Jung’s Weblog

This may have been the very first aeroponic cucumber ever grew out of an apartment in Manhattan, and it was sweet, crunchy, and fabulously refreshing

Not since Nathaniel, has anyone had this much fun in my kitchen!

Lisa, the wildest flower child in the history of western civilization demonstrating her pasta making technique:

Hurting from laughter, I am flat on the floor…

p.s. she wears it better than me — the faux fur apron from Celine…

Since the very first time Celine brought me there, Kyotofu has become my favorite afternoon hideout. Walk there almost every week to have the "chef’s omekase." The tea infused rice and home made silken tofu are out of this world…

Have been making tofu at home since, haven’t mastered the texture just quite yet, but don’t make me show you all the tools and different kinds of tofu coagulators I have… Sometimes I think my quest for the ultimate truth in everything is quite insane but I can’t tell you what fun it is in the process

The additional bonus is the puppy shop across the street, where I often linger and fantasize about going home with a pug. A few weeks ago, my attention was taken away from a pug puppy by a couple beautiful looking tiny creatures, they were Long Hair Chihuahuas, I was told. Found myself reading about them on internet for the days to come, can’t quite get over them.

Went into the shop again this afternoon before my lunch, this time the shopkeeper VERY wisely let out a new puppy for me to hold in the tiny secluded area for a very long while… I left the place mesmerized… no, I can’t have a dog, the second I start performing again, I will not be able to take care of a dog… I repeated saying that to myself…

Googgling everything about the breed on my iPhone the whole time I was having my usual at Kyotofu… Left the restaurant, involuntarily walked back to the shop, home with this gorgeous Long Hair Chihuahua wrapped in my sweater in this craziest windy cold day.

There, I officially ended my unofficial affair with the pugs…

I name her HuaHua — she is a Chi-HuaHua, and she is a DOLL (what huahua happens to mean in Chinese )

HuaHua, Long Hair Chihuahua, born 12/20/2007, weighing 1.5 pound, endearingly fit in my small palm. She is calm, happy, and secure. She looks like a tiny alien chasing my 14 pounds big blue boys around

Lunch Today.

I find it hard to stay very raw when the weather is so cold, but I do keep 2 out of 3 meals raw everyday. This is my newest acquisition — Hello Kitty Rice Bowl with Cover.

So my regression continues…

Dessert after lunch today:

* all ingredients organic *
1 1/4 cup freshly ground soft whole wheat
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 mashed banana
2 tbsp coconut oil
1 tbsp ground flax seed plus 3 tbsp water (as egg replacer)
1/2 cup homemade Vanilla Brazil nut milk
1/2 cup maple sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
Tofutti tofu cream cheese for frosting

Love love love my Easygreen Sprouter, the best sprouter in the world (and believe me, I have and tried every sprouter there is! ) The chamber provides such perfect enviroment for the sprouts, it sprays water automatically with the set timer, no soaking, no rinsing, zip, nada… takes just 5 days to mature — everyday put in a tray, everyday you harvest a tray of sprouts. It is fantastic!

This is my favorite snack — Sprout Sushi Roll (with either vagan mayo, or raw cashew mayo) — it is really yummmm

Lunch today, persimmon & kiwi in double deck Hello Kitty lunch box — not really LouLou’s…

Ever since I started using this amazing organic grocery delivery service — Urban Organic, I have had abundant of in season organic fruits and vegetables that taste so exceptionally great. I really didn’t know there could be such a huge difference in the texture and taste of a fruit when it is grown right. Help saving this planet is quite a fantastic thing after all

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

Favorite book used:

More things that may interest you:
“101 Reasons Why I’m A Vegetarian” By Pamela Rice

"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…