June 29th

10:21am
Cracked open a couple of fresh coconuts when i got home this morning. They were full of sweet juice and soft jelly meat, yummmmmm!

11:42am
Some smoothie supplies and scraps...

11:56am
Smoothie time: papaya from my yard, a sweet mango, luscious tangy lilikoi, a juicy tangelo, fresh young coconut jelly, a banana, maca root and camu. A teaspoon of raw organic camu powder has huge vitamin C... 1180% of the RDA!

2:28pm
Hot organic penne pasta. Fresh raw cherry tomatoes, chopped garlic, and lots of basil. Extra virgin olive oil, apple cider vinegar, sea salt and black pepper. Simple, fresh, delicious.

4:47pm
Snuck a snack... ;) A little piece of raw chocolate acai truffle bar. Good for body and soul!

5:49pm
Kelp and spirulina. Good green sea stuff.

6:17pm
Avocado with olive oil, hot sauce, herbamare salt and fresh basil. I smash it onto multigrain toast, soooo delicious!

Sunday June 26th

11:34am
This morning after practice I grabbed a machete and chopped open a fresh coconut from my yard... First time I cracked one myself! Wow, tastes sooooooo good!!! :-)))

1:05pm
Post-practice pasta party! Avocado, sundried tomato, fresh lemon juice, olive oil, olives, red pepper flakes, sea salt and lots of fresh basil :)

6:34pm
Dinner is just a few bites of leftover pasta and a few sips of miso soup.

June 23rd

9:33am
Tea. Good Morning!

10:11pm
Fruit for breakfast: fresh local organic papaya and pineapple :)

12:10pm
Leftover green curry.

2:05pm
A little cup of coffee...

7:53pm
Eagle makes dinner: einkorn wheat pasta with garden fresh kale, sunflower seeds, sunflower oil, hemp seeds, cayenne, sea salt, nutritional yeast, and marigold leaves. Yum!

June 19th

7am
Took a lovely quiet walk around the land this morning and received some gifts from mother nature... loads of surinam cherries are red ripe and falling off the tree! They're juicy, delicious and loaded with healthy vitamin C.

7:35am
My lazy Sunday morning cup of french pressed locally grown coffee before practice. I enjoy it with some vanilla soymilk and coconut palm sugar.

12:46pm
A cute little organic plum. No, I don't think plums grow here on Kauai, but my partner brought home a few the other day. I can't recall the last time I had a plum (don't really like them) so I figure I'll have one for the sake of whatever vitamins they have... Crunch, slurp, pucker... Yep, I still don't really like them. Lucky for me, I live on a lush tropical island with an abundance of fresh, juicy fruits I love!!!

12:49pm
Super sweet and juicy jamaican lilikoi, my new favorite fruit! Awwwwww yeah :-)))))

12:54pm
Papayyyyaaaaaaaaaaa... (I can hear the Indian fruitwallas singing their offerings in my head) ...Pineapple, pineapple, papayyyyaaaaaaaaa! Awwww, papayas always make me miss Mysore.

1:11pm
Maca is an adaptogen; it helps the body adapt to stress and changes more easily and nourishes the endocrine system too.

1:23pm
Tropical smoothie heaven: fresh local organic papaya, pineapple, lilikoi (passion fruit), lime, surinam cherries, coconut meat, frozen banana and some raw organic maca powder, the only non-local ingredient. So beautiful!

1:40pm
Another gorgeous bowlful of compost... Is everyone so in love with their food scraps?!?

4:04pm
A little cold leftover pasta from last night with nutritional yeast.

Saturday June 18th

9:23am
My tulsi pomegranate green tea on a beautiful Saturday morning altar.

1pm
Fresh food from today's Hanalei Farmers Market: an organic arugula salad with lentil and bean sprouts, garden cucumbers, a little organic toasted sesame oil, nama shoyu and chia seeds.

1:20pm
One slice of last night's leftover pizza.

5:20pm
I snack on a bowl of organic kids' cereal with vanilla soymilk.








8:48pm
Pasta. (Yes, again!)

Today I've had some valuable revelations about how the average american eats and what they might consider healthy... wow! Just a reminder that a "healthy" diet is relative and there's so much great information to share that could benefit so many! Personally, I feel like I've been enjoying many days of culinary debauchery lately (well, my own vegan ashtangi version of it) and I'll be making a shift back into a fresher, cleaner diet soon. I usually like to stay pretty flexible with what I eat (as long as it's vegan and mostly organic) and enjoy lots of healthy food, including whole grain pastas, and plenty of treats too. But recently it seems like there have been too many "treats" sneaking into the regular rotation: chips, beer, vegan ice cream, white bread and pasta, vegan cheese pizza, soymilk, cereal, sugar in my coffee or tea. I'm starting to feel the effects and also feeling the shift of season into summer and a desire to lighten up my body and my diet with the warmer weather!

So anyway, here's tonight's pasta... Is it "good" or "bad?" I guess that's relative; my indulgent dinner could be considered another person's health food ;) Organic semolina pasta with sundried tomatoes, artichoke hearts, purple olives, chickpeas, garlic, extra virgin olive oil, lime juice, fresh oregano, nutritional yeast, sea salt, red pepper flakes, black pepper and lots of fresh raw chopped spinach stirred into the warm pasta at the end. Healthy? Maybe. Delicious? Yes!
(...And I wash it down with a glass of organic red wine. Cheers!)

Thursday June 16th: No Cooking!!!

11:35am
Tortilla chips with leftover hummus and mango salsa after class. We had a visitor today and stayed after class so it's late by the time we get home. I'm starving, on my moon, and too lazy to cook... This is a few bites of what's easiest to grab!

12:41
Raspberry Ginger ale. Giving in to peer pressure.

12:44pm
Eagle made lunch: brown rice pasta shells with olive oil, red pepper flakes, shoyu, hemp seeds, nutritional yeast, etc, etc, etc....

4:38pm
A bite of something sweet :)

6:47pm
Lucky me, I get treated to dinner at a friends house tonight. Melissa is an amazing cook (and a supersweet girl) and she makes us a beautiful vegan meal even though they're living in a really cool but really small place with no kitchen. Naan flatbread pizza with hummus and veggies, and a beautiful fresh salad with a little balsamic vinegar, lime, and coconut oil. Wow! So fresh and delicious, I love it. Thanks Melissa!

7:59pm
It's dark and nearing yogi bedtime but we stay at Greg and Melissa's hanging out with them and Mel's brother Denny, talking and snacking on sweet bites of mango sorbet and coconut ice cream for dessert. Good times :)