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Monday, December 28, 2009

Frozen Banana Pie Vegan Dessert

This dish is great for using up ripe bananas. It comes together quickly, freezes in 2-4 hours and serves 4-8 people.

Crust:

In food processor with s-blade, chop
1 cup walnuts
1 cup dates
pinch of salt

chop until crumbly, do not over process

Press the walnut/date mixture into a 9" pie pan evenly, being sure to press hard where the sides of the pan meet the bottom.
Set aside

Filling:

5 very ripe bananas
2 tsp fresh lemon juice
pinch of salt

In food processor with S-blade process bananas, lemon and salt until very creamy, about 5 minutes.
Pour into prepared crust and freeze.

Slice and serve. Store covered in freezer.

Monday, December 21, 2009

Raw Vegan Chocolate Pecan Pie

I made the chocolate pecan pie from Jennifer Cornbleet's Raw for dessert. Last week I made the ganache, the crust and the date paste. This week I put them all together and came up with this little cute pie (pun intended)
:)

I'm not gonna put up the recipe. But I'll tell you what I did.

Basically, it's crust, chocolate ganache, date filling and pecans on top.

I pushed the crust into the pan then put some decorative pecans on the bottom and sides of the panned crust. Then I poured the softened ganache into the crust and tipped the pan around to get it even.

I put chopped pecans on top of the ganache and pressed them in lightly.

Then you make a mixture of date paste, agar, syrup (the recipe called for agave or maple but i was out so I used more date paste. I could have done it with neither, IMO *shrugs*

I put pecans all over the top and drizzled some thinned ganache over it all.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

How to Make Date Paste

Adapted from Raw for Dessert by Jennifer Cornbleet

16 dates
1.5 c water.

Soak dates for 20 minutes
Drain and reserve soak water
Process dates and 1/4 c soak water in food processor with s-blade until a paste
Store in air tight container up to 1 month.

Makes 1 cup paste.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Quick Easy Raw Vegan Lunch :: Watermelon Soup and Banana Watermelon Salad!

yum yum!

The tangy apple and plum juice balance the super sweet watermelon. Pucker up and get ready to enjoy:

Watermelon Soup

Makes 1 serving

1 cup watermelon cut in bite sized pieces. I don't mind the seeds but you may want to remove them for your guests.
1 cup tart fruit juice. I used apple and plum.

Put watermelon chunks in a bowl and pour the juice over the top.

Banana Watermelon Salad

1 cup sliced banana
1 cup chopped watermelon
Put in a bowl and eat.

That's it! Raw vegan lunch in a jiffy!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Raw Vegan Soft Serve Ice Cream :: RAW Summer Snack Idea!

With inspiration from Gena and she is right, this will change your life!

this is about 2 and a half frozen bananas, half an inch of vanilla bean and 4 tsp of lemon juice in the food processor with the s-blade.

Process until smooth

Soft serve ice cream!

You won't believe how easy and good this is!

It's raw and vegan and you can have it for breakfast, brunch, lunch dinner or dessert. The sky is the limit. Dairy-free, Soy-free, Gluten-free and no preservatives. And Cheap? With bananas as low as 29c a lb sometimes, yeah, it's cheap-ola :)

You're welcome :)

Thanks, Gena! Once again you not only change but IMPROVE my life.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

RAW VEGAN Summer Dessert Ideas! Chocolate Refrigerator Cookies

Even if you aren't a raw foodist, these cookies are perfect for summer. NO oven! NO heating up the kitchen!

The log of dough waits for you and you just cut off as many cookies as you need, no mess or waste!

I adapted this from the brownie recipe at imsorawkin

Chocolate Freezer Cookies

Makes about 12 cookies, depending on how thick you cut them.

1 cup of any nuts you prefer. I used a mix of walnut, pecan, almond, cashew and brazil
1/4 cup sunflower seeds
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 cup dates
2 tbs coconut oil
2 tbs grated coconut meat (optional)
1/8 tsp salt (optional, of course)

Put all ingredients in Food Processor and pulverize. You should be able to press the mixture together and form a ball.

Dump the nut mixture on a piece of parchment or wax paper and roll it into a log.
Place in freezer for one hour or more.
Slice off 1/2" wide cookies as needed and store them in the freezer or fridge until ready to serve. Don't worry if the slices crumble a little, just reform them with your fingers and chill...

Serve chilled.

Friday, May 22, 2009

Raw Vegan Carrot Cake Cookies

Good morning everyone!
What a beautiful day juice feasting yesterday!

