2 cup raw carageenan (soaked irish moss, and mixed with same amount of water in Vita-mix)
1/2 cup water
1/4 t salt
I put all ingredients into the Vita-mix then I lined a glass dish with plastic wrap and poured the mixture in and covered it in the refrigerator. It will be ready tomorrow.
Salad Ingredients
1 cup black trumpet mushrooms (I will use shiitake)
1 T white miso
1 t minced ginger
1 T sesame oil
1 T lemon juice
1 T raw agave
I mixed all ingredients, except mushrooms together in a bowl. I will put this dressing on mushrooms tomorrow.
I also soaked black sesame seeds for tomorrow’s black tofu recipe. I do not have black sesame paste, so I am making my own. Hope it works!
If you don’t follow your dream, who will? -Emeril Lagasse
Posted 15 years, 10 months ago at 8:04 pm. Add a comment
January 20, 2010
Busy, Busy, Busy!! I haven’t stopped all day, well, I did go to the my new class at Unity. It’s called the Quest, and I did rest there. We did a beautiful meditation. I am very excited about this class, it a year long study, and it is getting to know God better:)
I made the Vitamin C drink this morning for Jason before his test. He got an A, I’m so happy for him. I would like to say the drink had something to do with it, but he is a Brainiac. This drink is delicious! I would love to make the same ingredients but with some irish moss:) Yummy, it would have the consistency of thick pudding.
Triple C Ingredients
1/2 cup goji berries
2 1/2 cup frozen mango
1/2 cup young coconut meat
6-8 oranges, juiced
2 pinches cayenne (optional)
1 pinch of salt
I also made my salad today to go with the spicy almond dressing. It was a huge salad and I ate it all and loved every minute of it. I sat outside and did get to enjoy a peaceful lunch, I forgot, so I did rest a little bit. I will make this dressing again!
The blue green salad called for ingredients that I didn’t have. So I made a red orange salad. I used lettuce, beets, carrots and rosemary flax croutons.
I have had a long day today, I just got off work. I felt bad I was there too late! Now I’m going to see what is on Veria. I love that channel! Check it out on Dish Network Channel 218:) It RAWKS!
This is a website that is fantastic. Sunny Savage has show on this network, she teaches about collecting and preparing wild foods, check it out…wildfoodplants.com
LISTEN TO YOUR THOUGHTS
Listen carefully to your inner thoughts, no matter how small or insignificant you may judge them to be. Those tenacious thoughts that just won’t go away should be viewed by you as intention talking to you, saying, “You signed up to express your unique brilliance, so why do you keep ignoring it?”-Wayne Dyer
Posted 15 years, 10 months ago at 12:41 am. Add a comment
January 19, 2010
I just got back from the Gainesville Potluck and I would say it was another success. I enjoyed the company and the food. My favorite recipes were the carrot soup recipe made with 4 carrots, coconut water, 1 red pepper, garam masala and curry. I will make that soon. I also really enjoyed the coconut oil, cacao, and raisin mixture. Of course all recipes were amazing. Live food is so fantastic. I enjoy the high that I feel when I get around my raw food friends.
I finally saw a photo Theresa and Steve before “Raw Foods”…..
What a difference. You can see her in the photo she is holding, before Raw Foods. It was hard to believe that it was them in the photo. I am learning so much through Theresa. She is such a genuine person, and I learn something new from her every time I see her. Her and Steve are such loving people as are all the Gainesville Group. I hope they all come down to the Citrus County Raw Food Gathering next Tuesday:). We are going to have a special guest, Nancy Lee Bentley she is the author of Truly Cultured. I am really looking forward to her lecture and Theresa’s sauerkraut.
I came home and decided to make spicy almond dressing. I was going to make the cacao sauce for the bars, but the bars were still somewhat wet. I think I made them too thick. When I went to cut up the bars, they didn’t cut up well, they look crumbly. I will have to make the cacao sauce sometime soon. I still have to make the salad to go with this dressing today and the tomato salad to go with the green olive dressing that I made a few days ago. So tomorrow I will have a few things to make.
Spicy Almond Dressing Ingredients
almond butter
tomatoes
bragg’s liquid aminos
sesame oil
lime juice
maple syrup
miso
ginger
lemon grass (I omitted)
thai chiles
sea salt
All ingredients went into the blender. This dressing is delicious! I will have some tomorrow with the blue green salad.
We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.
