BLISSFUL SEED

Bloom design t-shirt for women

Just thinking about going vegan sounds like a challenge because I love dairy.  But who doesn’t love a challenge?  I must love it because I launched my business in the middle of a recession.  Challenge? It’s more of a waiting game for me.  Just give it time says the optimist in me.   Time.  Hum.

So back to the dairy queen in me.  Okay that doesn’t even sound very healthy.  I think I’ve had that about twice in my life. Excuse me if I love the fat.  It’s a natural part of our food, fat.  So, let’s stop avoiding it  especially the women. Deprivation is good for only so long.   I know, it’s fattening and who wants to be overweight, right?  High cholesterol, heart attacks, obesity looms over this country’s health reports and let’s not even mention child obesity.  How did we get so far?  My theory involves portion sizes.  There is no excuse for the big glup or large than life sizes, but that’s consumerism for you.   No wonder the European women are so skinny.  It’s all those bit sizes and walking!!

For me it’s not about quantity but quality, says the foodie in me.   But maybe I’m looking with rose colored glasses.  Vegan for a week?  Maybe one of these weeks, perhaps with other vegans.  Who am I joking?  This is a personal decision.  I’m on my own.  Right now?  Back to selling those beautiful Blissful Seed t-shirts where all t-shirts are on SALE!!!  Order now and support Chicago artists, the American economy, and the environment.   Otherwise, you may see blank long sleeved tee for the fall…peace.

Blissful Seed photo shoot: (May 2009)

Torta Pascualina (Easter cake) my first time making a pastry from scratch.

As a naturally converted vegetarian, I have recently contemplated testing the vegan in me for a week.  Let’s just say I am still pondering that decision until I just naturally decide I’m ready.  That’s how I became a vegetarian.  Well, let me explain a bit further.

I never watched a movie on the meat industry.  It was a conscious decision but I really just lost a taste for red meat then chicken followed, then tuna, and then eggs.  Don’t get me wrong, I ate meat along the way but slowly but surely stopped eating it all together.     I was aware eating meat was cruel to animals yet I just didn’t crave the meat anymore. And I am a foodie!

I love food! I enjoy making the food, watching the food being made, and even taking pictures of food.  Note, my almost vegan (it has egg) Argentine torta pascualina (Easter cake) that I made for the first time last year.   I digress. So I love food.   I wish sometimes I could be a food photographer.   I love thinking of how to make more vegan pastries for my friends especially those who are trying to lose weight.  No just kidding, I just don’t believe in diets.

Anyways, it’s not a loss as foodie but more of a gain, not in gaining weight but in thinking of even more creative ideas and recipes for my vegetarian lifestyle.  So, I think of all of these ways to make dishes more healthy. I wish I can have more time to cook.  Either way,  I have make time because I don’t like frozen packaged food.  Plus, I grew up on very natural diet. No processes foods,  canned food, any junk food existed in my home.   Maybe there were chips for parties but it was never in my home on a regular basis.  But being a vegan sounds so interesting except for maybe one solid reason, no milk.

Yeah, milk was a staple in my home:  milk in the morning, milk at the night.  Then, as an athlete, milk and cereal at night as a snack became a staple, mostly because all of us athletes went through the snacks like crazy.  Milk with cookies, milk with tea, it was the best friend of this foodie.  How can I go vegan w/o milk?  Maybe rice milk?  Nope.  Soy milk?  Tastes not real, but maybe tomorrow I’ll try almond milk.  Boo.  No, moo.