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12:00 PM - Sunday 4 January 2009
ZEN.
I finished my three days of silence with only a few hiccups. A few minutes after I started it, someone came knocking at the dooor looking for the person who lived here before me. I could have mimed it, or made nonsensical jestures, but then they might have thought I was hiding them in here and that i was a wacko hopped up on something. Though, when I talk they still might have gotten that impression, so who knows.
My next stint starting tomorrow is 1 week of the simple heartbeat theory. I am going to go a week avoiding stress and all activities and things that will cause my heart rate to spike. I need to get to the root of happiness and it starts at the inside. Once I find out (and the people around me) what keeps me happy and not a ticking time bomb, all is good.
Also, on the zen note, started (and stopped) reading eat, pray love by Elizabeth Gilbert. Review? Well they say, if you can't say anything nice......
VEGAN.
Here's a recipe from the previously mentioned cookbook by Moby, Teany. If I was still in New York, I'd check his place out. I will still go. But for now, here's one of the recipes from the book/cafe.
Chocolate and Green Tea Pudding Recipe
1 cup chocolate soy milk
1 tablespoon loose green tea leaves
10 ounces (one bag) semisweet vegan chocolate chips
12 ounces silken tofu
1/4 cup soft tofu
2 tablespoons matcha tea (green tea powder, available at any good tea shop), optional
Pour the chocolate milk and tea leaves into a small pot and bring to a boil. Turn off heat and let the chocolate milk cool. Melt the chocolate chips in a double boiler (or you can do this in a small pot over low heat, stirring constantly).
Put the soy milk mixture , melted chocolate, silken tofu, and soft tofu into a food processor. Blend until totally smooth. Put into individual cups or bowls, and refrigerate for at least one hour.
Before serving, take a paper doily or any other design cutout and lay it over the pudding.
Generously powder the top of the doily or cutout with the matcha. Lift the doily or cutout, making sure not to disturb the design you just made. Serve immediately.
Makes 5 servings.
From Teany Book: Stories, Food, Romance, Cartoons and, of Course, Tea by Moby and Kelly Tisdale (Studio, 2005) - reprinted with permission |
ECO-IST.
I am now ready to go a-biking. The Cannondale is in order and I will again seriously cut back on the car usage. Today for my mom's birthday we are going to Largo to see an Elvis Impersonator she loves, so instead of going in two cars and meeting them, its a car-pool kind of day.
But biking is going to be the main mode for January. I also now own some walking poles to be used during the many hikes that are planned in 09.
Time to live a different life.
Dream it. Plan it. Do it.
COMEDIAN?
Looking to get back to the stage with a few different approaches. There's a local place I think i can get stuff done at. Buit this time its not for me as much. Stay tuned.
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