The Raw Chef Blog

"It is easy to sit up and take notice.  What is difficult is getting up and taking action."

-Al Batt

In my last entry I said that the next time I write would be when i’m back home, well, that’s not strictly true.  I got a little bit confused about the day of the week and thought that I was flying back last night when it’s actually tonight.  I still decided to get a lift to SF with Amanda as I wanted to avoid the bus at all costs.  I also thought the ride would be fun and it would be an excellent opportunity to explore SF.

I really enjoyed my last night in Fort Bragg.  We went to a beautiful little town called Mendocino.  Loads of films have been shot there including ‘Overboard’ with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell.  It’s also where ‘Murder She Wrote’ was filmed, I got some photos of the house they use which is now a B&B.  They’ve got a fantastic cooperative organic store in Mendo.  I’ve never seen a selection of herbs and tea like it!  And what an organic produce section!  Bought myself some ‘Raweos’ (raw cookies) for the plane journey home. 

Went to bed that night and realised that i’m starting to manifest stuff in my life.  Actually, I should put that another way…i’m consciously manifesting things and am getting good at allowing them into my reality.  If this subject interests you I can’t recommend ‘Ask & It Is Given’ highly enough.  You can click on it in the side bar of this site.  If it doesn’t interest you, buy it anyway!  And make sure you read it!!!  I was reading a really important chapter on dreams and how they are significant in what you are manifesting.  Then it suddenly dawned on me that Lel had bought me a book on understanding dreams and given it to me at the airport so I could read it while i’m away…Spooky stuff!  It looks like i’m going to finish Ask & It Is Given so I will read my dream book on the plane.

It was such a gorgeous day yesterday.  Much of our journey down from Fort Bragg was along the coast, the scenery is just stunning.  We also came into SF over the Golden Gate bridge and had planned to stop at the view point but missed the turning!  It was still fantastic to go over this bridge that i’ve seen on TV and and films so many times.  You also get to see Alcatraz as you come round the bay, what a chilling site that is!  I’m so excited because i’m going to get a boat over there today and have a look around, you know, do the tourist thing.

We dropped Patricia off at the airport at about 3pm yesterday and then went off in search of Cafe Gratitude, the raw cafe.  I absolutely love Cafe Gratitude.  The energy in there is great as is the food!  The owners of the place designed a board game called ‘The Abounding River’ based upon gratitude, consciousness and all that stuff.  They wanted to have a place where people could come to play the game for free.  This was about the time they were getting into raw foods so they decided to make it a raw restaurant where the tables have the board under the glass so you can eat, drink and play!  It’s so great in there, you have a table that fits 4 people and what you get when it’s busy is 2 sets of 2 people sitting together that don’t know each other, having a chat.

The food is exceptional and when you look at the menu you see that the dishes are all named as affirmations (it’s really not as hippy as it all sounds!!!).  One of the things I had was ‘I Am Cherished’ which is a pomegranate cheesecake.  When the waitress serves it to you they tell you the name of the dish to make sure it’s yours and as they do it they read it back to you.  So when I got my cheesecake she gave it to me and said, "you are cherished".  Nice touch!!!

Anyway that’s me done for now.  I’m going to get myself sorted and visit Alcatraz then get something else at Cafe Gratitude.  Then it really will be time for my plane.

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