Check it out, make it a staple in your pantry, start consuming mass quantities post haste! I think it is so much better than malt-o-meal (and so very much more nutritious). It will be my Fall/Winter breakfast of choice this year, bar none.
Super Blue Smoothie
From time to time I end up concocting some crazy super food smoothie, and usually I add in whatever I have on hand at the time. But in this particular instance I had visited Whole Foods and bought some dried blue corn and I have no idea why. I mean, why would I do that? I have no idea what to use it for besides grind it up and try to make tortillas with it, and just between you and me, that was so not going to happen.
So I decided to add it to a super food smoothie. I realized that it was hard, I mean like way too hard. Even though my blendtec could have made it into a fine dust powder, those fine dust powdered blue corn particles would still have been hard as diamonds and therefor potentially hazardous to my health. After contemplating what to do about it, I decided to boil the corn in just enough water to cover it. It made the corn softer and the water that was left in the pot turned blueish, so I used that in the smoothie as well. I am certain some sort of antioxidant anti-aging something or other was in it.
Super blue corn smoothie: blue corn, coffee, goji, blue berries, maca, raw cacao, red pepper flakes and chili powder. I put it all in my blendtec blender and let her rip.
The end result was a nice, masa kind of tasting spicy drinkish thing that was overall a pleasant to consume. It was very high energy; I drank one in the morning and then did tons of yard work, rode my bike to Seattle, and back, and was not even bothered by hunger pangs.
Rice, eggs, beans and garlic stuffed olives
I cooked the rice w/ garlic, ginger, curry powder, salt, pepper, butter, juice of one lime, coconut milk and tomato sauce. The re-fried beans I used came with roasted Chile and lime already in them (found those at Whole Foods).
I topped it off with one fried egg, some cinnamon (that I added on top of the rice, so the egg is over it), and four garlic stuffed olives (in my opinion olives and garlic are two of the top ten super foods on the planet).
Let me tell you, it was tasty and probably could fetch at least $7.99 on a menu, if not more, and people would be highly satisfied with it as a meal. Or a place could charge less and serve the working class students of the world, like a real bohemian place ought to.
Now for the random bits of the blog:
And can someone please tell me why this looks so darn addicting?
A newly discovered band for me with a great name, The Drums. Here is their song called "Book of Stories".
Yet another list of places that need to be checked out
Apparently The Dahlia Bakery has some great peanut butter filled cookies that are all the rage. This might require a bike ride into Seattle to try one.
Of course, Sweet Iron has been on my "bike into Seattle to grab some breakfast and then ride home" list and I have yet to do that. But I have been biking lots, so we shall see.
Proletariat Pizza (proletariat means working class) in White Center is fast making a rep for itself on the pizza front in Seattle, and for those of you who have read my blog all along, you know I have a certain weakness for this form of food. Actually, I am checking this place out next week, stay tuned....
Crap, I hate waiting so long to post. Because then I create a back log of places and ideas to blob about and to be honest, this is what I (and by default, you dear readers) get with my super awesome non existent system.
Anyway, the Blind Cartographers recently played in West Seattle at The Shipwreck tavern which is conveniently located right next door to The Heartland Cafe, so I ate there. The Tater Tot casserole was outstanding, had not had a dish like that since I was growing up in Sioux City, IA. Great food for a great price. Well worth the trip any day. It's like a little slice of home right in West Seattle. Yet another great reason to move there (speaking of which, Ballard, West Seattle or Columbia City? Debate...).
Raw Food
I realize that I need to get really super healthy super fast (5 K coming up and a few bike rides and triathlons next spring), and I think one of the ways to do that is incorporate more raw foods. Particularly raw fermented and cultured foods. So I am going to start making Almond Coconut yogurt and keeping it on stock (as budget allows). It can be used as a base for smoothies or just a few spoonfuls to get going. It also works well as a base for cream based salad dressing. Recipe thanks to this guy.
Raw Almonds, soaked for 24 hours water and then drained
1 cup almonds
1 cup young coconut water and water
+ the appropriate enzymes, probiotcs, etc. Check them out.
Put it all in a blendtec and let her rip!
Also, if you do not know about "of Montreal" (they are playing the Paramount in Oct) or Joanna Newsom, well, here is you chance to check them out.
You should also start reading up on: Sir Isaac Newton, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. These peeps is smart yo. Also, they are very inspiring.
Joshua
pss. the kitchen at Brouwer's is serving a plate called the Teaser that is amazing. Go get it now before it leaves the menu. I ate at Ocho as well and man that place has great food as well. No camera, no pics, but I can say that all three things I ate there were off the hook (is that an appropriate phrase still? Or should I say something more like "If there was a hook, this would surely not be on it"?).
