I Want My Mamey!

Picked up a beautiful mamey at the farmer's market on Thursday. It was ready to go the moment we bought it, but after a couple more days in the fridge that baby was definitely ready for breakfast this morning. What a beautiful sight!

Mamey is a tropical fruit with a thin, earthy skin and pinkish orange flesh. It should be eaten when it is very ripe. You'll know it's ready if your fingers could go right through it (skin and all) if you squeezed it, but you should be able to tell just by holding it in your hand.

I woke up this morning with the thought of a Mamey Chocolate shake. Messed up and used carob instead of cacao. What a delicious mistake! This shake ended up a lovely tawny color. The carob and mamey really compliment each other. Try it out for yourself and your sweetie tomorrow morning!

(Mamey is also readily available in the freezer section of many grocery stores. Don't know if you can get organic and it is probably pasteurized.)




Tempting Tawny Mamey Shake
(don't worry too much about measurements - just follow your intuition and tastes)
1/4 Mamey fruit (about 3/4 cup)
1 cup of nut/seed milk
1 tbsp agave
1 tbsp raw carob powder (finely ground)
1 tbsp raw minimally processed cacao or cacao nibs
1 tsp green powder or your choice (try chlorella, spirulina, or Pure Synergy - superior green powder)
1/2 tsp vanilla

Blend until smooth. Add ice while blending for a frosty treat.

I'm always using seed milk, which I make regularly. It's easy and fast to make. Anyone can do it! Below is a quick video from Sexy Bitches Like It Raw. If you use hemp seeds, you won't have to strain it. Hemp seeds make a delicious and super nutritious milk for anyone who wants to just blend it and go.

the Bayfront Park Farmer's Market

A gorgeous, delicious, and pleasant way to support local business! Today was a beautiful day in Miami and I finally got to get over to the farmer's market at Bayfront Park. There's beautiful produce, exotic fruits and live music!




I had a delicious raw, vegan lunch from a young woman who seemed to single-handedly run the only raw food booth at the market. She served curry salad with cashews and a meaty walnut pate. She also had some other interesting dishes like ripe plantain salad with cilantro and avocado salad, both jazzed up with dulse flakes.

I got the sampler so that I could try a little of everything. Yum!

I almost ate the whole thing before I could take a picture of it!

Damon had cerviche from one of the stands. I don't eat fish, but he said it was very fresh and tasty.

This market is every Thursday from 11 to 3. Click the picture to find out more info...

Bayfront Park Farmer's Market


We picked up a few fruits from the market, including a mamey and an egg fruit. The egg fruit was new to both of us. It reminds me of bright yellow pound cake. The pit is similar to that of a durian. Damon doesn't like durian all that much, but he liked this fruit.

Here's what they look like...

What Will You Do?

Very good video from the march against the G20 in London on 3/28/09. (see SOVIET films)

[The G-20 (more formally, the Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors) is a group of finance ministers and central bank governors from 20 economies: 19 of the world's largest national economies, plus the European Union (EU)... Collectively, the G-20 economies comprise 85% of global gross national product, 80% of world trade (including EU intra-trade) and two-thirds of the world population... read more at wikipedia]

Strike fear into the rich...



The demonstrations continued into yesterday, when protesters stormed the Royal Bank of Scotland in London. One protester died. Many more were arrested. You won't see an overwhelming amount of press over this event. The number of protesters was stated to be around 5,000 by the BBC, but there is reason to believe that the number was much greater.

The march was largely the brainchild of Chris Knight, a self-described anarchist and an anthropologist at the University of East London, who has been the galvanizing public voice of a loose umbrella group of radical environmentalists, academics and left-wing activists known as the G20 Meltdown that spearheaded the protests... Read full article at the NYTimes

The top is blowing off the pressure cooker. Are you saying "what the $%#&" yet?

Obscene payouts to AIG, Wall Street and banking officials have resulted in violence in the United States and elsewhere too and this will grow until all of those responsible are stripped of their ill-gotten gains, go to jail or both... (Diane Francis, Huffington Post)

The economic crisis is global (which includes the USA as hard as that is for some to believe), and as tensions rise we will see more and more protests in any and all cities of the world. Is our government preparing for these types of protests in the U.S. by establishing an active unit here (as of Oct. 1st, see video). There's also the promised withdrawl from Iraq by December 2011? What will these troops be called to do when they get home? The estimated number of troops in Iraq is about 142,000 as of February 2009.

We need to do something, and violence is not the only answer. I'm going to speak openly about how it just doesn't make sense to me that wealth can be privately owned, as capitalism suggests it should be. I will speak of local, organic produce that I do not buy from a "rich get richer" enterprise like Walmart or Publix (for all of us in the Southeast USA). I will speak of how to maintain a healthy body with fresh whole, raw, and vegan foods that do not destroy our bodies or the planet. I will not drown out the warnings from my body with pharmaceuticals or drop napalm on my organs in the form of antibiotics while private companies collect profits. The list can go on and on.

What will you do?

Shoes: The World's Most Dangerous Invention?

I've spent the last month and a half down in Miami, FL and I'm having an experience like no other. You see the worst of Capitalist and Consumerist America, as well as the greatest beauty this country has to offer.

I underwent a major surgery last July and began my healing in Atlanta, Ga. I thought I was doing well, but my healing seems to have accelerated dramatically since I came to Miami. I knew it had something to do with walking on the sand and swimming in the ocean. In the past, there was always a hunch that my shoes were doing me more harm than good, so it really has been wonderful to have direct contact with the earth as I do when I'm on the beach.

Today I discovered this video from David Wolfe, who is undoubtedly one of the most cutting-edge health gurus in the world. He blames the common shoe for much of our health woes. After spotting the title of this video I immediately said "uh huh... that's what I thought."

Here it is...

Rawkin' Saturday in Miami :)

My twin sister Vicky and her beautiful life partner Rosita came to visit last Saturday Mar. 21st. We had an amazing day of raw food! We started out the day at the farmer's market in Coconut Grove. You can see our pictures on flickr - the picture below is a link :)



Later that evening I took them to the restaurant where I'm working, Lifefood Gourmet. Here's a little video of the experience...





After this amazing day, they'll be back soon. We'll be making a couple of videos then, so stay tuned :)

Vicky's also got some great information to share. Check out some of her Youtube Videos. Here's her latest, which I really like.