Virginia

Look how beautiful Virginia can be in the springtime. Entire Flickr set here.

Quiet

If you listen carefully you can hear the monstrous purring...

Raw Style: Cinnamon Bun Ice Cream

This raw, non-dairy ice cream recipe tastes just like a cinnamon bun with vanilla icing. It is so yummy, that didn't last two days in my freezer and I'm not ashamed about that. Why? Because it is super hydrating and full of live, nutrient-rich fats and sugars that my body wants and needs. Plus, no ice cream maker is necessary for this super creamy recipe.

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makes approx. 4 cups
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Tools needed:
Blender

What you need:
4 cups of raw unfrozen Vanilla Ice Cream mixture (recipe is here)
4 tbsp raw maple syrup (can use raw dark agave nectar instead)
1/4 tsp pink Himalayan sea salt (can use regular Sea Salt instead)
1/4 tsp cinnamon

Let’s get started:
Prepare your cinnamon swirl sauce by mixing maple syrup, sea salt and cinnamon in a bowl. Transfer the sauce to a container or tiny pitcher (a container for creamer works well) that makes it easy to pour. Pour your vanilla ice cream mixture into a bowl and carefully pour cinnamon swirl sauce in a—you guessed it—swirly pattern into your vanilla ice cream mixture.



Cover your container, place in freezer and once your creation is frozen, go to town. And be kind, share this recipe with others!

Note: Because there is nothing creepy in this recipe (like monosodiumglutomomaterednofive), depending on your freezer temp, the ice cream could become very hard. Take your container out of the freezer and let it sit on the counter for 5-10 minutes and then get to scooping. After a little time outside of the freezer, that creamy, scoopable consistency that we all love will arrive.

It is Beautiful Here

A video I made last week. Le sigh.

Spring

I had a superlovely weekend and these polaroids pretty much sum it up.

Happy Birthday to You

(Here's a YouTube link)
Someone I have tremendous love for wrote a song for me a few months ago. It is his birthday today. Chicago is rainy and emotional outside and the light in my home is calming. History and future swirling around. It felt natural to play “the” song over and over and over on itunes today and hoop for hours. This is tape of the last 7 1/2 minutes of my session. Usually I'd edit it down to make it shorter, but I can't bring myself to do it to this one...




I captured the video on my lil' Polaroid HD Camcorder that I recently purchased, but it isn't MAC compatible quite yet...I need some additional crap to transfer files, but I taped the HD monitor of the Polaroid with my trusty Canon Elph and I absolutely love the artistic quality of the footage that came out. It matches the richness and affection of my practice pretty damned accurately.

Enjoy.

Here's a better quality vid on YouTube.

Oregon

I traveled out to Bend, Oregon with my pal Marta for an intense hoop training this past weekend. The roadtrip part of the journey offered up many “my future’s so bright...” photo opportunities. We had a blast. Here's all the proof.