Really, Really Orange Smoothie

Put in a blender:
One big grated carrot
Approx. 3 strawberries
One big blood orange
2 medium bananas
1/2 cup water

Blend up and enjoy just like that or serve over ice. 

Easy Nut Spread - Spread on Triple Decker Veg Sandwich

EASY NUT SPREAD INGREDIENTS:

About 1/2 to 3/4 cup of ground almonds (raw almonds soaked overnight and ground up fine in food processor/chopper)

1 T of cold pressed olive oil
1 T of lemon
Shake in some salt free seasoning and some sea salt (I know contradicting.)
1 T of some nutritional yeast
1 T of chia seeds
A little shake of soy sauce
A little sprinkling of about 2 tsp water

Mix this all up. And you have a nice nut spread.

MY TRIPLE DECKER VEG SANDWICH:
I laid out an iceberg lettuce leaf, a big slice of beef steak tomato and then some nut spread. Then on top of that I did another lettuce leaf, tomato slice and nut spread. Then one more lettuce leaf, tomato slice and nut spread. Top with lettuce leaf. Cut into 4's. Tastes really good. Enjoy!

Mexican Type Salad

1 ear of fresh corn cut off into pieces
1/2 avocado
3 romaine lettuce leaves chopped
1 roma tomato
some lime, a little sea salt, a little olive oil and one small clove of garlic chopped finely

Just made this to have with some of my dinner. I got the recipe idea from this site, but I didn't include all the ingredients and it still tasted good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KssExny8gI

I am having a leftover dish that includes bell peppers in it, so that is why I omitted them from tonight's dish, but adding red bell peppers would make it taste good, too.

I may add a little cayenne when I am ready to have it later. Just a little though as spices go a long way with raw food cooking

Photo of Mexican Type Salad and book by Cherie Soria which contains the full recipe. Book available at our Fort Bragg library. 

No Fat Vegetable Medley - Raw Food Style

1 small stalk of broccoli
5 thin stalks of asparagus
1 really large carrot
2 stalks celery
1 large red bell pepper
2 T and 2 tsp of coconut sugar
2 medium oranges juiced
1 small lemon juiced
Optional spices: Salt Free seasoning and pepper

Chop the broccoli, asparagus and carrots to fit in food chopper or processor. Blend these up to resemble rice consistency. Then add some chopped up celery and red bell pepper. Season this with the juiced oranges and lemon. Then sprinkle coconut sugar to your liking over it. Can add other spices like salt free seasoning and pepper, too.  This had a very interesting taste to it. Kind of exotic with the asparagus making it a little bitter, but still very tasty. :-)

Easy Dessert - A Fruit and Nut Dessert

1 small Fuji apple
1 medium banana
1 large handful of raisins
Approx. 3 T of Ground almonds that were soaked overnight and then ground up
Drizzle with some Coconut Nectar Syrup
Sprinkle of Cinnamon

Cut up the Fuji apple into tiny pieces. Cut up the banana into tiny pieces, too. Then add the raisins and the ground almonds. Sprinkle Cinnamon on it and then drizzle with some Coconut Nectar. Very easy and fast dessert

No Fat, No Salt Dressing for Mixed Green Salad

1 orange bell pepper
1 large beef steak tomato
2 celery stalks
Large Meyer Lemon juiced
Salt free seasoning
pepper
paprika

Blend the bell pepper, tomato, and celery stalks in a blender. Add the above seasonings to your liking or even add additional seasonings if you prefer. Serve some of this over a mixed green salad with grated carrots and organic cucumber slices with their peels on and quartered. Tastes really good for a no fat/no salt salad. :-)

Easter Fruit Kabobs

Easter Fruit Kabobs made with Strawberries, Bananas, Pineapples, Honeydew Melon, Purple Grapes, Green Grapes, Oranges

These were a nice treat today without the guilt from traditional Easter treats. :-)

Raw Vegan Easter Non-Traditional - Sushi and Raw Fruit Kabobs

Easter this year is not traditional for me. So I have made some items that look nice that I can have on Easter tomorrow and also to share with my family if they would like. I will add a nice salad and perhaps some cucumber and avocado little mini egg replicas.

