Passe Little Pate

A couple of weeks ago i decided to get some beets while i was in a sort of winter induced "RSINGFDFGRHDGD ROOT VEGETABLES" fury. I didn't care about how beets were never really my thing and i never have that much fun trying to use them up. I just wanted anything somewhat substantial that wasn't nuts.

I put some in a salad and managed to choke it down. Something about that particular type of sweetness that i don't really appreciate too much. I've only started coming around to carrots.

I just wanted to cover up that sort of grainy, scratchy back of my throatness that i sometimes interpret them as having, also. So i threw a couple of chunks into the mini food processor with some pumpkin seeds, red onion, and a little lemon juice, and it came out surprisingly killa. Stunning pink color. Borderline cocky. The flavor was geniously accented by the nori it got rolled up in, too.

Trippy.

There's something about cilantro...

that makes me feel almost elated while eating it. That makes me realize there are bigger things in this world than essay deadlines and even straining relationships. There are herbs with intriguing flavors that make you feel like the only way you could possibly keep on living your life is to explore the world and share their vibrance , rather than exerting any more negative energy.

Tonight's dinner was spring mix thrown together with some red onion, garlic, carrots, an avocado, a couple drops of olive oil, lemon juice, sea salt, and cilantro. It may look annoyingly basic, but it's enough to make your eyes widen and shake your head in disbelief of it's freshness. Seriously. I've made this a couple times and it never fails to put a smile on my face, despite the type of day i've had. This is the best food on the planet. I don't know how someone could not want to eat this way every single day of their lives.

Tonight i made some nice kale and avocado salad.

Massaged with some celtic sea salt, olive oil, lemon and garlic.

Or i probably could have said some avocado with a bit of kale salad, and no one would have thought twice about it! I do think i went a little overboard with the massaging, though . That combined with my lack of cooperation as far as using liberal amounts of oil goes, lead it to turn out a bit water logged and super reduced. Other than that it was really great, smooth, easy on the jaw as opposed to the sometimes fibrous kale, pre-treatment. With the avocado it reminded me some sort of creamed spinach.

I've really been trying to steer away from sugars lately. I'm figuring out that my body type thrives best on a low sugar diet. I've been eating so many sweet fruits lately like oranges and apples and bananas because nothing's been satisfying me. I chalk it up to the cold. I don't like the feeling all that sugar gives me. I can't just wake up and eat fruit. It feels like i'm burning right through it. So i turn to nuts, which are probably the raw food world's worst confidants. So i'm gonna start sprouting religiously and hopefully it'll put an end to the whole fruit/nut vicious cycle. Greens seem to help the rapid fruit burning problem, too, in smoothie form. But there's no sort of abundance this time of year.

Oh, winter, with it's appetite amplifications and simultaneous produce scarcity, it's just too cute.

PHWA! Where to start!?!

"Are you allowed to eat this?"
"Oh, she can't have that."
Is what others say when i'm around. I do confront them about their choice of words, and tell them not to get it twisted, that i don't WANT to eat that. This is all done very gently, moreso than it sounds, so i suppose it doesn't really qualify as a confrontation.

I've been thinking for a while about jumping onto the food blog bandwagon. Since the cooked vegan days. It just seems so fulfilling to me. To have a document of the creations, recipes, and feelings I've been harboring. The sweet, savory, and the nauseating. The big push was the new SLR(no joke) camera I just got, which means i can finally try my hand in the raw food p0rn industry. My intent is to focus mainly on the food, not so much the raw journey. I say intent because i'm sure the outcome is eventually going to end up opposite, because the raw road is awfully whinedy.

This is my second year being homeschooled, and i still can't decide if it's a blessing or a curse. I chose this. I demanded it, actually. In a sense it was a blessing because i probably would not have stumbled across this raw revelation. It's a curse because i go absolutely mad, almost every day, not being able to figure out what to do with myself. So i'm trying not to feel like such a loser being at home all day, and get to creating.

If we were truly in tune with the earth and our emotions, we wouldn't have to seek out comfort and distractions in food. I'm currently eating an eggplant cutlet as i type this. If i were happy that wouldn't be the case. But it's cold outside(comfort), and i don't feel that great about myself(distraction).

I wholeheartedly believe in David Wolfe's philosophy that says something to the effect of: If you're not feeling GREAT, then there's something wrong. (Those in raw don't need me to tell them to look deeper into the apparently obvious statement ). Therefore I, like anyone else into this lifestyle, am on a quest to reach my full potential as a human in this day and age. Our minds are supposed to be in a different state. We're not supposed to feel mediocre and bored. And the bleached flour and carcasses don't appear to be helping the situation.