Don’t look so surprised…

… its a new post:

I didn’t intend the death of Potato Candies when I began Graduate School this year.  And yet here we are, in the future, at the precipice of a new year, after months and months and months of hibernation.  I have every intention of rekindling my relationship with ‘blogging’ & Potato Candies & whatnot, but before all can return to normal I have this… other resolution to complete: Detox.

Awe, look at those Liver Cleansers doing their job. They should probably be shooting their Milk Thistle lazers at the line up of Champagne I drank @ new years, and the side of Lamb I ate while home…

So, this whole Detox project has some… diet restrictions.  No meat, no dairy, no salt, no sugar, no wheat, no preservatives or additives, no, no no, no no no.  Which is not all that dissimilar to the norm around here.  But, it pulls me away from roasting the hell out of every vegetable I see in copious amounts of oil and butter.  I am confined to steaming or blanching or rawness or booringblandness. So I made a great cognitive effort to create a salad that is packed with every super-duper food on the detox diet list.  Be warned, it is SCREAMING for salt, but I need to avoid it for now. Please, if you make this and you are not me PLEASE add salt.  Please.

DETOX SALAD | with blue berries and no salt… none.

• 3 cups of any cooked grain, cooled and well drained (I used barley, but check whatever detox diet you are doing… the grains in the wheat fam are to be avoided)
  
• 1/4 cup of toasted unsalted cashew pieces
  
• 1/4 cup of steamed small hacks of vegetables (I used Kale and Celery)
• 1/2 cup of fresh blueberries
• 1/2 cup of dried Turkish Apricots, chopped (NO acid or sugar added)
• 3 pinches of ground Cinnamon
  
• the juice on 1 lemon

Its pretty straight forward from here; dump it all together.  Stir it.  Get the cinnamon spread throughout to avoid clumpies.  You may want to add some salt or olive oil.  Just a smidgen.  Mine was still too wet to serve or store when I finished it so I spread it out on a cookie sheet to ‘dry’.  Major improvement.

Last but not least:

The biggest bit of new around here is …  Allyson. We were housemates in Portland Oregon, and she now resides with her hubs in LA; 3,500 miles away from us in Brooklyn, NY.  From henceforth the maintenance of Potato Candies is divided.  Her mad baking skills complete the sphere of goodness.  Actually in this merge the true entomological and linguistic genesis of Potato Candies is complete.  So, next weekend Allyson will take her maiden blogging voyage.  From henceforth we shall alternate weekends, one post a week, proablably on sundays (but if were late, show a little love.)

Overjoyed to be back, so glad to share with Allyson this Occidental Potato Candies move. By the next time you see me the detox will be dead and gone (and pie will be involved, lots and lots of pie).

happy new year and tuck in:

a & a

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