Its been months

I was very busy with school and had done loads of writing for my english class, so i was not interested in writing about food or life. So im on summer vacation i have been for about 3 weeks now. I have been eating what ever i wanted and working out not soo much. Tomorrow though i am starting INSANITY. For those of you that have no idea what INSANITY is, it is an extreme 60 day work out.
So i thought to go along with INSANITY i would also try and up my RAW food intake and try and be a vegan. Now im am already a vegetarian and i love my dairy and eggs. So i will allow myself to still eat eggs and dairy but not as much and only if it is healthy. So i start tomorrow and i am excited.

a couple pounds lost energy gained

so i weighed myself today and i weigh 130, (i started out being 132 going into the fast)
so i have lost 2 pounds in 4 days! plus my energy is back and so far this has been a great little start to a long journey! Now the first couple of days those were the hardest! now im getting used to being filled up with my smoothies and i can even work out without getting too hungry after words.
Yesterday i ran a mile and a half and then did 20 mini stadiums ( on my stair case)
and i felt amazing.
now im not planning to do that everyday right now maybe just every other day.
But so far i feel great! a few cravings for cake (chocolate coffee cake to be exact)but other then that nothing
my consantration has also improved and im not tired all the time!
4 days down and 36 more to go!

Frank loves being RAW

i have to make his vegies in a smoothie, but he loves it! im soo happy!

It will be ok

so yesterday when my dad and I took Frank to the vets office they said he has a little bit of arthritis and his heart and spleen are enlarged. now I was feeling better when the vet told me it was just arthritis but when she told me about the enlarged heart and spleen my hear sank 30 feet. Now we give him pills for his pain and his heart. AND HE IS GOING TO GO RAW!!
thats right i knew about raw food for dogs for a while but never really tried it.
so this morning i gave him raw chicken breast and raw vegies. of corse he inhaled the chicken but the vegies he just pushed to the side.
So from now on its smoothied vegies FIRST then raw meat second!
so i cant wait to see if this new diet will help him out with his poor old body. i have high hopes that it will.
wish Frank luck!

very sad news.

last night before i went to bed my dog yelped as my dad was picking him up. we thought it was a muscle cramp and massaged him. then it happened again an hour later so we massaged him again.
this morning he kept yelping after he would get up from resting.so i know its not a muscle cramp.
im taking him to the vets office today to se whats really wrong with him but i think i already know
its bone cancer.
i know bone cancer happens to mainly larger dogs and my dog is a small dog but im almost sure thats what it is.
im very upset that i know most likely we will have to put him down.

he is 11 year old dachshund and i got him when i was in 3rd grade and now im in 12th grade! I hope im wrong and its only a sprain.

the last supper

so today in fact right now i just finished eating my last supper until the end of the 40 days of Lent!
im going to be doing my smoothie/juice fast. right now im thinking about starting the fast with a few days of smoothies then next week ill do the master cleanse for a few days then start a juice fast.
I honestly cant wait to start. im going to do plenty of yoga and just try and stay relaxed :)
my stomach needs a break and so does my mind.
WISH ME LUCK ill even try to post videos on youtube and try to post everyday on here to tell you how well or bad im doing!
love you!

The last meals

so since today is my LAST day of eating any kind of solid foods im going to make it count!
breakfast im have a slice of sourdough bread and some eggs with vegan sausage. lunch idk what im having still maybe just V8 juice not sure. then dinner im having the rest of my vegetarian menudo and the rest of my raw "sushi" ( no there is no fish in it) so thats what im having. i cant wait till tomorrow though i hope i make it!

40 days of fasting

So lent is almost around the corner and im giving up ALL SOLID FOODS and a day of being on the computer. so im going on a smoothie/juice fast and im going to do as much yoga and relaxing workouts as possible. im really excited and a bit scared i hope i make it through it!! and of course everyday i will try and pray.

the sourdough loaves

they came out great!!! super good.  this is them before i baked them.

raw blueberry pie and sourdough starter.