Shown with Roastaroma tea. These would be so good with coffee!

This morning I bring you my recipe for Raw Vegan Carrot Cake Cookies. The cookie/cake isn't very sweet but the pecan date topping is. Serve these for breakfast, brunch or dessert. I had mine for breakfast this morning with a cup of roastaroma. I ate the garnish, too :)

The cookie is

1 cup of carrot pulp from juicing
1 apple cored and chopped
1/4 cup ground flaxseed
2 tbs flaxseed oil
Water if needed to blend

Chop in Food Processor with s-blade until smooth.
Spread on dehydrator sheet about 1/2" thick or as thick as you want your cookies to be.
Dehydrate at 120F for 2 hours or until you are able to flip it onto the rack.
Continue to dry at 95-112F overnight or until it's stil flexible but not crumbly.
Freeze the big cookie for two hours and then cut it into the size and shapes you want your cookies to be.

Topping
I didn't measure but
A bit handful of pecans
12 or so dates
In FP with s blade chop it until it's a lumpy paste
Press the lumpy paste to the top of a frozen cookie and shape it with your hands. Allow to thaw in the fridge and serve with hot tea or coffee.

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For dinner last night I had a huge salad made from greens that I grew woot, sauerkraut that I made aw yeeah, and raw leeks and celery. I had a bowl of the potato leek soup slurp! and TWO slices of bread with brazil nut cheese nomnomnom.

Playing with my food

I was full but it felt good. I like juice feasting one day a week, but I really like to prepare food and eat it with my family, not just chop and juice and clean the juicer and repeat all day. One day a week is enough for me now. That could change in the future.

Pelicans

Monday, May 18, 2009

Raw Food Snacking Happens! Raw Banana Avocado Pudding

Whole food goodness and sweet, delicious raw food nutrition at it's simple best

Banana Avocado Pudding
1 avocado
2 bananas
2 tsp lemon juice
Serves 2
Peel the bananas, cut the avo and remove the seed and scoop out the meat. Cut them both into pieces in a bowl mash them together with a fork.
if you like, add vanilla and nutmeg or cinnamon
The lemon juice prevents it from turning brown right away. If you are making this to eat immediately, you can leave out the lemon juice.

Works as breakfast, snack, lunch, Sunday brunch buffet or even dessert!

Super quick to make, no equipment necessary.

Monday, May 11, 2009

Raw-ish Chocolate Cake with Avocado Mint Frosting!

Dinner tonight was red lettuce and some of the greens from my little garden, sauerkraut and salad made from cukes, avo and orange bell pepper, dressed with finely chopped garlic, a pinch of salt and lime juice. On the side is a stuffed bell pepper, just regular bread stuffing with carrots, celery, onion, potato and zukes. I also stuffed an acorn squash with the same mixture and fed that to the guys.

Inside my stuffed pepper

Ok, I made a raw-ish chocolate cake

first I made a chocolate cake

1 sm banana
5 dates
1/2 zucchini, peeled
1 1/4 cup walnuts
1/4 cup baking chocolate (unsweetened)
2 tbs ACV
1/2 cup oats
1/4 cup water

Process in FP with S-blade until almost the texture of mousse. Spread on a sheet, about 1/2" thick in a square or rectangle shape. Make the edges as straight as you can but don't obsess over it, you can trim the cake later.

Let freeze for 2 hours or so. In the mean time make frosting

2 avocados
2 bananas
1/2 cup mint
5 dates
1/4 tsp salt

Process until very smooth

Take the still frozen cake out of the freezer and trim the rough edges so they are straight then cut into approx 2" square pieces. Put the frosting on half of the pieces and stack the rest of the pieces on top of the frosted pieces. Frost the tops of all the cakes and freeze for another hour or more.

Slice, arrange artfully on plate and serve frozen

The boy will eat almost any bread I make but he won't eat a vegetable. Once we saw a documentary about hiding veges in food for kids. He said I should do that so today I made my regular soda bread but instead of using oat milk, I blended a peeled zucchini with water and used that as the milk. He loved it and he ate zucchini without even knowing it.

Success.

The Philosophy of Animal Rights by Tom Regan

The other animals humans eat, use in science, hunt, trap, and exploit in a variety of ways, have a life of their own that is of importance to them apart from their utility to us. They are not only in the world, they are aware of it. What happens to them matters to them. Each has a life that fares better or worse for the one whose life it is.

