Life's an Adventure - Sugarless Salad Dressing

ok.. Crackers out, Jicama Fries in.. , spicy.. look forward to trying them tomorrow. I love experiments. & I have been experimenting a lot lately! ..soo many new recipes.

This is a recipe for a Sugar-less Salad Dressing for Tracy. Tracy came back from Hippocrates recently and is on the Hippocrates sugar free, high green, veggie, sprout and wheatgrass diet.
..and she needed a good salad dressing that fit into their food combining criteria. ..which is always fun for me. I love stuff like this..

1/2 Red Pepper
1/2 Avocado
1 Green Onion
1/4 c Olive oil
2 T Lemon juice
1 T Nama Shoyu
1 Garlic clove
1 t Salt
1/2 t Mustard powder
1/4 t Paprika
1/4 t Black pepper


Blend all together with 1 cup of water.

& Enjoy the Adventure!

Buckwheat Berry Granola

Well, here I am unloading my dehydrator full of buckwheat granola (top left)- ( & wow, it turned out really well, sooo good!) to fill up again with some crackers.. I need some finished crackers to have to show them coming out of the dehydrator for filming on Monday. I love these crackers.. they are so colorful and delicious!

My dehydrator has been going non-stop lately! Next I need to experiment with Jicama fries before I go.. they are on the list for the Monday after the trip. & it's been awhile since I made them. I am going to try 2 ways of making them and pick my favorite.

But for now I am going to share my buckwheat granola creation - It turned out even better than I expected. The reason it happened was that I had an abundance of sprouted buckwheat (I forgot to bring it last Monday to show making the corn chips ((which I will do this Monday coming, going to be a very busy day!))) ..and I had extra soaked almonds from filming.. from there I just took a look around the kitchen at what I had.. pecan meal, it was 1/2 the price of pecans & I bought a bag last week.. frozen berries in the freezer went in.. this is how some great recipes get started (rawkalicious cookies! ) k....

Buckwheat Berry Granola

4-6 c Buckwheat
1 c Almonds
1 c Sunflower seeds
2 c Pecan meal

1/2 c Pumpkin seeds

2 c Berries

1 c Dates
1 c Maple syrup
1 Banana
1 t Cinnamon
1 t Vanilla

Place Buckwheat in large bowl. Add Pecan meal, if using whole pecans, process them until fine in the food processor & then add them. Process Almonds, Sunflower & Pumpkin seeds until chunky. I added the frozen berries to the nuts and seeds and processed it all together. then add to the buckwheat & pecans. Process Dates & Banana and some maple syrup to make a smooth paste and add this & the rest of maple syrup and vanilla & cinnamon to bowl, Stir until well combined and then spead out on teflx sheets. This is going to be broken apart so spread out loosely, chunkily (?) but not too thickly, just so it breaks apart easily after its finished. Dehydrate for 6-8 hours then flip onto mesh screen and continue dehydrating for another 8-12 hours or until very dry. Break apart and store in a cool dry place. Will last for a long time, a month or two.. maybe longer ..not sure because it always gets eaten too quickly. ; )
Enjoy!!

Mmm.. look at how pretty the crackers are - they just went in.. it's just non-stop!

Playing for Change - Stand by Me

Playing for Change: Song around the World "Stand by Me"

Day 4 - Burgers, Wraps and Nachos!

Hi. Just in from another day of filming at Rawlicious - Day 4 of 6. Today we made Wraps & Burgers, NutLoaf Patties, Mock Tuna, Ketchup, Salsa, Mayo, Nachos.. we ate well today! : )

These are ingredients set out for the NutLoaf Patties. I made a Taco wrap later.. Taco wraps are one of my all-time favorite lunches!

..but Today what I enjoyed most was the Burger ..maybe it was all the condiments: Mayo, Ketchup and I even made relish.. it was just like eating a real burger, but better! Soo good!

Shaky pic of our spice rack, putting it in just cause I love it - I love the Rawlicious kitchen. Angus & Tracy have built the best kitchen, it's comfortable & homey and soo functional. Just so much love and work went into the place. & sentimental, I remember buying these spice racks with Angus.. it's just a really amazing kitchen! (& I am very fortunate to be a part of it! Thank you! )

My cameraman had a camera.. hopefully one day Kaiya will give me mine back. (!!!?)

Mmm Nachos! : )

very Delicious!! Party food. ..and great Latin music to go with them. Fun! ~

&... Don't forget...

; )

Celebrating February - Love & Chocolate!

I am celebrating February today - I just read my mom's blog & yes, I am celebrating also - Februray, the month of 'Love' & 'Chocolate' ..& wine. O yes, but just one glass for me, red. Myfavorite color.. I used to have a diferent favorite color when I was young, cause I figured that red was taken by my Mom & I wanted to be different.. so, it was Purple & Pink, Magenta, Fushia.. but finally it is red, a deep Ruby Red..

