Waking up, solved a child kidnapping mystery case, a very nice dream I guess I was compensating for the murder mystery weekend that I couldn’t have since the beautiful Victorian murder mystery inn somewhere 2 hours from NYC is booked until end of November when I will be in New Mexico… Oh, well, I will wait until Spring — Always want to solve a murder mystery, don’t know why… But if I didn’t pick up piano at 4, I think I would have become a alchemist — murder, cooking, coding, watching CSI… got it?
Packing lunch, Avocado, 3 kinds of heirloom tomatoes (red, orange, and yellow), green leave lettuce, with pistachio basil pesto, sun dried tomato sauce, on sprouted grain burger bun. Hungry?
Got the cutest Hello Kitty Bento Boxes (one in red, one in black) decided to make things to fill it up for dinner. After his lesson, Ryota and I started making gyoza (dumplings) from scratch (from dough to vege stuffing), and we made vege udon noodle and some raw vege sushi to go with it. Ryota gets around the kitchen really well, he figures everything out so quickly, a great little helper Not that I show favoritism with my students, I know Ryota’s dad Takashi since I was in high school, he lived just across the hall way from me and still does with his family. I first met Ryota when his mom Wakako was pregnant with him, and he is now 10! Pretty amazing.
(BooBoo always sits on the table when we eat, politely, but very determined to guilt you into feeding him some yummy food )
I haven’t had anyone cooking in my kitchen since my sous chef Nathaniel Yangco passed away earlier this year… Everything in my kitchen reminds me of him, for that he never stopped asking about the technique for every tool I have, and for every dish we made, he took more pride in it then I did… It is nice to have a sous chef again — I had a ball using child labor
Made Sarma’s Blonde Macaroons for the NYC Rawfood Group MeetUp film screening event yesterday. It was a last minute decision that I didn’t have enough time to dehydrate them properly when I brought some to the potluck (taste fabulous already though, they were all gone in a few minutes!). But by midnight (12 hours dehydration) they were amazing!!! Better than any Macaroons I have ever tasted, and, do I have a thing for Macaroons! — funny, they never tasted as good as I wanted them to be until I tried this raw version… no sugar high to say the least, they are actually good for you (made of Almond flour, Shredded Coconut, Coconut Butter, Vanilla, Maple Syrup (does not effect blood sugar), and a dash of Sea Salt.)
The Film screening was for “Supercharge me, 30 Days Raw” by Jenna Norwood, quite funny, and it does touch many aspects of the rawfood lifestyle, if you are interested, watching it may help you get motivated.
For me, I started because I just couldn’t bear contributing to animal cruelties any longer (had real hard time separating all animals from my kitties as I grow to love them and understand them more and more), but it ended up being a really fascinating journey of researching and awareness.
This was my first time to a rawfood group meeting. It was so well organized by some really nice people, I even won a big bag of raw cacao powder at the raffle — never won anything in my life! Now I can make raw chocolate Macaroons
"Meet Your Meat:" Don’t watch this if you don’t wish to feel grossed out about your dinner tonight. I find information powerful, but I have no cause — I have no need to stop others from doing what they want. It is just very heart breaking to know these things, and also shocking to know how little we know about the world we live in…
I guess I was compensating for the murder mystery weekend that I couldn’t have since the beautiful Victorian murder mystery inn somewhere 2 hours from NYC is booked until end of November when I will be in New Mexico… Oh, well, I will wait until Spring — Always want to solve a murder mystery, don’t know why… But if I didn’t pick up piano at 4, I think I would have become a alchemist — murder, cooking, coding, watching CSI… got it? 
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