David Blaine, American illusionist and endurance artist
Posted 15 years, 10 months ago at 10:44 pm. Add a comment
January 18, 2010
It was a nice treat to be in the kitchen making stuff tonight. I studied most of the day and I really was tired of studying so making these bars made me forget about “Hormones” for a few minutes. The recipe actually took about 15 minutes. I was moving rather slow and eating the nuts as I went along. BIG MISTAKE. I am living proof that you can gain weight on raw food. One day I am praying that raw food will change my weight, but until then I will struggle with too many nuts that make me “NUTS”. That is one goal I have this year, to lose some weight and continue to eat raw food. I really do think that preparing it is really my downfall, because I know how to do it well. It’s kind of a love/hate relationship I have with the food. I am working on it though.
Bars Ingredients
almond crumbs (I used dehydrated nuts in a food processor)
cashew pieces
hemp seeds
golden flax
sea salt
vanilla
lemon zest (oh foo I forgot this)
agave (I used honey)
maca
cacao nibs
goji berries
sweet cacao sauce will be made tomorrow:) That goes on top.
I put all dry ingredients in a bowl first and mixed it up. Then I added the wet ingredients. I put parchment paper on a sheet pan and then placed all the nut mixture on the pan. The bars are in the dehydrator and will be cut tomorrow.
Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Posted 15 years, 10 months ago at 7:40 pm. 1 comment
January 17, 2010
I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to make this tonight. I was on the phone with Jason wondering what I should make. He said he would eat it, so he made my decision for me. It has been a long day again. I studied for hours and worked at Rutabagas until about 8pm. I picked up my boys then came home to clean and do this delicious recipe. I didn’t have the scallions or red pepper, but I did slice up coconut meat and added it to the soup. It is supposed to resemble clam chowder. I think it is a bit too salty for my taste, but Jason will probably like it. If not, maybe my dogs will eat it. I don’t know if they like brazil nuts, but Sirius LOVES coconut!
Chowder Ingredients
brazil nuts
water
olive oil
lemon juice
nama shoyu (I used bragg’s)
shallot
nutritional yeast
salt
black pepper
chili powder
cayenne
All ingredients were added to the blender. This was easy to put together. MK has this soup in a thai coconut shell in the photo in the book. The presentation is adorable. Unfortunately I don’t have a shell, Sirius always get the shells:) I love him. He is the best dog ever!
“Who loves me will love my dog”-
Posted 15 years, 10 months ago at 10:33 pm. Add a comment
January 16, 2010
I just got back from St. Augustine. I had the best weekend of the new year!! David Wolfe was amazing as usual!! His lectures are always so stimulating, I didn’t sleep well last night because I really think my brain was trying to process all the information he presented last night! If you have not seen him or ever listened to him, if you get the chance GO! you will not be disappointed.
The Present Moment was incredible. The service was superb and the meals were exquisite! I had two different meals. The first night I had lasagna and salad, dessert was pumpkin pie. Oh my gosh! Today I had Pad Thai and spring rolls, dessert was Chocolate Ganache. Jason and the boys had portobello mushroom steak and potatoes. Today they also chili and chips. The man next to me let me take a photo of his meal. Him and his girlfriend were so sweet. After talking to him for a while I found out his sister owns Euphoria loves Rawvolutionwith her husband Matt Amsden. I would love to go there one day. I have heard it is fantastic. And of course I love Matt Amsden’s cheese sticks that Theresa (Gainesville Raw Potluck founder) makes. All the meals I ate were refreshing and filled with love and vibration!! It was the best weekend I have had for as far back as I care to remember right now!
David Wolfe covered so many topics. His charisma always keeps the crowds in a trance, all eyes were glued on him!! He is funny and so knowledgeable about nutrition, longevity, water, and research in various areas! He is never at a loss for words or answers by any questions! It seems as if he knows prior to all questions what they are going to ask. He absolutely amazes me! I would follow him around like a groupee if I could:) But I can’t. I could probably learn any subject if he taught it to me! I am inspired to make herbal teas, new chocolate recipes, and try medicinal mushrooms. David Wolfe is presenting his chocolate research on SacredChocolate.com to show people that doubt him how chocolate is really good for you! He mentioned a woman, named Jeanne Calment, who lived to be 122 years old and she ate at least 2 pounds of chocolate a week.
I met new people this weekend and saw Fran. It was really a blessed weekend. Did I mention I sat in front by DW both days! Christian won a bottle of greens too, and of course he wanted to get it signed. He really enjoyed it too. I wasn’t even going to bring the kids, but my mom had to go into the hospital. She is doing okay now, but they think that gall stones have been making her sick. I will try to get her to do some of the things DW talked about.
This is the bead I made for David. Yes, it did fit.
Anyway I should probably get on with my recipe. I made this marvelous coconut recipe after being inspired today by wanting to eat more coconut! This recipe is delicious! I am bringing these little cups to the Gainesville Potluck this Tuesday. I am excited to see my friends!
