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Eating Raw

I live and work very close to a lot of raw food restaurants. My favourite is Pure Food & Wine. I really enjoy eating raw but often get protein headaches after (the sort of headaches that scream for the flesh of a once living animal). They make the yummiest icecream from cashews and coconut meat sweetened with agave nectar rather than sugar. The chocolate is really amazing and very ice cream-like - it's my newest addiction. Also love their chocolate raw macaroons...













Apart from deserts their other food is also amazing, especially the raw lasagne ...I would never bother making it myself as I can just walk up the road & buy some.. but here is the recipe (I found it online):

Zucchini-and-Green-Zebra-Tomato Lasagne with Basil-Pistachio Pesto

Ingredients
Lemon-Pignoli “Ricotta”
2 cups raw pignoli nuts, soaked in water for at least 1 hour
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons nutritional yeast (optional; available in health food stores)
1 teaspoon sea salt

Tomato Sauce
2 cups good-quality sun-dried tomatoes (dry-packed), soaked in water for at least 2 hours
1 medium ripe tomato, diced
1/4 small onion, chopped
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
4 teaspoons maple syrup
2 teaspoons sea salt
Pinch hot-pepper flakes

Basil-Pistachio Pesto
2 cups packed basil leaves
1/2 cup raw pistachios
6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon sea salt, or to taste
Pinch freshly ground black pepper

Lasagne
3 medium zucchini, ends trimmed
3 medium green-zebra tomatoes (or other heirloom variety)
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh oregano
1 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves
Garnish: whole basil leaves


Cooking Instructions
Lemon-Pignoli “Ricotta”

Place the pignoli, lemon juice, nutritional yeast, and salt in a food processor, and pulse a few times, until thoroughly combined. Gradually add 6 tablespoons water, and pulse until the texture becomes fluffy, like ricotta. Place in a bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and set aside.

Tomato Sauce
Place all ingredients in a blender, and process until smooth.

Basil-Pistachio Pesto
Place all ingredients in a blender, and process until smooth.

Lasagne
Using a mandoline or vegetable peeler, shave zucchini lengthwise into very thin slices, then cut in half crosswise. Cut the tomatoes in half, and each half into thin slices. Line the bottom of a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with two layers of zucchini slices. Brush the zucchini lightly with olive oil, spread 1/3 of the tomato sauce over it, and top with small dollops of “ricotta” and pesto, using 1/3 of each. Layer on 1/3 of the tomato slices, and sprinkle with 1/3 of the oregano and thyme. Add another double layer of zucchini and repeat twice more with the tomato sauce, pesto, ricotta, tomato slices, and herbs. Serve immediately, or cover with plastic and let sit at room temperature for a few hours. Garnish with basil.

Pure Food & Wine

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Dancing in the kiddie pool looking horrible... dress tucked into undies...eeekkk

Flower District

Today was the start of a 4 day weekend for Memorial Day and I travelled up to the flower district for the first time ....lotus is cool.

Spring Risotto

Fiddleheads

I have no idea what these things are... I bought some at the Union Square markets after being told they "taste like spring". They look weird and tasted like a random green vegetable.

私は私がまだ飲まれることを考える

Too much sake, bollinger, great company, exquisite food and nasty blackberry camera photos at Jewel Bako

Watercouleur Park

Qubo Gas is a collective of French artists challenging and reconsidering what we know as drawing and collage. Watercouleur Park is one such project where it's merged into a multimedia landscape. This is a beautiful and arresting piece of digital art.......
Watercouleur Park

The Pop-In Lion Person

I've been hanging with this lion person recently. I think bear people are a bit more exciting though. I think I will join up beardate.com or something to meet some nice elligible bear people.(Lion people just seem to drink too much... and have bad tempers).

Spring Fever

I have been out of sorts lately. Feeling tired, lethargic, almost sick but with nothing particularily wrong with me. Turns out I have some American disease called "Spring Fever" - apparently defined as a feeling of restlessness, excitement, or laziness brought on by the coming of spring.
It also has something to do with Jeter & A-Rod (that's what google says anyway..) - not sure if that's about the start of the baseball season or the sleep overs they have been having.

Bear People

Last year a lot of lion people migrated to the tri-state area. Seems all the lion people have told all the bear people how great life is here... I've been seeing quite a few bear people around....I'm all for diversity, so this is great for the ever growning multicultural dynamic of the city.

Thinking of doing this to my walls...

Editor of Fukt Drawing Magazine, Bjorn Hegardt, has his own impressive body of installation work in collaboration with Theo Agren. I think this would look great in my apartment.
Fukt
Bjorn Hegardt