Raw Food for n00bz.

Made a quick little viddy for the n00bz (newcomers), about the simplest reason I think raw food is important in the world we occupy.

-K
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Raw Food Recipe:Chipotle Carrot Soup

Chipotle Carrot Soup

 2.5 Cups of chopped Carrots

1 Garlic Clove

0.5t. Cayenne

1 T. Chipotle Paste

1.5 T. Apple Cider Vinegar

2 T. Tahini
Salt/Nama Shoyu to taste

3 C. Warm Water

1/2 an Avocado

Blend until smoothe and serve. Voila!

Raw Food Porn: Apples & Almond Choco Butter

Here's another for the raw food porn series. Which for those who aren't keen, is a series of incredibly mouth watering eye candy minus the recipe.  
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...however, can be found in my upcoming (eco-friendly) digital no-cook book (my first of which can be found here.) The point of the Raw Food Porn series is to spread raw, raw vegan, gluten-free awareness and maybe inspire some creativity. Nothing should be too hard to deconstruct with a bit of imagination. I've been fondest of the simpler sides of raw foodery these days.

So here you go, for your eyes only.
-K

Apples & Almond Choco Butter

w/ Cacao Nibs, Raisins & Yacon Syrup

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Raw Food Recipe: Grapefruit & Chia Salad

A simple raw, vegan and gluten-free salad for a rainy Monday snack. I had some cucumber that was reaching it's mush phases and a sack of grapefruit so this is what I have invented; Grapefruit can be an acquired taste. So I wouldn't go making a triple sized recipe if you are not sure about how your taste buds feel about this bittersweet delicacy.

Love and light,

Keela

Grapefruit & Chia Salad 

with Cucumber and Lucuma

 

Ingredients

1 Grapefruit

1/3 Cucumber

4t. Chia Seeds

1 T. Lucuma powder

Directions

Peel and dice the grapefruit. Slice the cucumber paper thin or as close as you can get. Toss with chia seeds and lucuma powder and let sit for at least seven minutes. Enjoy!

Raw Food Recipe: Hearty Mushroom Salad

Hearty Mushroom Salad

Marinated Mushrooms;

3/4 C. Dried Mushrooms

1/4 C. Oil & Vinegar Dressing

2 T. Worcestershire Sauce

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Instruction i: 

Toss mushrooms and liquids in a bowl and add to a small plastic bag. When bagged, continue to coat and massage the liquids into the mushrooms through the bag. Roll the air out, seal and let sit for at least and hour and a half.

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Salad Veggies;

1/2 A large tomato (diced)

1 medium bell pepper (diced)

2 C. Romain Lettuce (chopped)

1 1/2 C. Leafy green salad mix.

Dressing;

1/4 C. Oil & Vinegar Dressing (italian etc.)

1 T. Nutritional Yeast

1 t. Nutmeg

1 t. Worcestershire Sauce

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Instruction ii (sauce);

Whisk and ready!

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Instruction iii;

Layer lettuces to your liking and toss with your salad vegetables and marinated mushrooms. Or you can plate it like I did above for aesthetic appeal when serving for a lunch or potluck.

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Raw Food Porn: Saucy Avocado Salad

I think I will save this recipe for my next un-cook book. I thought I'd post the pics in a new series I'm calling Raw Food Porn. This will include recipe's of mine that I didn't write down and some especially eye catching dishes from various Rawk Stars around the globe. 

To inspiration and obsession!

- Keela

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Raw Food Recipe: Apple Pi

Raw Vegan Dessert time, but who are we kidding? This could easily be raw breakfast. Low fat and ready in minutes I'll guarantee satisfied customers whenever there's a pan full (which is never very long).

- Keela

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Inside;

3 1/4 Apples (eat the other 3/4's for a snack, maybe with some nut butter.)

1/2 C. Dried Currants (any fairly soft, dried berry would do and fresh would be best)

Instructions i: Add apples and currants to a large bowl. Set aside.

Glaze;

3 T. Water

1 1/2 T. Flax Meal

1 T. Agave, honey or maple syrup

1 1/2 t. Cinnamon

1/4 t. Nutmeg

Instructions ii: whisk together glaze ingredients and pour over fruit. With a spatula, thoroughly coat fruit in glaze turning over and over. Let stand for at least ten minutes.

Crust;

1 C. Macadamia Nuts 

4 Large Dates (pitted)

1/2 C. Coconut (shredded)

Instructions iii: Add nuts to food processor and using the metal S blade and pulse until nuts are very coarsely chopped. Now add in the dates and coconut and blend until mixture is comprised of very small pieces of each component, the size of large rice or oatmeal.

