So today at the tea shop I told my lovely friend Declan that I haven’t had a salad in months. “Emma, you’re a raw foodist, how can you not have had a salad in months?” was his reply. And the answer is I’ve just really fallen out of the way of them. I tend to drink most of my food making juices, smoothies, nut milks and weirdy concoctions oh and chocolate! Oh, I did have one last week at Ask restaurant where I ordered the salmon salad (without the salmon) which was quite nice but pretty lame just leaves, cucumber, tomato and some avo. Let’s be honest, restaurants in Glasgow and much of the UK don’t really have a clue what a REAL salad is.
Having browsed through Sarma’s book Living Raw Food last night I fell in love all over again with the concept of wonderful salads and dressings and decided today would be a salad day. Do I need to get out more I wonder? Seriously, this book is lovely. I won’t lie, there’s quite A LOT of recipes that I just could not be arsed making as they have too many ingredients and far too faffy but if you’re in to food porn then you’ll like it. The first section does have some nice simple stuff too which is a bonus. I just really like Sarma’s down to earth attitude and also have a massive girl crush on her…
Moving on! So tonight Matthew I made a wonderful orgasmic super salad. Here is the recipe:
- Bag of watercress, spinach and rocket
- One head of fennel, chopped – why do they call it head I wonder? Like, head of celery, why head? Knob of ginger? moving on…
- 1/3 cucumber, chopped
- Beetroot – i used some cooked stuff. Craving this like you wouldn’t believe…or maybe you would?
- 1/2 cup Capers – these make ANY salad. FACT
- 1/2 cup China Rose Sprouts
- 2 TBSP hemp seeds – shelled
- 1 TBSP klamath lake algae
- 1/2 apple, chopped
- 5 raw olives, chopped
- handful of DULSE – oh aye, back on the dulse
- 1 sprig chopped mint leaves – these are awesome in a salad
- 1 handful chopped coriander leaves
- MIX in bowl and added dressing of 1/2 avocado blended with lime juice, salt and bit of water
WOW – how much do I LOVE salad? I definitely need to get out more…
So the juice feast? Well, last night I decided to end the green juice feast. It was meant to be 7 days and I got to the second day and felt like I’d been hit by ten massive trucks and had forty gallons of tequila and not slept in a year and a half THAT is how ill I felt. Bit confused really because I don’t consider myself to be that toxic that I should get such a massive detoxification. Not only did I feel extreme nausea but also severe dizziness and a lot of emotional detox – not good! So I made the decision to break the feast and had a nut milk to help ease the symptoms. I felt a bit better but still needed my bed. Today I’m back to my ‘normal’ self and planning on doing the detox either when it gets warmer or actually going to a retreat somewhere HOT where I can relax. Still, two days not bad eh?
Anyway, off to go do something exciting like clean the kitchen. Yay, have fun!
Just had a thought. Well I had it earlier but forgot until now. I was thinking to myself that I was surprised that you were having so many ‘detox’ type symptoms, as I wouldn’t have thought you would be very toxic at all, and I was wondering why that might be. Maybe it’s not detox symptoms, maybe it’s your body’s way of saying this is actually not a very good idea at the moment? I guess if you are feeling bad, it’s maybe not always due to detoxing?
Yeah I’m a bit surprised myself. I mean, the most toxic I get is some cooked home-made hummus with oat cakes, hardly deep fried mars bars is it haha!
Yep I agree, the most important lesson here is I listened to my body and broke the fast. Otherwise I might be dead today, and dead people can’t write blogs!
Lovely to see you today, had a bloody lovely time xxx
Yes it was really nice. Shame I didn’t catch Gail. I miss people, I miss PaddY. I won’t even tell you how toxic I am at the moment! Let’s just say that soya custard is making a regular appearance which is really bizarre as I never really eat much soya stuff as I reckon it’s a bit weird. But I don’t flipping care, it’s winter, and I’m making like a squirrel, stuffing my tree with nuts, and hibernating!
you are the snow white squirrel and i’m the cinderella something. i could quite happily be a squirrel. in fact, when I get one of gail’s hampers it’s quite possible you won’t see or hear from me for a while haha. till hogmanay natch. going to see about negotiating a lift of some description so that I can drink a merry jerry or two.
didn’t even know you got soya custard? are you eating it straight out the carton? 🙂 xx
Not quite. I’m heating it up and eating it with banana. I only like custard if it has banana in it. And at the moment, oddly, I only like banana if it has custard round it! And it’s SUCH a bad food combining mix – protein and starchy fruit together. I think because of the outside exercise I’m doing though I’m needing lots of protein, and I’m still not good with nuts or seeds, so my body has just cottoned on to soya custard! I didn’t know about it until recently when I spotted it in Grassroots but you can get it in all the supermarkets too. Because I wasn’t vegan before I went raw, I’ve never really known about the alternative products, but now I’m not raw, I’m finding more. It’s weird stuff though, it’s really thin, I don’t think I’ll eat it by summer. I probably wouldn’t recommend it to you, it’s definitely a bit strange. Even with banana in it….
hahaha Lucy I think you’re the funniest random person I know. Rod loves custard and likes banana – I’ll suggest it to him 🙂 x
I agree with Declan, how can you have not eaten a salad in months?! I put cooked beetroot on mine too quite often too, Niamh and I love the stuff (apparently its got the highest natural sugar content of all veg, so prob why we like it so much!). Glad you broke the fast. I started just doing juices on the same day as you and lasted till tea time before I caved – I felt awful too! I was exhuasted, achey, dizzy and headachey. I just couldn’t do it whilst running round after a toddler. Think perhaps winter is not the time to do it, esp with several feet of snow outside and minus temps! Now get some yummy food into yourself and feel better! Rx
Haha, I was certainly a bit salad deficient! Didn’t think about the sugar in the beetroot, that’s probably why I’m hell bent on it 🙂
Yeah winter isn’t the best time. Although, I think I’ve figured out why I detoxed so bad. I’ve been leaning very heavily on the chai tea which has black tea high in caffeine. Think I’m going to have to admit to being a bit of a caffeine nut! That explains the hell of a headache I got…
Will see about a wee break over the xmas and new year period :/
xxx
I love chai too, but don’t have more than one caffeinated one a day or I go a bit loopy (nothing new there then). have you tried rooiboos chai? Dragonfly tea make an organic one I get it from my local health food shop, ahve to admit I’m a tad addicted to it. sometimes plain, sometimes with almond milk and some sweetener. warms you up good an proper 🙂 x
Sounds lush, I’ve got some different teas here. It’s more the tea shop I’m addicted to. Oh ok and the chai 😉 x
F*cking hate fennel.
(F*cking love you though!)
f<3cking love you too xx