Saturday, December 08, 2007

Luke's Green Pate

This is Luke. So glad I remembered my camera!!! Luke is fun in the kitchen.. and we get along great- He says if I walk, he's walking too! lol (rawvolution?)

I have been really into Luke's Green Pate lately.. I eat it almost every day for lunch - put it extra thick on a slice of raw bread, cut in strips and pile broccoli sprouts on top.. I usually eat it with a huge sprout salad made with sunflower sprouts, pea greens, alfalfa, broccoli & ancient eastern blend (sprouted fenugreek, adzuki & lentils) all mixed together ..maybe tomato, red pepper, avocado, cucumber, whatever is around and our amazing Lemon-Ginger-Date Dressing.
Sprouts are a staple for me. Hey, I work at a sprout farm. ..but things are changing there also.
Lots of transitions going on!!!

But the good news is Luke is letting me post his pate recipe!
This stuff reminds me of a sandwich spread I used to eat when I was a kid.. I love it!

Luke's Green Pate

1 liter sunflower seeds “pre-soaked”
3 bunches of parsley “4c packed”
3 jalapeƱo peppers
2 onions
6 globs of olive oil “1/2c – 1cup”
3 globs of vinegar “1/4 cup”
5 garlic cloves “medium – large”
Salt “lots”
Pepper “some”
Cayenne “a bit”
Agave “a bit”
Lemon/lime juice “1 lemon or lime juiced, lime is best”
SOY “optional does not make it raw unless you use raw soy - nama shoyu”

First chop up the jalapenos, onions and garlic. De-stem the parsley all we want is the leaves, and soak the sunflower seeds if not all ready done they should soak about 4 hours or over night for best results. Juice the lemon/lime and put in a bowl.

Open the quiznart, add in the peppers, onions and garlic. Close the lid and hit on “2 min”

Reopen the quiznart and add in the oil and vinegar. Close the lid and hit pulse a couple of times to give the liquid momentum then hit on. or else the mixture will explode and over flow out the side depending on your model of mixer. “30 seconds”

Reopen the quiznart and add in the spices + lemon/lime juice and soy “if you want”. Please note a lot of salt is required.

Slowly add in parsley in the open hole at the top while unit is mixing. Must stress this part if you do not it will get to much at once and then it will not chop well, and the next step won’t work. Small hand fulls at a time small hand fulls or ½ cup measurements not packed.

Add in the sunflower seeds in this manner, get a large funnel or use your hands. And add about 1 tbsp every 1-2 seconds while the unit is mixing. If all added at same time it will over load and not mix. Some stirring may be required when this is mixing like to get parsley off of the sides or to turn sunflower seeds in. if you have used a quiznart before then you know what I am talking about.

Let blend for about 5 min and then put in a container and refrigerate. Lasts about a week. Use your instincts if it smells bad or looks extra funky then don’t eat it. (lol) Taste great on raw bread or as a base on a cracker sandwich platter.

Made By: Lucas Jagelewski

ps Raw Pot Luck tonight at Toronto Sprouts

Rushing out the door... but theres a Raw pot luck happening tonight at work, Toronto Sprouts, starting at 6-6:30 Everyones welcome. & yes, I do have my camera this time! : )

oh, ps ps I got to browse through Duane's copy of the #7 Anastasia book - The Energy of Life & it looks amazing - like the best one so far..it looks like a lot of the content is about the nature of our thoughts and there is one chapter titled Divine Nutrition.. can't wait to get a copy of it!!

Friday, December 07, 2007

Ho'oponopono & The Easiest Way by Mabel Katz


I have been practising Ho'oponopono a lot these past few days. It is the most phenomenal techniques to send out love and ease to people who are stressed.. although in the process you are not healing them, you are healing yourself. The basis of ho'oponoponois that if there is a problem out there, anything that you are conscious of, everything from a lover or child upset or angry to George Bush or wars, political issues, you name it, no matter how removed they seemingly are from you.. it is all coming from within you.. and by healing the part of yourself that is conscious of this struggle or anything that is negative it heals it not only in you but out-there as well. It erases the programs.