Instructions iv: 

Fill the bottom of a shallow glass/earthen dish with the marinated fruit. I like to use a glass pie pan. Pack the fruit down a little. Sprinkle the crust mixture evenly over the fruit...

Note:... and if you like you can use something with a flat bottom to pack the crust down. This makes it easier to cut and serve slices if the pie is going to be refrigerated  I also like to serve individual cups that use layering rather than the pie form. 

Smoothie Wednesday: Spiced Tart

My favorite smoothies are those with a good amount of fresh squeezed lemon juice. My body just loves it. Time for today's raw food recipe. 

Here is a tart lemon smoothie for you;

Bits of pollen on top (optional).

Spiced Tart Smoothie
2 Large Ripe Bananas
The juice of 1/2 a lemon
2 Big Handfuls of Spinach
1 Apple (diced)
1 T. Pumpkin Pie Spice
or
A dash each of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and clove
2 C.+ Water or Nut Mylk (varies for desired consistency)

Add to blender and give it a whirl!
Enjoy.
-Keela

I prefer to skin a lemon with a good boning or paring knife and use the entire inside (membranes and seeds). You could use a whole lemon if you like things extra tart.

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Did you know that our bodies change some acidic matter, like lemons. This change results in lemon taking on an alkaline condition in our saliva and urine.

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Raw Food Porn: Living Porridge & Sesame Kale Salad

 

Raw Food Porn:

Tuesday March 5th

Here I am with two living food (raw food) recipes. Time and taste tested, these are two very typical recipes in my day to day life. Ready in minutes and easy on the pallet, I am never hungry or weak after a generous serving of a good kale salad or big bowl of living porridge. May your bellies be full and minds open.

Enjoy and Bon Apetit!

-Keela

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Living Porridge w/

Bananas and Cacao Nibs

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The Porridge;

• 1/4 C. Chia Seeds
• 1/4 C. Flax Meal
• 1/4 C. Shredded Coconut
• 3 T. Psyllium Husk
• 1 1/2 C. Mylk
• Sweetener

The Fixins;

• 1/2-1 Banana  (diced)
• More mylk.
• Sprinkling of cacao nibs.
• Pumpkin pie spice.

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Sesame Kale Salad w/

Hemp Seeds and Avocado

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• 6 C. Chopped Kale (appropriately stemmed)
• 2 C. Salad Mix type Lettuces
• 2 Large Carrots (shredded)
• 1 1/2 C. Purple Cabbage (shredded)
• 3/4 C. Dried or Fresh Berries
• I used a mixture of; Maqui, Goldenberry & Mulberry
•  1/4 C. Shelled Hemp Seeds
• 2 T. Sesame Seeds

Sesame Dressing (blend/mortar n' pestle)

• 2 Cloves of Garlic (minced)
• 3 t. Ginger Root (minced)
• 5 T. Oil
• 1/4 C. Rice Vinegar
• 3 T. Nama Shoyu/Coconut Aminos etc.
• 4 T. Agave, honey (sweetener) 

Now: toss all salad parts together and drizzle blended dressing on top. Massage dressing into greens for at least a full minute. Serve immediately or even a day later for a softer salad with marinated veggies.

Naked Gardening I: The Planning Process

I've been reading Anastasia by Vladimir Megre and my green thumb has been itching to get into some fresh soil. After all, there's no better way to eat raw vegetables and fruits than from your own garden. I'm in the process of planning my very first organic vegetable garden. First being that it is MY OWN to do with as I please. I plan on a summertime raw vegan juice detox. Planned correctly, I can juice straight from my own personal veggie Eden. 

And the garden;
I'm going about it as I go about most things; half prepared and half experiment. I plan on monitoring and adjusting soil pH as well as burying a crystal in the center for good vibrations. Just to give you an idea of those two ends of my spectrum. 

Here is the dream:

I jumped for joy when the sun shone through these heavy Oregon clouds the very day after drawing up this plan. Armed with a old pickaxe, edger and some string, I began the outline, just like I start any good still like painting, I drew my figure. It felt wonderful and took an afternoon and a half.

Some things I can think about getting into the soil soon:

• Carrots
• Onions
• Lettuce

I'll get more into the Anastasia method of gardening as the weather warms and seeding is in full force. Those of you (I'll bet a lot of you) who are reading this and have read the Ringing Cedars series already know the journey I'm on. Like all things I will most definitely veer from route but only where I feel veering is appropriate.

I hope all of you interested in organic, sustainable gardening stay tuned. Things will only grow up from here!

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Here's a link to Anastasia on the almighty Amazon. Spread the seeds.

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