Raw Purple Cauliflower Salad

How beautiful is purple cauliflower? It is all firm, that surprising shade of purple and a change from the usual white kind which although lovely lets face it, isnt exciting.
Make a raw purple cauliflower salad to retain the colour and nutrients of this gorgeous vegetable. Read more

Day 23

Today was one of those relaxing days where anything seems possible, even stealing a few moments with a good book.

The sun was shining and I did spend some time under the apricot tree reading Malcolm Gladwells “Blink”. I am one of those privileged people who has a backyard and enough space to grow trees and veges. I currently have 12 foot high sunflowers that track the passage of the sun across the sky with their giant nodding heads.

I was inspired by the heat of the day to sundry more tomatoes to a semidried state- their flavor was fantastic, concentrated and intense and with the addition of macrobiotic salt, olive oil and basil they seemed to carry the essence of hot summer days as I ate them. Utterly gorgeous!

Todays breaky was a pineapple and cherry smoothie with all the usual stuff- protein, LSA, almond milk kefir…

Lunch was fruit and tahini balls and I finished the amazing chocolate icecream experiment.

I took a salad with me to a friends house as we were going to be spending an evening chatting and I didnt want us to have to worry about what I could and couldnt eat. It was really nice and had enough interesting stuff in it to feel like gourmet dinner.

the salad recipe was:

1 big handful of rocket

2 big handfuls of baby spinach leaves

2 cups of mung bean sprouts

1/2 a cucumber sliced thinly

1 cup of semi dried tomato

20 sun dried strawberries

10 brasil nuts chopped

10 almonds chopped

a hand full of sunflower seeds

mix together with nuts on top and drizzle tahini dressing on it (we had corriander in our dressing)

I was pretty pleased with it.

And thats all folks!