Cleanse Day 6

Half way there! Today was busy and switched gears midway through the day meaning I wasn't able to prepare the foods I had planned today.

I woke up way to early again this morning (is this an effect of the cleanse?) and got up at 4:30 to begin my morning practice. At least getting up early meant I was able to have a lovely long one!

I normally don't eat anything before teaching a morning class, but I'm hungry in the mornings on this cleanse so this morning (especially after a 2 hour yoga practice) so I ate a couple of rice cakes with almond butter before heading to the studio.

After my class, I zipped home to make some guacamole to enhance what was otherwise going to be a pretty boring lunch - and a very late lunch (what else is new!). Leaving the guac in the fridge, I then drove my daughter to my brother's house to play with her cousins, and picked up my sister in law for our pedicure appointment.

My SIL introduced me to the delight of pedicures three years ago. Since my feet are very evident in my line of work, I figure the occasional pedicure is a business necessity :-) After our pedicure, we usually go out for lunch, but as that wasn't an option for me, she picked up a bagelsub at the Bagelshop and we ate at my place. My lunch was a scrounged assortment of brown rice, chopped veggies, hummous and guacamole. Not the most brilliant meal but it's what I could assemble given my lack of time and since it was 2:30 by the time we ate, I wasn't complaining. I was glad to have the guacamole for something new. See my guac recipe below.

My brother and SIL had invited us to dinner. Obviously this wasn't the best week for a dinner engagement for me but since this is the FIRST dinner invitation we've had from them in the six years they've been together, I wasn't going to say no. They've recently moved from a "fixer upper" that never really got fixed to a brand new house in the suburbs and finally felt comfortable enough with their home to invite people over. We were their first invited dinner guests! So we went. I deferred my planned dinner until tomorrow and threw together a Basic Oil and Lemon Dressing from the Wild Rose cookbook, a salad and the ingredients to make kitcheri with broccoli, which I cooked at their house. While the others ate pasta and salad with ranch dressing, I enjoyed my kitcheri and salad with oil and lemon dressing.

After a fun evening playing Cranium, family vs family, we arrived home and, feeling a tiny bit hungry, I ate a delicious ripe bartlett pear.

Tomorrow I hope to have a bit more leisure for cooking but I may not as we've just been invited to join my best friend's family for the annual visit to a Christmas tree farm. This may turn into a dinner outing as well. Guess I'd better be prepared for the possibility!


Guacamole

Ingredients:

1 avocado
1/4 cup tomato, diced (I used tinned tomatoes)
1 garlic clove
1/2 tsp cumin (ground)
1/2 tsp lime or lemon juice
1 tsp cilantro
pinch salt
pinch petter

Method:

1. Mash avocado pulp in medium-sized bowl.
2. Add reminaing ingredients and mix with fork until smooth.
3. Season to taste.