Nearly a week into my Year of Living Delightfully, I'm finding it easy to fit the Mother Sequence into my day (I'm usually dressed for the occasion- all day) but eating raw has been challenging. If I want a variety of fresh fruits and veggies available for me, I have to go grocery shopping more than just once a week OR come up with a better plan. There are days though, when I leave the studio after teaching a yoga class or giving a couple of massages that the thought of walking into a cold supermarket sends chills up and down my entire vertebral column.
But there's an oasis between the studio and home for me and it's called Green Flash Coffee. They make the best real fruit smoothies! Located in front of the Sea Village Condos on the makai side of Alii Drive, they offer a variety of coffees and teas, panini sandwiches, and ice cream as well as the smoothies. My favorite is the Green Flash Smoothie with spinach, fruits and some protein powder!
It's just what I need to hold me over until I can get up enough motivation to go grocery shopping.
This is supposed to all be fun and delightful, right? So I searched through my memory cards and remembered a time when drawing up weekly menus, shopping and cooking (believe it or not) were fun for me. I owned a couple of cookbooks by Pierre Franey and just about every meal I made was great! Leftovers even found there way into my son's pre-school lunch box. He detested peanut butter and jelly sandwiches but loved rigatoni with shrimp cooked in a fresh tomato/basil sauce, sprinkled with feta cheese and capers!
Those were my pre-yoga days, before cholesterol was "invented" so there was a lot of meat, and butter, and eggs, etc., and it was good. My taste buds have now matured, along with the rest of my body, so I am in search of a new cuisine and a 2008 Pierre Franey model. In the meantime, I'll often be found at 75-6000 Alii Drive, picking up my smoothie brunch at Green Flash Coffee.