Chili Miso Kelp Noodles

1 package sea tangles kelp noodles, rinsed and drained
4 carrots, shredded
3/4 c. halved cherry tomatoes

toss together in a large salad bowl

dressing:
2 tsp. sweet white miso
1 tsp. honey
2 tsp. cider vinegar
2 cloves garlic, pressed
1 tsp. grated fresh ginger
1 Tbsp. braggs liquid aminos or shoyu/tamari
1/2 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes
2 Tbsp. sesame or olive oil

combine in small bowl and toss with salad ingredients
garnish with sesame seeds, thai basil, chives, and whole chili peppers

Me and Linc, lately

My! What a pretty papaya you have!

100% pure Floribbean homegrown!

Green Smoothie Experience... Day 2

So far so good darlings!
Just wanted to post this recipe real quickly-like.
Do yourself a favor and make this at once!

Royal Purple Smoothie

makes 2 qts.

5 Tbsp. shelled hempseeds
2/3 c. goji berries soaked overnight in 1 qt. water
2 T. green powder (mine was a homemade concoction of barley grass powder, spirulina, crystal manna, etc.)
1 T. honey
2 T. flax seed oil
1 lb. frozen blueberries

add to blender:
hempseeds & goji berry soaking water, reserve gojis, and blend for 1 minute

add to blender:
reserved goji berries and everything else

blend until very smooth, sometimes as long as two minutes.

Enjoy and go to antioxidant heaven.

Green Smoothie Experience... Day One

It has been almost a year since I last posted here. Many incredible things have happened, maybe too many. I intend to share them with you as we go along, but right now I just want to focus on green smoothies. I have embarked on a new adventure, my very own green smoothie experience. Green Smoothies make me feel great. I feel the best when I consume mostly/only green smoothies. My goal right now is to do 30 days of exclusively green smoothies. We will see how it goes.

Here is the recipe for my current concoction:

1 c. frozen pineapple
1 c. frozen peaches
2 frozen bananas
3 huge leaves kale
1 T. raw, local honey
1 T. coconut oil
2 T. flax meal
1 t. vanilla
1/4 t. sea salt
2 c. water

blend, blend, blend some more...

love and blessings all the time...

New Blog, Different Day

In light of many new developments in my life, I have started a new blog. I have ceased to be so obsessed about raw food but make no mistake about it, I am still a huge believer in its healing, magical powers. I have settled into a very comfortable and stress-free vegan (well, actually bee-gan) diet and am feeling very happy and contented with it. It feels good to be so unconcerned with what I'm going to eat all the time and being vegan feels very easy to me. I realized about 2 months ago that constantly trying to stay raw was really stressing me out. And that just wasn't healthy for me. So I decided to just be vegan for a while and see how I felt. The verdict is that I feel pretty great. My depression is staying away even under stressful conditions, my weight is gradually decreasing, and my family is happy with their diet, too. Plus we are finding that it is much less expensive to eat cooked vegan vs. raw vegan and that is a huge help to us financially right now. I am just allowing my body to guide me and we are taking stress-free baby steps toward my ultimate health goals. Don't worry, I will still be posting here on this blog when I have something raw-centric to express or when I make up a really good raw recipe or have any naked cooking fiascoes to to share with you...

Now, on to my new blog... You can find it at www.sisterlightheart.blogspot.com. It will be about my daily life, spirituality, parenting, music, anything that I feel like sharing with the entire world. And that is pretty much everything, as you all know...

Hope to see you all at my new blog and sending a big dose of light beam love in your direction! Peace and one love.

The dangers of naked cooking...

The other morning at about 6:30 am, as Felix was giving Lincoln his shower, I put a couple of pieces of Ezekiel bread under the broiler to toast. Then I went into my bedroom to get ready/dressed to bring Linc to school. In the middle of dressing, a.k.a. completely topless, I heard one of the pieces of toast fall through the grate and onto the bottom of the oven so I went to investigate, topless. The piece of toast had landed on the heating element on the floor of the oven, and as I reached in to retrieve it from it's impending incineration, my naked, very ample, right boobie landed on and pressed itself firmly into the unbelievably scorching hot oven door. It fried like an egg folks. Not joking, at all. I swore so loudly and for so long that I even amazed my own self. So, I have spent the past 3 days in a fog of non-adhesive wound dressings, triple anti-biotic ointment, overly adhesive (as in pull off all remaining boobie skin) medical tape, and elasticized tank tops.
Do you think someone is trying to tell me something?
Do you think it will leave a scar?
And, no, I will not post a picture of it. Even I have my limits.