Making Raw Pies

Chocolate Almond Buttercup Mousse Pie (recipe created by Lori Trezza and Me)

Strawberry Cream Pie (recipe from Alex and Jonji's video - posted on my blog; pie made by Lori Trezza and Me). More about this later in T.H.E. blog!...

Friday's Food:

Breakfast:

Mango Smoothie with frozen mango and banana, water, cacao nibs, agave, Marine Phytoplankton

Snack:

Bag of Living Nutz Almond Bliss

Lunch: (non-raw at conference up at Yale)

2 half wraps: hummus, veges and a small amount of cheese; grilled veges and a small amount of cheese

Dinner:

Salad with romaine, daikon, pea shoot sprouts, carrot, 1/2 avocado with dulse, nutritional yeast, olive oil and sea salt

Foods Alive Italian crackers

Nighttime Gathering Raw Elixirs: with Thai coconut, water, frozen banana, cacao powder and nibs, vanilla bean, raw crunchy almond butter, psyllium seed powder and agave

Saturday's Food:

Breakfast:

Small amount of leftover salad

10 ounce glass of leftover cacao elixir

Lunch:

Bag of Living Nutz Cheesy Almonds

Afternoon Delight:

Making Raw Pies with Lori. I blogged about Lori a couple of weeks ago. She is my dear friend, who has been reading my blog, and on her own is getting super turned on to the world of raw. She made raw brownies a couple of weeks ago; I described how delicious they were. Saturday, we went to a lecture on calcium, and then came back and co-created raw pies together. The first is the Strawberry Cream Pie that inspired me the minute I watched Alex and Jonji's video and posted it here on T.H.E. Blog! I have to tell you, I have made many raw pies, cheffed and taught classes, and this was by far the best raw pie crust I have EVER eaten! It tastes like raw cookie dough! For the recipe, you'll have to scroll back through my older posts and watch the video. So, Lori and I licked the batter on that one, and since we had an extra crust made, we made up a raw chocolate mousse pie.

Crust: From Alex and Jonji's video

Filling (ours):

Blended in Vitamix: 1 Thai coconut, water and meat; 3 small avocados, cacao powder and nibs to taste (for more chocolatey and chip-like, add more) agave to taste, vanilla bean, a scooper-ful of psyllium seed powder

Fill the crust with the mouse, then line the rim of the crust with raw crunchy almond butter

Garnish with fresh mint leaves

We licked the batter on that one, too!

Dinner:

salad with romaine, daikon, carrot, pea shoot sprouts, 1/2 avocado with dulse, nutritional yeast, olive oil and sea salt

Dessert:

3 rolled dates in coconut

Today's Food:

32 ounces lemon water

Mother's Day Brunch at The Lotos Club, NYC (non-raw): Beautiful buffet of exquisitely prepared foods:

Hearts of palm and artichoke salad

Green and White asparagus with a creamy pimento dressing

Farro (a nutty grain) with pear and herbs

Many small chunks of delicious cheeses: Roquefort, Camembert and Reggiano with sliced fig and date

Whole Grain rolls with olive oil

Frisee salad with creamy balsamic dressing

And a little smoked trout

Desserts:

White chocolate cup filled with creamy dark chocolate

dusted dark and white cocoa almonds

small dark chocolate cup filled with whipped cream

mixed berries with Zabalione sauce

12 ounces water

Dinner:

salad with romaine, carrot, daikon, pea shot sprouts, 1/2 avocado with dulse, nutritional yeast, olive oil and sea salt

Dessert:

3 rolled dates in coconut

I want to offer gratitude to all women all over; those who have mothered children of their own; those who have mothered others' children; the ones who mother their beautiful animals; those who mother their friends; the women who model mothering for their patients who never received proper mothering; and all of the women who take time to mother themselves properly.

I also want to acknowledge those beautiful men who fill absent-mother roles with their own special mothering.

And to everyone who has come from a mother (all of us), let's acknowledge our mothers for giving life to us and allowing us all to be here now.

Finally, for all those mothers who have transitioned from life this year, we miss you and love you.

Happy Mother's Day!