Eat for Spring; Simple and Green

Today's Food:

Early Breakfast: (after a great 5 mile run):
Raw cacao elixir with Thai Coconut water and meat, water, cacao powder and nibs, 1 banana, 1 tablespoon almond butter, Marine Phytoplankton (superfood) and a shot of agave

32 ounces lemon water throughout the day

Brunch:
Non-raw at 'Le Pain Quotidien'; great food and conversation with a friend:
Vegan split pea soup w/ a piece of organic French bagette; with organic white chocolate spread, organic apricot and four fruit spreads
"flute" of nutted raisin bread with spreads and a little organic butter
Tartin (open sandwich on organic wheat bread) with black bean hummus, with slices of avocado and spicy tahini dresssing; with a little mescalin salad

Dinner:
raw pate: soaked sunflower seeds, soaked sundried tomatoes, dulse, olive oil, water, Herbamare, Herbs de Provence and nutritional yeast (in a food processor) with purple cabbage and carrots

Dessert:
Organic Nectars vanilla fudge raw ice cream

I just think these two guys, Jonsi and Alex, and the way they interact with one another and create raw, is just adorable. I especially appreciate Jonsi licking his fingers throughout! The link was once again sent by the lovely Angela Stokes-Monarch in today's Raw Refrom blog
http://www.rawreform.com/index.php

You MUST check out Jonsi and Alex's recipes and UTube videos for "Macadamia Monster Mash," and "Raw Strawberry Pie." These are YUMMY!!! Click Below:
http://jonsiandalex.com/recipes

Is there a favorite recipe you'd like to share with our readers? As Spring unfolds, see how you can tap into simplifying your foods and really tasting green. Take a bunch of asparagus and simply marinate them in Bragg's Amino Acids for one day. Then drizzle a little olive oil and sea salt over them (you can sprinkle a little nutritional yeast as well). See what it's like to make an avocado-spinach soup in your blender; you can add some miso paste (it is not raw but fermented; called a "living" food, due to its powerful nutrients and medicinal properties), a splash of olive oil and a couple of cloves of garlic. Add water slowly to see how thick you want it. One of my favorite salads is tossed endive and radicchio with slices of avocado, drizzled with olive oil and sea salt. Notice how only a few ingredients figure into these recipes? If you keep it simple, you get to really tasted the ingredients.
What one food are you ready to let go of this week?
What are you looking to bring into your raw lifestyle?

Raw Recipes are Inspirational - Free Recipe Book

Today's Creations:
No Breakfast

28 ounces of nettle water infusion (nettle is an "adaptogen" herb that strengthens and fortifies the entire body)
25 ounces of fresh Thai Coconut water
Together, these served as my breakfast and throughout the day

Lunch:
An Amazing creation, inspired by Bryan Au's recipe 'Thai Coconut Ginger Rice with Mango and Avocado', included in the "Profoundly Raw Recipes" E-book.
Meat of 1 fresh Thai coconut, chopped
1 avocado, chopped
1/2 cup frozen mango, chopped
Chunk of Daikon, chopped
1 small golden delicious apple, chopped
sea salt, dulse flakes, cayenne, lemon peel shake, nutritional yeast
All mixed together and left to sit out for awhile - Truly Amazing!!!!!

Dinner:
Salad with romaine, cabbage, carrot, cuke, sprouts, mushrooms with olive oil, dulse, nutritional yeast and sea salt



Yesterday, in Angela Stokes-Monarch's Raw Reform blog, she offered the most luscious raw recipe book with recipes by some top raw chefs and counselors. It's called "Profoundly Raw Recipes," and is just so beautiful that I can even feel its energy through the computer! And, it's an absolutely free download that takes a matter of seconds and it's yours!!! I've included the link below. By the way, if you want to be inspired, sign up for Angela's blog; I love reading what she eats and all the wonderful and inspirational things she offers the world.
http://www.therawfoodworld.com/blog/?page_id=732 Click here to receive the free E-Book "Proufoundly Raw Recipes."

So, Bryan Au, who wrote the book, "Raw in Ten Minutes," contributed a fabulous recipe (see my lunch above). I took some of his ingredients and combined some of mine. No matter what you have or don't have at home, you can modify a recipe to have it be wonderful; you never know what ingredients you'll end up adding. I was missing some of what was in Bryan's recipe, and modified some other ingredients.
I have to say, this looked like a four-star creation; so beautiful with the different colors and textures, and extremely filling in a nourishing way. So, enjoy "Profoundly Raw Recipes!" Please write in and tell me which ones you love.