a kick-ass celery salad

MAY is national salads month, but at the sidewalk's NATURE BASE BOUTIQUE, every week is RAW SALADS o'clock. Raw foods rocks! David, aka, the sidewalk playboy, suited and booted, of course,
is crafting a kick-ass celery salad for the sidewalk's fashion pack. It wont be ready until an hour or so, yet, it's palatable aroma is already pulling in chic passers-by. Their crave is so palpable, it's causing their mouths to water.

Normally, David uses lots of  fresh vegetables, fruits, seeds, nuts and herbs in all  his quick and easy raw foods lunches. Today is no exception.

INGREDIENTS(inexpensive and organic)  for today's kick-ass Celery Salad: celery, baby carrots, avocado, green onions, crushed peanuts, fresh parsley, cherry tomatoes, sliced ginger, fresh minced ginger,cabbage, red pepper, and zucchini

DRESSING:
oriental salad sauce and cold pressed walnut oil



                                                      LUNCH TIME

RAFA
Celery is my favourite type of salad

DAVID

Really!

RAFA
I REFUSED to date a girl because she didn't like it....celery salads

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BRITNEY
I thought you were a Wardrobe Stylist. You cook also?

DAVID
I AM  a wardrobe stylist, but I'm NOT a cook. I am a RAW MEALS ARTISAN. I craft salads and smoothies, using raw ingredients ONLY..

BRITNEY
I don't care much for cooked ingredients in my salads at all. You are doing a kick ass job with your raw foods venture

DAVID

PASSION, not venture. Thanks. Can't go wrong with raw foods

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SUN HO

David, does Nature Base Boutique, deliver to customers who work on the sidewalk?

DAVID

I'm afraid not. Maybe in the future.



CHAN

DAMN IT!
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DIESEL

May I have 300 grams of mixed nuts, 150 grams of dried fruits and 7 bottles of water please


Muhlach

SEVEN bottes of water?


DIESEL

I drink LOTS of water. It's almost the first thing I do before I go walk the sidewalk.


DAVID

Congrats. You can't go wrong with LOTS of water.

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SELENA

People who eat a whole lot of vegetabes and fruits, can't build muscles. You need protein in your diet


DAVID

WHAT! For your information, a WHOLE lot of proteins can be found in beans, vegetables, nuts, seeds..Why are you so vegetable and fruit averse? Bear in mind, in comparison, you are unlikely to find toxins in raw fruits and vegetables...A nature based lifestyle is the way FORWARD


UPTON

Never mind the detractors, sidewalk playboy. If you are being attacked it simply means that you are doing the right thing. You are succeeding, not them...I have eat raw foods regularly and have no plans on stopping.


SHARUKH

No wonder your sidewalk pictures are so encouraging to look at. Not to mention your energy levels - they are INSANE


UPTON

Thanks. I can't ever see mysef living any other way. This nature-based lifestyle ROCKS!

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LE Spice Boy

I LOVE raw foods. Thanks for making this sweet raw salad. I'llbe back. I woudn't want to miss out on your daily raw treats


DAVID

Sorrry, you will have to miss out on the days when I attend both fashion and fashionable events. These events are VERY important to my sidewalk life also. Later, I'll be at the Royal Air Force museum's 70th anniversary of the Dambusters raid, dressed up in wartime outfit, of course. Just checking out bombs. other war artefacts, and, last but not the pilots' bad-ass uniforms.......


Edyta
(teases)

.......I can see why they call you the 'sidewalk payboy'....AND...you are such a show-off.
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[words by zokaya kamara]

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http://sidewalknarratives.blogspot.com/

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tastefully stunning Dandelion leaves salad

EVERY DAY, raw salads artisan, Chris, aka the sidewalk playboy, crafts LOVELY, raw salads and raw smoothies that makes the sidewalk diaspora, HUNGRY - before lunch, even those who claim to have an aversion to raw foods. Today will be no exception. That's delicious!

[PEDESTRIAN REMONSTRATES WITH MOTORIST WHO BREAKS SHARPLY AT TRAFFIC LIGHT,(Chris feels entertained)]

Dandelion season is here. In a few weeks, they will disappear until next year. The leaves are great for salads. Dandelion greens are good for your health and well-being.  They cleanse the liver, blood and kidneys. They are packed with minerals and vitamins, just what our bodies need.

[A GROUP OF RANDOM MEN ARE DOING PUSH UPS, BENDING AND SQUATTING ON THE SIDEWALK]


The sidewalk diaspora will get the OPPORTUNITY to taste raw dandelion salads today. Donning an impeccably stylish outfit, Chris is crafting a very tasty dandelion leaves salad . Yummy. He made sure to pick the leaves on the sidewalk, while they were young; before they start to flower.  The young leaves are a lot, LESS bitter than their old counterparts. Exclude the stems; they're can be bitter.

