Welcome to my blog about my LOVE for God's Raw Living food. Please join me on my journey towards health and wellness. I truly believe that pure natural raw living food is the doorway to a healthy body, mind, and spirit.
Another perfect day spent reading and spending time with my dogs. I didn’t go to my usual class at Unity, I felt bad at first, but I just wanted to spend time alone reading and praying. I needed it.
I made ice cream tonight, BUT, I didn’t have green tea powder, honestly I can’t handle caffeine, so I dug my Açaí Powder out of the back of my refrigerator and used that. It came out such a beautiful color. I know this might sound strange, but it resembles a color between brown and plum purple. The color of the Açaí Mochi next to the Goji Berry Mochi will by eye catching! I guess I could rename them Super Mochi because Goji berries and Açaí are superfoods.
Açaí pronounced (ah-sigh-ee) is a superfruit that is grown in the Amazon rainforest. It has a rich berry-chocolate flavor. Açaí has anthrocyanins, which are the same phytochemicals that provide the healthy benefits of red wine. Açaí pulp contains more antioxidants than blueberries or red wine to combat premature aging. University of Florida has been doing research with this marvelously flavored superfood and it’s showing health benefits. I use the Sambazon’s products. They have numerous products to choose from. I prefer to buy the powder, but I have tried the smoothie packets, and drinks. I believe in their products and I think the flavor is untouchable, compared to other companies I have tried.
Green Tea “Ice Cream” Ingredients
cashews
mac nuts
young Thai coconut meat
agave
water
vanilla extract
green tea powder (I used Sambazon Powder)
sea salt
coconut oil
I blended the ingredients in the Vita-mix. I am going to make the ice cream in the ice cream maker but I am waiting until tomorrow or the next day, I figured it would be easier to work with after I whip it in the ice cream maker. I am super excited about this.
Maybe I will do chocolate mochi too. Then I can really call it Super Mochi. I can’t find lemongrass, so I may just do goji and açaí mochi.
I still consider this to be MK’s recipe, I just substituted what I can not get. I love living in a small town but I probably could find things easier if I lived near a Whole Foods. I am not complaining, I do love this little town:).
Stay tuned for the final product!
Emotions are the colors of the soul~words from Sarayu in The Shack
Posted 15 years, 7 months ago at 9:23 pm. Add a comment
Today was a stunning day outside! It was the kind of day where you feel free, with no worries and every part of you just wants to roll around in the fresh spring wild flowers and feel Mother Earth around every inch of your body! I am cherishing my days with this marvelous weather. I have been in the sun more these last few days. I missed it for 2 years, working indoors. Don’t get me wrong I love to work, but I need the sun. I was born and raised in Florida, and I have spent so much time in the sun, that I know my body craves it if I ignore it for too long. Thank you Mighty Sun for your constant companionship!
I decided to make the Mochi tonight. I didn’t know what Mochi was so I had to google images of them. Some were beyond words. They are really beautiful. There is a company out of Hawaii that makes them. They are not raw vegan but worth looking at, Bubbies. A brief description is given in entertaining in the raw. Mochi means “rice cake”, and are traditionally eaten for the Japanese New Year. The origin of the name can be translated 3 ways, “full moon,” “from God,” and “stickiness.” I like the word origin, “from God” and “full moon”, because I believe all this food is God sent and we have a full moon tonight. It’s not the new year, but I like to think of every night as an end and moving into a new beginning. So I feel these are appropriate at anytime, and they are so darn cute!
Mochi Ingredients
cashews
thai coconut meat
agave
coconut oil
sea salt
vanilla extract
almond extract
oat flour(made by grinding oat groats in a high speed blender, I had to use oatmeal)
coconut flour (made by grinding dried coconut flakes in a high speed blender)
Mochi directions: Blend first 7 ingredients in Vita-mix until very smooth and creamy. Transfer mixture to a medium bowl and stir in flours until it is very well combined and lumps are smoothed out.
Line a 9 x 13 pan with plastic wrap on bottom and sides. pour dough into prepared pan and spread very thin, approx. 1/2 inch thick. Place in freezer until firm.
It’s in freezer now, I will make one ice cream tomorrow and the next day. I don’t know where to get Lemon Grass, so I doubt I will be able to do that flavor, maybe I can make another flavor. I will try to find something else. Maybe Meredith can send me a different flavor ice cream to make the mochi with. I will ask. That would be fun, combining two different recipes, new with old. I love this project!
I had my test today, and I feel good about it. I will receive the grade on Thursday, until then, I have to wait.
