Red snappers weighing in at approximately three pounds each!  Fresh from the ocean!  Wild Caught!  These babies were coming home with me!

It’s a privilege to be able to buy fishes or any kind of seafood directly from the ocean. I just love it. If you ever have the opportunity to taste freshly cooked, as in fresh from the ocean seafood, consider yourself blessed. George from Two Bills Seafood market cleans my fishes with so much joy and enthusiasm, which makes  them taste even more d’luscious. I couldn’t contain my excitement, as I watched him clean the red snappers. My brain was in overload, as multiple ideas of preparing these fishes rushed through my head. It made me dizzy with lust. Should I fry them? Should I steam them? Should I stuff and roast them? Should I have George fillet them right now or should I leave them whole? Oh my heavens! What should I do?

By the time I arrived home, I had already figured out exactly what I’d be having for dinner. I’m a vegetable loving diva and always have loads of vegetables to prove it.  What folks don’t understand is that a salad doesn’t equate to plain ole iceberg, lettuce and tomato. Come on people! The earth is filled an abundance of produce, and as much as I have eaten, I still haven’t consumed a fraction of all that’s out there waiting for me. I can’t wait to travel the entire world.  I embrace unfamiliar produce and is willing to try them all. My creativity allows me to enjoy them all. For example: celery is one vegetable that I find very challenging to eat, but that doesn’t stop me from getting it into my Temple. So what do I do? I make juices with it. I add ginger, carrots and lime/lemon which results in an excellent, refreshing and healthy, “does the body good” drink. With every produce that I purchase, I ensure that it is consumed one way or another. My mission is to cleanse this Temple from the inside out and by making healthier choices, I am already doing just that.

So, I gathered just about every vegetable that I had on hand, for this awesome collaboration with the “fresh from the ocean” red snappers. Can I say pure delight? When eating and enjoying bountiful vegetables, you really won’t miss the carbohydrates. Trust me on this one. I personally was an avid rice eater. Rice used to be my first choice of starch/simple carbohydrates. Rice would usually make it to the table much more often that potatoes or pasta. However jasmine, basmati, long grain, black rice and sweet brown rice is now engaged in a stiff competition with the earth’s bounty. I buy twenty pounds of rice (basmati, jasmine and long grain) at a time and my household would easily consume that amount in less than two weeks. Once the rice jar was half way empty, I would begin to hyperventilate and immediately replenish it. I dare not let the rice jar get empty! That was once upon a time. Now rice isn’t that important anymore. I still do enjoy eating it, but without the hassle of freaking out and loosing my mind, because the rice jar is getting low. I have substituted that fix with an overdose of produce, which includes a wide variety of complex carbohydrates. After eating, I’m satiated without a high spike in my blood sugar. Not that I am diabetic, but why not choose healthier selections and make it a habit. In the long run those complex carbohydrates will result in a healthier me.