Thursday, December 29, 2011
+AppleFlaxers+
I made these by accident the first time after using flax for latkes. I was making raw apple sauce & kreme than had flax+apple left over.I popped the mixture in the dehydrator & liked it.
1 green apple
3 small sprigs of tyhme
2 cups flax
3 cups good earth original tea
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tbsp curry powder
3 ground cardamom pods
1 tbsp chia seeds
-in a food processor first blend apple with tythme until blended/chunky, set aside in a small bowl. Soak flax in tea and let soak for three hours in fridge until gloopy- add rest of ingrediants, apples etc & mix well. Spread out on dehydrator trays evenly & dehydrate on 115 for 12 hours. After four hours in dehydrator score crackers into squares.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Monday, December 26, 2011
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011
+Lemon Llamas Recipe+
***For the COOKIES
-->In a food processor combine:
1/2 cup coconut flour
1/2 cup almond meal
1/4 cup flaxseed meal
1/4 cup lucuma powder
1 tbsp hemp seed
1/2 tbsp blue green algae
1/2 cup almond milk
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/4 cup lemongrass tea
1/4 cup almond milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
-process until dough forms & press/roll out onto a teflex sheet about 1/2 an inch thick. cut out circles with a juice glass
Use scraps to roll into balls to place ontop of cookie rounds. you will have some left over, thats ok be creative with it!
-dehydrate for three hours on 115 than freeze in cupcake wrappers & start the chocolate coating
****for the CHOCOLATE COATING---
2 tbsp coconut oil
1 cup cacao butter
1/3 cup buckwheat flour
1/4 cup honey
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
-zest of one lemon
-1 tsp grated ginger
-1 ground cardomom pod
-cinnamon & nutmeg
- mix butter/oils in porringer or double boiler over warm water until liquid. add the rest of the ingredients & stir well. Dip cookies into chocolate & rest them back on cupcake wrappers, then pour remainder of chocolate onto the cookies. Put chocolate cookies in freezer too cool & EAT after they harden.
+Lemon Llamas+
(sidenote) Maybe someone out there remembers these big lemon cookies from my childhood? They could have been available at a grocery store. They looked like flat shiny yellow iced flowers & were bigger than my hand (wich when I was a kid & even now are not that big) Another thing about these cookies that I remember is that My mom froze them for us. They were like big yellow cold sweet lemony dough cakes.
+Creamy Shake+
-2 cups ice-1 cup almond milk
-1/2 cup water
-1 tbsp hemp seed
-1 tsp maca
-1 banana
-cinnamon
-vanilla
-raw honey
Saturday, December 17, 2011
+little note felix+
Today I am cleaning the house & putting little containers of peppermint oiled obsidian in most used rooms for help in "uplifting the spirit & ease with the loss of loved ones" I like this idea, it smells nice--exactly like peppermint saltwater taffy--Never thought i'd be this intimidated by home ownership too--"oh $%^^! should a plant go there? what if a plant goes there & it stays there forever!?????" * weird.
Friday, December 16, 2011
+PIE-KEMON APPLE TANGERINE+
green shake & pie I do these things on a whim-my fave.
★crust:
1 cup almonds )sprouted)
1 cup dates-pitted
1 pinch salt
1 tablespoon coconut necatr
1/4 of a tangerine
(blend in food processor)
--put 1 tablespoon crust mixture into large muffin tin & press into crust shape
★Filling
1 apple
1 tbsp coconut nectar
1 tbsp coconut oil
1 tbsp coconut flour
1 tangerine
pinch of nutmeg
1 teaspoon cinnamon
(optional-cranberries)
★put filling into crust & top with a tangerine slice: EAT
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
+new idea+
Sedona series of photos:
self portrait landscape
spring 2012 Sarah Cactus
1. yellow metal circle on pole
2.self portrait: laying on red floor with red x-mas pajamas (video, slowly moving-yawning/screaming)
3.yellow pajamas
4.watermelon
-------4 white square frames-
disappointment over-new piece in process.
It will be a photography series involving interaction between my local & AZ landscape, pajamas, watermelon & yellow bundle sculptures- everything is finally coming together- paper mache...yellow bundles? or paper clay?