Goodnight! I am going to enjoy my hubby being home with me:)
While sometimes changes happen in the twinkling of an eye, more often they take months or even years of diligent attention. But either way, if you desire to change, you will.~The Quest A journey of spiritual rediscovery
Posted 15 years, 7 months ago at 10:51 pm. Add a comment
The ice cream cones turned out!! I will definitely make these again. Jason ate one with Almond Gelato. The boys didn’t get to try them because they were asleep. I really wasn’t hungry, I haven’t been eating too many sweet things lately, I have been loading up on the greens and especially celery.
The almond gelato was simple to make, I already had coconut meat left over from last night, so it didn’t take as long to make this recipe.
Gelato Ingredients
cashews
mac nuts
young coconut meat
agave
water
vanilla extract
almond extract
sea salt
coconut oil
I blended all ingredients in the Vita-mix until creamy then made the ice cream in the ice cream machine. Super simple. I was thinking about how easy raw food prep is, it really only takes a few minutes, once you get the main concept down to making this style of food. The consistency of the ice cream was so creamy. Even ice cream isn’t this fluffy when you buy it in the container at the store.
This is my first video. I woke up early this morning to get the ice cream cones out of the dehydrator and I asked Sebastian to video tape me showing how to form the cones. As you can see, this wasn’t planned, but I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to show you how the ice cream cones are formed. It went surprisingly well, considering I didn’t have instructions. Sabby did a great job on the food shots:) Hope it helps if you want to make these cones.
Thanks for watching and reading about my journey. I love preparing Raw Food:)
I am off to study some more for my test tomorrow morning. Hopefully, I can get through it with no problems. It’s on Digestion and Metabolism, so I better do good:)
Goodnight!
Here comes the sun~The Beatles
Posted 15 years, 7 months ago at 10:41 pm. Add a comment
I finished the Blondies. I decided that I would keep them plain. I could’ve added the Caramel, but I ran out of the recipe from the Rocky Road Brownies and really didn’t feel like making it again. They look beautiful without the Caramel. The taste, well, the taste is really amazing. It reminds me of a sugar cookie with coconut flavor. Truly satisfying!
They were easy to take out of the pan. I left them in the pan for 18 hours, they are perfectly moist in the middle, and have a crumbly cookie texture on the outside. They remind me of the sugar cookies I used to buy when I was a kid at the cookie store in the mall, Mrs. Fields. Nobody has tried them yet at my house. I know Jason will love them. He really loved the brownies, and Sebastian did too. They tasted better when they were in the refrigerator overnight. They reminded Jason of Little Debbie snacks, and I am very proud to say that Sebastian didn’t even know what a Little Debbie was.
I was in the mood to make the ice cream cones tonight. The problem was that in my Everyday Raw book, the directions are wrong! I didn’t even know where to begin, so I decided to see how similar the Fortune Cookie recipe from Entertaining in the Raw is, they are suprisingly VERY similar! I decided to make the flax meal and put it in a bowl and mix all the other ingredients in the Vita-mix until smooth, I added the smooth mixture to the bowl of flax. After mixing the wet ingredients with the dry, I let it sit for a few minutes, until the mixture was gelatinous. The Thai Coconuts have been absolutely beautiful! Both coconuts that I bought had thick white meat in them and over 1 1/2 cups water. The one I opened the other day actually had 2 cups of meat and 2 cups water. That is the most I have ever had from 1 Thai Coconut.
I had to puncture the a hole in the meat in order to get the water out! I wish all Thai Coconuts were this perfect!
The scent of these are absolutely so similar to the “real”, if you want to call them that, ice cream cones. The scent reminds me of walking into an ice cream shop in St. Augustine that Jason and I used to go to buy fudge and ice cream. Yes, we used to eat that stuff, but not very often! I was always dieting. Now I just avoid the store like the plague! I prefer to make my own goodies:) As you can see!
I should be able to roll these into cones tomorrow. I still don’t know how I am going to get them to stay in the shape of a cone, but I will figure something out. If they don’t work then I will make ice cream bowls. I am really hoping I can form the ice cream cones, if so I will make a lovely ice cream to go with them! Gosh, this is so much fun!
Ice Cream Cones Ingredients
1 1/4 cup flax meal
3/4 cup pear, chopped
1/2 cup young coconut
2 1/4 t lemon juice
1 1/4 cup water, I used the coconut water
1/4 cup maple syrup
1/4 t salt
3/4 t vanilla extract
The recipe directions in my book are not the directions for these. I made up the assembly by myself.
I ground up flax seeds in the coffee grinder and placed them in a bowl. Then I put remaining ingredients in the Vita-mix and blended until smooth. I added the wet mixture to the dry and stirred it with a spoon. I let is sit until it became gelatinous (only about 3 minutes). I used a 1/4 cup measuring cup and put the mixture on the Teflex sheets. I spread the circles out into about 1/4 inch thick and probably about 4 1/2 – 5 inches across. These will dehydrate overnight, then I will attempt to form them into cones.