Oh, so it's going to be one of those blogs!! well, the pressure is kind of on - I have 15 more minutes until the movie goes on & I promised I would be done on the computer - it's a comedy, foreign.. I love that I get to watch lots of Foreign & Art films now.. and comedies, and well, we watch a lot of movies it seems lately. We dont have a tv, but we do like to watch films!

Oh yeah, so I am especially celebrating February because I finally moved out of my apartment yesterday, not that I was living there, I had subletted it for the month of January -a perfect arrangement, I love when life lines up things perfectly like that. So I had to go clean out the rest of my stuff that I left for her to use & clean up. So glad to move on from there! nice apartment, but just not a home. ..we went out to celebrate after, my favorite salad and off to a movie. I went to see Clint's Grand Turino. I love Clint! I love that some people are just sooo cool. It's such an interesting thing, some people just are. It's great. Life is so great. & I am feeling so much better today.. my back had been a bit sore, upper back, stress sore.. and I got my little wooden block back. I have a miracle back thing that was made, limited amount of them were made, I think 50.. it really needs to be made available for everyone. I will take a pic of it one day.. when my daughter decides to give me back my camera, she keeps forgetting it.. and thus - I haven't been taking pictures to post on here, sorry. But I'm putting it out there seriously now.. so it should be back here soon. I'm starting to miss that camera of mine..

& I definitely need it before I go. Did mention that I am going away for a week soon? 9 days, tomorrow morning, it's going to be 8 days! (thats so 5 years old!, am I excited? ; ) Dominican Republic - all inclusive, which is usually not my style, but something I am sooo excited about right now. I just need a beach!! like never before!! ..& I will bring my camera and laptop!

ok, times up. xo, 'Night!! : )

IMansionation

Jungle Soup

Spicy Spinach Soup in the Jungle

2 c Spinach
1 c Young Thai Coconut meat (or 1/2 c Cashews, soaked for a couple hours to soften)
1/4 c Cilantro
1 Lime
1 Green Onion
1/2 Avocado
1 T Nama Shoyu
1 T Agave (optional)
1 Garlic clove
1/2 Chili pepper or Jalapeno
1/4 t grated Ginger
Salt & Pepper to taste

Sheet Music

Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance

Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance
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Immortal Jellyfish, Wildest Mexican Restaurant and the banned Peta Superbowl Ad

I just got introduced to Digg.com tonight - my pics from this evening:


'Immortal' jellyfish swarming across the world
An 'immortal' jellyfish is swarming through the world's oceans, according to scientists.
Photo: Barcroft

The Turritopsis Nutricula is able to revert back to a juvenile form once it mates after becoming sexually mature.
Marine biologists say the jellyfish numbers are rocketing because they need not die.
Dr Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute said: "We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion."
The jellyfish are originally from the Caribbean but have spready all over the world.
Turritopsis Nutricula is technically known as a hydrozoan and is the only known animal that is capable of reverting completely to its younger self.
It does this through the cell development process of transdifferentiation.
Scientists believe the cycle can repeat indefinitely, rendering it potentially immortal.
While most members of the jellyfish family usually die after propagating, the Turritopsis nutricula has developed the unique ability to return to a polyp state.
Having stumbled upon the font of eternal youth, this tiny creature which is just 5mm long is the focus of many intricate studies by marine biologists and geneticists to see exactly how it manages to literally reverse its aging process. !!!

How to survive Casa Bonita, the world's weirdest Mexican restaurant
By Joel Warner in Cafe Society
Tuesday, Jan. 27 2009 @ 8:55AM
I recently visited Casa Bonita for the first time, and I'm still trying to recover. No, that's not an indigestion joke about the food, sub-par as it may be. Actually, my mind was blown in a good way. As I'd been told, there's no easy way to describe the Lakewood institution, which bills itself as "The World's Most Exciting Restaurant" - a pronouncement that very well might be true. The multi-story, Mexican-themed behemoth includes a 30-foot-tall waterfall, cliff divers, fire jugglers, strolling mariachi bands, a pirate cave, magicians, puppet shows, skee-ball machines... you get the idea. As one of my colleagues put it, it's like Disney had sex with Tijuana and left the goofy-looking bastard to fend for itself in a random strip mall on Colfax.

&.. Peta's Banned Superbowl Ad ; )

'Veggie Love': PETA's Banned Super Bowl Ad

Friends, Service and Lovebugs : )

Hello!!
I have just spent 10 hours filming at Rawlicious .. preparing and showing how to make lots of great breakfast and dessert recipes. ..& today is the day I really should have had a camera with me, cause they looked great & it would have been nice to show pictures here of them.. instead you get cute picures of red bugs and flowers, cause its the 1st thing that popped into my mind when I opened up my computer.. and I am kind of tired and frankly kind of surprised at myself to be here posting so diligently & lovingly anyway.. when I should be resting to get lots of energy to go back & make more wonderful food at work tomorrow!! But I will have lots of energy, cause I am RAW!!! : ) ..and just a quick post.