so yesterday evening i handmade coconut cream and butter, and while i was making it i was thinking
"this is the last time i am EVER making this!" BUT today i made the raw blueberry pie and used the coconut milk and butter and i think it might be worth all the work, i will see later on this evening when i have a slice!
 now moving on to bread world this morning after i fed it and stirred it around it bubbled just a little but still  didnt look anything like everyone elses sourdough starter online ( A VOLCANO IN A JAR!!) so i added a pinch of yeast and some distilled water and a pinch of sugar and well it may not be a roaring volcano it is bubbling A LOT more and i am much happier! I HOPE IT TURNS OUT GOOD and i HOPE THAT THE RAW BLUEBERRY CHEESECAKE TASTES GOOD!!

days gone by

so everyday still im having my RAW smoothies, and i have so much raw food, im enjoying everyday and still i eat cooked foods. so everything there is still amazing and im still going strong. right now i am working on a sour dough starter, its pretty easy i mixed in 2 tablespoons wheat and 2 tablespoons fresh squeezed orange juice, but i added 2 teaspoons more because it was not watery enough. then do the same thing again for 3 days. i hope it works out and bubbles because i tried making a soudough starter before and i killed it( i stirred it waaayyy too much) so im doing everything right so far i just hope it goes well!

feeling ALIVE!

haha I cant tell you how HAPPY I feel lately! i have increased my raw food intake the last oh 5 to 6 days and I have never felt better! I feel so much more energy running through my veins and  feel so happy and so much more positive. BUT I  am still a little sick, but if I had not gotten sick I would have never have gotten back on the road with my raw food eating. I still would have been scarfing down all the cooked BAD foods (because I still eat cooked foods but very little) and eating a ton of junk foods OR gone days where I didnt eat anything because I felt guilty. Now I have 2 green or fruit smoothies a day with a healthy raw granola bar and raw salads. And the past 2 days I have been having eggs for dinner(cooked of course) and I feel amazing!
Eggs and cheese (blue cheese to be exact) and whole wheat whole grain breads are the only things that I eat now that are not raw. Because I dont want anything but raw! LIFE REALLY IS AMAZING! :)

Last smoothie of the day

this one had 2 and a half cups of strawberries 2 bananas 2 kiwis and 2 leaves of collard green leafs and a small sliver of beet. with a good amount of water. blend and serve then drink up.

RAW granola bars

so i just finished making some raw food granola bars. (well they are in the dehydrator at the moment.) from what i could taste of them they seem like they are going to be great!! (im sick so i cant taste very well)
well these are not 100% raw i added some honey and old fashioned oats but other then that they are raw.
cant wait to try them!!

by the power of RAW!

ok so i love raw food ever since i found out about it on t.v a few years ago. now i have been fighting a cold recently and this morning  i made a smoothie. it consisted of one cup frozen blueberries (it made it nice a cool) one orange (i think the orange had some blood orange in it,it was soo deep pink) one banana, and 2 kiwis and scoop full of flax seeds and OH how could i forget collard greens!! added in some water a blitz and in a minute my breakfast was ready. and it made me feel so so good. im going to have another in a couple hours. raw smoothies is all i want today.

raw warrior diet whats that?

So with the cleanse now behind me(THANK GOD ALMIGHTY) I am now starting the warrior diet. Now you may ask, what in the world is the warrior diet? Well let me tell you. The warrior diet is where you fast all day and then at the end of the day you get to eat. So you skip breakfast and lunch. So there of course are mixed reviews about this diet, but so far its been very nice for me. When I eat my meal I make sure its high raw not 100% raw but still like 75 -80% raw. but guess what im sick. :P
oh well I guess I deserve it the way I was fueling my body it came as no surprise. But once I am all better from my cold im getting right back into my normal workout routine. which is either run 3-4 miles or do INSANITY! I just hope this cold is almost over with, I hate being sick!!

MASTER CLEANSE!

ok so I love raw food and part of being raw is cleansing.
cleansing for me is extremely HARD! I love to eat and going days on end without any solid food ugh well is just HARD! But lately my diet has been anything but "healthy" and is far,far,far from being raw. Another reason I NEED to cleanse is because my asthma has been acting up and so have my allergies, another very important reason is I have been feeling like a zombie and have very to no energy. so tomorrow I am starting my master cleanse and I hope I can just get through the day without eating anything!

the house is alive with the smell of PIE!

couldnt help myself i had to make the pie! its a necturine/berry pie. with of course homemade buttery pie crust. BUT i think it might have been too runny :(
oh well im sure it will still taste great!