We all have programs running all the time.We don't realize it usually but they are running 24/7 ..like a looped tape. Dr Len (Zero Limits) talks about it and so does Echart Tolle, authot of one of the best books ever! - Power of Now & also A New Earth. So the idea is to erase the negative tapes that we have playing..and when we erase the tapes within ourselves, we erase them in others.. and it is all done by taking complete responsibility for everything going on (even out-there) and asking for forgiveness and expressing gratitude.

It is the simplest thing ever & the most complex thing ever also. The simplest things always are. Most people can not even deal with simplicity it is so deep and powerful.. it is real. The truths are all hidden in simplicity (right in front of our faces - thats the hardest place to find something).

My favorite part of Mabels book is the last chapter.. this paragraph is from the last chapter (p. 85) just before she summarizes and explains the freeing process of Ho'oponopono:

"Then I tell myself "I am creating this. They are my thoughts of the other person. It is a product of my own programming, my recordings, my perception. I can erase it." This simple process gives me a peace that I can't describe with words. Why? Because I don't stay trapped in thoughts like, "How could he say that to me? How could she do that to me?" I don't expect the other person to change, react in a specific way or do something specific. What a relief! I don't depend on anyone outside of myself. I don't expect myself to be perfect or to please the whole world. I don't need to convince anyone of my point of view. I learned to respect and understand that we all have free will and not allof us choose the same things. This reality brings me a lot of inner peace. There is no problem. Good and bad are parameters that we create in our minds. As long as we love ourselves and take care of ourselves,we will love and take care of others as well."

Bonus: This is a link to a 6 minute interview of Eckhart Tolle by Oprah that I listened to recently. I love anything Tolle!

Thursday, December 06, 2007

Kelp forest under the ocean - Kelp chips, salty & mineral rich!


I was thinking about how I was slacking with my diet a bit lately and decided I need to make a more concerted effort to stick with eating raw through this. It can be hard at work because I often feel like I am the center of the support system there. People come in to see and be motivated by me. Sadly, our cafe is getting more & more cooked food (out of my control) ..& it's easier to slack now there. It occurred to me yesterday that the problem was more I wasn't thinking about food as much, just wanted to grab what was easy..too many other things on my mind.. and we know how easy conventional food is, its everywhere.

So I guess the solution is to just be more focused and not let myself slide..and stay around moreof my positive and when possible, raw friends. It was great yesterday I had quite a few comevisit..and bring food. Jesica brought her new dessert creation - cherry vanilla cheezecake with candied pecan crust. Amazing! & Fred came in with truffles (Thank God - I was getting dangerously low - am well stocked up now!) but he brought the most amazing thing.. he was telling me about this earlier but just brought it for me to try.

Kelp flakes form the Pacific ocean.Ok, this may not sound amazing..but really it is.I had it in my head that I didn't really like kelp.. yet, knew there were minerals in there that I really needed. I am slightly mineral deficient (not even remotely close to when I was on cookedfood though!) - everyone is.. really.That is the hugest problem with our diets - none of us have the minerals that we need. They are so hard to get, the soil is so depleted.. the ocean is really where we can get our nutrients from. Sea vegetables are one of the most amazing, mineral rich things you can put into your body.

So, Fred told me before that he eats this dried kelp like chips and I wanted to try it.. still thinking I probably wouldn't like it..and ykw? He is right, it's true. This stuff is amazing..I can just sit & eat it like chips- totally amazing!!! I am not even really big on the flavorof sea vegetables..but this stuff tastes great! I will find out where to get it from & let you know later.

Picture above of an underwater kelp forest from Skips site -He takes amazing underwater photos!
& checkout this video, theres a whole amazing world going on down there!

