RAW Journey

2012-09-01T09:56:00.001-07:00

"Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify." - Henry David Thoreau

Basil Lime Ginger Avocado Soup

2012-06-23T14:09:00.003-07:00

Basil Lime Ginger Creamy Avocado Soup

from RAW GLOW

Soup

1 lime juiced
1 kaffir lime leave (optional)
3 cups young coconut water ( or 1.5 cups young coconut water and 1.5 cups filtered water)
1 inch knob ginger
2 teaspoons chickpea miso
1/8 teaspoon cayenne or ground chili flakes
1 tiny little piece of a red chili pepper (optional)
1 small handful of basil leaves
1 large avocado or 2 small

Suggested Garnishes

chopped chives, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, and your choice of seaweed.

Blend all the soup ingredients together in a blender until completely smooth. Taste and adjust seasonings if necessary. Garnish with chopped chives, cucumbers, bell peppers that have been cut with a mandoline slicer* and your choice of seaweed. I like crumbled silky sea palm on top.

2012-05-22T08:40:00.002-07:00

Getting what you want starts with being grateful for what you have. And when you feel inspired, act on it. That is your cue, your intuition guiding you...follow it!

2011-10-22T00:03:00.001-07:00

"Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale

2011-10-09T22:39:00.003-07:00

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." - Margaret Lee Runbeck

2011-10-09T22:39:00.001-07:00

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." - Margaret Lee Runbeck

How to Adopt a Family for Christmas | eHow.com

2010-12-09T12:15:00.000-08:00

How to Adopt a Family for Christmas | eHow.com

This is what my daughter and I are going to do this Christmas. It not only teaches our little one's how to give and share but it also shows people that there is hope and that anything is possible when you BELIEVE!

Enzymes explained at a juvenile understanding level Part 1

2010-08-31T17:20:00.000-07:00

Cru raw food restaurant review

2010-08-31T17:14:00.000-07:00

Trade In Your Daily Cup of Starbucks for a RAW Smoothie

2010-08-14T23:15:00.000-07:00

Trade In Your Daily Cup of Starbucks for a RAW Smoothie

"RAW" in Los Angeles

2010-08-13T15:47:00.000-07:00

Juliano Brotman's restaurant "RAW" in Santa Monica, California...

I had a dish called "CHEESY KELP" which is so much like Fettuccine Alfredo it was amazing and I want to know how they did this! It was so incredibly tasty, even the vegetables and the salad had flavors out of this world. I would highly recommend anyone trying RAW food for the first time to go to "RAW"on 6th Street in Santa Monica, you will not be disappointed! "RAW" the restaurant is definitely not the bland alfalfa tasting testers one might expect from a healthy eating place such as this one, it's more like a scrumptious retreat you can't wait to go back to so you can have the dishes you've been craving since your first visit....like me!

You can buy Juliano's "RAW The UNcook Book at the restaurant, online or at your favorite bookstore.

My RAW Journey in California this Summer...

2010-08-09T21:37:00.000-07:00

Lots of Raw Scruptious dishes made at my friend Alejandra and Doug DeLuca's in Zuma beach this Summer!!!

Raw Mushrooms being prepared for Raw Calamari --- Raw Calamari --- Raw oats and berry cereal --- Soaked Kamut for Raw Kamut Bread --- Raw Felafels

Healthy Raw Recipes - Raw Cookies

2010-08-05T14:37:00.000-07:00

2010-08-05T13:11:00.001-07:00

"Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food"
--Hippocrates

Transition to a Raw Food Diet

2010-07-26T12:52:00.000-07:00

2010-07-19T17:50:00.001-07:00

In California for the Summer and just spent the weekend at my friend's Alejandra and Doug's. We made lots of RAW goodies! Pictures and more info to come... :)

2010-07-19T17:42:00.003-07:00

One of the most important things you can do to be healthy is to drink good water. Because of industrialization and pollution, quality water, wheather bo

2010-07-19T17:42:00.001-07:00

ttled or from the tap is not good, and getting worse. Try to find alkaline, electron-rich water!

Juicing

2010-07-06T10:34:00.000-07:00

Juicing is an excellent way to make nutrients from vegetables more accessible. Juicing traumatizes the vegetable's cell wall enough to release the nutrients but not so much that you're destroying the whole enzymatic protein structure. Whenever you juice a vegetable, you're traumatizing it's cell walls without destroying the enzymes because you're not heating it. In a good quality juicer such a vita mix or a blend tech, the juicing process doesn't seem to destroy the enzymes at all.
Once you've blended the veggies you should drink the juice right away because as soon as it's blended it releases the enzymes from the cellulose, the juice comes into contact with oxygen in the air and the oxidation process begins, chemically changing the juice and neutralizing certain vitamins.

