{"id":769,"date":"2010-09-21T22:33:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T20:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=769"},"modified":"2010-09-21T22:33:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T20:33:33","slug":"blissful-lucuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=769","title":{"rendered":"Blissful lucuma"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my experience, bliss arrives when we’ve let everything else go, and, unplanned, let it saunter in.<\/p>\n

In Madagascar, arriving in a tiny village on the coast, far from where I’d planned to end up, alone, and with no expectations. And a new year’s party beyond any I could have imagined.<\/p>\n

An instant on the dancefloor, all thought silent.<\/p>\n

Eating a pizza after about three weeks of living on white bread and peanut butter, with the occasional banana as a treat, before deciding enough is enough, today we eat pizza!<\/p>\n

A moment in meditation, any attempt to recapture futile.<\/p>\n

Deep in code, mapping the paths outside of time.<\/p>\n

Arriving at a festival after three days and two nights hitching, including one unpleasant night spent in a police station, sleepless, and collapsing on the field, just the bliss of lying on a field with nowhere to go and nothing to do.<\/p>\n

Floating in a lake, lying on my back, looking up at the clouds.<\/p>\n

What was today’s bliss?<\/p>\n

Working in Philippi till about 8pm, I’d emptied everything on my “must do today” list for the first time in ages (mainly by shifting a whole lot to “high priority”), and came home. Deciding to dive into the next set of things to do, I made myself a smoothie.<\/p>\n

Nothing unusual about that, I have at least one smoothie a day. I usually make it up with whatever is lying around. A dash of raw chocolate. Some nuts and seeds. Another dash of raw chocolate. Hmm, I wonder how the nutmeg will go in there? Ooh, and I better use that avo…<\/p>\n

Sometimes it turns out wonderfully, and sometimes, in the words of a neighbour, “vile, absolutely vile”.<\/p>\n

I’ve been experimenting with lucuma powder since I got some last week<\/a>. This weekend I even went chocolate free and blissed out on lucuma powder smoothies. Lucuma tastes like caramel custard – absolutely divine.<\/p>\n

Today, however, it turned out to be, much as I don’t like to use the phrase, the best smoothie ever.<\/p>\n

How did I make it?<\/p>\n

I wasn’t ready to take a break from the lucuma yet, but it was time for some raw cacao energy too. So, the ingredients were:<\/p>\n