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One of my favorite things to watch on the internet is videos of food preparation. Hubby and I are trying to eat mostly raw food to improve our health and I am looking for new recipes. PLEASE… if you have any favorite raw recipes (with video or not) give me a link in comments or type out the recipe if you want. I prefer simple recipes – few ingredients, common ingredients, little processing of food, looking to keep food as close to its natural state as possible and yet add variety to our diet. Am I asking too much? I guess the bottom line is salads are great but what else can I do to jazz it up a bit. We do fresh veggie juice and green smoothies. Don’t have a dehydrator YET (hopefully, this year will be the year), but I love my food processor and our blender has been serving us well but needs to be replaced with a Blendtec blender before it bites the dust. So, you’re asking about now, “What does raw food recipes have to do with dirty dishes? or did you post the wrong title on this blog?” No, stick with me, here it comes… The other day I was watching a video of a lady demonstrating a raw food recipe in her kitchen. The recipe looked good and she did a good job on the video, but the thing I noticed was… there were DIRTY DISHES in her sink… GASP!! For the whole world to see. If you’ve watched many food prep videos you know that most of them look like kitchens right out of the Better Homes and Gardens magazine or if not, at least the dishes are washed and put away. What was this lady thinking?? Well, this morning as I was preparing our morning smoothie I looked around me and what did my eyes behold? Dirty Dishes Galore!! Yes I realize that I wasn’t making a video and showing it to whoever wants to look. But as I looked at my stacked up dishes I realized that the lady on the video was just like me (in some respects anyway). If she can prepare good, fresh, raw food recipes in her kitchen, I can too! This may not mean much to you, but for me it was a “lightbulb moment,” teaching me to not expect perfection in other people and harder yet, to not expect perfection of myself. Now, if you’ll excuse me I need to go wash some dishes!

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