So many words…so little time

Oh no!  It’s been ages since I last updated my blog!  I have many tiny inspirations throughout the day, but seldom manage to get them into print. Maybe it’s time I started twittering?  I wonder if tiny soundbites fit my lifestyle better than well-developed missives.  Maybe I shouldn’t worry about it and just accept that I write when I write and when I don’t write, I don’t.  Although, I’m sure a few sparks of inspiration get lost in the process, which is what nags me.  Anyway…

I have the dehydrator running for the first time. I’m making flax crackers from a recipe I found on the Give It To Me Raw community.  I also whipped up a few atom bombs, according to the orginal recipe from many moon ago in my London days, and am having a go at dehydrating four of them.  It makes a fan sound, but otherwise is a pretty innocuous machine.

The Green Star juicer is proving to be a fab partner in the kitchen.  Amazing yield and fantastic juices.  I whipped up a little celery-carrot-purple carrot-pear-parsley-garlic green juice the other morning and man did it kick ass!  I walked around the whole day with garlic on the tongue, but I sure felt energized, even though I’d been up half the night with the baby.

The Blendtec Total I’ve also been using but am not totally convinced yet.  It is great for smoothies, and I made a fantastic almond mylk today.  But I agree with the critics of the Blendtec that the pre-programmed control panel is a bit of a pig to intuit.  I think I’d have preferred and nice twisty little knob.  And, the Blendtec doesn’t come with a tamper, like the Vita-Prep.  This means the dreaded situation where your ingredients are pasted to the edges of the jar while the blades fruitlessly whirl through air arises with frequency.  Or, at least, with what I’ve tried to do with it.  Maybe I am trying to make my blender be a food processor? Above-mentioned flax crackers were certainly not a happy glob in the ol’ blender.  Nor was the coconut I tried to cream the other day, but that might be because it actually turned out to be bad.  I dunno.  I am going to keep trying and see where the Blendtec leads me.

The cool thing is the my dude is getting quite into the whole raw thing. He’s making smoothies in the morning, salads at lunchtime, reading Shazzie’s books and generally quite enthused about the left-of-centre ideas that I keep springing on him.  Yay!