From the Chocolate Video Vault

February 21, 2010
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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 [...]

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Vote for Slow Food for Kids

February 20, 2010
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Michelle Obama recently launched a new initiative to solve the epidemic of child obesity…”To put in place common-sense initiatives and solutions that empower families and communities to make healthy decisions for their kids.”
About 32% of children and adolescents are obese or overweight in the USA according to government statistics. If Congress invests in healthier food [...]

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Roasted Winter Veggies Rock My World

February 17, 2010
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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 [...]

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And the Banana Coconut Cake Goes To…

February 15, 2010
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….Fibyu! You are the winner of the Tropical Traditions Coconut Oil Giveaway. Fibyu was lucky number 32 drawn by random.org:
Looks like Fibyu also picked a winning recipe in her comment too!
Fibyu, please respond to my email in 48 hours to claim your coconut oil prize!

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Homemade Raw Valentine’s Day Chocolate

February 14, 2010
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Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!
In keeping with yesterday’s chocolate-covered theme, click on the photo below to view my videos page and watch “Raw Chocolate Cacao Treats Even an 8-Year Old Can Make” in which my niece and I whip up a bunch of different raw chocolate treats. It really only takes one chocolate “batter”, extra add-ins [...]

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Raw Dark Chocolate Walnut Bark Recipe

February 13, 2010
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Hi Everyone!
I just wanted to post a little reminder that the Valentine’s Day Coconut Giveaway ends tomorrow at 11:59pm. A winner will be drawn via random.org. As I write this, there are only 44 entries so there’s a very good chance of winning. And the more you enter, the better your odds!
Here is a Valentine’s [...]

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REAL Chaga Mushroom Foraging

February 12, 2010
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Shortly after blogging  about my NJ wild mushroom foraging escapade, Daniel Vitalis posted this video below – Stalking the Wild Chaga. Man, I was so off with my “faux” chaga find. ;D
Watch Daniel identify and harvest chaga in this video. Then go to his website to see how he brews chaga tea and makes elixirs. [...]

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EcoFriendly Glass Drinking Straws

February 9, 2010
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I just got a new glass straw from Glass Dharma. Love it! I chose the 8″ smoothie size with green decorative dots. The dots are key, so it doesn’t roll off the counter and break. The diameter is a roomy 12mm – perfect for my thick smoothies and elixirs. There are several other [...]

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Chef Spotlight: Sayuri Tanaka

February 5, 2010
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Sayuri was my roomie when we both worked at Samudra Shala/Vegan Cafe in Western Australia. She is a vegan cooking and un-cooking dynamo! She works all over the world, catering at different yoga retreats such as Purple Valley in Goa and Radiantly Alive in Bali. Everything she makes is seriously scrumptious. She was famous for [...]

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Wild Mushroom Foraging in NJ

February 2, 2010
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First I remember David Wolfe talking about it. Then Daniel Vitalis. Followed by several rawies facebooking about their wild mushroom finds. The benefits of medicinal mushrooms has become a growing topic of conversation in the raw food circle. Huge chunks of chaga that can retail for $65/lb (wow!) have been found right in people’s “backyard.”  [...]

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Coconut Oil Giveaway!

January 30, 2010
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Quality coconut oil really does make a difference in food prep. I made a favorite quick dish yesterday – pan seared scallops with arugula sauteed in garlic and coconut oil (picture above) and it came out fabulous!
So if you’ve been following my blog, you know that I decided to review four organic coconut oils. Tropical [...]

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The Coconut Envelope, Please…

January 29, 2010
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So if you read my last post, you know I was conducting a highly “scientific” taste test comparison between four popular organic coconut oils. And who was the victor??? The winner IS…
… (no surprise) Tropical Traditions! Any company confident enough in their product to send complimentary jars to their customers – well, you KNOW it’s [...]

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