Creme Ingredients
1 cup cashews
1/2 cup young coconut meat
1/2 cup agave
1 1/2 cups water
1 T vanilla extract
pinch of sea salt
1/2 cup coconut oil
This easy whipped up in the Vita-mix. I poured it into 2 oz. cups to serve to everyone. I sprinkled shredded coconut on top.
I am going to study for my exam on Tuesday morning, I hope I get an A. It is a short exam on hormones. I am enjoying my class already.
Longevity is the only thing worth dying for-David Wolfe
Posted 15 years, 10 months ago at 10:03 pm. 1 comment
January 15, 2010
Preserved Lemon Dressing Ingredients
1/4 cup preserved lemon
2 T lemon juice
1/4 cup almond oil
2 T raw agave
3 T pitted green olives
salt
pepper
water
This took only about 2 minutes to make. I am on my way to St. Augustine to see David Wolfe:-)
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru
Posted 15 years, 10 months ago at 2:40 pm. Add a comment
January 14, 2010
Whenever I would look through my entertaining in the raw book I would always see this recipe and want to make it. I loved making this meal. It is really so much easier than it looks. I can’t believe something so stunning on the page of this book could actually only take about 15 minutes to put together!! After the filling prep.
I said last night in my blog that the Thai coconuts at the store looked so fresh, I had a feeling the meat would be perfect for this meal. The meat was very easy remove, but I have to admit, I don’t open these, it is the work of my hubby. He opens them from the tippy top then he cracks them open on the floor. This one was particularly hard to open. I am always afraid he is going to hurt himself. The knife that we have is not the best at all. I need to buy some new kitchen knives and some cutting boards and bowls, so when I get those I am going to buy a Thai coconut knife, like the big knives I use at the work. He had to work tonight so he opened them this morning and after I returned home tonight I very carefully took the meat out. I used a thin spoon and very carefully put the spoon against the inside of the coconut and made sure not to rip the meat. Some of the meat was soft but most of the meat was thick and easy to get off. After I removed the meat, I placed it on a plate and cleaned the brown bits of coconut off of the meat. Then I placed the meat on a cutting sheet and cut the raviolis into squares.
I made the ginger cream sauce first. This was easy, I just put all the ingredients in the Vita-mix. I did cut the recipe in half. I am making way too much food for just Jason and I to eat. I am running out of containers to put it all in. But I am not complaining. I love preparing the food. I think I love preparing it more than eating it. After I made the cream I put it in a little dish and dipped the coconut ravioli meat into the ginger cream and placed it on my plate for the bottom part of the ravioli.
Then I added the mushroom filling on the bottom ravioli and then dipped the top of the ravioli into the cream and placed it on top of the filling. I added mushrooms on top of the raviolis and drizzled the cream over the raviolis.
Next I made the puree in the Vita-mix. I drizzled that on top of the raviolis.
I still have about a cup of each dressing left, so I placed the remains of coconut meat on a Teflex sheet and poured some ginger cream and puree on top and popped it in the dehydrator. I LOVE dehydrated Thai coconut. I hope it comes out better than ever!! UPDATE NOTICE** I absolutely loved the coconut jerky. I wanted to save some for Jason to try but I ate all of it!! It was fantastic! I will make this again. Maybe for one of the potlucks. Everyone should try this amazing creation!
For such a beautiful meal I think the prep time was minimal and worth making again!! Raw Food is really the most amazing food to prepare. The possibilities are endless and elegant meals can be made in such a short amount of time, if I made these for guests they might think I spent hours in the kitchen. I actually spend more time writing in the blog about the recipes than I do in the kitchen. I am not the best writer, but I know that I am enjoying this project EVERY RECIPE OF THE WAY! 
Wrappers
young Thai cononuts
Puree Ingredients
figs
balsamic vinegar
raw agave
ground anise
Cream Ingredients
cashews
reserved coconut water
ginger juice (I used a thumb size of whole ginger)
raw agave
sea salt
Matthew Kenney also says in his book that this concept could be applied to many different dishes. You can change the vegetables or modify the sauce. He suggests bok choy, sesame, and ginger filling with a curry cream sauce. Now that sounds yummy too!!
Come home Jason to try your meal..
Tomorrow night is David Wolfe!! I am going to get packed and ready! I am going to have the BEST WEEKEND EVER…MY HUBBY, RAW FOOD AND DAVID WOLFE AT MY FAVE PLACE ON EARTH, ST. AUGUSTINE!!! Life is worth living! Enjoy your weekend everyone!
Vacations are not about ‘getting away’ – but about getting in ‘touch’.
— Chinese Fortune
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