smoothies of the day.

i started this post almost 2 months ago which is really frightening! i gave up because i have run out of space on this account for photos as i guess i was using photos that were too large and now i don't know how to go back and make 'em smaller. and i can't blog without photos! so now i'm fiddling with hosting photos elsewhere to use for this thing. and i realize the photos i had for this post aren't amazing anyways. but it's all practice and learning, right?

so, first i had a pic from a morning when i was cutting it real close to missing my bus and took my green smoothie to go. and goodness, was it delicious! it was like a green custard. no wonder my day was so wonderful!

it contained about 1/2 cup filtered water, 1 frozen persimmon, 2 bosc pears, a handful of radish greens, a handful of cilantro and about 5 dandelion greens. need-a-spoon-thick with a mild sweet like vanilla taste!  happiness!

and that night, my dessert was a blended avocado with just under a cup of filtered water and a healthy heap of raspberries. subtly sweet and oh-so-thick-and-creamy. anyways... here's my excuse to post again! happy new year! may this year be full of health and happiness and inspiration and incredible food! ^_^

no-pumpkin pie custard-like smoothie!

oh goodness, is this delicious!
smooth and thick like a custard, cold and refreshing as a smoothie, comforting like a pumpkin pie, though i can't remember the last time i had a pumpkin pie! the last "pumpkin" pie i had was at organic lives (last year maybe?) and it wasn't made with pumpkin either!

ingredients:
-1 cup almond milk
-1 frozen banana
-1 frozen persimmon
-1 nub of ginger
-a good-sized shake of cinnamon
-a sprinkle of lucuma
-a sprinkle of mesquite
-a small splash of maple syrup

korean middle school cafeteria winter-styles day 13

breakfast! the raw hemp granola and almond milk and salad and persimmons on the side! yay!

some green stuff on the side was exciting at lunch. also the banana because, oh yah, mashed it up again with cacao nibs. LOVE THIS. added hemp seed to my salad. had to eat a vega vibrance bar after this though. and some teriyaki sprouted almonds!

 dinner... my head chef friend made some of the organic brown rice i brought! hurrah! it was nice to have something warm, i have to admit. it tasted like oatmeal. but i was hungry and it worked MUCH better than the white rice they serve. i have been confusing the chef by not taking white rice (which is served at every meal)... it is vegan but to me, it is so pointless (and maybe even painful!) to eat it!
ooh anyways, i had salad too (duh) and splashed some apple cider vinegar on it with crumbs of raw bagels. drinking some chickpea miso as i write this... 3 days until seoul and 9 days until i leave for home!

korean middle school cafeteria winter-styles day 7

breakfast... *roasted* seaweed again atop some salad... persimmon (YES!!!) with chia cereal. YAH!

 i scored an orange yesterday that i saved for lunch. salad with rawmesan on top with dulse and flax crackers i made back home on the side! (crackers were simply soaked flax seed and ground flax, ginger and red onion). my chef friend was concerned that i didn't take any of the white rice. i brought some brown rice but i'm not sure how to go about that. i can't make that in a cup in my room but i also can't see myself asking someone to make it for me. so really not sure why i brought it!!!

 there were potatoes tonight at dinner and i couldn't resist. then they came out with french fries. i had maybe 3 though because the last time i remember eating fried food before summer, i was sick all night! oh, also have to say that these oranges were AMAZING.

mon amie smoo thie

the other night i made the most delicious thing... and today i made it again but put it in a bowl as i didn't have a glass big enough...

this is, as patrick cleverly named, the 'mon amie' smoothie:
frozen persimMON
alMONd milk
cinnaMON
cardaMON

perfection!!!

oh, i put coconut on top in this bowl setting as it was kinda confusing to me eating out of a bowl. like it was icy pudding?

korean middle school cafeteria day 2

there were bananas in the cafeteria this morning which were PERFECT for slicing on my apple cinnamon chia/buckwheat/etc. cereal












lunch's excitement was the yellow peppers in the salad (i added shelled hemp seed to this and tamari for dressing) and the frozen persimmon! it appears the cooks froze the persimmons as they were quite ripe (and on the verge of not so goodness) but really, persimmons have such a small window of perfect ripeness and i thought it was great! (and i went back and convinced the lady working the persimmon table to give me another) totally going to freeze them at home.













so then dinner... i was debating opening my pesto to make things interesting but i suppose i'll save it for later, like when camp actually starts (tomorrow is day 1). so... tonight i added dulse, tamari and nutritional yeast to the salad. and oranges were a treat!