That life includes a variety of biological, individual, and social needs. The satisfaction of these needs is a source of pleasure, their frustration or abuse, a source of pain. In these fundamental ways, the nonhuman animals in labs and on farms, for example, are the same as human beings. And so it is that the ethics of our dealings with them, and with one another, must acknowledge the same fundamental moral principles.

At its deepest level, human ethics is based on the independent value of the individual: The moral worth of any one human being is not to be measured by how useful that person is in advancing the interest of other human beings. To treat human beings in ways that do not honor their independent value is to violate that most basic of human rights: the right of each person to be treated with respect.

The philosophy of animal rights demands only that logic be respected. For any argument that plausibly explains the independent value of human beings implies that other animals have this same value, and have it equally. And any argument that plausibly explains the right of humans to be treated with respect, also implies that these other animals have this same right, and have it equally, too.

It is true, therefore, that women do not exist to serve men, blacks to serve whites, the poor to serve the rich, or the weak to serve the strong. The philosophy of animal rights not only accepts these truths, it insists upon and justifies them.

But this philosophy goes further. By insisting upon and justifying the independent value and rights of other animals, it gives scientifically informed and morally impartial reasons for denying that these animals exist to serve us.

Once this truth is acknowledged, it is easy to understand why the philosophy of animal rights is uncompromising in its response to each and every injustice other animals are made to suffer.

It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands in the case of animals used in science, for example, but empty cages: not "traditional" animal agriculture, but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh of dead animals; not "more humane" hunting and trapping, but the total eradication of these barbarous practices.

For when an injustice is absolute, one must oppose it absolutely. It was not "reformed" slavery that justice demanded, not "reformed" child labor, not "reformed" subjugation of women. In each of these cases, abolition was the only moral answer. Merely to reform injustice is to prolong injustice.

The philosophy of animal rights demands this same answer - abolition - in response to the unjust exploitation of other animals. It is not the details of unjust exploitation that must be changed. It is the unjust exploitation itself that must be ended, whether on the farm, in the lab, or among the wild, for example. The philosophy of animal rights asks for nothing more, but neither will it be satisfied with anything less.

Insprirational Vegan Quotes

1. Animals that live in the wild kill other animals in order to eat. If I also lived in the wild would it still be inhumane to kill an animal to eat?? What about if I raised chickens in my backyard and cultivated their eggs for my breakfast omelet, is this inhumane?
A: Because animal flesh and products are not needed for human nutrition killing and eating them is inhumane in any circumstances. No kind of slavery is humane no matter how well the slave is treated. You can't respect someone and then exploit her for her eggs/milk/honey.

2. Do animal rights moralists take into consideration the domestication of animals i.e. history of farming, farming as the back bone to the establishment of the first civilizations. There’s not much literature about the reasons animals have become a central part of human life?
A: History is no excuse to continue to exploit non humans. Animals are not needed for human nutrition. That is a myth perpetuated by industries which make money exploiting non human animals.

3. Is domestication against animals rights? If so, does that make having a dog or cat or horse inhumane?
A: At this time there are a lot of domesticated animals that need tending. Most domesticated animals are just that. They would not exist as we know them if not for domestication. Breeding animals for pets or for food is unnecessary and inhumane. Adopt animals, have them spayed or neutered. Give them a comfortable home where they can live out their lives without being exploited. With time the numbers of "non-food" and "food" animals will go down and eventually there will be no more domesticated food animals or pets.

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice. ~Gary L. Francione

Merely by ceasing to eat meat
Merely by practicing restraint
We have the power to end a painful industry

We do not have to bear arms to end this evil
We do not have to contribute money
We do not have to sit in jail or go to
meetings or demonstrations or
engage in acts of civil disobedience
Most often, the act of repairing the world,
of healing mortal wounds,
is left to heroes and tzaddikim (holy people)
Saints and people of unusual discipline
But here is an action every mortal can
perform--surely it is not too difficult! ~Roberta Kalechofsky of Jews for Animal Rights

The ten commandments of Mother Earth

1. Thou shall love and honor the Earth for it blesses thy life and governs thy survival.
2. Thou shall keep each day sacred to the Earth and celebrate the turning of its seasons.
3. Thou shall not hold thyself above other living things nor drive them to extinction.
4. Thou shall give thanks for thy food, to the creatures and plants that nourish thee.
5. Thou shall educate thy offspring for multitudes of people are a blessing unto the Earth when we live in harmony.
6. Thou shall not kill, nor waste Earth's riches upon weapons of war.
7. Thou shall not pursue profit at the Earth's expense but strive to restore its damaged majesty.
8. Thou shall not hide from thyself or others the consequences of thy actions upon the Earth.
9. Thou shall not steal from future generations by impoverishing or poisoning the Earth.
10. Thou shall consume material goods in moderation so all may share the Earth's bounty. ~Ernest Callenbach

