Donna’s Pilgrimage – on the road to beautiful

I’ve been wanting to make this raw un-chicken noodle soup since we began our raw thing this time. It uses raw potatoes as noodles, and as I remember was really yummy and satisfying. This particular recipe uses dried coconut blended with water for the broth. It took me awhile to remember the coconut when I was shopping at Roots or Mom’s (My Organic Market), but I finally remembered it, found it, and bought it last week.
Our soup today was yummy. I substituted sprouts for the celery, added some of our marinated mushrooms, and used my fun cutter to make the potato noodles. The blending warmed it just a bit, so it was very comforting as well as filling. It makes enough for 2 meals, so tomorrow’s dinner may be a corn chowder using the leftover broth now patiently cooling and waiting in a pint jar in the frig. That was lunch.
Dinner was our old favorite, cabbage corn salad, green salad and fruit salad…all leftover from previous meals. The soaking wild rice will be ready tomorrow, and I also have sprouted lentils and sunflower seeds waiting. i think there will be a chili coming soon. Maybe during the Super Bowl. Nothing says football party like chili!
Meanwhile Sat. is grandpa’s birthday, so we will be taking him out to lunch to celebrate…either his favorite Italian cafe (their salads are sad) or IHOP ( is there anything raw there?). This will be a real raw adventure. See if we can pull it off without being too weird…
On a side note, today is the first day I have done 20minutes on the nordic trac. I’ve been slowly working my way to this point so I can do this 3-5, maybe 7 times a week. It’s one of my favorite ways to exercise…just turn on the ipod and nordic trac away. My stronger body is in the making, and that makes me very happy.