I have been a bit busy the past week but I thought I would finally write today about yesterdays T.V. shoot for Cable Vision's show called Neighborhood Watch. It was really fun and went very quick and without any problems. I was imagining something much more hectic and I felt that I was not really prepared because I wanted to have more of the food done by the time they got here, but it worked out great because they really wanted to tape me making the food anyway.
So they started by miking me and talking to me a bit about all the food I had made. Then they started filming and I basically explained what I was making and we talked a lot about the reasons for being on a raw food diet. I realized how much I miss teaching and how much I really believe in the reasons to be eating raw food. The words just flow out of me and I can't be stopped once I start! It is quite interesting because it is a side of me that I forget is even there....the teacher, chef, want to be nutritionist!!! haha
So as for the menu, here is what I made; Stuffed mushrooms, wilted kale salad with hemp seeds, sprouted wild rice salad, brazil nut loafs with mushroom gravy, mashed cauliflower and macadamia nut "potatoes" , pecan pie and a chocolate ganche tart. I had a bunch of friends come over to enjoy the meal and be taped having a staged dinner party. Everyone loved the food, not a single complaint! And all my friends are people with lots of raw food experience even though they are not raw foodists. The camera crew also really liked it and it was their first time ever eating raw food!
I wish I would have photographed the event and the food but I just got too busy and before I knew it it was all gone! I might have a slice of tart left to take a picture of, I will have to check and see. I will post some recipes for some of the dishes I made since a few people asked for them and maybe make them again to show pictures.
I have been doing pretty good but still have my slip here and there. I am losing weight though and I think by the end of this week should be in the 160's.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
Never Give Up!!!
I have been pretty consumed with life this past week and have not even written a word until now. I have had some really great days and some really bad raw days which I would like to share about. For starters I was doing great for a few days and really sticking to all raw no matter how hard it was. After a few days of this I decided one day that I would feed Samadhi all raw as well and it went fine, she was happy and never hungry, so I felt really great. Next came the big shocker......my 18 year old son decided he wanted to eat raw also!! Well now it wasn't all that amazing since he only wanted to do it to slim down for a Halloween costume, but hey even a few days would have been a great help to me!!
So the next day the three of us ate all raw all day. It was like old times and it was really great! For dinner I made a huge kale salad and a huge bowl of very thinly sliced cabbage salad and we sat on a blanket on the living room floor and had a picnic while watching a really funny movie. It was really perfect but it only lasted that one day! The next day he was back to eating anything and everything, but hey, at least I know he still knows how great it feels to eat raw and maybe someday he will do it more regularly.
I did good until the weekend. I had already committed to cooking for a friends Halloween party and felt that I could not back out last minute. I thought I could handle it but the sesame tofu I made was just too tempting! I was eating raw all day and then as the night got more and more hectic and stressful with trying to get everything done and get to the party I started that mindless picking again. Once I started I figured I might as well eat, and did, but not out of control.
The worst came on Halloween night when I went to the city. I had only eaten a little bit of Pineapple and some oranges all day and by the time I met up with my brothers after the Halloween parade I was starving and didn't care!!! We went to a Mexican restaurant and I ordered a vegetable burrito. The funny part was when the food finally came and I started eating it I complained to my brothers that the burrito was gross because the vegetables were all RAW!!!! hahaha they both said to me "isn't that a good thing?" because I didn't realize........they have been reading my blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I felt pretty stupid, but hey, if your going to eat cooked you at least want it to be good!
So today is a new day and I thought about all the other commitments to cooked food that I have coming up. One is a public access T.V. show that I am being filmed for in my own kitchen. The subject of the show is a healthy vegetarian Thanksgiving. The second event is a huge catering event for Animal Protection League of NJ. That one there is no way out of and I really need to do it because it is a really big job and the money is good. Well here is what I did.......I wrote the man from the public access channel and told him how popular raw food diet is and how I think that a much more interesting show would be a RAW Thanksgiving and he went for it!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow I am so excited and surprised! I didn't really think he would go for it but I decided it was worth a try.
So now besides the catering I am done with cooked commitments and there is no reason to be tempted again until Thanksgiving. I am really relieved and it showed me that when there is a will there is a way.
I am not giving up on myself because I know I did raw before for a very long time. It is very hard but usually the things worth doing in life come with a challenge.
So today I am back on track and am very positive! I hope you are too.
So the next day the three of us ate all raw all day. It was like old times and it was really great! For dinner I made a huge kale salad and a huge bowl of very thinly sliced cabbage salad and we sat on a blanket on the living room floor and had a picnic while watching a really funny movie. It was really perfect but it only lasted that one day! The next day he was back to eating anything and everything, but hey, at least I know he still knows how great it feels to eat raw and maybe someday he will do it more regularly.
I did good until the weekend. I had already committed to cooking for a friends Halloween party and felt that I could not back out last minute. I thought I could handle it but the sesame tofu I made was just too tempting! I was eating raw all day and then as the night got more and more hectic and stressful with trying to get everything done and get to the party I started that mindless picking again. Once I started I figured I might as well eat, and did, but not out of control.
The worst came on Halloween night when I went to the city. I had only eaten a little bit of Pineapple and some oranges all day and by the time I met up with my brothers after the Halloween parade I was starving and didn't care!!! We went to a Mexican restaurant and I ordered a vegetable burrito. The funny part was when the food finally came and I started eating it I complained to my brothers that the burrito was gross because the vegetables were all RAW!!!! hahaha they both said to me "isn't that a good thing?" because I didn't realize........they have been reading my blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I felt pretty stupid, but hey, if your going to eat cooked you at least want it to be good!
So today is a new day and I thought about all the other commitments to cooked food that I have coming up. One is a public access T.V. show that I am being filmed for in my own kitchen. The subject of the show is a healthy vegetarian Thanksgiving. The second event is a huge catering event for Animal Protection League of NJ. That one there is no way out of and I really need to do it because it is a really big job and the money is good. Well here is what I did.......I wrote the man from the public access channel and told him how popular raw food diet is and how I think that a much more interesting show would be a RAW Thanksgiving and he went for it!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow I am so excited and surprised! I didn't really think he would go for it but I decided it was worth a try.
So now besides the catering I am done with cooked commitments and there is no reason to be tempted again until Thanksgiving. I am really relieved and it showed me that when there is a will there is a way.
I am not giving up on myself because I know I did raw before for a very long time. It is very hard but usually the things worth doing in life come with a challenge.
So today I am back on track and am very positive! I hope you are too.
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