So, today began with walking Noona by Portland’s only water fall and listening to NPR report that Patrick Swayze died yesterday! That did a wonderful tribute to him and it brought tears to my eyes…Dirty Dancing is one of my fondest childhood memories. After guzzling my green smoothie, I was off to run a bunch of errands. DANGER! DANGER! I had only packed a Larabar for my morning snack and I was way more hungry than that. I did not get home until 1:30, I was starving and I blame Dan Brown! Of course, today was the release of his latest book, The Lost Symbol, and I had to top of my morning running around with a stop at Borders, which really pushed the hunger level. But, as a good friend said today, “It (the book) is like Harry Potter for adults.” How true!

When I got home I quickly put together a salad. It is really interesting what you put on a salad when you are starving. Mixed greens rubbed with avocado topped with red pepper, tomato, cucumber, nutritional yeast and rice seasoning (a mix of wasabi, shredded seaweed and sesame seeds). I also bought a copy of Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen, by Ani Phyo, at Borders and checked it out while eating my modge-podge salad. Can’t wait to try some of her recipes!

After that I set out to do some program development (aka writing what I want to sat to people) on One Birth, but snack time rolled around and I wanted something salty. So, I mixed up one of my favorite “cheese” dips. Non-vegans and non-raw foodies, alike, love this recipe. It is definitely something you have to make!

Raw Cheddar Cheese Sauce
www.goneraw.com

1 cup raw cashews, soaked for 2 hours and rinsed
½ large red bell pepper
¼ cup water
2 tablespoon lemon juice
2 tablespoon nutritional yeast (find this in the bulk section or in condiments…it’s not ‘technically’ raw)
1 tablespoon tahini
1½ teaspoon sea salt
1 clove garlic
2 teaspoon onion powder (or a small slice of onion or 1 Tbsp of green onion)

Blend all ingredients until creamy (a high powered blender works the best…but if you have a regular blender, just blend it for a long time. It should be completely smooth). Add more water if it is too thick.

So, now I’m off to join Robert Langdon on his adventures in DC! Sorry school work, you will have to wait until tomorrow.

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