In preparation for the week, I went to Farmer’s market bright and early this Saturday morning and purchased corn, tomatoes, pecans and flax seed crackers. Finished off my shopping at my natural market. Came home and reshuffled produced, putting the last of last weeks up front and this weeks fresh towards the back. Then created 2 salads to last me the week.
Broccoli Salad
1 large bunch of Broccoli, stems peeled, sliced thin
½ yellow onion, slivered
Olive oil
Apple cider vinegar
Curry
Salt
Garlic
Tomato/Tomatillo Salad
6 small tomatoes, chopped into large chunk
4 Tomatillo, chopped into smaller chunks
4 green scallions, whites and greens
½ yellow bell pepper, cut into thin strips
½ red bell pepper. cut into thin strips
Hemp oil
Apple cider vinegar
Garlic
Cayenne
Salt
Both of these are great with a sliced of avocado, but then again, what isn’t?
Also made Chia seed gel
1 part chia seeds to 3 parts water in a glass container with lid.
Shake fiercely. Let sit for 10 minutes
Shake again.
Store in the refrigerator.
It is suggested to take 3 T a day for added fiber. I take it when I am hungry, but am not ready to eat yet.
And…
Hazelnut milk.
1 cup hazelnuts
2 dates
½ tsp vanilla
Soak hazelnuts in water at room temperature for 24 hours.
Drain.
Add three cups fresh water.
Scooping both water and nuts, blend at high speed, adding pitted dates.
Place in glass bowl, lined with cheese cloth. Gather corners to twist and tighten over a bowl to collect your pulp and strain the milk. "Nut Bags" are also available.
Makes about 4 cups
Freeze pulp wrapped in wax paper, then zip lock bag for a future raw concoction, not sure yet what they may be.
One thing about goin’ raw, is as a mother of three with limited funds, a time ago in my life, an out grown habit endured. To eat perishables that were “past due on their rent”. Not now. I had old pesto that I had made from fresh greens, a while back, and looked at it, and smelled, thought it looked and smelled “okay”, there was no life, it was dead. In my old life, I probably would have made a salad dressing out of it, and called it good. Into the garbage the last of this batch goes. I guess I am growing up.
Raw Notes:
Consider bringing your plastic produce bags to the market with you, along with your reusable cloth shopping bags. If you are taking care of your body, you certainly want to take care of Mother Gaia by not throwing them away.
Had a chat with the pecan man about what makes a nut “raw”. Larger nut companies (like what you buy at Costco and major grocery stores) pasteurize their nuts at 190 degrees (ouch!) for preservation and extending shelf life. Smaller companies don’t need to because they sell seasonally and only to their community. Same chat with the honey man about honey. His answer was basically the same.
Found myself slightly conflicted at the produce section of my natural market. Apples. Five different kinds, but none of them were from our country. Organic, but imported. What I have heard, is though they may be grown organic in another country according to what that country defines organic, sometimes during the importing process, they may be sprayed with a chemical to prevent…something, hitchhikers, spoiling, not sure, but it doesn’t sound good. Now, I have this habit of having an apple every afternoon. Hmmmm. Then I got to think about my morning favorite of banana, not USA. Ended up filing this feeling, these thoughts for another shopping trip. Bought my bananas from Mexico and apples from Chile. South America does seem to be the place to be for a prosperous farmer these days.
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