Today went quite well. Not swimmingly but well.
I woke up at 8 then slept again til 10.30 and literally DRAGGED myself out of bed. I had a shower, looked in the mirror and thought, “I look awful”. This is me.
I think I look awful but I’m happy to post random photos of my face because as I don’t have a lot of weight to lose, or really anyway, I’m hoping that my raw transformation will be apparent in my face.
Actually, just looking at my face, you can’t really see all the imperfections that I have which I would like to see disappear. Firstly, blackheads. Secondly, bags under eyes. Thirdly, scars from the chicken pox which some brute gave me last year (just after my birthday…the injustice!)
Anyway, so yes, this is me and my turban. We are very happy together.
Today, I had…
well, let me say that I started the day by drinking lots of water and doing voice training. So that was a great start and a good wake me up too. For breakfast though, I had a small 1/2 coffee/1/2 coffee substitute with macadamia milk. I caved. I just really wanted coffee! But it was just a small coffee.
Then the rest of the day I was all raw and had:
Lots of orange juice
Green smoothie with banana, spinach and orange juice
Some raw brownie
Muesli of buckwheat sprouts, raisins, dates, almonds, sunflower seeds and macadamia milk.
Also, I created some amazing raw tuna sushi. Here is is:
The recipe, which I posted on goneraw (raw tuna sushi) is:
Ingredients
- 1 cup almonds
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tablespoon sunflower oil
- 1 dash cayenne (or as much as you want)
- 1½ tablespoons lemon juice (or juice of 1/2 a lemon)
- ⅛ cup nori shreds, soak in the lemon juice
- 1 slice large sheet of nori
- 1 cup buckwheat sprouts, soaked, sprouted and allowed to dry
- ¾ cup cauliflower
- 1 teaspoon nama shoyu (i used tamari)
- ⅛ cup dates (i used about 3 dates)
- 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
- 2 pinches salt
- 6 slices avocado (about 1/4 avo)
- ⅛ cup rocket salad/rucola/arugula
Preparation
So, for the ‘rice’, you need to first blitz in the food processor or blender the buckwheat sprouts. Make sure they’re dry so that it turns into a chunky buckwheat flour. Put that into a bowl. Then do the same with the cauliflower. Put that in the same bowl. Now put the dates, vinegar, salt and soy sauce in the blender and try to blend it to a paste. Mine stayed quite chunky but it’s fine. Add the date mixture to the buckwheat and cauliflower and mix well. It should be quite sticky. If not, add more vinegar or soy. That’s your rice.
Now for the tuna. This recipe is basically the tuna recipe created by James the raw (http://www.goneraw.com/recipes/1908-tuna-salad-sandwiches-) You blitz up the almonds till they’re quite fine. Then add the garlic (chopped), the nori shreds with lemon juice, salt, cayenne, and…that’s it. Whizz it all up. You will probably have to use a spatula to get it all in and mixed around. So, that’s the tuna.
Now, assembly. I’ve never rolled sushi b4 so this is just how I did it and can surely be done better. I first put the rice onto the large nori sheet and spread it over the whole sheet, not right to the edges though. Then layer on the rocket salad and also the avocado. Add a dash of soy sauce also. Then sblodge on the tuna. Roll up the nori roll and dab the edges with soy sauce so that it sticks. Turn the big fat nori roll so that the edges are underneath and slice ‘bite size’ chunks with a sharp knife. I say bite size in quotes because they don’t fit into MY mouth. It may be better to halve the nori sheet and spread the rice and tuna only half as thick. But, I’m just telling y’all how I did it. Anyway, they come out looking like California Rolls.
I had no ginger nor wasabi, but when I get some, this recipe will be PERFECT. Oh, and chopsticks.
So, that’s day 3 over with.
I feel good, with quite a lot of energy. My hands are still dry, as are my eyes, and I feel like I could sleep for 16 hours. Maybe I will.
My Raw Rice and Avocado Sauce
