A tiny quick desert like halva

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spoon of unhulled tahini
spoon of coconut oil
tsp of lake pedders nectar raw honey
tsp of whole raw pistachio's
tsp of lucuma
mix together, and roll into shapes as desired

Inside the mustard wrap

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Mustard leaf
sprouted quinoa (black, red, white varieties)
protein mixture (1 tbs hempseed protein, 1 tbs tahini, a spoon of miso and 1/2 tsp umeboshi plum)
grated carrot
purple sauerkraut

What I'm eating for dinner is really good

There is no picture.
It's dark, nightime.
Sometimes we don't need pictures.
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1/4 green cabbage grated
grated heritage turnip
one largish grated carrot
a ripe Roma tomato chopped
something like four tablespoons of sprouted quinoa (red, white and black)
fresh lemon thyme
pink salt
lemon juice
spoon of hemp oil
3 tsps of unhulled tahini mixed with a little water and mixed through

Smoothie for the car ride to the train station

Tahini milk
Restorative, and balancing for nerves and stomach
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Two spoons of unhulled tahini (calcium)
2 cups of water
2 tsps of slippery elm powder (good for soothing stomach acid and the esophageal world)
2 spoons of maca powder (adrenals)
2 spoons of lucuma powder (lucuma is often part of celebrations and banquet settings because of its distinct and fragrant flavor)

Parsley mad

Raw auli ous-ous (c-c-c!!)
with baked baramundi in ta-hini-ini sauce.
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raw c-auli c-ous c-ous
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1/2 large cauliflower shredded in a food processor lemon juice, pink salt
parsley, walnut and pepita pesto-like thing mixed through the cauli
1 tsp blue manna honey, 1 tsp yellow mustard, 2 tbs hemp oil mixed into a dressing and poured over (adjust to taste)
green gordal olives, 1/2 avocado cubed, a few more dark green pepitas
pink salt, ground mountain pepper leaves

Baked tahinied fish
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put lemon juice and salt on piece of raw fish, I used baramundi and let it soak for 1/2 hour
rinse and fry in coconut oil, fry brown Swiss mushrooms and leek, add to the fish
mix up a sauce of unhulled tahini, lemon juice, salt, mustard, lots of fresh parsley and mineral water (can also add garlic, pepper...) and pour over the fish. If you have an oven bake it in that, I just use a ceramic crock pot with it's lid on on the stove.
This is amazing if you cook it really slowly for a long time, today I ruses the process a bit so I could disappear and catch an arts festival performance. I'm not sure I like this fast life, want to find other ways of being, slower ones.

A mud like desert

This is rough but delicious
2 tbs unhulled tahini
2 tbs almonds roughly broken up in mortar and pestle
2 tbs carob powder
1 grated fuji apple

Chewing

Chewing is definately good for you.
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Massaged curly kale, salt, lemon juice,
1 tsp hemp oil,
2 carrots,
handful buckwheat sprouts,
dulse,
tahina.

Love

I happened to be standing next to these two most lovely girls and eating their food at the same time. It was great, incredibly delicious, beautifully wonderous and interesting to learn that avocado and tomato could somehow taste like mango. On my plate is a zucchini pasta and a fennel and blood orange salad. Thankyou, so happy.

Garden + sprouts + tahina

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Dandelion greens, milk thistle, spicy rocket, curly lettuce, parsley, nasturtium and calendula flowers.
Mung, buckwheat and lentil sprouts, soaked almonds.
grated carrot, a little avocado and a bit of fried organic tempeh
Tahini miso sauce (1 tbs tahini, 1 tbs genmai miso, water, 1 tsp hemp oil)
thankyou

Lunchbox on the bus

Cooked millet with lemon juice, mountain pepper leaves, parsley, sultanas.
Cooked pumpkin, raw green capsicum. Tahini miso sauce.

Post run

Today I started training again. After a foot injury and a few other momentum distractors it was really wonderful to go for s proper run. Before I left I meditated for an hour and then read the sections on "Nutrition during and immediately after exercise" in Brendan Brazier(vegan ironman)'s book Thrive. I ran 10kms down through the parks and along the river. It's so sustaining to connect with some kind of nature on a regular basis. Below are the "recovery drink" and "whole food smoothie" I made post run.

