Archive for December 24th, 2006
For all my websites I get detailed visitor statistics and one of the things I can see is what search terms people used to find this blog, some of which I found amusing:
recipes for brockley soup
That’s the users miss-spellings of broccoli, which just happens to be a place round the corner from where I live! So no broccoli soup recipes on this site yet, just some photos of the Brockley Nature Reserve!
chocolate bar made with magic mushrooms
Well that one definatly sounds interesting, I haven’t tried it yet, but maybe I should 
what fruit contains the mineral zeolite
I thought I should answer this one. According to Wikipedia “Natural zeolites form where volcanic rocks and ash layers react with alkaline groundwater”, so as far as I know, you won’t find them in fruit.
And finally:
aligator riding
What connection this has with my blog, I really have no idea!!!
December 24th, 2006
As I mentioned in a previous post, a few weeks ago Holly opened Ocean Wave Vibrations, her new online shop. She’s selling all kinds of things to help make us feel better, high vibrational foods, supliments and natural ‘highs’. Bertie and Lizzy are also making their own raw chocolates - Bertie’s Yummy Scrummies and Lizzy’s Baby Chocolate Balls!
Holly sent me some samples to try:
The first thing I tried was the Ashwagandha, according to the website it’s “A perfect antidote for the stresses of modern life, it is a remedy for overwork, lack of sleep or nervous exhaustion, promoting deep, undisturbed sleep” and as I’ve been a bit stressed and lacking sleep due to getting the Funky Raw magazine finished it sounded like what I needed. I made it into a tea, the first thing I noticed was the smell which I really liked and then the taste, again, I liked it and it brought back memories of something from a long time ago which I can’t remember. It’s definalty very relaxing.
Tonight I tried the Lion’s Mane Mushroom powder, sprinkled on my salad, it added a delicious flavour.
I’ve also been adding a little Purple Corn to my chocolate pudding, it’s high in antioxidants and one of the few blue/purple foods in nature. I’m only using 1/8 of a teaspoon (that’s what the instructions say) so it doesn’t impart much of a flavour but I’m sure it’s good for me!
December 24th, 2006
Made a delicious salad last night so I thought I’d share:
- 1 avocado, chopped
- 1 tomato, chopped
- 1/2 yellow pepper, grated
- 1/2 carrot, grated
- parmesan cheese, grated
- wild greens including wild garlic, chopped
- 30g sea spaghetti, soaked for 20 mins
- 2 tablespoons of flax oil
- 3 tablespoons sesame seeds
So, I mixed the first group of ingredients together. Then I ground the sesame seeds in the seed mill on my blender and mixed with the sea spaghetti, flax oil and some of the soak water from the sea spaghetti and then stired this into the salad.
I was really in the mood for sesame seeds last night and had more in my desert. I attempted a halva recipe, I ground up 6 tablespoons of sesame seeds and mixed in a couple of tablespoons of dark raw agave nectar. It tasted ok, but it wasn’t halva! I’ve just started using agave and it’s amazing, sweet and syrupy, like nothing I’ve had raw before! I like to just spread it on banans, I’ll have to be careful how quickly I’m getting through it.
If you have raw tahini, that would probably work better than the ground sesame in both recipes, I just don’t have any.
December 24th, 2006