HD Underwater -Phillipines

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Staying raw through stress and transition periods

(what? It's not my birthday every day of the year?? Hey, Change your name, change your birthday.. whats the difference, we can do anything, right?? sure! lol, Thank you, Pat! )

Good Morning!
As many of you know, some big transition has been going on in my life. I am in the process of a separation with my husband. Well, no we have separated, we are just going through the after effects of it and getting our lives back into balance ..it takes some time.

It is affecting me with my diet. As many of you know, cooked food blocks feelings. When you are raw you just feel everything, it is a much more connected way of being, you are much closer to nature and feelings just flow through you. It's good because everything also gets released. Think small child, baby even, they get upset and they cry, they feel and react.. it's something the same, except we have the maturity to not just cry anywhere. But you feel things deeply.. so many people in times of stress go back to cooked food. It's just easier. & I find myself drawn to it sometimes. So, I am being very conscious about it.. and yes, I have had a few, very small, bowls of soup and things like that.. still nothing like bread, I haven't had or even tasted bread in almost 3 years. I don't miss it.. I kind of did at first a bit, but I felt so amazing being raw and just got my mind onto better things.

I find I am eating more dense foods lately, that helps to ground me: nuts, our Earth bread (imho & from what I've heard - the most amazing raw bread ever!), and coconut ..I am living on young Thai coconuts lately ..have my fridge here at home & at work well stocked with them. & to balance this I am drinking wheatgrass & E3Live. My diet is still mainly green smoothies and salads.. big sprout salad almost every day at work. ..& I am still about 90% raw, but one or two days I may have gone into the 80's.. but thats life. I am just so dedicated to the raw life.. and making a concerted effort to remain so, even through this transition. I know this is the time that many people slip.. and now I am seeing first hand why. I think it's easier to block feelings with food, but even though it's more of an effort, it's so much healthier in the long run to stay raw.

I have my green smoothie, purple actually -has blueberries (& lots of other fruit) and black kale in it - k, ready? glasses up.. Heres to a beautiful raw and conscious life through any and every journey!

ps. I'm doing a lot of ho'oponoponoing lately..and am seeing the results, such a powerful thing!
Click on the link above to read a great article which explains it by Dr Joe Vitale. It's amazing.. a must read if you haven't already! This article led me to buy Dr.Hew Len's book and now I am in the middle of read in another about it by Mabel Katz. It's just the most phenomenal, simplest thing ever..and I swear it works!
Thank You, I love you! : ) Have a wonderful day!

Monday, December 03, 2007

Art Project .. aka another way to clean up files

Love the life you live,
Live the life you love.

Dreams are scriptures







Revere Life









On rocky shores, crystals of like facet cling together.



Hallway to a nightclub for the bored













Your eyes are mine and we see each other’s souls.

















Curator of contentment


Accept the gift
























On this path, injustice is repaid by kindness or one moves.



Be authentic











The past is my future,
My future, my past,
And I just AM




There are loving neighbours along the way and strangers who you must learn to love.





Visionary activist principle #3 requires that we ask.


Kai, Kai, Kai, Yemaya a lodo,
Kai, Kai, Kai, asesu a lodo,
Kai, Kai, Kai, Yemaya a lodo,
Kai, Kai, Kai, achaba a lodo.



Radiate and rhapsodize.






























Soft and gentle music is heard above the jackhammers


The children celebrate the pebbles and running water








Sacred fires burn within










Every rose has a thorn; every cowboy sings a sad, sad song.



All shall be well,

And all shall be well,
And all manner of things shall be well.












Make things happen,
Let thin.s happen








Give peace a chance




Saturday, December 01, 2007

Random Highlights - goosefeet, CVO training, our Green Toast, wheatgrass, snow, Tao #54 and Peter Ragnar's Merrie Wabbit

Random facts, inspirations, thoughts and drinks for the day:

Quinoa is also sometimes called by it's common name: goosefoot.

