"Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify." - Henry David Thoreau

Basil Lime Ginger Avocado Soup

Basil Lime Ginger Creamy Avocado Soup

                                               from RAW GLOW 

Soup 1 lime juiced 1 kaffir lime leave (optional) 3 cups  young coconut water ( or 1.5 cups young coconut water and 1.5 cups filtered water) 1 inch knob ginger 2 teaspoons chickpea miso 1/8 teaspoon cayenne or ground chili flakes 1 tiny little piece of a red chili pepper (optional) 1 small handful of basil leaves 1 large avocado or 2 small Suggested Garnishes chopped chives, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, and your choice of seaweed.

Blend all the soup ingredients together in a blender until completely smooth. Taste and adjust seasonings if necessary. Garnish with chopped chives, cucumbers, bell peppers that have been cut with a mandoline slicer* and your choice of seaweed. I like crumbled silky sea palm on top.

Getting what you want starts with being grateful for what you have. And when you feel inspired, act on it. That is your cue, your intuition guiding you...follow it!

"Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." - Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." - Margaret Lee Runbeck

How to Adopt a Family for Christmas | eHow.com

How to Adopt a Family for Christmas | eHow.com

This is what my daughter and I are going to do this Christmas. It not only teaches our little one's how to give and share but it also shows people that there is hope and that anything is possible when you BELIEVE!

Enzymes explained at a juvenile understanding level Part 1

Cru raw food restaurant review

Trade In Your Daily Cup of Starbucks for a RAW Smoothie

Trade In Your Daily Cup of Starbucks for a RAW Smoothie

"RAW" in Los Angeles

Juliano Brotman's restaurant "RAW" in Santa Monica, California...

  

I had a dish called "CHEESY KELP" which is so much like Fettuccine Alfredo it was amazing and I want to know how they did this! It was so incredibly tasty, even the vegetables and the salad had flavors out of this world. I would highly recommend anyone trying RAW food for the first time to go to "RAW"on 6th Street in Santa Monica, you will not be disappointed! "RAW" the restaurant is definitely not the bland alfalfa tasting testers one might expect from a healthy eating place such as this one, it's more like a scrumptious retreat you can't wait to go back to so you can have the dishes you've been craving since your first visit....like me!

You can buy Juliano's "RAW The UNcook Book at the restaurant, online or at your favorite bookstore.

My RAW Journey in California this Summer...

Lots of Raw Scruptious dishes made at my friend Alejandra and Doug DeLuca's in Zuma beach this Summer!!!

Raw Mushrooms being prepared for Raw Calamari --- Raw Calamari --- Raw oats and berry cereal --- Soaked Kamut for Raw Kamut Bread ---  Raw Felafels

Healthy Raw Recipes - Raw Cookies

"Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food"
--Hippocrates

Transition to a Raw Food Diet

In California for the Summer and just spent the weekend at my friend's Alejandra and Doug's. We made lots of RAW goodies! Pictures and more info to come... :)

One of the most important things you can do to be healthy is to drink good water. Because of industrialization and pollution, quality water, wheather bo

ttled or from the tap is not good, and getting worse. Try to find alkaline, electron-rich water!

Juicing

Juicing is an excellent way to make nutrients from vegetables more accessible.  Juicing traumatizes the vegetable's cell wall enough to release the nutrients but not so much that you're destroying the whole enzymatic protein structure. Whenever you juice a vegetable, you're traumatizing it's cell walls without destroying the enzymes because you're not heating it. In a good quality juicer such a vita mix or a blend tech, the juicing process doesn't seem to destroy the enzymes at all.
Once you've blended the veggies you should drink the juice right away because as soon as it's blended it releases the enzymes from the cellulose, the juice comes into contact with oxygen in the air and the oxidation process begins, chemically changing the juice and neutralizing certain vitamins.

Why RAW? Eating for Beauty...

"It is much more than a fad of the moment," says raw nutrition expert and author David Wolfe in his new bookEating for Beauty. "A raw food diet is now considered a viable way of life for serious health seekers around the world." The living food movement, led by Wolfe and other high-profile raw foodists, has begun to replace the vegetarian movement as a healthy alternative to the fast food, pre-packaged, fat-laden meals most Americans eat today.




The raw-food culture is a mix of alternative health devotees, spiritual seekers, and hot trend spotters. Hollywood is not new to the raw lifestyle - Wolfe has personally counseled actors Alicia Silverstone, Alison Lohman and Woody Harrelson, motivational speaker Anthony Robbins, and model/Playmate Rebecca Scott. Wolfe and his chef staff have prepared raw feasts for The Grateful Dead; k.d. lang and Lisa Bonet have attended seminars.

To anyone who eats cooked food, the idea of eating only raw food might seem extremely restrictive, too taxing on your body. Yet there is solid evidence that a living plant food diet eases digestion, boosts energy, and eliminates carcinogens.

As the nation embarks on their New Years' resolution goals, Wolfe urges people to seriously look at the safety of the Standard American Diet (also known as the SAD diet.) "Fifty percent of the U.S. population dies of heart disease," he notes, "which is caused by poor diet and is therefore preventable and even reversible with proper diet, as tens of thousands of cases have shown.

"In the next ten years, cancer will surpass heart disease as the number one killer in the United States. We know that the best way to prevent cancer is to limit our exposure to carcinogens. The number one way of exposing ourselves to carcinogens is through cooked commercial food. Raw plant food actually contains anti-carcinogenic nutrients, so it's an obvious better choice."

--article from sunfood.com