Redolent with garlic and slightly sweet with a bit of raw honey, with the antipasto flavorings of red peper and black olives, this salad will improve wonderfully if allowed to marinated. Great for a raw pot luck or a festive dinner table, and as an explosively flavorful filler for Salad Sandwiches!

This is the salad to make if you’ve been feeling physically (and spiritually) sluggish of late. It will zap your immune system into gear (hellooo… garlic!), get everything moving again (hellooo… kale!), and make you feel like you’re back in the game!

A Word On Olives

For this recipe, definitely use black olives, as they are black because they were ripe when picked, and maximally filled with nutrients. However don’t use regular store-bought black olives for this, as delicious as many of them may be around your grocery store’s “olive bar”. Even my faves, Kalamata olives (helloo… I’m Greek) have usually been cured using caustic white salt and cooked vinegar.

Instead, take the time to find a source for sun-cured olives — they are not hard to find on the Internet, and well worth the effort because olives are certainly one of the finest wonder-foods on the planet. Then, in your own kitchen, you can control what is added to the marinade for your olives — add quality cold-pressed olive oil, a great natural salt (everyone should know by now that I favor “himmy” salt), and a natural, unpasteurized vinegar, such as raw apple cider vinegar.

Why is it important not to use olives that have been cured with or marinated in white salt and pasteurized vinegars? Because they are caustic and acidifying to your system, while the natural, raw and un-denatured varieties have demonstrated healthful properties.

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This is definitely the perfect Lemon Drop — quick-to-make, all-raw ingredients (except the vodka, of course…), and absolutely delish!

My Christmas Wish for this elegantly simple recipe is that you pass it around, make it for your friends and family this holiday season, and start incorporating it into your cocktail culture. And if you mention along the way where you came by the recipe… I would be most appreciative!

And if you want an even better Lemon-Drop… better than perfect… check out my Live-Green Lemon Drop Martini. It’s the Ultimate, because there is just nothing as zingingly refreshing and authentically reviving as an all-juice raw cocktail!

Recipe for: The Perfect Lemon-Drop Martini

My Christmas Present To The Cocktail Crowd

Use the nicest raw honey you can get your hands on… the more delicately flavored, the better!

• 1 organic lemon
• 1-1/2 cups citron vodka
• 2 tablespoons raw honey
• 2 cups ice

Juice the lemon whole, peel and all (which is why it’s important that is be organic). One lemon will yield about 1/4 cup fresh juice, and it will be opaque and creamy, because the whole-fruit juicing captures all the oils and phytonutrients in the pith and peel!

Add the juice, vodka, raw honey, and ice to the blender, and blend til smooth. Pour out into glasses, garnish with lemon if you’d like, and ENJOY!

Makes two generously poured cocktails.

My son’s evaluation of this Live Green Smoothie: “You don’t even taste all the greens… it’s so goood!”

Lately I’ve been assembling some good Kale recipes for the Newbie Set, and today I wanted to create one with significantly more fresh greens, with the idea that it might be better for someone who’s already been around the LGS world for awhile. However… this one ended up so light, creamy, and easy-on-the-palate, most newbs will enjoy this, as well!

There are around 2-1/2 cups of fresh greens in this smoothie, in which I used turnip greens and curly-leafed kale. It’s the first time I’ve used turnip greens, and am impressed with how delicate they are!

Hemp seeds add a delicate milky quality — with lots of valuable protein and essential fatty acids — and orange blossom water gives a fragrant, almost candy-like, flavor.

If you’re feeling blue, make this LGS and you’ll be feeling vibrantly back in the swing of things in no time!

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This is the drink my kids came home to this evening after working late into today’s snowstorm… and they drank the whole batch so quickly, there was barely a glass left for their thirsty mum!

You will swear this creamy, sweet, and mild Live Green Smoothie has milk in it. It’s the hemp seeds — it’s what they do. You can’t taste the kale - it’s more like a refreshing vanilla shake!

If I had some more bananas, I’d make another batch post haste to help me ride out the storm!

Aaaahhh… the magic of fresh greens.

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Lately I’ve had quite a number of people mention interest in (and a slight bit of intimidation of) the Noble Kale, so I’ve put together another Live Green Smoothie with kale that’s kind of beginners.

Kale and pear… simple enough… it’s just the percentages that make the difference. In my Blendtec blender, this simple recipe whips up to a creamy, light, sweet, refreshing concoction and I imagine even kids would slurp down with glee.

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So, you’re one of the many, new to Live Green Smoothies, who are intimidated by kale? No worries… I understand. So I’ve put together this delicious recipe to help launch your love affair with this richly mineralized, gorgeously dark-green leaf that is beloved by so many raw food enthusiasts!

Sweet, luscious, refreshing… and it goes down far easier than the most ice-cold glass of spring water! Pick up a mango and some red grapes to make this simple LGS. After you drink a quart, you’re sure to feel its enlivening effects, and experience first-hand why it’s such a potent fave of so many.

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Simple. Succulent. Gorgeous. Quick. Slightly exotic. My favorite combos.

You can make this fresh fruit salad in a jiffy, and if you don’t have pineapple or enough mangos on hand to make the fruit cup, you can use a single ripe mango to make the delicious Mango-Orange Blossom Dressing to put over any fruit you have in your kitchen!

Any… no matter what you pour it over, it’s going to be a real treat!

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Lovely smoothie to look at… refreshing to drink. It’s sweet, but not like a dessert, with a bit of limey tang and a very slight savory undertone of red onion and olive oil. Despite the savory ingredients, this Live Green Smoothie is not exotic — even a child would like it.

And such a lovely green… everyone will be asking you what ingredients are in this one when they see you walking around with your Live Green Smoothie water bottle.

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These look like ordinary nuts, but I assure they are not. This unique recipe coats your favorite nuts in a sweetly savory combination of raw honey, cacao butter, garlic, cumin, and maca, calling up the taste sensation of authentic mexican mole seasonings, tho’ I left out cacao powder to keep them lighter in flavor.

Munch on these by themselves, or add them to salads, Salad Sandwiches, and Warm Live Soups. But be sure to include some the next time you entertain. They are festive and addictive!

And satisfies that desire for crunch and something salty in a wonderful healthy way. Plus… you get the potent adaptogenic health benefits of maca powder without being bothered by maca’s distinctive pungent flavor. An utterly win-win treat!

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Two exotic flavors combine luxuriously into a fragrant concoction… for romance, rejuvenation, and longevity. Take your pick for what you need: A whole-food raw, Live Green Smoothie whipped up quickly in your blender, a virgin superfood cocktail made with fresh juice and the healthful power of goji berries… or a full-on cocktail to “get your intox and your detox on at the same time”.

The Martini: One of my new faves. So pretty, so exotic… like drinking perfume, but refreshing and not cloying. Lovely.

The Virgin Cocktail: A treat for non-drinkers.

The Live Green Smoothie: Exquisite. Creamy. Aromatic. A new favorite. Make this one, for sure!

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