++--
I feel weird & emotional- like my brain is full of sentimental letters to good friends & pictures of baby seals. It is full of things that make me cry... its 2am. I'm crying at everything, google images, my shirt, chocolate & it's raining - Riding the moon wave is not an easy thing to do with grace. Being a woman is bizzare with powerful cyclical consequences & moments that strike you down into an emotional puddle of tears...weird
Monday, December 12, 2011
+ Kale Salad+
coconut flour/ pink salt /curry powder/ nutritional yeast/ braggs apple cider vin/ almond butter/ water /cayanne pepper/(I like to add raisins)
Sunday, December 11, 2011
+HAT & WARM W/ creative writing no edit+
I can finally say that everypart of my body is warm-
I feel so warm for the first time since stepping outside this afternoon. I took steps to fight winter blues today, I started by drinking a pot of good earth tea. My mom used to make it for me while ill (so comforting.) I talked to my aunt sue, who says she will come to visit in the spring, this news lessened the homesickness. I also made colorful hats & ate warmed foods.
--My husband jokingly said that I looked like a hobo while outdoors tonight, all bundled up. I agree that I am usually not the epitome of well thought out fashion, but I wanted to wear a special jacket today.
I wore my grandfathers cowboy jacket with a wool blanket lining tonight. It has to be warmest denim jacket in the world! I feel special when I wear it too, like he is still around. I was telling chris today that Grandpa J wore my jacket through his cowboy days (riding horses through the desert in winter must not have been an easy task) he would bring watercolors on his long horse journeys while wearing my jacket. He would always have navajo jewelry, levis, a stetson hat & his big black glasses to pear with it too.
-- He wasn't a tall man, was about my size & was considered to be by my midwestern family a "colorful" guy, an eccentric man. They even go as far as to say he was"artsy" I hate that word! We all hated that word among the family who were artists. The word "artsy" implied to us that we weren't serious or had bad taste. He was Dean of Otis Art Institute in the 70's- NOT "ARTSY"
--My grandfather was of Brittish descent & moved to chicago with his family when he was a boy but couldn't stand the humidity. He had terible asthma as a child wich required a lot of funky medicinal inhalers. My mother told me a story about his little green pipe & bed rest on wheezy days, wich he loved because he could read Tarzan books-instead of going to school. He did well as a young adult & after graduating MFA of fine arts from chicago art institute he moved to Arizona, where he emediately fell in love with everything about it. There are pictures of him painting in the back of an old ford with nothing but the middle of nowhere, nothing but cactus & a couple of horses.
--He studied more in Arizona, did abstract geometrical plein air paintings & eventually met my Grandma Fran who was a beautiful ceramicist & glass worker but was most well known for her floral arangements using desert plants.
--I could often be acused of romantisizing their existance, but I am part of them. When I wear my grandpas jacket I feel peaceful knowing it makes me warm the same way it made him warm many years ago.
a picture of Grandpa Jim & my mom with the Senufo Rythym Pounder" My grandfather was also a collector of African art.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
_Homesick_
sherpa sweater, fleece pajamas, hiking socks, crochet hat, blankets, neil gaiman book & still cold...missing California too, it happens. I dearly miss my friends, even my little Pasadena bungalow appt "the fig tree" We are making nice friends here, are enjoying our house & still have many things to be thankful for- but tonight, i'm cold, haven't seen a palm tree in 5 months & am a little sad-it was 13 degrees lastnight<3
Friday, December 9, 2011
-more on book list-
more books since march:1, Island-Aldous Huxley
2. Chrome Yellow - Aldous Huxley
3. The defeat of youth and other poems - Aldous Huxley
4. Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
5. Drive - poems Hettie Jones
6. Loba - poems Diane Diprima
7. The Grays - Whitley Streiber
8. The Key - Whitley Streiber
9. Hybrids - Whitley Streiber
10. Communion - Whitley Streiber
11. Faceless Killers - Wallander-Henning Mankel
12. Dogs of Riga - Wallander-Henning Mankel
13. The White Lioness - Wallander-Henning Mankel
14. The man who smiled - Wallander-Henning Mankel
15. Sidetracked-Wallander - Henning Mankel
16. The fifth woman-Wallander -Henning Mankel
17. One step behind-Wallander -Henning Mankel
18. Firewall-Wallander -Henning Mankel
19. The pyramid -wallander-Henning Mankel
20. The troubled man -Henning Mankell
21- The witches of eastwick -John Updike
22. The widows of eastwick-John Updike
23.American Gods- Neil Gaiman
24. Twelve Men-Theodore Dreiser
25. Spontaneous Evolution-Bruce Lipton, Steve Bhaerman
Thursday, December 8, 2011
+The drill sargeants & flash video DRAW+
when I submit my work to a gallery or art event I feel like a giant bubble of drill sargeants are over my head telling me why my art is not good "concept not strong enough" "colors suck" etc & I haven't heard back from the gallery that I put my eggs in one basket for. 16th of Dec is the deadline for them to contact me. I guess i'm confident but not enough to smoosh those little jerk brain drill sargeants into smithereens...I may never make it. PS. I did this video in FLASH as a test, it is my first flash video ever. ENJOY
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