Thursday

When she is hard at work... her tongue comes out.  I assume this is a sign of genius.

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Today I made two juices:
1. Kale/romaine/green apple/parsley/celery
2. Beet/red apple/carrot/celery

#2 was really really good.  #1 not so much.

I have been making juice like CRAZY lately, more than I ever have.  And although it seems rather wasteful right now (SO much pulp!), I am thinking about ways to be more super pulp-savvy.  I think I want to save the pulp, freeze it and find cracker recipes to incorporate it into my cooking.

This week I also whipped up the following:
1. Kale Chips.  SO GOOD! (Got the recipe here.)
2. Chickpea salad. Not so good and recipe unknown (sort of a mish-mash of ideas and online recipes).
3. Hummus. I actually haven't tried it yet but it smells pretty good.

I sprouted my chick peas for the above recipes for about three days.  It was neat to watch them grow and change into these little sprouties with tails.  The chick pea salad I made was not very good for whatever reason, maybe because I wanted it to taste like the kind from the supermarket.  The flavoring was just too bland I think. 

The hummus seems like it might be good... hard to tell though, I am not sure that the raw peas will have the same *yumminess* of the cooked kind.  I guess I will find out soon enough.  It sounds completely silly but I am almost afraid to try it because of all the time and ingredients that I put into the recipe.  If I don't like it, it will be huge waste. 

I've decided that cooked or not, homemade or not, I want to keep hummus in my diet for now.  I love it so much and it is nutritionally dense either way.  It is definitely a comfort food for me, filling and creamy.  I like to spread it over romaine (nature's taco shell/bread slice/wrap) and sprinkle on some other little goodies like carrot sticks or broccoli.