Moose Moment

I feel so lucky to have had so much time at home in the daylight this week!  I start to miss our mountains when I'm only home in the dark.

Just when I thought the day couldn't get any more beautiful, I spied some visitors out the window.

This little lady and I were sharing a special moment of unbreakable eye contact when Big Daddy interrupted, encouraging everyone to scamper down the hill.   

You are so cute, in a weird way.  

the bossy bull 

I'm actually glad the bull showed up because I might still be involved in a stare off and I wouldn't have whipped up the persimmon mousse portion of Persimmon and Coconut Cream Parfait.  This is so easy and delicious- try it!!

Vivian before 

Vivian after

I plan to make more of these later.  

Now I need to eat my post P90X snack and gear up for a brisk walk with my wonderful neighbor.  

more cabbage and mock tuna 

Question:  Any other P90Xers out there?  I just finished week four (the lovely low key week with all my fave workouts) and took pictures today (as directed by my BFF Tony Horton).  I'm pretty pleased.  Any one else have an opinion on the program?  

Lazy Day

 

  

I just realized I'm in my jammies.  It's 2:00 p.m.  That's okay, 'cause I've been a busy girl.   

I made a salt and vinegar kale chip recipe, suggested to me by my friend Andrea, with the warning not to inhale quickly as kale bits burn the lungs.  I am punished for my inability to heed the warning every time I make these. 

Ingredients:

1.  De-stem the kale and cut into chip sized pieces.

2.  Put kale in a ziploc (I usually save these bags in the fridge     for future use).

3. Dump kale in bag and pour in a healthy dose of Evo and ACV.

4. Spread on dehydrator tray and sprinkle with sea salt.  

6.  Dehydrate at 105 for 6 or 7 hours, or until crunchily inhalable.  

For lunch I whipped up a batch of sunflower spread from Sunny Raw Kitchen's new e-recipe book.  It is so easy to make and delicious.  To resemble tuna salad I added dulse flakes and a bunch of chopped Bubbie's pickles.  

The salad was rolled into romaine leaves with carrots and zucchini.  It was marvelous. 

Next, I had these little gems to play with:  

I searched far and wide for a raw persimmon recipe (having never really experimented with them before) and decided to make Persimmon and Coconut Cream Parfait from Sunny Raw Kitchen.  How could I not?  Finished product:  

This is incredibly good.  I encourage you to buy some of those in season persimmons and try this recipe!  

I have to say, I've purchased all the e-books from Sunny Raw Kitchen and everything I've made has been delish.  I've found that some raw recipe books produce an end result that is consistently too salty, too sweet, too nut heavy, or just too weird.  I think I have the same taste buds as Carmella.  

Question:  Do you ever notice a particular taste theme in different recipe books? 

I'm off to complete P90X stretch- yippee!  Actually, last week I looked forward to all the workouts.  But I don't have to change out of my jammies for stretch.