OK, so my subject today (besides the flowers & bugs and insect) is from a little piece of paper that I found on a shelf at Rawlicious while we were filming. It is wonderful to work in a place where magical pieces of paper like this just appear in your hand, interesting notes placed here & there.. What an awesome place! ok, here is what the note said:

Seek out opportunities to serve humanity

Take action, have an adventure

Always cherish your friends

Grace / Truth

Become mighty through service

Our Magical Creative World

~ * "I had to tell my ordinary self we're growing apart ...I'm falling in love with Magic" * ~

Thoughts from Ike - track #8 of the 9 Breaths of Amazing Grace:

We create our reality from our thoughts words and actions.

We create our reality from our feeling states.

We sculpt creation.

Energy flows through the mold that we create & through which we create our 3D world.

Our feeling states are magnetic.

They attract states ike themselves; they attract energy.

We vibrate all the time and the vibrations are creating the physical world including our physical bodies.

If we are creating wars, it is because it is inside of us.

What is your feeling state?
What are you attracting to you?
What are you creating?

How is your experience?

Random Food Pics

Just looking on the card in my camera & there are lots of random food pics that I thought I would post. Sometimes my pics upload onto this blog sideways.. and then if I open the picture flip it to the right (or left) and then back and upload it again it will then upload correctly.. it makes no sense and its such a random thing why and to which pics this happens to.. and as this is a random post I am leaving them this time.. although by the time I explain this I could have flipped them. lol
I am, as usual, rushing to get the many things done today that I feel I need to do, foremost on the list is spending most of the day at my home away from home Rawlicious!! : )
It was crazy busy last night.. evey table and space filled for awhile.. people waiting, almost ran out of dishes.. wed eve, complete randomness.. gotta love it! We totally vibed & flowed through it all so gracefully, it was lots of fun!

Above: 1 perfectly formed tortilla chip and toppings from out nacho platter with: guacamole, sour cream, salsa, olives, hot banana pepper rings, green onion and a cilantro leaf.. yes all raw of course, sour cream is mainly coconut, cashew, lemon, acvinegar, miso etc.. These are so good!!

Below my dinner awhile ago.. pizza, spinach salad, quinoa salad..

Blueberry Cheesecake!!!

A sideways slice of pizza.. we made this on Monday and filmed the process at Rawlicious. How to make Pizza Crust, Cheese, Tomato Marinara Sauce etc Mmm..

An Un-Stir Fry we made at Rawlicious.. Delicious!!! Pinenut-Parsnip Rice with Marinated Veggies.. spicy! Mmm..

Oh, I have 4 mins to go.. (& I still have to get dressed! ) maybe I will fill in details later.. Randomness is so freeing!

Oh, but I have to tell you the hot sauce on the nut-loaf patty beside my salad is so hot & out of this world delicious.. made with mangoes and carrots & sooo hot & amazing!!! Specially made my a local woman, incredible stuff!

Poem from the Inauguration - Praise Song for the Day

from Barack Obama's Inaugural Address

Praise Song for the Day by Elizabeth Alexander

Each day we go about our business,
walking past each other,
catching each others' eyes or not,
about to speak or speaking.

All about us is noise.
All about us is noise and bramble,
thorn and din,
each one of our ancestors on our tongues.

Someone is stitching up a hem,
darning a hole in a uniform,
patching a tire,
repairing the things in need of repair.

Someone is trying to make music somewhere
with a pair of wooden spoons
on an oil drum with cello,
boom box, harmonica, voice.

A woman and her son wait for the bus.

A farmer considers the changing sky.

A teacher says, "Take out your pencils. Begin."

We encounter each other in words,
words spiny or smooth,
whispered or declaimed;
words to consider, reconsider.

We cross dirt roads and highways
that mark the will of someone
and then others who said,
"I need to see
what's on the other side;
I know there's something better
down the road.

We need to find a place
where we are safe.

We walk into that

which we cannot yet see.

Say it plain,
that many
have died for this day.

Sing the names of the dead
who brought us here,
who laid the train tracks,
raised the bridges,
picked the cotton and the lettuce,
built brick by brick
the glittering edifices
they would then keep clean
and work inside of.

Praise song for struggle.
Praise song for the day.

Praise song for every hand-lettered sign,
the figuring it out at kitchen tables.

Some live by
"Love thy neighbor as thy self.
"Others by "first do no harm",
or "take no more than you need".

What if the mightiest word is love,
love beyond marital, filial, national.
Love that casts a widening pool of light.
Love with no need to preempt grievance.

In today's sharp sparkle,
this winter air,
anything can be made,
any sentence begun.

On the brink,
on the brim,
on the cusp –

praise song
for walking forward in that light.