First my Raw Sushi. I made Cauliflower rice (Just take small cauliflower florets and food process until it is nice and rice like)  and spread it on a raw Nori sheet. Then I peeled carrots ribbons on that. Then I sliced some cucumbers lengthwise and added them and then added some red peppers sliced. I then food processed some carrots with some red peppers and added that. Then I rolled it up and cut it up. (An avocado would have been nice added, but I forgot, but it was still okay.) I dipped these in a little soy sauce, which is not raw, but I have a little now and again.).

Next I made some Raw Fruit Kabobs. Here is a photo of them. I will add some honeydew and some pineapple for tomorrows. This was just a little test before Easter. :-)

Cold Raw Soup - Mixed Fresh Veggies

Blend in a blender: 2 red bell peppers, 2 tomatoes, 1 large cucumber, 2 celery stalks and about 1/4 cup chives and one garlic clove. Tastes good as a soup with some celery dipped in it. Very refreshing for a hot day out. (You could add some grated zucchini into it and I bet that would taste good, too.)

Tropical Cole Slaw - Raw

Food process some cabbage 1/2 head, carrots 2 large, 2 small oranges, 1/2 cup pineapple and some shredded coconut. Mix that all up together. Then add in some raisins. Also, dribble some coconut nectar over it all and mix it in to taste. Tastes really good!

Easy Banana Chocolate Dessert

One Frozen Banana sliced into small slices

Dip those slices in this mixture and enjoy:
1 T Cacao powder
1 T Coconut Nectar
Sprinkle of cinnamon
Sprinkle of sea salt
Tiny bit of vanilla (I use imitation vanilla due to not wanting the alcohol in regular vanilla)

Stir all this up on a small plate and dip your frozen banana slices in this mixture. Very easy for a quick and easy dessert. A little messy, but worth it. :-)

Connie's Zucchini Mounds (Not totally raw due to roasted sunflower seeds and nutritional yeast, but Yummy!)

Connie's Zucchini Mounds

Connie's Zucchini Mounds into Romaine Lettuce Sandwich

2 Peeled Zucchini's Grated

1 organic carrot grated

1 larger clove of garlic cut up into tiny pieces

4 T raw almonds grounded in food processor (soaked overnight first in water and then drained and ground up in a food processor or chopper with the s blade)

3 T Sunflower Seeds (You can use raw ones, but I did use roasted in this recipe as I do prefer those kinds, will try to graduate to raw ones if I can. No one is perfect at anything. I know I won't do the raw vegan diet "perfectly", but I do it to the best of my ability. )

Grounded sea salt to taste - Just grind some from your shaker grinder onto the mixture

1 T lemon juice

1 1/2 T Nutritional Yeast (Again, not Raw, but B12 is good in that for us raw vegans)

Stir all this up and then form into mounds with your hands on a plate. Use each mound inside 2 romaine lettuce leaves. Use the romaine lettuce leaves for a bottom with a sliced tomato on it and then the mound and then the top romaine lettuce leaf. You can try and either break the spine on the lettuce leaf by crushing it down slightly or just shave a bit off the spine of it to make the leaf flatter. This was a nice dish to have. You could just eat the mixture plain or serve it on some other type of raw type of food such as raw dehydrated crackers or maybe even on top of some cucumber slices. There is a really nice garlic taste to this if you love garlic, too. Enjoy!

Sharing Some of my Steps to Being Healthier

I am now 56 years old. Things I have done to improve my health are:
Gave up my car and walk or bike ride around town - Helps me feel better with that regular exercise
Became a Vegetarian - Age 43 to 50
Became a Vegan - Age 50 to 56
Became a Raw Food Vegan at Age 56 on Dec. 3, 2013 - Learning new things daily on this lifestyle
Participate in a Walking Group
Fill my mind with uplifting thoughts and let go of negativity
Study interesting and helpful things
Be around uplifting people
Commit to myself to take care of myself to the best of my ability daily
Let go daily of any bothersome or worrisome thoughts
Take care of my responsibilities
Accept myself exactly as I am at any given moment
I could focus on the bad in life, but that only leads to depression. Instead I focus on the good things, enjoy the good things and look for the good in life daily. :-)
- By, Connie Webb