Raw Community Building...

Here is a FANTASTIC opportunity for anyone looking for a wonderful place to live in raw community in California. Our ex-housemates are seeking new tenants in a vibrant, loving raw household with magnificent views in Ojai, California…the current yummies who live there have put together a flyer detailing the whole deal, so I’ll let you go and read that if you’re interested – HERE – or pass it along to anyone else who you think might like to know… ;)

on November the 25th I had:

1 quart water
3 cups watermelon/orange juice
2.5 cups celeriac/spinach/sprouts/tatsoi/cucumber/carrot juice
1 custard apple
big bowl of black sapote blended with Reed Avocado, sprouts and 3 dried figs, swirled with goji berries
3 cups water
1 quart cucumber/sunflower greens/romaine/dill/parsley/carrot juice
1 quart water
bowl of black sapote blended with banana and dried figs, swirled with sliced dried apricots
3 cups water

a’ight, listen up Aussie kids, we’ve got an announcement for y’all today – we’ve just confirmed that we’ll be speaking in Brisbane rather soon. On Saturday December the 8th we’ll be speaking at Ahimsa House from 1-5pm. The event is being organised by the gracious Raw Pleasure and more details can be seen HERE – we hope to see you there if you’re in the area ;)

on November the 26th I had:

1 quart water
2 cups celeriac/cucumber/dill/parsley/sunflower greens/romaine/carrot juice
½ a big gorgeous sweet watermelon
little bowl of soaked gojis blended with pine nuts, with extra gojis swirled in for chewability – yummmmmmmmmmmmm
3 cups water
2 cups celeriac/cucumber/dill/parsley/sunflower greens/carrot juice
2 cups green smoothie: peach/mango/banana/spirulina/romaine/sprouts/sunflower greens, swirled with mulberry pieces for chewyness
2 cups water
bowl of raw cake filling: black sapote blended with avocado, dried figs, cinnamon and coconut flour
2 cups water

Have you been loving the Raw Summit 2? I HAVE :) I barely heard any of the first Raw Summit due to a fast-paced lifestyle at that time – now I’m listening in every day – yummy :) Some of my highlights so far were hearing Rod Rotondi of Leaf Cuisine speaking about how they don’t have ‘trash’ at the Leaf restaurants – just one pile for recycling and one for compost :O GO ROD :) I love it… It was great for me to hear Annie Jubb share her experience – I’d never heard her speak before at all and she seems to have a great deal of grounded, loving guidance to share. Go raw women speakers ;)
I was also really happy to hear Sergei Boutenko speak about the Boutenko family’s trek along the Pacific Coast Trail when he was about 13. That journey is described in Raw Family, the Boutenko’s book which helped me shift the track of my life 5 years ago…I’ve never heard any of them SPEAK about the trek though…it was SO beautiful to me to hear Sergei talk about how he started out thinking it would be desperately dull and packing his Gameboy, to absolutely revelling in the experience, eating 70% foraged foods and now sharing his foraging skills with others all over the world :) Hmmmm…I would love to do a pilgrimage at some point…
In the meantime, if you’re not tuned into the Summit yet, it’s totally free to listen in and you can sign up HERE: http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?af=672327

Still to air are Tim Van Orden, Ani Phyo, Mike Nash, Joel Fuhrman, Debbie Merrill and the good Drs. Clement – great line-up ;)

One love,
Angela. xxx

How blessed we are...

Have you been listening to the Raw Summit 2? I really enjoyed listening to Michael Beckwith yesterday – he seems like a really sweet man – my favourite part was when he described how he likes to communicate with people who may seem like they are at the start of their spiritual journey – he equated it to seeing them like a child who is learning to ride a bike, with training wheels – it’s unlikely one would jeer at such a child for not already using a standard bike – in the same way, it seems less-than-generous to judge those who may not seem to be at the same space as you/others on their spiritual path – give them love, support, encouragement and the whole is served with much more kindness…lovely :) If you have not yet signed up for the second Summit, you can do so HERE:

http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?af=672327

On November the 16th I had:

1 quart water
3 cups parsley/spinach/lettuce/romaine/carrot/sprouts/wild greens juice
3 cups banana/wild greens smoothie
big chunk of gorgeous watermelon
bowl of soaked dried apricots blended with hemp seeds
1 quart water
1 avo mushed with chopped cilantro, lime juice, Celtic sea salt and dulse, stuffed in nori with sliced tomatoes, sliced cucumber, sunflower greens and spinach
2 cups rooibos tea
1 quart water

I’ve been intending to share this picture/tip for quite some time now…well, here we are - a delightful little idea for eating watermelon, that I picked up from a woman in Asheville, NC… Rather than slicing a chunk of a melon off completely and exposing a large section of it to the air to oxidise, instead, cut a hole in the side of the melon, like a kind of hatch (see picture) and then use a spoon/ice cream scoop/similar to scoop out as much melon as you want at a time, before setting the ‘hatch’ back in place…it’s very clever and works really well I find…enjoy ;)

on November the 17th I had:

1.5 quarts water
half a medium sized watermelon
bowl of YUMMY green smoothie – mango/banana/sunflower greens/spinach/lettuce, swirled with goji berries for chewability ;)
bowl of mulberries blended with macadamia nuts
3 cups water
½ a papaya and 1 black sapote
big handful of cherries
2 cups water
avo mushed with chopped cilantro, lime juice, Celtic sea salt and dulse, stuffed in nori with sliced tomatoes, sliced cucumber, sunflower greens and spinach
chunk of pineapple
3 cups water