[SLEET PELTS THE SIDEWALK. THE SOUND AND SIGHT ARE BOTH RELAXING]



The sidewalk playboy, Chris, mixes Dandelion leaves, dandelion flowers(it's adviseable to use flowers sparingly) sweet red pepper, cucumbers, pecans, rose hips,(lots of vitamin C)sunflower seeds, hemp seeds, collard greens, tomatoes, beets, fresh parsley, spinach, mustard, turnip greens, white onions, leeks and spinach (packed with iron)

Chris properly RINSED, all the above ingredients, to get rid of dirt and, er, ubiquitous creatures. TOADS, anyone?


For the dressing, Chris mixes, extra virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar, raw honey, black pepper, rock salts. Then he pours mixture over the large bowl of mixed vegetables and seeds. Places bowl in fridge to marinate for a few hours.



(LATER - First passers-by have their say)



MARGARET

people actually eat RAW dandelion leaves? Yuck. It's too bitter for me....Disgusting!

DAVID

they are supposed to be very good for your liver. This salad is quite delicious, ACTUALLY.

CHRIS
They ARE good for your liver...It's not bitter, because I picked the blooms BEFORE they bloomed.

MARGARET
So what part of the dandelion plant do you use, Chris


Just the leaves

DAVID
Okay then. Not bad. Not bad at all. the leaves tastes good in desserts.

CHRIS
Oh, I used a handful dandelion flowers also

MARGARET
The FLOWERS? Yuck! You make some strange salads, Chris...That must be bitter as hell. I've eaten them....cooked. Raw dandelion leaves, and especially, the flowers, are bitter. I don't think I'd enjoy the RAW TASTES


[SPRINKLED SIDEWALK RELEASE AN AMAZING AROMA]

CHRIS
It's not bitter AT ALL. The other ingredients give the salad a beautiful flavor...Dandelion greens are low in calories and packed with fibre. Just saying


I don't care


CHRIS

If you try this raw dandelion salad, I guarantee, it will become your ultimate weakness.

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  [words by zokaya kamara]

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http://sidewalknarratives.blogspot.com/

www.twitter.com/zokayakamara

Pink salmon salad

PASSERS-BY on the sidewak, relish their new guilty-pleasure - raw salads, prepared daily by Ashton, aka, the sidewalk playboy. Some of them have a raw; fruit or vegetable, salad, EVERY DAY. It's their new honey. No other dietary source of sweetness will do. Eat your heart out.

(Yvette walk briskly on sidewalk, Brad emerges from a sidewalk stall and steps in front of her. Gross!)

As we speak, Ashton, the dapper sidewalk playboy, is making a kick-ass - to-die-for, Raw Salmon salad. He expects passers-by who have first servings, to be tempted into to having second servings.

(altercation breaks out between two groups of pedestrians. Group B's power walk is halted when they find it impossible to pass Group A, ambling in front, reading newspaper, texting, swaying from side to side on the sidewalk. extra flavor! yummy treat!)

In a large bowl, Ashton mixes together the following fresh,  RAW foods:

crushed red pepper, pounded peanuts, kale, mint, Kelp noodles, finely-chopped spring onions aka scallions, asparagus, shredded zucchini, peeled and grated carrots, chopped chilli, avocado, pine nuts, tomatoes, raw onion, crushed garlic, cumin seeds, baby spinach, onion powder, and of course, heaps of raw crumbled raw pink salmon.

(Pedestrian walk away quickly after his dog finished sh*tting on the sidewalk. TASTELESS! Another pedestrian shout Are you gonna pick that up? then offered the culprit  a plastic bag to put the MESS in. Serve him....right)

Over that mixture, the amused sidewalk playboy drizzles a mixture of raw honey, Himalayan rock salt olive oil and lemon juice and lime juice and rice vinegar. Stir frantically. Then place the bowl in the refrigerator to marinate for TWO HOURS


(LATER - sidewalk's lunch time)


Happiness is written all over the faces of those devouring it now. Even a sidewalk worker who earlier admitted his disdain for raw baby spinach. Yuck!

　
RYAN
This salad is to-die-for, Ashton. I’ll have one for lunch every day at work.

ASHTON

Soon, you’ll forget that tiresome pastry desserts were your ultimate guilty pleasures

(jokingly) Were they?

　

JENNIFER
Best raw salad ever. Yummy. I could eat it every day.

ASHTON

You SHOUld eat it every day!

MICHELLE
Your raw salad smells delicious!!! I got to try some today.

ASHTON

It’s okay to hate raw vegetables, but there is no harm in trying it – ONLY GOODNESS.

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 [words by zokaya kamara]

SEE ALSO

https://www.facebook.com/TheSidewalkDarlings

http://sidewalknarratives.blogspot.com/

www.twitter.com/zokayakamara

quickie salads

YOU don't want to be in the same boat as Osbourne; aka the sidewalk playboy; the doyenne of tastefully raw sidewalk salads, It's hours before lunch time, yet hundreds of hungry, newly raw-salad-fanatical passers-by are queuing up for sidewalk salads. What the HELL! Converting the once die-hard pastry lovers to raw food lovers was astonishingly easy. However, keeping up with their new crave is going to be flipping HARD.

