photo credits: tunachilli

There’s a big food fight going on between the Macrobiotic and the Raw community over differences in their health disciplines- with the Raw foodists emphasizing on beneficial ‘live’ enzymes and the Japanese derived health system- the Macrobiotics emphasizing on the balance of yin and yang.

Macrobiotics also has roots in Chinese medical science. In Chinese traditional medicine, there are 4 different body types:

TAI YANG (Greater Yang): Large, beefy, red-faced, over-developed upper body, under developed lower body

SHAO YANG (Lesser Yang): Healthy mesomorphic, neither fat nor thin, normal muscle tone

Here’s the Today’s Mothers’ Day! Hearts to all mothers out there! (as well as to everyone playing the role of mom)

Of all the significant memorial days, Mothers’ Day holds the most meaning to me. 9 months of labour  must be the hardest thing to endure, not to mention all the labour and love that go towards rising a child from birth to adulthood. All mothers’ rock! Hail all mamas! All Mothers’ Banzai!!!

I love spaghetti. It’s like one of the fun-est stuff to eat. Especially how the Italians do it, twirling fat strands round and round the fork. Twirl and whirl- the perfect reason why kids and adult kids MUST play with their food.

Here’s a raw version of one of the most beloved dish in the world, minus the calories, plus all the goodness!

Zucchini Spaghetti

1 large Zucchini  julienned

1 tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil

2 Tomatoes

1  tablespoons of Italian Herb Blend (dried or fresh)

1 Bay leaf

Soups are a lovely thing to have, as a nice side dish or simply by itself. Everyone needs some slurppable comfort sometimes. Here’s a simple low-fat yet delectably creamy sweet soup.

Mr. Apple saw a bunch of cute dates on the kitchen counter, couldn’t decide who was the cutest, so he went ahead and dated them all. Dates are pretty okay with sharing one guy. These honeys are just in for the money anyways.

Mr. Apple can be such a play boy sometimes.

Mr. Apple Dates Dates Creamy Soup

1 Apple

6-7 Dried Dates

Anyone with UTI knows what a pain this illness is. You lose control over your bladder muscles and you trickle pee instead of having a nice waterfall flush. It is even worse if it isn’t you having the UTI, (we actually don’t mind our own pee that much) but someone else’s. Like your CAT. What a pain in the urethra. Ever tried giving meds to your cat? It’s like asking your relatives to lend you money. They will be reluctant at first but then you gag them into submission.  Did I say gag? Er.. I mean beg.

Summer= Ice Cream

What a simple equation. So is this recipe!

1 Avocado

5-6 Dried Figs

1/2 cup almonds (pre-soaked) or 1 banana

1 teaspoon Arrowroot Powder

2 tablespoons Agave Nectar

1 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract

2/3 cups filtered water

Blend it, freeze it. 1/2 hour later, take it out blend it (by whisk or blender) and shove it back into the freezer. Do this in 1/2 hour intervals for 2-3 more times to break up ice crystals. And then freeze for another 4 hours. Garnish with mint leaves or sliced dried figs.

Haphazard Naked Salad #2 and mizu blue earrings- Thanks Laney!

Being overly sentimental might be deemed as a flaw, but my whole being seem to embrace it, even thrive on it. Can I ever practice detachment like the Zen monks and DADA artists have mastered so marvelously?

Things I hold too dearly, I crush and destroy. Like the cherished house lantern made of casually painted clay. It broke into pieces one day, with an accidental slip. I cried then but now I realized it was a blessing in disguise.

I am learning to let go, to let things fall apart.

Mel’s Cats and My Dream Diary- Thanks Mel!

After I came home all tired and stuffed from the yummy meal at King’s Cafe and fell into a deep sleep. I had really weird dreams that night: a British guy being tortured- his skin flayed and tongue cut off, he was thrown into an underground community of brainwashed mangy ghoul-like humans who were slowly being poisoned by water contamination. This led to a loss of sensation at their limbs and eventual death by spontaneous combustion- with guts, liver and all exploding into a sinewy mess.

Raw Update: I am at 70% raw right now, and I plan to stay that way for some time. I don’t want to stress myself up over detox. It should be least of my worries now. My body is telling me to take things slowly.

I had a hearty cooked meal last night with my friend, E at a Chinese Buddhist restaurant huddled in the streets of Kensington Market called King’s Cafe. I came early so I ordered a ruddy red juice cocktail consisting of carrot, beetroot and ginger. The ginger brought a nice zing to an otherwise earthy blend of beetroot and carrot.

Something’s brewing: buu buu bubbles

Here’s a dinner smoothie of plant blood. It contains two bananas, 3-4 dates, 1 orange and a handful of spinach. No sugar added. Hurray!

My boyfriend, one of the most open-minded people I know, recently found out that I was going RAW. He was like, “That’s all good but where are you going to get your protein?” I can’t imagine what my folks and some friends may think when they find out about new eating habits.