Where we're at today, trying to get back in the saddle, is, we can eat whatever we want, but have to have 3 raw deals in the day. Dindin was melange of shredded raw cauliflower and spinach, drenched with a cooled saute (nonraw, but I'm ok with that) of vegetable oil, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, onion and a handful of squished tofu, with a drink of juice 3 oranges + 2 carrots + some water. Good!

I know...

I know...I know...I'm sorry!!!!!!!

No way to cover the lost ground so let's just start with this morning.

Maybe two weeks after one of my very good friends, living in Oregon now, told me she and her hub are all juicing now, without any evangelism from moi even, it was actually a little the other way around during the phone call wherein I learned this, and she was so expounding juicers and I thought to myself, well, my blender isn't that bad, and possibly easier to clean...maybe two weeks after this a free and brand new juicer landed on my counter, used this morning. Cucumber, mango, apple, the rest of the collards, a carrot. Delicious.

I heard once, though, that juicing as opposed to blendering drinks gives you a medicinal-level essence of the plant, which isn't necessarily what you always want...so to juice with prudence is all.

So much crapeating and I feel like shit and it's not all because of food but possibly some of it is. I'm getting back on the saddle here and now, to see what we can do about el mood.

Thinking about

getting herbal teas involved a little more. The thought of cold chamomile tea in a smoothie is making my mouth water. Mint tea could be awesome, too. Anyone out there doing this?

Did someone say equal parts

and



and



stirred together and then mashed into a bowlful of sweet/cooling type veggies like mandolined yellow squash, chopped cucumber, snap sugar peas and a handful of soaked lentilsngarbanzos?

Because if they did they would be even righter than when the garlic pickle first asked to come in on March 15. The only thing I can think to take this combo further might be a shy leak of orange juice, but I could be wrong. Anyway it's musical. A softer, stronger, sadder, wiser, even sexier garlic pickle, if that's possible.

Also,

I'm sorry, but I don't think I can do the daily fud thing anymore. Or for now, anyway. It just somehow went less than fabulous. And this is about the more, yes?

Did someone say

"Discover the taste of tradition with Mother's Recipe! Mother's Recipe Garlic Pickle is made from garlic cloves garnished with fenugreek, then seasoned with chilly powder and given the tangy component by tamarind. Simply irresistible!"

Did someone say this for only $2.89 screamingly flavorful and absolutely no animal or otherwise bad ingredients whatsoever?

Did someone say this with soaked buckwheat groats, lentilsngarbanzos + chopped cucumber and celery and a few dashes olive oil and salt and then a dollop of nonfat plain yogurt for fanciness sake? (For the record we will soon be trying to make coconut yogurt, k?)

Did someone say this? Because if so, they would be deeply, incredibly, wildly, maybe even pulsatingly right --