Recipes

This is a combination of several pre-existing recipes from Raw Food Talk and Raw Freedom Community and then tweaked to my own tastes.

Brownie Layer
1 cup walnuts
1 cup medjool dates (pitted) not soaked
1/4 cup raw cacao or carob
1 cap-full of vanilla extract (probably equivalent to ½ tsp.)
pinch sea salt
drizzle of real maple syrup (probably equivalent ...

At the local grocery store salad bar there is this really yummy tomato/olive/onion stuff that I like to get on my salad. I've been dying to try and recreate it at home since it appears to be pretty straight forward. I didn't measure anything, just threw it in a bowl on top of some spinach and chopped romaine lettuce. Yummmmmmmmmmm!


Cherry tomatoes; whole
Black olives; sliced
Shallots; finely chopped
Olive oil
sea salt
black pepper
...

1 C. sunflower seeds
1 C. pumpkin seeds
1 C. flax seeds
1 C. oat groats (or really raw rolled oats)
1 C. walnuts
1 C. pecans
1/2 C. brazil nuts

3 T. vanilla
1 tsp. salt
1/2 C. maple syrup (or you could use agave and maple flavoring)
2 T. cinnamon
2 tsp. nutmeg

1. Pulse the nuts, seeds and oats in the food processor until mixed and coarsely ground.

2. Add the vanilla, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and maple ...

Everything Bagel w/Cream Cheeze, strawberries and medjool dates stuffed w/pecans and drizzled with raspberry cream and cacao sauce.

Everything Bagels

2/3 C. Sunflower Seeds
1/3 C. Flax Seeds
1/3 C. Onion
1 Clove Garlic
1 - 2 T. Sesame Seeds
1 T. Dill Weed (dry)
1/3 C. Water
pinch sea salt

Grind the flax seeds into ...

This has easily been one of the best days I've had in a LONG time. Right now we're buried under 2ft. of snow here in DE. I started out the morning reading a few chapters of the book I'm working on, Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama and then went outside to do some shoveling. I got the sidewalk and part of the driveway done when a man on a Bobcat came and finished the entire driveway for me. I love that man more than life itself right now. That snow was HEAVY. We don't know ...