The Live Green Smoothie Diet

Summer is waning quickly and I woke this morning with a craving for a taste of July in a glass, and this certainly did the trick! It’s sweet, mellow, creamy, and refreshing all at once, and rich with revitalizing nutrients. Plus, a blenderful contains around 20% of an adult’s recommended intake of calcium. Paired with fresh [...]

MAKE THIS RECIPE! Not only is it delicious and a quick-and-easy portion-for-one-person amount, but it also offers a great lesson in how simple grocery-store-bought living ingredients can be wonderfully transformed by the addition of one slightly more exotic ingredient, in this case – raw almond butter. This recipe makes one delicious Salad Sandwich, which you [...]

If you’ve got a sweet tooth, this gooey topping may be just the cure! Pour it over fresh raw cacao ice cream for a decadent treat, or serve over sliced fruit for breakfast or afternoon snack. For those of you who enjoy making raw dehydrated pancakes, this would be a perfect syrup to jazz them [...]

  Unlike many recipes for savory or “cheesy” raw vegan dips and spreads, this recipe has no cashews. And unlike most hummus recipes, it has no sesame seeds, and no sprouting or soaking of nuts is required at all. All you need here are some almonds, walnuts, raw spinach and tomatoes, and a few other [...]

Another delicious Live Green Smoothie with orange blossom water! If you don’t have any in your kitchen cabinet yet, be sure you pick some up. It adds an intoxicatingly aromatic, exotic quality to the simplest of ingredients. After having and LGS with orange blossom water, you’re gonna start wondering why in the world you ever [...]

A refreshing and versatile salad, side dish, or main dish with a creamy “mayonnaise” dressing, this twist on the traditional Waldorf is made not with apples, but with crisp pear and tender baby zucchini. You can serve this confidently to your non-raw friends and family without saying a word… it’s definitely an easy-on-the-taste-buds dish that [...]

Am happy to announce a re-organization of site content using streamlined Categories and better use of Tags, so that visitors can more easily find content that interests them.  The Tags feature (in the middle-column sidebar, you click on “Tags” and it will show you those options) will allow browsing recipes and other posts by ingredients [...]

Beautiful fruit, beautiful colors, exquisite juiciness, the exotic aroma and flavors of honey, orange blossom, and rose water. A big batch of fruit salad just begging to be shared with others. Make this. Enjoy. Bask in its festive loveliness. The Mediterranean…sunshine…the sweetness of life. What could be better? pNote: You need to be logged in [...]

LGS Daily Recipe: Rich White Chocolate-Pecan Shake or Ice Cream (a raw vegan recipe) http://budurl.com/4j3n # LGS Daily Recipe: Crunchy Chocolate Chip-Goji Berry Nut Balls http://budurl.com/g72t # LGS Daily Recipe: Exquisite Summer Harvest, a September Salad Plate To Knock Your Taste Buds Outa the Ballpark! http://budurl.com/t4nx # LGS Daily Recipe: Super-Refreshing Late-Summer Tomato Smoothie: A [...]

  This recipe for Cream of Tomato Soup is truly creamy, and tastes like a simple essence of tomato… you’d never know it didn’t have milk in it by the flavor. It’s made with fresh almond milk, and even with no almond milk in the house, it was easily finished, warm, and ready for eating [...]