Day Three Mostly Raw

Day three of my Lenten fast. It's brilliant.

I decided to just move boldly forward without any particulars for my master plan. The plan is this. 1. Eat mostly raw, aiming for 90%. 2. Fill in with either macrobiotics inspired, or at least whole. 3. Once a week or so, eat a Healthiest Meals On Earth type meal.

Yesterday was easy. The kids had oatmeal for breakfast with rice syrup, blueberries, and goat milk. I made whole wheat blueberry scones the other day, so we finished those as well. Lunch was cut peppers, some soaked and dehydrated almonds, a big salad of locally grown organic chrysanthemum greens with soaked and dried pumpkin seeds, garlic, heirloom tomato, fresh dill from the garden, blueberries, lime, extra virgin olive oil, pepper, Himalayan salt.

I also made a green papaya salad. Shredded green papaya, shallots, garlic chives, culantro greens, cilantro, Thai chili, drizzled fish sauce (made only with fish, water, salt). Outstanding.

I snacked on sunflower sprouts. The kids had Fig Newmans. We also had to stop for emergency kefir and fruit because they didn't really plan lunch well enough for the length of our day. They also had some ciabatta.

Dinner was not much like dinner, but so awesome we didn't care. Really raw smoothie, made like this:

16 oz. raw cow milk
1 raw egg, we use Amish
1/2 Hass avocado
5-6 strawberries
handful soaked & dried almonds
2 T. hemp seeds
4 pitted dates
1 t. Madagascar vanilla extract
(1/2 banana or peach if desired)

Blend until smooth.

The girls and I loved it, but Baird didn't. He had raw peanuts-only peanut butter on the last of his ciabatta roll and some freshly squeezed orange juice. Kali used her ciabatta for a little grilled cheese.

After we made and drank smoothie twice, I really wanted something salty, and crunchy. But flax crackers didn't seem like the thing. It also seemed like a good idea to have some nightshade, having had all that dairy. (They complement each other, nightshades providing magnesium and potassium for milk's calcium to properly digest. Nightshades grow at night, and are more familiar as tomatoes, potatoes, okra, peppers).

I sauteed a sliced green tomato in evoo (extra virgin olive oil) pretty hard, going for good browning (but not smoking!), and added some roughly chopped garlic about half way through. In the same pan I then lightly steam-sauteed fresh local Swiss chard by adding small amounts of water as it cooked. I salted it all with kosher pink sea salt. Soooo good together. Mmmm.

Breakfast today was Fruit & Nut Manna bread with raw almond butter and sliced banana. Watered down freshly squeezed orange juice. Happiness.

Some time this week I want to make ceviche with local fish, shrimp and squid. And the raw chili in Carol Alt's book The Raw 50. We'll also be having a meal of lamb shoulder chops. Maybe broiled. I soaked some yam thread noodles from the Asian store and need to figure out what to put on them today. They're like cellophane noodles.

But now I need to make blender juice. Chard, cucumber, pear, galangal, basil. Tim and the younger two are going to bike the loop with Stella. Durga's running around in a shirt and bike helmet and nothing else. I'm thinking beach thoughts, but also get work done thoughts. How can I do both, I wonder?