Dancing to the new Soundtrack, just created for the DVD, based on the book.. (from which the now-famous series is created) , which was just inspired by Mi-San last night & danced to and energetically visualized by us this aft.. what the bleep where we on???

Our morning Green Toast to the day - 13 of us in a circle all giving thanks & cheers to things in our life and to things manifesting in our life and to dreams and adventure and love and as always ending with friendship, green prosperity, inner peace and world peace!

(13 green smoothies made by me with Love & sunflower sprouts, pea greens, banana, pineapple, apple & pear.)

I am on the wheatgrass again.. stayed away for a month or so ..sometimes it just gets to be too much! ..& when I start feeling nauseous from it I just stay away because then even the smell can give you that feeling & I'm around it a lot, I juice a lot of it at work. ..but I am trying to drink it more again. & today it was the best ever..someone asked me to juice it with ginger.. so I did & then made some more like that for Luke and I ,which we washed down with lemon water..had a real tequila feel to it.

Lemon water is just a pitcher of water with some lemon slices dropped in. This is great for adding life force energy back into water after it has been filtered. Any freshly cut fruit will do the same - also good are grapes, oranges or cucumber.

From the book SEX from the Kaballah Center - clearing energies by rolling naked in the snow - details to follow...

Christine left her Tao book with me & I just opened it up to see what passage I would open it to & it was one of my favorite ones! (translated by Wu - complete book here)

#54

What is well planted can not be uprooted.
What is well embraced can not slip away.
Your descendants will carry on the ancestral sacrifice for generations without end.

Cultivate virtue in your own person,
And it becomes a genuine part of you.
Cultivate it in your family,
And it will abide.
Cultivate it in the community,
And it will live and grow.
Cultivate it in the state,
And it will flourish abundantly.
Cultivate it in the world,
And it will become universal.

Hence, a person must be judged as a person;
A family as a family;
A community as a community;
A state as a state;
The world as the world.

How do you know about the world?
By what is within me.


Article on Peter Ragnar, modern-day shaman, Taoist wizard, natural life scientist, self-master, claivoyant, healer, developer of 'Magnetic Qi Gong' (which he claims is the key to immortality) and raw foodist.
I was intrigued and downloaded his free e-book "How anybody can build muscle on a raw food diet" Reading his diet which includes 2 glasses of red wine..However, sometimes he has his favorite drink instead in the evenings - "The Merrie Wabbit" which is a combo of carrot, beet and tomato juiced in a juicer with horseradish, garlic, cayenne, half a lemon and half a lime. He adds a dash of vodka for his enjoyment (which he says you may want to leave out) and then sprinkles dried onion and parsley on top.
ok, this reminds me of a drink I used to drink.. I think I'm going to have to try this one out!

Friday, November 30, 2007

Principle of Life Transformation & 50 Great Reasons to go Raw

Excerpt on "The Principle of Life Transformation" from The Sunfood Diet Success System by David Wolfe:

"The most interesting thing about life is that you can become more than you were before. You can become stronger, wiser, healthier than you ever dreamed possible. You can achieve your true potential. You can com­pletely reform your physical structure, your intelligence, your emotional poise, your spiritual power. This book is about how to biologically trans­mutate the lead of life into the white gold of glory.

The Principle of Life Transformation is that life change comes from the inside out. All transformation begins with one person - you. As above, so below. Everything happening around you is only a reflection of what is going on inside you. If you want the world to change, you have to change.

We are all personally responsible for the state of the entire world because the world only mirrors our inner selves. Pollution, famine, and disease are reflective of the inner crisis gripping us individually, and therefore collectively. These “realities” are fragments of our collective consciousness projected outward upon our environment."


& an article written by & found on Karen Knowler's website:


50 Great Reasons to Go Raw

Jumpingforjoy_1This list created by Karen Knowler and Sarah Best (of Get Fresh! magazine) from eavesdropping on our own conversations and those of others over the past few years...

I mean, could you get any more win-wins from your food?!

