No posts for a while as I’ve been away, although unfortunatly not to Thailand – I’ve only been as far as London and Brighton. In London I headed straight for China Town where I know of a few shops which sell tropical fruit. I tried mangosteen for the first time and they are amazing, quite unlike any other fruit I’ve had before. I also had some longan which were also delicious, they were very similar to lychees but with a different outer shell. Got a couple of durians, they are not quite ripe yet, looking forward to having them very soon.

Had a great time in Brighton, a continuation of our “Staying Awake Club”. It’s based on research by Tony Wright on how the brain works and how we might be able to enable much more brain function. On the Saturday night we had a bit of party, Kate invited a few other friends and we had lots of raw cake with superfoods and then later we took some ayahuasca. We made it with a different ingredient and I found it very difficult to drink, so I ended up not drinking too much and not having a very big experience, but it was still good.

You can read a bit more about the weekend on Jess’ blog.

A quick recipe for you. While in China Town I found some very cheap sheets of kelp so I made the following:

• 2 avocaods
• about 4 sheets of kelp, soaked for 30 mins
• bit of chili

Everything went in the Vitamix, including the soak water and it was delicious (but then I do love seaweed).
Got a lot of work to catch up with now so I’m going to stop writing. I really must get on with the next issue of Funky Raw if it is going to come out anytime near the due date and at the weekend me and Holly are doing a raw food prep workshop in Manchester.