What I ate on Sunday

Last Sunday was paying respects to "Kale" Day.
The day started off with some delicious and aromatic saffron tea followed by some ripe bananas.  I enjoyed the tea while oven baking some green raw coffee.

   



















Once the coffee was roasted and cooled I ground it down with some cardamom and I  brewed a small but strong thick and syrupy cup of coffee.









Then while I was vacuuming and cleaning my house I was able to oven bake a few batches of kale chips (not raw).
I used to make "raw" ones years ago but my feeling is once you dehydrate them and get all the water out of them it's about the same thing. So I sold my Excalibur Dehydrator on craigslist to someone who makes Hollywood special effects make up and body parts - props for scary movies :).


The kale chips are a fun and healthy snack but you're ultimately better off eating fresh raw kale instead of baking or dehydrating them. And even boiling it in soups and stews is a great nourishing option.

The kale baking turned out spectacular.
I made 2 flavors
The first one was kale, nutritional yeast, peanut butter, coconut oil, soy sauce and chile.

Raw and ready to go in the oven.

Spicy, peanut butter coated kale chips. 

The second batch was Chocolate, maple syrup, vanilla and peanut butter kale chips. Sounds odd but believe me - you don't even taste the kale. It's just a crunchy airy base for the maple cacao peanut butter mix. 

I baked them at around 250-275 F and I turned them over 2-3 times to make sure they were all evenly baked/dried. 

Chocolate Maple Kale Chips with Vanilla and Chipotle 

 While I was still busy cleaning I decided to get some strong chamomile tea going for after I am done with the house chores.

After the tea I ate the maple chips... mmm yes a whole batch which seemed pretty small considering how much kale there was before baking it. It turned out to be very filling. So that was lunch and I headed out to meet a friend for a hike.

I managed to catch a beautiful sunset overlooking the city.

And headed home. A few friends came over so I had a glass of wine and a few huge mugs of chamomile tea with almond milk. 

The wine was biodynamic and yummy. I get this question a lot. Do I drink? Not often. With occasion I have wine. On a summer afternoon I have wine. When I travel europe I have beer. I love microbreweries. I don't really pay attention to it but sometimes I have wine once a month or less, sometimes 2x week if there is a lot of fun activities going on. I find wine to be very blood building from a chinese medicine perspective and I DO KNOW how to value it :) As long as it's not a habit I consider wine to be a healthy and full of antioxidants drink. WINE is nature's nectar.  I might even be a tiny bit of a wine snob. I love cuvees, australian cuvees, californian cuvees, love syrahs and certain pinots, lately cabernet has been good. 

"WINE IS BOTTLED POETRY"

                                                    ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

The size of my tea mug :)

Dinner was a healthy huge raw veggie platter with 2 dips.

Kale Dip: 

Kale

Sprouted Tofu

Coconut Milk

Carrots (they make the dip sweet and work as a base to thicken it)

All Organic

(optional- garlic, spices, hot pepper, oil, salt)

 But I noticed that this dip is super yummy with fewer ingredients. 

Cinnamon and cayenne on top.

The kale dip turned out creamy and delicious. It reminded me of a spinach mayo dip. Just a much healthier version. 

The second dip was carrots, tofu, spices, tomato juice, coconut milk (sorry if there is one food I had to pick to live on if I was stranded on a deserted island I think I would have to go with young coconuts :).

 I love me some young coconuts :) )

Vegan raw carrot creamy dip!

The carrot dip color was spectacular. Milky peach orange. I don't think these pictures are doing it any justice :)

 (note I have an industrial blender that can get through pretty much anything and can liquify raw foods  so if you have a regular blender you can just steam the carrots before blending them)









I added some freshly squeezed lime juice on top of the dips.

Then I decided to put everything in Cron-O-Meter - a website that tracks your calories and nutrients for the day/week. You may find this interesting!

This is my mineral and vitamin  ratios/intake for the day.

Vitamins B1 (Thiamine) 1.7 mg 154% B12 (Cobalamin) 4.5 µg 188% B2 (Riboflavin) 2.2 mg 198% B3 (Niacin) 23.4 mg 167% B5 (Pantothenic Acid) 6.1 mg 121% B6 (Pyridoxine) 4.1 mg 312% Folate 1015.7 µg 254% Vitamin A 35925.6 IU 1540% Vitamin C 695.6 mg 927% Vitamin D 407.4 IU 204% Vitamin E 29.8 mg 199% Vitamin K 3221.1 µg 3579% Minerals Calcium 2169.6 mg 217% Copper 7.9 mg 879% Iron 22.3 mg 124% Magnesium 640.5 mg 200% Manganese 7.3 mg 403% Phosphorus 1146.4 mg 164% Potassium 7991.9 mg 170% Selenium 20.2 µg 37% Sodium 1963.2 mg 131% Zinc 9.3 mg 116%

  

For mostly having veggies and fruit this looks pretty impressive. Selenium is low, but in general, selenium is a nutrient we can't rely to get from our food supply because the soil is so depleted. BRAZIL NUTS ARE A VERY GOOD SOURCE OF SELENIUM.


Also the Vitamin D and B12 come from the store bought Almond Milk so if I had used homemade milk the values were gonna be at 0.

The high Vitamin K and A values are obviously from the kale, cabbage and carrots :)


OK this was all my food and drinks for the day :)

My macro nutrients ratios were at 70 20 10. A higher in fat day which happens here and there as I don't really pre-plan anything.


(my blogging skills are still a bit rough around the edges but I am working on polishing them :P )

LOVE AND LIGHT TO ALL