Made a big batch of vegan chilli- veggie mince fried in Marmite and cumin, tin of kidney beans, onion, garlic, tin of chopped tomatoes, yellow bell pepper, green chilli and chilli powder. Leftovers went into the tacos.
The berry smoothie is fresh wheatgrass juice, beetroot juice, carrot juice and orange juice and blueberries, blackberries and blueberries. The sharpness of the berries sort of takes away from the taste of the wheatgrass, so it wasn't like drinking pondwater.
The raw mousse is 2 tsp chocolate powder (I used Green & Blacks, as I was out of raw cacao but since cacao isn't 'raw' anyway, I'm not sure how much of a difference it really made), 1 tsp raw carob powder, 5 soaked medjool dates, 1 avocado, 1tsp extra virgin coconut oil and water to blend. It was SO sweet. I love sweets, but I could barely eat half of it. Next time, I'd use less dates or leave them out completely. The next time I make this, I'm going to make it into a raw 'pie'.
At the weekend I went to see the comedian Jim Jeffries at Leicester Square. A lot of the material I'd heard him do at the last gig we saw, but he was still superfunny and very tasteless. Yay!
I didn't get to give blood on Friday. They said they had too many walk-ins and made me another appointment for November. They seemed to be turning away quite a few people. It was being held in a church hall, and it was pretty surreal, with people laying on hospital beds, giving blood in the middle of the room. Very weird. I would have thought they would have had makeshift cubicles or something. Oh well. November it is.
The risotto was AWESOME. From Everyday Vegetarian (Parragon). The green juice is apple/carrot/cucumber/half a peeled lime/spirulina. The raw sushi is parsnip rice, yellow bell pepper and cucumber in nori.
I'm going to give blood tomorrow, if I can get an appointment that is. Never given blood before, don't even know my blood type, though I might be negative. How emo. :)
The veggie curry and chickpea pancakes were excellent. Tasted reasonably authentic, unlike other curry recipes where the potatoes taste like hot watery mush swimming in oil. The veggies are steamed before being added, which I liked.
The banana and papaya pudding is 2 bananas, 1 banana and 2 tbs OJ blended together. Recipe from Alissa Cohen. One of the best raw puddings ever.
Yesterday I planted a big container of organic wheatgrass. My bell pepper plants are starting to fruit, and even though I only had one survivor each of my heirloom physalis and tomato plants, they're doing well and I'm going to have to repot them again.My goji berry plant still looks a bit skinny, even after about 2-3 years. They're supposed to fruit after 3 years, but my plant is only about 30cm tall and looks wimpy. My strawberry planter is also lacking in uh, strawberries. But, on the plus side, my blueberry bush is looking really healthy. I think I'll nickname it Lazarus, since it likes coming back from the dead.
