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My day began and ended with mint in stranger ways than I could have ever imagined... Over a breakfast of green juice for breakfast (kale, cucumber, apple, celery, mesquite and maca), I created yet another raw ice cream. This time it was a variation on previously made mint chocolate-chip ice cream in what Andrew called my new raw 'mint oreo ice cream'. Here's the secret: Raw Mint 'Oreo' Ice Cream 2 C cashews, soaked overnight 1 C water 2/3 C agave nectar (or maple syrup, I think I did half of each) 1 tsp vanilla (or 1 whole vanilla bean) 1/3-1/2 C crushed mint leaves 1/2 tsp (or to taste) of mint extract dash of salt pinch of spirulina for green color raw oreo cookie dough (see below) cacao nibs, optional 1. Blend everything in a Vitamix (or blender or food processor) until smooth 2. Pour into ice cream machine and follow directions! 3. In the middle of the ice cream machine process, or once the ice cream starts to get a solid enough ice cream consistency, blend in t...

So I finally got my act together, and thanks to Jae's recent love list and Tonya Kay's nutrition and workout log , Andrew and I have just completed our second Bikram class over the past two days. My hope is that this will become a month long learning experience through Bikram. Dwelling only on the positive aspects of our first practice yesterday at 11am and our second one this morning at 9:15am, I have to say that despite feeling a little sore, I feel cleaner from the inside then I have in a very long time. Like most other people, I can't say I've had a perfect diet my whole life. I've had my share of Happy Meals as a kid, chicken nuggets from Costco, Kraft macaroni and cheese, and all the usual nasty suspects, but every time I've tried to detox through a nutritional cleanse or a fast over more recent years, I can't say that I ever got any 'real' results. I've had friends and others tell me about the incredible experiences they had with detoxes...

So it seems like the entire raw food blog world is on some form of cleanse/detox/challenge to begin the New Year and I clearly failed to jump onto that bandwagon, giant pieces of galette and all... Now that I feel that I've finally settled back into our home now after all the holidays, traveling, etc. I decided to make up my own little cleanse to try to get back on the track I've slightly derailed from since getting back from Salem (that's what happens when you get back to your own kitchen I tell you! It does things to a woman!). Once again, I have to rant and rave about the benefits of the raw diet though. Last night, I just didn't feel like sleeping so caught up on some raw recipe reading until about 2:30 am, and bounced out of bed at 9am... It feels pretty good when little things like that happen. Anyway, here's what I did for my first day (all recipes were of course for 2), nothing two fancy, but just trying to keep myself in check :) 1. Waking up started wi...