The second “must-have” ingredient when making raw desserts is raw cacao powder. A great source of antioxidants, it is said that raw cacao powder has a higher antioxidant content than blueberries and red wine (though don’t throw out that bottle–or at least give it to me). Full of essential minerals, this super versatile ingredient can be used in many recipes…
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Raw Vanilla Ice Cream
Good morning class. Please pull out your notebooks and a pen and let the raw fun begin! Today we are talking about an ingredient that is widely used among the raw world: young coconuts. Everything about this nutritionally dense food screams to be consumed. From its water (which in my opinion, no store bought coconut…
No-Bake Apple Cobbler
A good friend said to me recently, Relationships can be confusing and frustrating and all of those things, but that usually stems from some illusion that things are expected to be a certain way. When you relax and let the universe show you just what you need, it usually ends up okay. Over the past…
Raw Nut Milk
A funny thing happened to me on my way to the Olive Festival in Paso Robles this weekend… At one of the booths sat a psychic, offering tarot card, palm and energy readings. I, of course, being of curious nature have always wanted to cross that off my list of “Things to Finally Try” so I paid…
Raw Chocolate Cream Pies
There are a few words/phrases that you will *never* hear come out of my mouth. I’m not sure why I’m so opposed to them but I just find it rather foreign to bring myself to ever saying them. Take “LOL” for example. I simply cannot bring myself to texting this…ever. I don’t ever make a…
Asian Peanut Dressing
My beautiful friend Abby passed along a challenge to me to continue on a Blogger’s Relay about Hope. The point is to write about this little enigmatic word and pass it along. Now, I don’t typically do posts like this because well, I just don’t. But since this issue has been on my heart anyway, I thought…
Gluten-free Strawberry Shortcake
Gluten-Free Strawberry Shortcake The essence of samsara is this tendency that we have to seek pleasure and avoid pain, to seek security and avoid groundlessness, to seek comfort and avoid discomfort. The basic teaching is that that is how we keep ourselves miserable, unhappy, and stuck in a very small, limited view of reality. That…