Guess WHAT? This is the 250th Post on this e-journal ;O WOW…what a journey we’ve come on…it was almost exactly a year ago now that I posted the first blog entry here – on November the 19th 2006, to be precise – you can check that first post out HERE if you weren’t around way back then ;)
I started this e-journal at the beginning of my 92-Day Juice Feast…I’d just arrived days before to Costa Rica, had no juicer and had never written a blog before, yet it all flowed into place and I came to LOVE this medium of communication – it feels like writing an email to the world, to me…and so, looooong after the Feasting ceased, the writing still continues…and here we are today, 250 posts in…mmmmm…thanks for sharing in this journey that has taken us from Costa Rica to Australia with countless stops on the way, from liquids to solids back-and-forth and through engagement announcements, visa traumas and all manner of yummy daily recipe run-downs in-between… ;) It’s been a pleasure…and here’s to another 250 posts of ext-RAW-dinary adventures ;)

One love,
Angela. xxx

Summit and Shortbread...

*Ding-ding*…it’s time for another ‘public service announcement’…hmmmmm...so, last week I was very excited to mention that the Raw Summit 2 was due to start soon – on Monday the 29th of October in fact - tomorrow…the second Summit features raw speakers like Ani Phyo, Sergei Boutenko, Brian Clement, Annie Jubb, Karen Knowler and others…weeeeeeeeeell…it’s been postponed :( The yummy people at the Summit have been inundated with emails regarding their current projects and they decided to push back the starting date, to get a handle on things first…sorry ;) It’s going to start now on November the 15th instead…you can still sign up to listen to all the talks for FREE though, by clicking HERE – enjoy ;)

On October the 27th I had:

2 cups water
2 cups warm water with lemon juice
juice of 2 oranges3 cups romaine/alfalfa/spinach/ginger/carrot/celery juice
bowl of chia seed soaked in blended persimmons and banana, swirled with maca, cinnamon and mulberries
2 cups water
1 tbsp raw ‘halva’ - hemp seed butter mixed with raw honey
3 tbsp bee pollen mixed with hemp seed
2 cups water
1lb longans
3 cups spinach/romaine/celery/carrot/apple juice
2 tbsp pine nuts with mulberries
2 cups water

WOW…I’m amazed how many of you wrote today asking what lucuma is, after I mentioned using it for the banana bread recipe…you mean you haven’t tried lucuma yet...??? ;O Wow…here’s something I wrote a few months back abt the golden powder…

"Lucuma has long been my favourite raw sweetener and recently I’ve been experimenting and making some amazing recipes with it… It’s made from a dried fruit from Peru, comes as a golden powder which is low glycemic and it tastes like SHORTBREAD…just divine…
Lucuma isn’t always easy to locate, but you can see more about it and order some to start playing with from the RawReform online store HERE…
Here is one recipe I made up recently that is the nearest thing to raw shortbread I’ve ever tasted and so simple – just three ingredients…yummmmmmmmm…

Raw Shortbread Recipe
Ground Almonds
Raw Honey
Lucuma Powder

Just combine those three ingredients together in whatever quantities you like to get the consistency and sweetness you love and ENJOY ;)"

One love,
Angela. xxx

Raw Summit 2 is on its way...

IT’S BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK :)
Raw Summit 2 is due to commence on Monday the 29th of October at 8PM EST. Yeeeeeeeeeeee-HAH :) Many thousands of people all over the world tuned in to the first Summit back in August, which featured myself, Mr. Monarch, The good Drs. Wolfe and Cousens, Mrs. Boutenko and other select lovelies... This time round, the all-new line-up features a mixture of raw food chefs, authors, speakers, restaurateurs and more…here are a few of the participants:

Sergei Boutenko, Ani Phyo, Joel Fuhrman, Robert O. Young, Rev. Michael Beckwith, Brain and Anna Maria Clement, Rod Rotondi, Annie Jubb, Tim Van Orden, Karen Knowler, Mike Nash…
Looks like a yummy selection…to read more about it and to sign up to hear the talks for FREE, click HERE. The Summit will work in the same way as last time – you can sign up and listen for free to each talk for 24 hours from the time it is first broadcast. You can also sign up for more ‘deluxe’ packages, which give you access to the calls as you like. ENJOY ;)
(BTW, if you didn’t hear the FIRST Raw Summit calls, or would like to hear them again, you can still get access to them through THIS LINK.)

On October the 20th I had:

1 quart water
3 cups Honeydew melon/apple juice
little bowl of persimmons blended with Amazon Bliss butter, swirled with goji berries
2 cups water
leftovers from pesto pizza last night, with some cherry tomatoes
3 cups water
1lb longans
a couple of pieces of flax cracker with sunflower greens
2 apples
1 papaya
1 quart water

Awwwwww, so SWEET...RawFoodRealWorld was one of the sites I passed on the ‘Inspirational Blogger’ award to last week. Yumsters Heidi and Justin Ohlander, who run the site, then decided to pass on the award in their own particular way. They wrote a list of people they would love to see START writing a raw food blog…NICE :) To see who they’d love to see blogging and why, you can see this post on their site, HERE...

May all blessings be yours,
One love,
Angela. xxx