  1. “To have unlimited energy”
  2. “To increase my clarity”
  3. “To reach my natural weight”
  4. “To improve my memory”
  5. “To support farmers”
  6. “To have sharper concentration”
  7. “To conserve enzymes”
  8. “To raise my vibration”
  9. “To rejuvenate and reverse signs of aging”
  10. “For spiritual expansion”

And another 40 more...

  1. “To detoxify my body naturally”
  2. “To become more vibrant”
  3. “To re-create a clean shiny new me!”
  4. “To create a sense of balance”
  5. “To strengthen my immune system”
  6. “To reawaken my intuition”
  7. “To dramatically reduce my chance of disease”
  8. “I want to use raw eating as a tool to help me release negative emotions and blocks”
  9. “To extend my life span”
  10. “I’ve only been raw for a short while but for me it’s the biggest high ever!”
  11. “To function at my peak”
  12. “I want to reduce my food bills”
  13. “To balance my body’s temperature, regardless of external conditions”
  14. “I want to break my emotional attachments to foods”
  15. “To have eyes that sparkle”
  16. “I want to get back in touch with my body and myself”
  17. “To have clear skin”
  18. “I want to become more calm and collected”
  19. “To have young-looking skin”
  20. “It’s environmentally friendly”
  21. “To have shiny, glossy hair”
  22. “I’m a vegetarian/vegan and this is the next step”
  23. “To improve my eyesight”
  24. “I want to use less fossil fuel”
  25. “Because the food is delicious”
  26. “I want those insights people talk about”
  27. “I discovered the durian!”
  28. “Meal preparation is so easy”
  29. “I like to eat truly natural food”
  30. “It saves time”
  31. “I want to explore a world of taste I never knew existed before”
  32. “I want to meet like-minded people”
  33. “I love fruit!”
  34. “To lower my fuel bills!”
  35. “I love the beautiful colours of raw food”
  36. “It’s an exciting adventure”
  37. “I want to learn how to become hungry properly”
  38. “It will help me achieve my potential”
  39. “Because it will help me grow as a person as well as better my health”
  40. “Because I love myself”

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Bright Jewels

Come live it, swim it, breathe it, speak it, brim it, seek it,
Ski it, reap it, climb it, fly it, gather it, clutch it, fondle it,
Absorb it, cherish it, adore it, tell it and be it. No limit.










Wednesday, November 28, 2007

A Fun and Colourful day - Organic Wear makeup, Ravi's salad, Moja Tea Gallery, Bula socks, Achiote and sooo much chocolate!

"The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced" ~Aart VanDerLeeuw

I had a most amazing day at work today! Our cafe was closed until 2pm, there was a new make-up line launch event taking place in the space- a couple girls from NYC here promoting Organic Wear by Physicians Formula. This is the first certified organic makeup line to be sold in mass market retail stores! (due to be launched Feb. 08)
It is 100% Natural Origin makeup with certified organic ingredients. No harsh chemicals, parabens or synthetic preservatives - even the packaging is Eco-friendly! It's great.. But they only have foundation,concealer, bronzers, powders & blush so far.. no colors, eyeliners, mascaras, lipsticks or anything yet.. but, its a start. & I got a huge demo bag of products (Score!)

And while the cafe was closed, Luke & I went out on a field trip to checkout a few other cafes downtown. We went to Ravisoups on Adelaide first, it was our main stop.. Bt when we get there I discover they have soups & wraps, nothing raw... not even salads! But when I asked if there is any raw option (I suggested tomato & lettuce or whatever veggie wrap fillings they had) ..and then Ravi created the most amazing salad for me! It was so beautiful & colourful- What a presentation! I wished I had my camera (note to self again!- put camera in purse!!!) It was beautiful.. & was something like this:

Ravi's Salad

Korean cabbage, the crinkly kind - chopped
Radicchio - chopped or torn into small pieces
Parsnip -shaved slivers with veg peeler
Carrot - shaved slivers with veg peeler
Red pepper- thin strips
Apple - julienned strips
Pineapple - julienned strips
Basil leaves- lots
Cilantro leaves - lots