OK soo no more cooking for me for a while! my pie was well... not very good at all, the filling was bland but the crust was AMAZING!!!
i think i have run into a cooking rut. almost everything i have made has been well under par, not too thrilling. I think i am starting to get depressed not being able to make anything amazingly good. :*(

easy as pie

mmm is there anything better then the smell of a buttery pie crust followed by a fruity filling?
In my book no. I love pies i think they are the perfect dessert, they are light and buttery, and after watching martha bakes this morning i decided i wanted to make a pie. The only thing is i think im going to wait still. i like all the desserts to be finished before i make another one. so maybe in a couple of days. :)
besides there is always room for pie...

snow days bring boring days

So over here in my neck of the woods when we get snow people freak out. The last  3 days of the week we had snow days, and now there is talk of another snow day on Monday (tomorrow). Not because its cold or because there is snow but because of water running out.(thats what happens when pipes burst and water is waited) so another boring day at home with nothing to do.
then a thought cam into my head bake bagels, but then I remembered my brother bought a fresh bag last week and is still sitting on the counter.
And we also still have the cinnamon rolls I made. The only reason they are still sitting on the counter is because the got burned slightly when I was baking them, but nuke them for 30 seconds in the microwave and its heaven. So no baking for a while.

mmmm pizza!!

so the meat pizza according to my bro is very good and my vegie pizza is very good a bit tuff because it needed to be cooked more so i put it back in the oven. the sauce was amazing and yeah i am going to be making this again the flavors were very good!

ugh no pizza is created equal =/

so they came out very pretty but the dough was very sticky and the meaty pizza isnt as pretty as the vegetarian one. oh well still havent tried it yet so im crossing my fingers!!

Sauce and dough

 

                   the stubborn sauce

 The dough really GREW in a matter of 2 hours

 As you can see its plenty of dough hoping to make big pizzas!!

 Baking with Julia love this book!!

                                           and of course you have to have CHEESE with pizza

Pizza day

So early this morning I removed the pizza sponge from my oven. It hadn't risen at all infact it looked as if it decreased in size but I wasn't worried at all, because I could smell that it was perfectly good!
So I stirred in the sea salt and the oil and then the flour kneeded it for 8 minutes and then put it in a well oiled bowl and put the plastic wrap back on the bowl and placed it back in the oven.

Then I grated some cheese and chopped up some vegies. Then had to go to wally world to get a huge bag of flour and peperonni because the meat eaters in my house would not have been happy if they hadnt got their meat. After putting the groceries away I made some sauce, tasting it I found it to be too sweet, so after endless adding of spices and herbs it didnt seem to change,(I HATE to add salt into the sauce because I find the cheese and the dough have enough salt) but I was forced to add salt. Tasting it AGAIN for the 100th time it was very good! Now im just waiting for the dough to finish rising. and praying the pizzas dont turn out too SALTY.

THE START OF MY SPONGE! :D

 this is the sponge after 2 hours after making it.

I left it in a warm stove and it really started to foam! So if your going to make a sponge (especialy during the winter) leave it covered with plastic wrap (a must any time of year) in a warm place.

pizza saturday!

So I am starting to make the pizza dough tonight. Its called the sponge for everyone that bakes bread all the time you will know what that is for those of you that have no idea in the world what a sponge is besides the one you clean with let me explain.
A bread sponge is when you mix warm water yeast and flour together and leave it from anywhere to 30 minutes to 8 hours to days to ferment to increase flavoring.
That is what I am doing with the pizza dough. I got the recipe from my moms old cooking book Baking with Julia. LOVE that baking book, ever since I was little I would look at the pictures and wish I could try all the beautiful pastries and breads, and now I am!
so its going to ferment from anywhere to 9-10 hours then Im going to add the rest of the flour and other ingredients in, then let it rise for 2-3 hours until doubled. CAN NOT WAIT! I can only hope it turns out as good as my moms pizza dough, thats why Im letting it ferment for so long so it can get really flavorful.

raw food tuesday

so tomorrow is tuesday and all day im going to try and have nothing but raw smoothies. cant wait they give me a ton of energy and i love them!!