Now doesn’t that just sound smurfect? I did not post my day two on day two because frankly, I felt like mud all day long. You ever tried to move 228 pounds of mud under your own power all at once? Not too easy. So now you see how I felt yesterday. Not a fun day in a lot of respects, but it all came out well in the end.
Problems started when I only got 4 hours of sleep the night before due to salad cravings. I got up and tried to make a chocolate shake for breakfast to boost my energy, and against my better judgement, I added goji berries in with it, as Jason had soaked them ahead of time and didn’t want them to go to waste. I never have liked gojis in a smoothie or shake, because despite the uber-lovely and strong Vita Mix, they never actually get smooth. If I could just find a way to get those darned grainy little seeds out, I might like it better.
And for whatever reason, my coconut, chocolate, banana, maca, mesquite & goji “shake” was just abysmal yesterday. Actually made my stomach hurt. Plus, it got all gelatinous. Mmmmmm … grainy pudding! Yeccchhhhhh! Jason liked it ok, but I added too much mesquite, also. I forgot that too much mesquite tastes a little like vomit to me. Don’t know why. Just does. That’s why I usually add just about a 1/2 or 1/4 teaspoon of it to each 2 heaping tablespoons of cacao I use. In my opinion it’s amazing as a complementary flavor, and shouldn’t be used in high concentrations. Maybe that’s why my stomach hurt. Who knows? Jason ended up drinking the rest of mine, cause I just couldn’t take it.
For lunch I ate nothing, as my stomach was still upset, and the idea of food, much less chocolate food, made me wanna hurl! So no lunch. On the way home, driving by McDonald’s actually made me shake! I wanted to stop in so bad I was getting a little nuts! But I prevailed!!! 
) What’s odd is that i haven’t eaten McDonald’s hamburgers in YEARS!
When I got home, I was on the war path for a salad again! I mean I NEEDED one! So I’m thinking that cacao and greens are a very good combo for me. If I was craving something like pizza or lasagna or any other cooked food for that matter, I would have no real trouble keeping myself from eating it. But if my body is crying out for green leafs, for Pete’s sake, who am I to deny it that? And why am I referring to my body and my mind as though they are different entities? I guess I’m just too used to it. Well, there’s another thing to put on my to do list: Start thinking of all parts of my body and systems as one thing, since they are.
On a completely different subject, I have long wanted some nice, thick, heavy glass serving plates and glasses, especially for the Go Raw, Not Crazy © books. Nothing takes a beautiful dish and makes it look like crud faster than an ugly old beat up, plastic bowl, cup or plate. So when he got home from school, Jahn and I went to Value Village (a favorite thrift store of ours), and picked up some of the most gorgeous crystal and glass serving plates, platters, ice cream social type glasses and apertif glasses known to the human race. Since I only needed one of each of most of them, it didn’t matter that they didn’t have mates. How many times do I need to show a chocolate shake in a book anyway, right? Also, some of the glasses came in 3′s, so I got those for serving delights to my Valenti boys at home. I love it when somebody gives their dishes in 3′s to Value Village — ’cause all we need are 3!
While still out, we stopped by Costco, as they are the only place in town where we can get a certain kind of mango that Jason likes. Jahn saw the pizza on the sign and started going a little nuts for it. Poor dear. He’s gluten intolerant, so I couldn’t get it for him even if we ate cooked food, but he was going through a hard patch, so I told him we’d try to make some raw pizza. Now I had to think FAST on my feet, because I didn’t have ANY idea how to do this. We went to Terra Organica since no one else in town has such a selection of raw foods already prepared, and started our search for ingredients. Thankfully, Livin’ Spoonful makes some of the most amazing raw crackers on the PLANET!!! I picked up a package of the Sunny Garden Herb, as they have flavors much like pizza already in them. (The company puts the gluten-free spin on their site, but they are actually raw, too!) I got Jahn a raw cookie as well, and gave him a taste of the cracker. HE LOVED IT! Whew! One ingredient down (crust), two to go (sauce & cheese). So I got a few nice red, ripe tomatoes, a package of sun-dried tomatoes and out the door we went. When I got home, I put 1 small tomato, a handful of sun-dried tomatoes, about a tablespoon (accidentally) of Italian seasoning, a pinch of Celtic grey sea salt, and a few dashes of pepper (Jahn loves his stuff spicy). Blended it up in the Vita Mix, and it came out tasting, if not feeling, exactly like pizza sauce. (Jason suggests water and chia be added next time to make it come out more like an actual sauce next time. Plus, then it will be thicker and I can then blend it longer. I think I’ll take him up on that!)
So I took a cracker, spread a bit of sauce on it, topped it with the only thing I could find which was hemp seeds (for protein, and because they look white, sort of like the color of raw cheddar), and plopped it down in front of the wee one. Would he eat it? Tune in tomorrow to find out.
KIDDING!
He put Herby on it (he puts that stuff on everything savory — no, I mean EVERYTHING!!!), promptly gobbled it up and said it was delicious! I about fell on the ground in shock!
Jahn gobbles up his "pizza" with gusto!
So that’s going in the kid recipe book for SURE! For dessert, I made him a mango lassi, as he’s been missing those, too. He used to go out for Indian food with his dad, and really missed his lassis. I cut up 2 mangos, a young thai coconut, and set the Vita Mix a-whirlin’. Good LORD was it bland! Added agave, still not quite right. Added the juice of half a Clementine orange to give it some oomph (this batch is rather tart), and Jahn said it didn’t really taste like a lassi, but that it was very good. “You can save the rest for Pop,” he said. Well, I can’t win them all.
All this excitement with “pizza” and “lassis” and helping someone stay raw made me forget about what I was up to, which was chocolate. So I had the left over mango bits with chocolate sauce (quite good!) and sent the little one to bed.
All in all, my day was more about Jahn and his diet than it was about me and mine. But that’s ok. I got 2 new recipes that will be highly effective in the future out of it, and some of the prettiest dishes I’ve ever owned.