He served it with an oil& balsamic vinaigrette cause his tamarind dressing was from cooked tamarind... but when I recreate it here at home I will make a tamarind dressing like this:

Tamarind paste (soak tamarind in warm water for awhile,then mash and strain through a sieve/fine metal strainer - a bit of work, but so, so worth it, tamarind is one of the best flavours ever!) Then mix in a bit of maple syrup or agave (depending on pref &/or how pure you are), some nama shoyu (raw soy sauce), olive oil, lemon juice, Celtic salt & cayenne

Also.. I met a beautiful woman working there - Sandra Amarie - who is starting a business creating these incredible organic tea blends - Moja Tea Gallery - also on Adelaide, a few doors down.
She made us her Apple-Basil-Ginger Lung Ching Green tea. It's a 2 step process, 2 tea bags, the apple-basil-ginger gets steeped for 10 minutes and then the green tea gets steeped for 2 min max. Great tea is an art and she makes it simple for us who want to enjoy it without the hassle and complications of measuring, blending which is usually necessary for it. A brilliant idea ..and it was delicious. I am excited to try her other creative blends!!!
What an amazing lunch! A successful field trip-business excursion! ; )

Life is good! No, Life is great!!!

(Bonus) On our way back I bought the coolest socks at Groovy, Queen E. BulaBula. k, gotta cool it I guess, on a budget for awhile - I forgot..but got a hug and laugh from Mi-San about it. what a job-gotta love it.
Oh, and the most fantastic Barbie-doll-wild-pink scarf at Black Market, also on Queen. fun.

& it was so quiet today, guess cause we were closed earlier, it was so slack ..& I consumed soo much chocolate it was crazy..we found a raw cacao bean stash unexpectedly..started off with those, a few of Fred's totally fantasmical raw chocolate truffles, Mattieu came with a ChocoSol delivery, sampling to be done there! Raw Vanilla- How does a cacaoholic resist freshly made bicycle ground chocolates made with Love and the best cacao and most delicious vanilla beans in the world!??? ..and the Aztec Blood Hot Chocolate - it's a seasonal drink (almost done!) and chocolate decadence at its best. The dramatic red color comes from the Achiote (Spanish for annato seeds). Achiote is a small & irregularly shaped, deep reddish colored seed about the size of a lentil which are grown in pods. They have a delicate nutty aroma-flavour but are mainly used for their brilliant red pigment.

pic above of the achiote seeds & pods - Nature is so amazing! Gotta love it! Wow
Its a wild, wild world out there!

Inspiration in 3's

1. from my new Facebook group- Inner Peace - 'Earth-Peace through Self-Peace' intro message:

remember that YOU have control over how you react and respond to ANYTHING that comes your way. ...

It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped...


2-postcard from NYC:

"Once again New York proves to be electro-magical in theory and practice with costumed dogs, tubas, grand fabricated curvatures of landscapes and literature intersecting in brightness and focus of the absolute threshhold of everything.
Quintessences to you!"











3. Paragraph read at my meditation group last night from Star + Gate:Keys to the Kingdom by Richard H. Geer:

"One day, as I was walking through a doorway into a sunny afternoon, the world and time seemed to stop completely. In that one instant everything made perfect sense. In that moment I realized that everything I had seen or done or had experienced--all of it--Had been perfectly planned, choreographed and staged for me for my own growth. I had always had a choice in what happened, and yet every bit of my life had been for my benefit. A marvelous feeling of insight, of really "getting the point" about things, came over me. I had a grand sense of cooperation, whether I had been conscious of it or not, between the world at large and myself. Imagine! Each event, each experience, tailored just for me! And the same exquisite arrangement existed for everyone else, regardless of whether they knew it or not."

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Reno's

Welcome to my humble abode.. Come check out some of the reno's we've done inside!

























I love it, don't you?