Wish me luck;-)
Just close your eyes and hold me
No harm will befall you, thats what is spoken true
when I turn down the Volume ~Trevor Hall
Posted 15 years, 8 months ago at 10:30 pm. Add a comment
Another unreleased recipe. I feel so special!!! These look better than the last brownies. The recipe is a bit different too, using coconut flour, almond flour and sucanat, which I have never used before. Sucanat is SUgar CAne NATural … Sucanat is a whole cane sugar made from cane juice. It contains 100% of the cane’s natural molasses in every porous granule. It’s a quick-dissolving sugar with a remarkably rich flavor. From Costa Rica.~Wholesome sweetners. I don’t believe that sucanat is raw, but I know I have seen it in several “raw” recipes. I made the mixture tonight to be dehydrated. I will dehydrate it over night, that is what I did on the rocky road brownies. I left them in the glass pie plate and they came out perfect after 12 hours.
I have never made Blondies before, I really don’t know if I have ever tasted one either. They are supposed to resemble Brownies, but it seems to me these came about because someone forgot to add the chocolate. I looked at the ingredients of the typical Blondie recipe. Most of the recipes called for unbleached all-purpose flour, baking powder, butter, brown sugar, egg, vanilla, salt and walnuts. The only ingredients that I used were vanilla and salt.
It is so amazing to me how the chefs came up with this recipe. I am anxious to try this concoction. I have always wanted to make a raw vanilla cake but have never come close. I wonder if this will taste like a vanilla cake. I will see tomorrow. I would love to put chocolate frosting on the top. I would love to make chocolate chips and make these chocolate chip blondies. There are so many variations you could use. I even saw a photo online with cranberries. I am going to use marshmallow and caramel instead, I want to make it just as the recipe instructs. The flavor of Blondies is supposed to be similar to butterscotch according to one website.
I don’t have anything to compare the taste to because I have never had Blondies, but I know that they smell oh so mouthwatering and sweet!
BlondiesMakes approx 12.
Wet Ingredients
Cashews
Mac Nuts
Water
agave
Lemon juice
Vanilla Extract
Salt
Dry Ingredients
Cashew Flour
Almond Flour
Coconut Flour
Powdered Sucanant (I used extra coconut flour, I couldn’t buy sucanat)
I didn’t follow the recipe exactly because I didn’t have sucanat:( I think it will taste sweet enough. If not I will have to make them again. I think coconut has a naturally sweet flavor.
Blend all wet ingredients except until smooth in Vita mix.
Mix all of the dry ingredients well in a food processor or mixer and then combine with the wet ingredients.
Press into brownie pan (preferably with a removable bottom) and place into the dehydrator for 2-3 hours until firm. Then remove from pan and dehydrate overnight on dehydrator tray 10-12 hours more.
**I placed them in a plastic lined 7×11 glass pan. I am going to dehydrate them over night. Tomorrow I will make the Caramel and Marshmallow.
“No doubt the Hasidic thing has helped, in two senses, In one sense it’s the gimmick thing—it helps with publicity. But the truth behind the Hasidic thing, I believe, is that I gave myself to God. I told God, if you want, I won’t do music. I’ll do whatever you want me to do. And then the music thing happened. I don’t think I’d be successful without God.” ~Matisyahu
Posted 15 years, 8 months ago at 10:34 pm. Add a comment
HERE IT IS!! THE FINAL BEAUTIFUL PRODUCT….ROCKY ROAD BROWNIES!
This was such an honor to make. This recipe was sent to me from Meredith Baird. Thank you Meredith for allowing me to make this amazing recipe. I consider myself very blessed to have this recipe and make it before the book is released. It’s really very special to me to be on this endeavor!
Tonight I was filled with much joy, but sadness too:( I thought, what am I going to do when this project is over? I don’t like to think about that, because I want to enjoy this project to the fullest! I know that God will put something in my life to do with Raw Food! Maybe a trip to 105 degrees will be on the menu:) Whatever it may be, I know I will keep growing and knowing that this is what I love to do!
Blend all ingredietnts until smooth. Store in the refrigerator until ready for use.
Caramel Ingredients
Agave
Macadamia Nuts
Pine Nuts
Vanilla
Salt
Lemon juice
Blend all ingredients until smooth.
To assemble- Smooth marshmellow crème on top of dehydrated brownie. Top with chopped spiced nuts, caramel and maple glaze with ready to serve.
Christian kept eating the toppings and Sabby tried the brownies. They both really enjoyed them, but they didn’t try the entire recipe. I am waiting for my hubby to get home, he is going to melt when he tries them..I can’t wait to see his face!