Why RAW? Eating for Beauty...

2010-06-30T00:26:00.000-07:00

"It is much more than a fad of the moment," says raw nutrition expert and author David Wolfe in his new bookEating for Beauty. "A raw food diet is now considered a viable way of life for serious health seekers around the world." The living food movement, led by Wolfe and other high-profile raw foodists, has begun to replace the vegetarian movement as a healthy alternative to the fast food, pre-packaged, fat-laden meals most Americans eat today.

The raw-food culture is a mix of alternative health devotees, spiritual seekers, and hot trend spotters. Hollywood is not new to the raw lifestyle - Wolfe has personally counseled actors Alicia Silverstone, Alison Lohman and Woody Harrelson, motivational speaker Anthony Robbins, and model/Playmate Rebecca Scott. Wolfe and his chef staff have prepared raw feasts for The Grateful Dead; k.d. lang and Lisa Bonet have attended seminars.

To anyone who eats cooked food, the idea of eating only raw food might seem extremely restrictive, too taxing on your body. Yet there is solid evidence that a living plant food diet eases digestion, boosts energy, and eliminates carcinogens.

As the nation embarks on their New Years' resolution goals, Wolfe urges people to seriously look at the safety of the Standard American Diet (also known as the SAD diet.) "Fifty percent of the U.S. population dies of heart disease," he notes, "which is caused by poor diet and is therefore preventable and even reversible with proper diet, as tens of thousands of cases have shown.

"In the next ten years, cancer will surpass heart disease as the number one killer in the United States. We know that the best way to prevent cancer is to limit our exposure to carcinogens. The number one way of exposing ourselves to carcinogens is through cooked commercial food. Raw plant food actually contains anti-carcinogenic nutrients, so it's an obvious better choice."

--article from sunfood.com

Lettuce, Kale, Sun Dried Tomato, Avocado Salad

2010-06-29T15:10:00.000-07:00

Ingredients

6 leaves of romaine lettuce
5 leaves of kale
4 sun-dried tomatoes
1/2 red pepper
3 scallions
1/2 avocado
1 tablespoon of coconut oil
1 clove of garlic
1 lime
Sprinkle of sea salt
Cayenne to taste

Directions

Remove kale from stems and massage down with sea salt.
Finely cut up the romaine leaves.
Slice up sun-dried tomatoes.
Cut up red pepper, scallions and avocado.
Dice up garlic.
Put into small container and add coconut oil, lime juice and sea salt.
Shake up and top salad.
Sprinkle with cayenne.

William Li: Can we eat to starve cancer?

2010-06-25T12:24:00.000-07:00

Dreaming About Donut Holes by Ani Phyo

2010-06-25T11:53:00.000-07:00

[Recipe] Ani Phyo's Donut Holes

*You won’t be able to eat just one donut. So I recommend tripling this recipe. Donut Holes will keep for over a week in your fridge.*

Donut Ingredients

1 ¾ cups almonds

½ teaspoon sea salt

1 vanilla bean, scraped

2 cups dried pineapple, chopped

2 cups pitted dates

1/3 cup plus 1/4 cup shredded coconut

Donut Directions:

In food processor, place almonds, salt, and vanilla.

Process into a fine powder first.

Slowly add chopped pineapple and dates, mix well.

Place in a large bowl. Mix in 1/3 cup shredded coconut.

Finale:

To serve, use an ice cream scooper or spoon to form donut holes.

Roll holes in ¼ cup shredded coconut.

Will keep for over a week in the fridge.

From the book Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen by Ani Phyo. Reprinted by arrangement with Da Capo Lifelong (www.dacapopress.com), a member of the Perseus Books Group. Copyright © 2007. Buy it here.

2010-06-24T00:30:00.001-07:00

When you cook foods, the colors and textures change and all the precious water is burned off. Eating RAW food keeps you closer to the earth and connects you to the original product, the real thing. Eating food that is alive keeps you feeling alive.
Living on raw foods enables you to effortlessly shed not only excess physical weight; other, less tangible burdens are lifted. For some, it's that overall "unhealthy relationship" with food. For others, it's the persistent and lingering fear of disease which we can begin to let go of with the reassurance of knowing that good health is our natural right and we are now armed to claim it. Further, there can be an indescribable happiness, along with the sense of communion, that comes from not eating animals anymore, being less taxing to the enviroment, and reducing the weight upon the medical community - in short, living in a way that lessons the burden on the rest of the world.

--Excerpt from Raw Food Real World--

2010-06-21T11:45:00.000-07:00

"The more you eat raw foods, the more your body starts to crave them, over anything else."

--Matthew Kenney (Raw Food Real World)