From the category archives:

Recipes

Recipe: How to Make Ghee

May 16, 2010
Thumbnail image for Recipe: How to Make Ghee

I loooove to cook with ghee! It gives dishes a delicious nutty, buttery taste and it doesn’t burn like butter, or smoke like olive oil under high heat. I like to make my own ghee because then I can chose the source of my butter, which is usually raw organic jersey cow or goat butter.
Close Bookmark [...]

Read the full article →

Recipe: Raw Shoestring “Fries”

May 3, 2010
Thumbnail image for Recipe: Raw Shoestring “Fries”

Here is a super easy recipe, for a crunchy raw snack – zucchini shoestring “fries.”
First, spiralize as much zuke or yellow squash as you like. I used 2 medium sized zucchinis. Put it in a bowl squeeze lemon juice over the them, sprinkle with cumin, sea salt and a dash of cayenne. Taste and adjust [...]

Read the full article →

Recipe: Pistachio Coconut Cardamom Burfi

April 2, 2010
Thumbnail image for Recipe: Pistachio Coconut Cardamom Burfi

Yay! I finally got around to jotting down the recipe for my cardamom pistachio burfi. Thing is each time I’ve made it, I haven’t written down the recipe, so I’m kind of going off of memory. But the good thing is that with these

Read the full article →

Creamy Green Soup with Fresh Thyme

March 17, 2010
Thumbnail image for Creamy Green Soup with Fresh Thyme

A few weeks ago, chef Frank Giglio announced the 2010 Food Challenge. “Take a look into your cupboard or fridge and pick a few ingredients that you don’t know how to use, or that need to be used up. With the list, I

Read the full article →

Sunday Weekly Round-up

March 14, 2010
Thumbnail image for Sunday Weekly Round-up

FITNESS UPDATE
The Holy Grail
I said I was going to and I did – I started Tom Venuto’s Holy Grail Body Transformation Program yesterday. Day 2 and I’ve already got upper body DOMS! But it’s good pain, right?

Read the full article →

‘What’s in the Fridge’ Raw Nori Roll

March 12, 2010
Thumbnail image for ‘What’s in the Fridge’ Raw Nori Roll

I was looking in my fridge, trying to decide what to make. Cauliflower, mixed greens, sprouts, avocado…yay, raw nori roll!! So I took out my mini food processor and started tossing things in. This recipe makes

Read the full article →

Make Homemade Raw Creamery Butter

March 11, 2010
Thumbnail image for Make Homemade Raw Creamery Butter

A few weeks ago, I gave it a second go at making butter. The first time around I skimmed the cream off of a half gallon of raw milk. After all was said and done, this yielded about four paltry tablespoons of butter –

Read the full article →

Weekend Gratitude, The Jungle & Coconut Milk

March 7, 2010
Thumbnail image for Weekend Gratitude, The Jungle & Coconut Milk

Weekend Gratitude
After freelancing from home and on the road for years, I’m trying to look at the positive side of working in an office (note “trying.”)

Much Better Time Management:
Instead of surfing, eating, jogging whenever I pleased, I have to plan my days to a T in order to squeeze in every thing that [...]

Read the full article →

Blender Mayo-amazing!

March 6, 2010
Thumbnail image for Blender Mayo-amazing!

I avoided mayonnaise for the looongest time because I, like millions of Americans fell for the nationwide “fat is bad for you” hoopla pushed by the USDA for decades. Then when I went raw vegan, mayo was

Read the full article →

Roasted Garlic Goodness

February 24, 2010
Thumbnail image for Roasted Garlic Goodness

When I last fired up my oven to make a batch of roasted veggies, I decided to try out my new (used) garlic roaster that I got for free. (Thank you Freecycle!) The garlic came out awesome! I mixed some of the garlic paste with my roasted cauliflower instead of roasting crushed garlic WITH the [...]

Read the full article →

From the Chocolate Video Vault

February 21, 2010
Thumbnail image for From the Chocolate Video Vault

Continuing with the Valentine’s month chocolate theme, I found this video clip below from a series of raw food classes I taught in Australia last year. This particular class was on preparing raw nut mylks, cheeses and creams. The recipe is Hazelnut Cacao Mylk. It was filmed at Samudra, a gorgeous raw food cafe on [...]

Read the full article →

Roasted Winter Veggies Rock My World

February 17, 2010
Thumbnail image for Roasted Winter Veggies Rock My World

I spent the last 3 years living in tropical climates trying, to avoid the biting Northeast winters. I lived and traveled from Arizona to Hawaii to Australia. I built up this idea in my mind that my tri-state area home was a bleak place to live. But now that I’ve made my homecoming this past [...]

Read the full article →