"This is what passes for "food" in America today: A collection of nutritionally-obliterated, hormonally-enhanced, chemically-adulterated shapes of refined whatever, all hyped up to make them seem like real food when in fact they're just agricultural byproducts devoid of any real nutrition." ~Mike Adams

"I like not eating animals. Animals are our friends and we shouldn't eat them. Animals need us to take care of them and save them. My mom cooks us vegetables and pretend hamburgers and hotdogs and chicken nuggets and they are healthy for you and taste good! I told all my friends 'you should NOT eat animals!' I hit my friend Levi because he was eating a ham sandwich and wouldn't stop. Then mom said that Levi is an animal too and we have to be nice to all animals even if they eat other animals. I said sorry to Levi, but I wish he would not eat animals anymore. I also like not eating animals because my mom says it helps the earth, like recycling." ~Jacob, 6 yrs old

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.~Anthony Robbins

It only takes a spark ~Daniel Andreas San Diego

Some people are still going to want to eat meat. We do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet. ~David Stroud (of the American Meat Institute)

For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts ;
even one thing befall them: as the one dies, so dies the other. They have all one breath; so that a man has no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knows that the spirit of man goes upward, and the spirit of the beast goes downward to the earth? ~Ecclesiastes iii., 19, 20, 21.

There is no such thing as cruelty free slaughter or humane killing.
No slave is happy no matter what the owner tells you.
Go Vegan NOW!
Do it for the cows that have their babies taken away again and again for milk production.
Do it for the chickens who are de-beaked for egg production.
Do it for the pigs who have to nurse their babies on concrete floors.
Do it for the millions of humans who don't know any better.
Do it for the planet.
Do it for your health.

Do it because there is NO SUCH THING as humane slaughter.~ Judith Barnes

Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.
~Theodor Adorno

If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.
~Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), author (1885-1962)

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
~Anne Frank

If "rights" exist at all— and both feeling and usage indubitably prove that they do exist —they cannot be consistency awarded to men and denied to animals, since the same sense of justice and compassion apply in both cases.
~Henry Salt, 1892

You ask people why they have deer heads on the wall. They always say, Because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother's attractive, but I have photographs of her.
~Ellen DeGeneres

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
~Leo Tolstoy

Raw foods create living bodies, and cooked foods create dying bodies
~Sabrina Aird, Grass Root co-owner

You say it’s my personal choice, it’s not a personal choice when you’re ruining my planet and you’re eating my friends
~ Dave Warwak

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites, or women created for men.
~ Alice Walker

Thou Shalt Not Kill
~ The Christian Bible

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy; if the world were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I wake up each morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. This makes it very hard to plan the day.
~E. B. White

Don’t want to ruin the oceans? Go vegan.
Don’t like the environmental problems of the soy industry? Go vegan.
Don’t like monoculture? Go vegan.
Don’t like the environmental problems of the petroleum industry? Go vegan.
Don’t like greenhouse gas emission? Go vegan.
Don’t like animal exploitation and cruelty? Go vegan.
Want environmental sustainability? Go vegan.
Want to feed the hungry? Go vegan.
Want to save water? Go vegan.
Want to cut air and water pollution? Go vegan.
Want to slow global warming? Go vegan.
Want to reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, obesity, and cancer? Go vegan.
There is no absolutely single personal change that the average person can make that has a better impact on the environment than going vegan.
~Dan Cudahy

Honey is not vegan. It is an animal product, it came from the inside of an animal that produced it, not for you to sweeten your tea, but for a baby bee to live and grow on. Using honey or products made with beeswax are not on the vegan menu.

What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

~Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived.

How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?

It is certainly not lions and wolves that we eat out of self-defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter harmless,tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us, creatures that, I swear, Nature appears to have produced for the sake of their beauty and grace.

But nothing abashed us, not the flower-like like tinting of the flesh, not the persuasiveness of the harmonious voice, not the cleanliness of their habits or the unusual intelligence that may be found in the poor wretches.

No, for the sake of a little flesh we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they are entitled by birth and being.~Plutarch

I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil.~Charles Mayo (founder of the Mayo Clinic)

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.~Leonardo Da Vinci

DO NOT BREED OR BUY WHILE SHELTER PETS DIE!

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