Whole food smoothie
An hour after my run I made this smoothie (the recovery drink at the end of this post is what I drank straight afterwards)

"A liquid meal shortly after exercise is of value because the majority of the bodys blood will be bust rapidly circulating throughtout the body clearing lactic acid and other metabolic waste from the extremities and delivering nutrients...with the extra strain of digestion removed by consuming complete liquid nutrition, recovery (from exercise) will dramatically improve." (Brendan Brazier, Thrive, p120)
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2 segments of durian (my friend dumpstered amazing fresh durians imported from thailand, crazy that they get thrown out, too weird for normal people maybe? anyway the durian was able to lead a regenerated second life in my kitchen, thankyou world for the present)
2 cups of water
1 tbs unhulled tahini
1 tbs hempseed protein
1 tbs carob powder
1 tsp slippery elm
This was a really satisfying protein rich smoothie, and it tasted amazing!

Recovery drink - I made this straight after my run.

"What is consumed after the workout is vital for cellular reconstruction.. To speed recovery, the body needs simple carbohydrate to enter the blood stream - the quicker the better. This means that the post-exercise snack should contain very little fat and no fiber, since both slow the rate at which carbohydrate enters the bloodstream...as well as electrolytes lost in sweat." (Brendan Brazier, Thrive, p118)
Suggested in Brendans recipes are the use of dates, coconut water, blueberries and papaya which are all lovely but I don't have them. So I read his ideas and made my own.
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2 calendula flowers (the petals)
sprig parsely
2 cups of water
1/4 tsp pink salt
2 tsp maca (for adrenal nourishment)
1 tbs hemp oil
1 tsp wakame seaweed
1/2 large lemon
1 tsp raw honey

Undergrowth salad

Blood Orange Fennel Quinoa Salad

A bowl all together

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Tessa -  salad: blood oranges, fennel root and tops, purple chicory, rocket, cos, raddichio

Karl - cooked red and white quinoa, shitake, giant Swiss brown, and yellow oyster mushrooms

Chay-Ya - sauce: unhulled tahini, genmai miso, walnut oil and water

Cracker

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Cracker with avocado, organic mozzarella, tahini sauce (with natto miso and hemp oil) and dulse flakes.


A delicious train picnic. Mum had crackers, organic mozzarella and avocado, and I brought fresh greens from an early morning garden, and tahina to the spread.

Bok Choy Strawberry Salad

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fresh bok choy
strawberries
brazil nuts
flaxseed oil
served with dosa pancakes and tahina sauce

Green Smoothie love

The green smoothie phenomena is quickly becoming a central part of my life. Everyday I pick greens and blend them with water and whatever fruit I can find. Everyday I invent a new recipe and find out you really can eat everything that grows (almost haha).














Here are a couple of recent smoothies I really enjoyed
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24.08.10
parsley and a few leaves of cos lettuce (from garden)
a grapefruit and 2 bananas
1 cup of water
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23.08.10
fresh parsley
1 and 1/2 bananas
tablespoon each of carob powder and dessicated coconut
1 cup of water
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22.08.10
(made with Chita)
milk thistle and nettles
1 orange, stick of celery and 2 bananas
3 cups of water
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17.08.10
lots of spinach stalk and all
a small apple and half a banana,
spoon of tahini and a spoon of hemp protein
1 and 1/2 cups of water
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11.08.10
lots of chickweed!
Spoon each of hemp, cacao and carob powders
4 squishy Turkish dates
1 banana and 1/4 of an avocado
1 and 1/2 cups of water
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another version of chickweed chocolate!
04.08.10
chickweed!!
Half an avocado
1 banana and 3 strawberries
raw cacao and maca powder to taste
a tiny bit of agave of you need to balance sweetness
1 and 1/2 cups of water
(by all the exclamations you can probably see I am fond of chickweed-chocolate smoothies...)
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01.08.10
buk choy leaves
2 bananas and 3 strawberries (these were high flavoured organic strawberries so don't need many, also I don't generally use much expensive fruits in my smoothies, since the high proliferation of bananas, I buy ripe ones from the markets and keep in freezer, I do the same with avocadoes sometimes-removing skin, quartering and freezing-rationing)
spoon of maca
1 and 1/2 cups of water

Carob tahini hemp ball

I've made these a few times in the last week, I'm a bit into carob at the moment, it's so aromatic and delicious. Depending on quantities you have available and particular taste (whether you want an intense flavour or more sustenance) this concept is very adaptable. Yesterday I made it like this
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1 cup of ground sunflower seeds
1-2tbs coconut oil melted
1-2tbs tahini
1-2tbs raw honey
1-2tbs carob powder
1 cup of hempseed protein
juice of an orange
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the previous day I made a version without the sunflower seeds and much less hemp, they were deliciously rich, this recipe above is a sustenance version. Hemp is super high in protein.

Black tahini

Black tahini on a corn cake with greeny yellow capsicum