 

Rustling up a quick salad, OSBOURNE is laterally experimenting with a nice blend of RAW ingredients - salad greens, alfalfa sprouts, avocado, carrot, ginger, lemons, tofu, apple, red and yellow bell peppers, summer squash, almonds and zucchini.

 

This lot will increase fibre in their diets. He grate the apples and combined them with all the other thinly-sliced vegetables in a large bowl.

 

Osbourne whisks together - raw honey (to counteract the sour lemon juice) lemon juice, and raw mango chutney, sea salts, balsamic vinegar. Then he pours this mixture over the vegetables in the large bowl.

 

He’s supposed to now, place the finished salad in the refrigerator for at least an hour or so. Unfortunately, to avoid a boisterous uproar, he will have to skip this fundamental step this time.

 

OSBOURNE: (to the first person – in the line)

 

Delicious! Wow. This a lovely, healthy salad. You will LOVE it



Dzhokhar: (enthusiastically)

Sounds Amazing

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http://sidewalknarratives.blogspot.com/

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a bad-ss cucumber salad

Raw salads are dramaticaly the new dessert at the Sidewalk Cafe. This is what the sidewalk diaspora needs. Perhaps it was comtemplating the move while feasting on the cafes delectable desserts. The sidewalk playboy, Luis, is here to support them.


Luis, is making a bad ass cucumber salad. Ingredients are - Red onions, lots of cucumber, of course, tomatoes, onions, broccoli, kale, cardamom, cauliflower, rice vinegar, black pepper, toasted sesame oil.

 
Luis might experiment with raw corn another day.
 

 
LUIS:  (to passer-by, Kendra)

If you are concerned about your intake of sugar, salt and vinegar, then this salad is not for you. The rice vinegar constitutes sugar, salt and vinegar. Sorry.

　

KENDRA

IS IT disgusting?

 

LUIS: Not at all. It’s so yummy and it was so easy to prepare. Best salad you've ever tasted! It’s a nod to Japanese salads. Japanese salads are about simplicity, finesse and fine taste.

 
Reese: It's Delicious
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http://sidewalknarratives.blogspot.com/

www.twitter.com/zokayakamara

Gwyneth Paltrow inspired salad

Yesterday, quite a few pedestrians admitted that vegetables would never touch their lips; raw or cooked. Sidewalk playboy, Boston was aghast. No wonder some of them looked so constipated. They turned their lips away from proper fibres. After assuring them that raw salads would let them defecate every day, instead of once every week, some were more receptive to the Sidewalk Cafe's new salad menus.

Today's raw salad treat is Gwyneth Paltrow inspired. Oh yes, raw vegan cheese, onions , fresh figs, celery, butternut squash, parsnips, kale, and red bell pepper.

By the way, apart from blending it into smoothies, kale tastes best when its eaten raw. Not many people can stand the taste of onion, but it's great for your heart. Sometime, we have to learn to sacrifice taste for health.

Don't forget the dressing. Like the vegetables, it has high carbs content. But walkers need lots of energy to get by. But if you dislike dressing, you can always use lemon juice.

Sounds lovely... Enjoy

bomb-ass, diabetic-harmonious raw salad

Electricity on the sidewalk has been switched off while crucial re-surfacing takes place. Check out the news on CNN. Consequently, the sidewalk Sidewalk Cafe will be - OPEN, still. Perhaps, the sidewalk diaspora will suffer contractions when it learn of the cafe's totally new lunch menus. Raw salads. What the hell!

That's right. No FLIPPING desserts or puddings in the near future. All that heat was driving the sidewalk playboy, Andy, MAD. The time is ripe for change; a new diet. Time to start eating onions as if they are apples; apples as if they are pastries. It should be super easy to convert the sidewalk's pastry lovers.

Psy whistles showily as he sweeps the sidewalk. No doubt, CLEAN eating is the way forward; totally raw. Time to change the sidewalk's palete from pastries to real food - OMG - totally raw!
Besides, using just human energy to create raw salads, is more cost effective than baking with electricity. Ovens and stoves have been replaced by new kitchen appliances; cutting boards, Mandolin, sharp knives, spoons and bowls.
　

Right now, the sidewalk playboyy, Andy, is preparing today's bomb-ass, diabetic-harmonious special. Here are the key ingredients; (inexpensive organic) - Lettuce, tomatoes, spinach, tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, carrots, peppers and onions, garlic, cucumber, orange-colored bell pepper, summer squash and asparagus.


Andy slices vegetabeles very thinly with mandolin. In a large bowl, he mixes olive oil and lemon juice into a creamy consistency. Then he sprinkles liquid with black pepper, and paprika. No FLIPPING salt. Finally, he pour the dressing over the salad. Let it chill until serving time in an hour.


The Sidewalk Cafe smells - vegetable-like but the resulting taste is crunchy, savory, colorful and awesome. Yummy! From now on, the sidewalk diaspora will be begging the sidewalk playboy for more... RAW SALADS.

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https://www.facebook.com/TheSidewalkDarlings

http://sidewalknarratives.blogspot.com/

www.twitter.com/zokayakamara