This recipe is a follow-up to my Shamrock Shake/Minty Smoothie recipe. When I made it last week I thought to myself- “With a little tweaking, this could become a fabulous mint chocolate chip ice cream!” So tweak I did! And after just two trials (which the family “suffered” through) I hit upon a version I really like. This is more soft-serve consistency than hard ice cream, but the flavor...
A perfect holiday treat! The pepperminty coolness of these pretty little coconut balls make them a wonderful party contribution or holiday gift. This recipe is a simpler version of a recipe in my raw book. The raw recipe begins with a whole fresh coconut. This one uses dried flaked or shredded coconut. Simple, beautiful and tasty- just what we need at the holidays!
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You’ve probably heard something about chia seeds in the past few years and may even be convinced they’d be a wonderful addition to your diet, but you may not have found very many easy or tasty applications for them. They’re a funny little seed (really beautiful if you look at them really closely) and they form a mucilaginous gel when water is applied to them (even more so than flax seed). When...
As I’ve worked on updates and revisions on my raw book, I’ve gotten excited about trying some of the recipes that I haven’t made in a while. One was my raw nut-based cheesecake, but when I went to our local co-op and saw the price of macadamias I quickly gave up that idea! It would have cost over six dollars just for the nuts for the filling, say nothing about any other of the ingredients.
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These tasty little treats are sweet, dark, rich and oily- as I remember my mom’s brownies to be when I was a kid. But it’s all the pleasure, none of the guilt with these raw, fruit and nut-based brownies. Besides being incredibly tasty, they are rich in good oils and calcium! Definitely the best of both worlds in this case.
I always think it is a shame to hear how most people assume that healthy food...