Todays' Foodstuffs

1 orange, did the job

I pretty salad of a chopped mango + 2 romaine leaves chopped so small it was almost like they were grated + about 1 1/2 inches cucumber, also chopped that small + a good shake, from the jar, of raw punkin seeds VERY, VERY DELICIOUS!

heading for another cup of clover tea

1 sheet of nori seaweed (the kind they use to wrap sushi in), yum, though not totally sure it's really raw

1 banana

SLIP: 1 cup or so of soy vanilla ice cream + drizzle olive oil + tiny bit of salt. Not raw, but we'll get there! And I do want you to know what a great combination vanilla ice cream + drizzled olive oil + a tiny bit of salt is. Insists you slow down. The idea came from a caller on The Splendid Table (do you feel, as I do, that Lynne Rosetto Kasper is a national treasure?) ...am def on the lookout for a cheap ice cream maker, to start making raw ice cream.

1 smoothie of big kale leaf + 2 small green apples + juice and pulp of 2 oranges + the end of the ginger + 1 1/2 inches or so cucumber + a bunch of water + a little nutmilk, good!

SLIP: 2 chicken wings, small, cold, not very good

SLIP: some Cream of Wheat (with nutmilk, though)

super, super, superduper delicious and satisfying hummusish dip of about 1 cup nutgrounds from making nutmilk + 1 clove garlic + maybe 1/8 inch onion slice + maybe 1/3 cup olive oil + squeeze of lemon juice + couple dashes salt + top part of an avocado. Raw garlic's a little gaggy for me, so I'd soaked the chopped onion and grated garlic clove in olive oil this afternoon, then heated it very low and briefly on the stove, then put it in the blender w/everything else plus a little more oil for fun. This was TOTALLY GOOD. I've heard raw chickpea hummus is tricky to make and usually sucks, would wager we have an exceeding substitution here!

Oh, also the end of a romaine lettuce head, as eating utensils for the...should we call it..."nutmus"?

I do count this as a minor victory, not just to've stumbled onto nutmus today, but also because it averted a popcorn situation.

I think my body must just really, really like a lot of protein, fat and salt. For now I'm going with it, and am gonna try to learn more about how to get more of that, raw.

(And that's, okay!)