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Recipes

Raw Chocolate Zuccaroons

December 26, 2010
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Raw macaroons are nothing new. Been there, done that. Don’t get me wrong – I love ‘em, but I wanted to create something lighter, something different. So when I saw the Zucchini Cacao Cookies by Rawmazing, I was inspired to re-create the famed raw macaroon.
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Recipe: Coconut Flour Pancakes

October 16, 2010
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I’ve been avoiding gluten, but craving pancakes lately. So I gave it a whirl at making coconut flour pancakes. Oh my, they smelled so good!!
I don’t remember the measurements exactly but it was something like 2 eggs beaten, 1 tablespoon of coconut

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Recipe: How to Make Ghee

May 16, 2010
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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.

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Recipe: Raw Shoestring “Fries”

May 3, 2010
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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 [...]

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Recipe: Pistachio Coconut Cardamom Burfi

April 2, 2010
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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

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Creamy Green Soup with Fresh Thyme

March 17, 2010
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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

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Sunday Weekly Round-up

March 14, 2010
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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?

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‘What’s in the Fridge’ Raw Nori Roll

March 12, 2010
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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

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Make Homemade Raw Creamery Butter

March 11, 2010
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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 –

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Weekend Gratitude, The Jungle & Coconut Milk

March 7, 2010
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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 [...]

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Blender Mayo-amazing!

March 6, 2010
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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

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Roasted Garlic Goodness

February 24, 2010
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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 [...]

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