Category Archives: Raw

Raspberry Limeade and Rooibos & Lime Iced Tea

Posted on August 14, 2008 by Jenni| Leave a comment

I have been drooling over these two recipes that Everybody Likes Sandwiches posted awhile back. If EVERYTHING didn’t give me such bad heartburn, I would have tried them by now. But I wanted to post them here so that at least someone else, who doesn’t get frequent heartburn, might enjoy them! I will definitely try them both next summer, I don’t plan to be pregnant again next summer ;)

Raspberry Limeade

Rooibos & Lime Iced Tea

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Posted in Drink, Raw

Frozen Fruit Sorbet-Homemade

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Jenni| 4 Comments

Homemade frozen fuit icecream

This ice cream or sorbet was perfect! The kids had a blast making it with our new juicer and it was so fast and easy. The best part about it is that it’s so healthy, you could eat it for breakfast lunch and dinner. Nothing added, just frozen fruit. Half the fruit I froze myself and the others, I bought at Costco. It really is a simple and quick dessert, the whole thing (without kids) could be made and cleaned up in about 15 minutes! All the kids loved it and they always love to help me in the kitchen so that was an added bonus!

Making Frozen Fruit Icecream-Juicer

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Posted in Breakfast, Cooking with kids, Desserts, Healthy Snacks, Juicing, Low Sugar, Raw, Sweet Things, Whole Foods

My New Green Star Juicer 1000

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Jenni| 1 Comment

They are really impressed with the new juicer

For those of you who know about juicing, this juicer is amazing! The pulp is totally dry when it comes out and I’m getting a lot more juice for how many vegetables I am juicing. Tonight we made ice cream from frozen fruit, it was absolutely amazing! We are going to get years of use out of this machine and will probably use it daily if not multiple times a day! I can make juice, nut butters, ice cream, soup, and if I had the other attachments I could make pasta and bread sticks (among many other things). Anyway, this tool is going to be a great benefit to the health of our family, thanks for letting me get it hon!

Green Lemonade, before I mixed it-isn't it beautiful?!

Green Lemonade Just wait until you see the ice cream we made tonight, simply from frozen fruit, that’s it! It was delicious, although I think it gave the kids a bit of a fruit sugar high, they were really wired before bed time! :) You gotta live a little right?!

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Posted in Desserts, Drink, Healthy Snacks, Juicing, Low Sugar, Raw

Red Pepper Vingerette

Posted on March 2, 2007 by Jenni| 3 Comments

My friend Rana makes this dressing often. I was at her house the other day and she put it on my salad, I loved it!! It tastes kind of like a red French dressing (which I love but is not very good for you), this is a great alternative!

2 sweet red bell peppers
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup purified water
2 teaspoons sea salt
2 Tablespoon raw honey
6 dates
1 1/2 teaspoons of garlic powder (2 cloves fresh)
1 teaspoon taragon
1 1/2 Tablespoon soy sauce
5 teaspoons flax meal (if you don’t have flax meal you can blend flax seed in your coffee grinder to make the meal)

Put all the ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth. Makes about 3 cups, you can half it if this is too much for you, store in the refrigerator. Keeps around 2+ weeks.

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Posted in Dressing, Low Sugar, Raw, Salads

Liquid Gold Elixir

Posted on February 22, 2007 by Jenni| Leave a comment

This is a great and refreshing dressing. Next time I make it though I am going to cut the recipe to 1/3 of all the ingredients as I will not be able to make it through this amount of dressing even using it twice a day for two weeks!

2 cups fresh lemon juice
3 whole cloves garlic
3 tablespoons minced ginger
3 tablespoons Nama Shoyu soy sauce
3 heaping tablespoons raw honey (more if desired)
1 1/2 cups cold-pressed olive oil

Place all of the ingredients except the oil in the blender. Begin blending at normal speed. As the mixture is blending, slowly add the oil until it’s completely blended. This recipe should last about two weeks in the fridge.

Makes 4 cups

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Posted in Dressing, Lunch, Raw, Salads, Whole Foods

Smooth Mama Shake

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Jenni| 2 Comments

Since I started the Raw Food Detox Diet I’ve been drinking one of these shakes every morning. I was quite surprised at how well it tastes! She suggested this shake especially for women who are pregnant and starting the diet. I was also surprised to find out how much it filled me up, and I’m not hungry for anything else until my midmorning snack which might include a handful of nuts, piece of fruit, an organic rice cake, a piece of whole wheat toast or something like that.

2-3 teaspoons of Sun Chlorella Powder
1 banana
Splash of freshly squeezed juice or water
2-3 tablespoons of raw walnuts

Blend together and drink immediately.

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Posted in Breakfast, Drink, Low Sugar, Raw

Juicing recipes

Posted on February 9, 2007 by Jenni| 6 Comments

I’ve been wanting some good juicing recipes, my friends Rana and Nicole shared these ones with me that they like. I plan to start juicing a lot more.

1. My favorite:
2 apples
2 oranges
6 medium carrots
1-inch chunk ginger

2. Waldorf Salad:
2-3 celery stalks
2 Granny Smith apples

3. Cleaning out the fridge:
Carrots
Beets, with greens
A little broccoli
Celery
Kale or collards or wheat grass, if you want extra greenery
Garlic, if you are battling a cold

4. Pop:
Blueberries
Grapes
Ginger
Sparkling water

5. Green Lemonade-Nicole
1 head of romaine lettuce
2 stalks celery
1 lemon
Few sprigs of kale
1 or 2 apples
1-2 inches of fresh ginger
Other veggies if you want, carrots, cucumber, squash

Can always add a little honey to sweeten

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Posted in Drink, Healthy Snacks, Low Sugar, Raw

Buckwheatie Bars

Posted on February 9, 2007 by Jenni| Leave a comment

We like to have healthy, preferably raw snacks around the house for those moments when one of us is thinking about being naughty sometime before the next meal! This is another recipe my friends Rana and Jana shared with me from Serene Allison’s raw cookbook “Rejuvenate Your Life.” A cookbook that I need to get my hands on! Jana gave me a taste of hers and they were very tasty!

Buckwheaties are the base for this recipe: Sprout buckwheat for two days. Rinse and drain well. Dehydrate thoroughly.

4 cups buckwheaties
1 c. raw honey
1/2-3/4 c. tahini
3/4 c. or more of golden flax meal (golden flax seeds ground in your coffee grinder)
Goodies (raisins, chopped dates, un-sulfured apricots, chopped walnuts and almonds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, whole flax seeds, Goji berries, pine nuts, Go wild!)

Mix all together. If it seems too dry, add more tahini and flax meal to bind. Put it all in a greased Pyrex plate. Freeze. When it is frozen, score into granola bars, and place in covered container until you want some. Keep frozen or refrigerated.

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