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… 
ps. for those of you who are concerned… I didn’t get a black eye, it is just a funny cartoon…
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
UPDATE!
THERE HAVE BEEN TOMATOES EVERYWHERE! (since I have been shaking the plants everyday to pollinating them, lots of tomatoes in the past months )
I have officially gone even mader and got my THIRD aerogrow garden — growing Cherry Tomotoes with this one. Apparently, LouLou is as excited as I am!
Day 1 April 6, 2007
Two Red Heirloom seed pods in the back, and one Golden Harvest in the front, the rest are the plant spacers.
LouLou slept guarding the garden the very first night
Day 4 April 9, 2007
All three seed pods sprouted!
Day 5 April 10, 2007
6am, woke up seeing the most beautiful water drops on the tomato leaves… LouLou wanted to be in the picture too
Day 7 April 12, 2007
Second tier of leaves showed up this morning.
Day 9 April 14, 2007
Day 19 April 24, 2007
Came home from Dubuque to find my tomato plants growing quite tall!
Day 25 April 30, 2007
Home from Evansville to find my tomato plants another inch taller
Day 39 May 14, 2007
I can’t express how excited I was to find the first flower on the yellow tomato plant! Does this mean tomatoes are coming soon?
Day lost count… July 22, 2007
Since I don’t seem to do a good job pollinating the flowers, I have long given up on my tomato plants and let it grow wild — somehow planning on starting it all over again.
For the first time in a long while, besides watering them, I took a look, there it was, a tiny little green tomato! (pictured is about the real life size) Well, one is better than nothing — I can’t wait for it to turn yellow
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 
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…
Saw the Danish Ebelskiver Iron on Williams-Sonoma’s catalogue, thought of the red (Adzuki) bean paste stuffed pancake I was so fond of as a child, I knew I had to have it.
The Danish calls it “ebelskiver”, we Taiwanese makes it in the shape of car wheel and simply calls it car wheel “tcha luan”, and the Japanese makes it in the shape of fish called “taiyaki” (red snaper bake) or in round shape called “dorayaki” which is Doraiemon’s favorite food I guess there is a version of it in every culture… whatever sweet treat it is stuffed with, it is delicious!
Made dorayaki for Ryota yesterday, he has become a very mature looking kid over his summer vocation in Japan. His Chopin F minor Etude Op. 25-2 is sounding fantastic now, I think we will put it on his podcast soon
Just found this on YouTube, I am ordering a Taiyaki Maker
Favorite toys used:
Hello Kitty slow cooker to cook the red bean to perfection (then chilled and sweetened with Organic Raw Agave Nectar
