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RawFu Challenge - Day 16
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Our organic produce delivery was today, so at least I’m well stocked with greens. I have nine bunches of rainbow chard. I also got watermelon, cantaloupe, blackberries, raspberries and bi-color corn. We ate a few pints of berries while I was sorting the produce, and some of the melon, while I was chopping it up, but I froze most of the rest for smoothies. For dinner, we had salads, and stuck a few ears of corn in the dehydrator for a half and hour to warm them up, then rolled them in olive oil, sea salt and pepper. Yummo! I had three ears! Dessert was just a few figs with Brazil nuts stick in them, and a cup of decaf organic coffee with almond milk.
It was a long day, with a lot of standing on my feet, so I don’t have much to reflect upon, other than the fact that I’m really tired, and my eye is swollen and bothering me. I’m in desperate need of rest, but Zofia’s been sleeping for the past two hours (from 6 to 8pm), so I’m not sure how my night is going to go. At least I got out for a walk while she was snoozing. But, now I’m typing this while balancing a tea bag on my eye (it’s supposed to help), and Zofia is trying to press keys on the keyboard. So, time for deep contemplation is obviously not going to happen today. Off to try to relax!
Today’s Green Smoothie: 1 head escarole, 2 cups frozen watermelon, 2 frozen bananas, 1 apple.
Posted on August 25, 2009 | Permalink
Comments
You'd be proud of me today! I made two huge batches of fresh almond milk, whipped up a batch of that chickpea granola (I soaked the chickpeas so it was raw), put together a batch of raw falafel and made a bean/tomato/basil salad. The granola and falafel are still in the dehydrator. I've already swiped a bowl of the granola even though it needs more time in. LOL YUM!
I hope you get some sleep tonight.
Posted by: Mars | Aug 25, 2009 10:29:01 PM
Hey, I wanted to ask you...what are you storing the frozen fruit in? I find the watermelon all clumps together and gets frost on it in the container I am using. Share your secret?
Wishing you a full 8 hours...or at least uninterrupted sleep!
Posted by: Julie | Aug 26, 2009 12:29:49 AM
I store it in any empty (generally plastic) containers I have on hand... The Ball jar plastic freezer ones work well for minimizing freezer burn... If the chunks of watermelon are too large when I take them out the container (by just holding it in my hands or running under warm water for a sec), I just drop the whole hunk in a clean dish cloth and give it a whack on the granite counter top... that makes small enough chunks to stick in the VitaMix. :-)
Posted by: Tara | Aug 26, 2009 8:07:37 PM
Julie, have you tried freezing the watermelon in a single layer on flat metal trays for an hour or so before bagging? Sometimes if you freeze them individually first, then bag, they won't clump. Of course it's tedious, but so far it's worked for me. Though I don't freeze watermelon. It's eaten too fast for freezing around here.
Posted by: Mars | Aug 27, 2009 12:23:00 AM
I do that with bananas sometimes... Sometimes I just freeze watermelon in cup size containers that I can just dump it in the VitaMix as one solid hunk... but it takes a lot of little cups. I saw the "Good Eats" show on preserving fruit, and he did that with berries... where he took a piece of wax paper and froze them solid in one layer on a cookie sheet... then transferred to plastic baggies. I don't have a pull-out freezer drawer that a cookie sheet will fit in, and I don't have the time to worry about my clumpy frozen fruit... it all gets blended up, anyway! :-)
And, the trick with freezing watermelon is to buy A LOT of it, so even if you eat half, half makes it to the freezer! LOL
Posted by: Tara | Aug 27, 2009 12:32:19 AM
Okay. I did that today with my smoothie, the running water thing. I froze strawberries on the cookie sheet last year, so I could do the same with watermelon...the problem is people eating it while I am laying it out!! :)
Posted by: Julie | Aug 27, 2009 12:37:58 AM
Julie, that's called evaporation. It's a hazard in fruit processing. LOL
Posted by: Mars | Aug 27, 2009 1:55:28 AM
