Last night I made the pad thai recipe from Alissa Cohen’s book “Living on Live Food” and holy cow was that GOOOOOOOD! The sauce was pretty intense, so we could only eat half of our portion and then we were full. Love that. The warm nuttiness from the almond butter being blended with the orange juice and ginger… mmm, delightful!

And on another note, I have dipped below the 200 pound mark!  It’s been quite some time, perhaps 2 years, since I’d been below there.  I never was a ton above that, but always stuck around 203-205 literally for most of that time, until recently when I “ballooned” to 214 and then went raw.  Just got on the scale at a nice 199.  So I certainly am excited with where raw has taken me, and will take me.  Sometimes I get a little “bllaaaahhhh” with the food and am un-inspired to eat the cold or room temp food in the dead of winter.  But, I think about what it’s doing for me, and make it happen.  Plus having a recipe book helps out SO much.

Till next time…

With Valentine’s Day on Saturday and Chris’ birthday today, he really wanted a cake to celebrate!  So he found a recipe online for this raw Black Forest Cake and made it yesterday!  Since we forgot to pick up any cherries, I guess his version is more of just a chocolate “cheeze” cake…  He made a strawberry topping in his new (birthday present) blender instead.  The cake is really good, but very rich, so the slices he cut were on the big side!

Raw Chocolate "Cheeze" Cake

We don’t go out to eat very often, and even less so now that we’ve started eating raw, so we made the decision to break from raw for Valentine’s Day to go out for our favorite food – Indian.  The meal was really great (except the koftas in my Malai Kofta were too dry & dense), and we enjoyed every second of eating it.  But the drive home was not so great, as we both felt too stuffed and tired.  We have had cooked food a few times in the last month since starting to go raw, but this was the first time that Chris felt differently after eating cooked food.  He could feel the food sitting heavy in his stomach, and he felt “drunk.”  My stomach has been slightly bothering me for the two days since that meal, something that was fairly common before going raw and had disappeared in this past month.  I think we’d be better off perfecting the Indian recipes on Roshi’s Raw Lifestyle site than go out to the restaurant next time!