A wonderful weekend!
I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine’s Day, filled with love, light and laughter. Michael and I certainly did. We stayed very low-key, having a lovely dinner at home, enjoying being at home (for a change) with the quiet and solitude. I prepared us lovely vibrant salads with Thai-wasabi dressing, to go with take-out sushi and sashimi. (A little Valentine’s splurge) I had also prepared a delicious Hazelnut Chocolate sauce, and we dipped these huge gorgeous organic strawberries into the sauce, and then into crushed hazelnuts and shredded coconut. Yum! Those were absolutely decadent, and the whole thing was much better than a restaurant, because we piled blankets and pillows in front of the fireplace and enjoyed the strawberries along with our favorite music via Michael’s Zune. He can hook it up to the stereo and play it throughout the house on the speakers–very cool!
It was so nice to have a quiet evening at home. It seems I am never here except to sleep, and there’s not much time for that! Between work and classes that I am attending, I don’t ever get home before 9PM. And then I try to get all the computer work done, which usually lasts until the wee hours of the morning. So NOT going out for Valentine’s was a luxury for me.
Honestly, since I have been eating Living Cuisine, I have lost the desire to go out for food like I used to do. I hardly EVER ate at home for many years. Now I actually prefer it. At home, I can control the quality of the food, and it is always so vibrant and delicious, with such raw energy and high vibration. Even though most of my time at work is spent preparing food and smoothies, still when I got home yesterday, all I wanted to do was make some delicious food. It is relaxing and zen-like to me. Plus I was starving, so I whipped up some Spicy Lime Cilantro Soup from Alissa Cohen and gobbled half of it immediately. Then I made some of Rawvolution’s Onion Bread and put into the dehydrator, including shaping some of it in to quiche crusts, so we had Living Quiche this morning filled with fresh vegetables and ‘cheeze’. That was a sweet encore to a lovely Valentine’s Day. That bread is absolutely delicious, and so healthy. I made it even healthier by sprouting some barley and blending it into the mixture. Sprouted barley is truly a superfood. And it makes the house smell so incredibly good while it is dehydrating–heavenly!
Today Michael and I made the trek to Greenville, SC to go to the Whole Foods up there. I have never been to a Whole Foods before, because there haven’t been any within a reasonable distance to Columbia, but it takes me almost an hour to get to the health food store on the other side of downtown Columbia, so I figured Greenville isn’t much farther. It was really a nice place. Lots of produce and a much better fruit selection than I have seen lately. But overall, most of the stuff in there doesn’t do me a bit of good. It has a lot of meats, pizzas, processed foods, etc, that are really not health-promoting at all. I was really disappointed to see that, as I had pictured this health oasis. And there wasn’t much for the raw foodist to choose from, either. They didn’t even have truly raw almonds. (To be truly raw, almonds have to be imported, because all American almonds are irradiated by law)
The verdict: Glad I went and tried it out. I did score a big aloe vera leaf which I will be adding to my smoothies for the next few days. But I will stick with my lovely sweet local store, 14 Carrot, which has everything I need, plus a raw guru on staff who really understands what and how to buy raw foods. And the prices were actually very comparable, so I was pleasantly surprised about that.
And now, I think I will make a green smoothie with aloe, strawberries, banana, and dandelion greens, and get ready for an early bedtime, for once in my life. If I can cut up this viciously-barbed aloe vera leaf without involving the emergency room.
Be a rebel–be healthy!
Christy
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there are many american farms that won’t pasteurize almonds so not just imported.
Awesome! That’s great to hear. Who are they and how can we buy almonds from them? How are they getting around the irradiation law? Must not be in CA, because the organic farmers there are protesting the law, and I hope they WIN! I can’t find any non-pateurized or non-irradiated American almonds in any stores, and the imported ones are brutally expensive. Please share any info you have with us!