Tomorrow will be the Blondies!! So Check Back and see what these look like!
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
~Mahatma Gandhi
Posted 15 years, 8 months ago at 9:48 pm. Add a comment
Meredith Baird sent this recipe to me the other day. I wasn’t able to get to the store and buy all the ingredients that I needed. Today, I was able to gather the ingredients that I needed for this amazing recipe. At first the recipe looked intimidating because there are several parts to it, but the two parts that I did tonight it only took about 10 minutes. I love making raw food because it never really takes that long for each step of the recipe.
Rocky Road Brownies Mixture Ingredients
Wet Ingredients
Cacao powder
Mac Nuts
Cashews
Water
Date Paste
Agave
Lemon juice
Salt
Dry Ingredients
Cashew Flour
Brazil Nut Flour
Cacao powder
salt
Vanilla Extract
Brownie-Blend all wet ingredients except cocoa flour until smooth in Vita mix. Then slowly add Cacao powder.
Mix all of the dry ingredients well in a food processor or mixer and then combine with the wet ingredients.
Press into brownie pan (preferably with a removable bottom) and place into the dehydrator for 2-3 hours until firm. Spread on the maple glaze. Then remove from pan and dehydrate overnight on plane rack. 10-12 hours more.
**I didn’t have a brownie pan so I used a pie plate lined with plastic wrap. I am really tired of making round desserts and entrees. I need to buy some other pans. I like rectangles and squares too, so hopefully I can buy some soon!
I am looking forward to serving this to some people. I just had a meeting with someone today that I think would be interested in trying them. I will bring them on Monday. I love to see the smiles on the faces that try the food for the first time. Especially the desserts!
Here comes the rain again! I am going to go study for a while and listen to the rain. Jason is finally home tonight so I am going to study with him, while the boys hang out with their friends. They have a long weekend, so one of the boys is staying the night.
“It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.”
Mother Teresa
Posted 15 years, 8 months ago at 8:49 pm. Add a comment
I had Sebastian get grapefruit from our tree out back. He grabbed one that was on the ground. It wasn’t bad, but it had dried a little. The grapefruit wasn’t the best but the other ingredients made up for it. I still had some apples left from last night’s potluck, so I used those and of course kale is always yummy. This drink was surprisingly refreshing. I was worried about the flavor of these ingredients together, but I enjoyed it. The sour and sweet were a perfect combination. I always love kale.
This is an excellent blend because the Vitamin C from the grapefruit helps the absorption of iron from the kale. I always try to eat things in this combination. I have always been concerned about getting enough iron. I quit eating red meat at an early age, so I learned how to make the most of my food choices. I often read that the best way to get the most of your iron intake is to eat it with Vitamin C.
This week has been difficult but one thing that made me so happy was knowing my son’s grades have improved in school. He is capable of doing all the work and more, but sometimes he gets a bit slack. Possibly he is bored? I am happy that he put forth effort and raised his grades tremendously! It was the best report card yet.
Grapefruit Cleanser Ingredients
3 grapefruits
2 apples
2 limes, peeled
3 stalks of celery
Push all ingredients through juicer. *I juiced the limes and grapefruit with a citrus juicer, then I used the juicer for the apples and kale.
Time to study some more. I am almost done with my Digestion Chapter. I am loving it.
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”
John Lennon
Posted 15 years, 8 months ago at 9:20 pm. Add a comment
I still have to put away all of the items I brought to the potluck. So I will keep this short.
We did a green smoothie demo and we are going to do a challenge for a month and report our results. I am looking forward to seeing everyone again!
I love this lifestyle. Every time I get together with the group it’s like a new awakening for me. Thank you Lord for bringing us together.
~ A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. ~
Mahatma Gandhi
Posted 15 years, 8 months ago at 9:55 pm. Add a comment
It’s been an interesting day. I really am pretty upset right now and really don’t feel like writing. Something happened today with one of my son’s teachers and I really just want to go pray, so I am going to keep my entry short. I know the Good Lord has everything taken care of and I really just need to lean on the spirit to guide me.
Crust Ingredients
2 cups almond crumbs (I used almond flour from almond milk)
1/2 cup cashew flour
1 T nutritional yeast flakes
3 T olive oil
1/2 T salt
1/4 cup water
1/2 T cumin
Mix all ingredients in a bowl with hands. Press into plastic-lined mini tart shells (I used a 8 inch pie plate) and dehydrate 4-5 hours. Remove from plastic and place on dehydrator screens; dehydrate overnight.
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan
Posted 15 years, 8 months ago at 7:25 pm. Add a comment
Living Rawesome 
