Before I get to the food, look what we got yesterday:
It’s a wonderful Yamaha electric piano (Arius YDP160) from Guitar Center. It’s not just a keyboard – it is electric, but it has weighted keys (all 88 of them) and sounds better than most real uprights. It’s a gift from Bobby’s parents: thank you so much! We love it. We really really love it. I played last night a little bit and as soon as I finish this post I’m going to play some more. I set a lofty goal to learn 10 new pieces by the end of the year so I have to get moving.
Here are some of the salads I’ve had over the last few days.
Raw salad #1:
- base: various lettuces
- toppings: red cabbage, raw blue cheese, heirloom tomatoes, red peppers,
- dressings: Herdez red salsa, liquid gold elixir
Raw salad #2:
- simple tomato (heirloom) salad with bragg’s liquid aminos
This was eaten last Saturday while watching 27 Dresses… which was so bad that I didn’t even finish it. Maybe my tastes have changed, but I really was not feeling that movie. Maybe I just don’t like Katherine Heigl.
I don’t think I ever showed you guys my farmers’ market bounty from last week. While making a salad…
This was so much food. I’ve managed to eat most of it (and I had to supplement some of the juicing items like celery and cucumber). This was all from the Santa Clara market.
Raw salad #3:
- base: interesting green from the farmers’ market; it’s something Asian
- toppings: raw beets, red peppers, fennel, Brussels sprouts, raw blue cheese, kohlrabi
- dressing: liquid gold elixir
All mixed up:
See the thick bottoms of the greens? I didn’t like them much and ended up throwing them out. For the rest of the greens (that I hadn’t used yet) I juiced the bottoms.
I actually have more salads, believe it or not, but I’m going to save them for a later date. I have to go find my battery charger for my old camera (which I’m using now; the newer one broke – er, I dropped it). I’m going to the San Jose farmers’ market today to check it out and update my Bay Area Post.
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YAY!!!!!!!! PIANO!!!!!!!
LOVE the piano!!! I’ve been composing music and playing the piano since I was 6, so I definitely can appreciate the excitement
wooooo!! you play piano?! that’s awesome!!!
I made my parents salad using liquid gold exilir, they loved it! 
Love all your salad combos!
Can I come over and help you out with all your produce…and kabocha? I’ll bring the vegan parm.
Hey, you live in CA too, right? Is it ALWAYS salad-eating weather here? lol.
YES Piano! How well can you play? I learned for about 1 year, stopped, then learned for about 6 months, stopped, and then learned for another 1.5 years until I stopped again. lol.
oh congrats on your piano! this blog will def. need some VIDEOS soon!!
maggie tell me that is a purple cherokee tomato??
Your word blog is so cool! I just started Swahili classes over here in Kenya and I think you would find the language REALLY interesting- it’s unlike any I’ve every seen!
What an awesome present! Do you and Bobby both play?
I’m probably way behind on this but I just noticed that you posted your version of the liquid gold elixir. I’ll have to try it soon!
Another pianist in the Blogger-world! Wohoo!
Glad your piano’s good! But what you say is true though, if you have a GOOD electric piano, it’s actually quite possible that it sounds better than a real one. I mean if you put the prices up against each other… it’s better and CHEAPER to buy a good electric piano than a good real piano and if you get stuck with a bad real piano.. well, it’s not exactly bliss -_-…
That gold elixir sounds good, I’ve been looking for a good dressing
Congrats on the piano; how much fun!