If you’re a lover of savory fruit salads, here’s a good one, sweet with juicy pineapple, chewy with finely chopped kale, and pungent with both garlic and fresh ginger. A bit of fresh orange juice… and raw macadamia nuts to make a dense, almost mayonnaise-texture dressing… and this becomes an extremely versatile dish.

You can eat this straight, as a salad. You can use this as a salad sandwich filling. It makes a wonderful salsa-like dip for raw crackers or organic tortilla chips. And would be a colorful and unique side dish for a buffet or raw pot luck!

Not the best salad to munch before going out dancing, though.

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I happened to catch a bit of the Dr. Oz show earlier this week and saw him speaking on the subject of the list of foods he has assigned to his “Anti-Cancer Diet“, and he was highlighting three foods I’ve mentioned more than once here on the Live Green Smoothie Diet site as being well-known to be anti-cancer foods: turmeric, cabbage, and broccoli.

These three seemed like no-brainer candidates for Mono-Smoothies… and so here they are!

I decided to make a point of categorizing the foods on my site that fit into Dr. Oz’s program, so I created two new website categories: “Dr. Oz” and “Anti-Cancer Diet”, so check them out over the next few weeks after I go through all the recipes on my site to file them under those two new categories.

Also, funny coincidence… I see that on the main page for Dr. Oz’s Anti-Cancer Diet he has chosen to use the exact same purchased stock photo of fresh fruit and vedge that graces my own main page! Great minds thinking alike… obviously.

Anti-Cancer Diet TURMERIC Mono-Smoothie

Anti-Cancer Diet SAVOY CABBAGE Mono-Smoothie

Anti-Cancer Diet BROCCOLI Mono-Smoothie

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Mono-Smoothies simply rawk! I haven’t been so excited about something related to food since the advent of Live Green Smoothies. They are easy, cheap, fast… and did I say cheap? For anyone who is on a tight budget and still wants to eat maximally healthy, adding some Mono-Smoothies every day will definitely make a difference!

It just takes a single type of fresh, raw fruit, vegetable, greens, herb, or root… paired with some raw honey and spring water, you’ve got a simple, light, delicious smoothie filled with living enzymes and rich, undenatured nutrients. Drink a few of those every day and you’ll be high on some great energy!

Here’s a set of four Mono-Smoothie recipes made with Pineapple, Red Pepper, Pumpkin, and Mint.

And here’s another set of four Mono-Smoothie recipes, these made with Meyer Lemon, Pear, Fresh Dill, and Fresh Cilantro.

Fresh Strawberry Mono-Smoothie

Zucchini Mono-Smoothie

(Great flavored with Vanilla, Raw Chocolate, Orange Blossom Water, Rose Water, or Elderflower Water!)

Ginger Mono-Smoothie

Kiwi Mono-Smoothie

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A great thing about Mono-Smoothies is that, as long as you have at least ONE type of fresh fruit, vegetable, or leafy greens in the house… plus a bit of raw honey (or even dates… medjool dates would make brilliant natural sweeteners)… you can crank out a 32-oz (3-quart) batch of Live Smoothies. Take it with you on-the-go, start your day with it, or even drink it out of a lovely cocktail glass for an evening refresher… and it doesn’t have to be complex in the least.

Fresh herbs make great Mono-Smoothies, and no doubt offer various naturally medicinal benefits depending on which herbs you select.

Check out these four new Mono-Smoothie recipes:

Meyer Lemon Mono-Smoothie

(Made with whole fruit, not juice!)

Fresh Pear Mono-Smoothie

Fresh Dill Mono-Smoothie

(Dill…? Yep… :D)

Fresh CILANTRO Mono-Smoothie

(Like a refreshing, aromatic cocktail… and sweet!)

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These Mono-Smoothies are a revelation, and something I’ll be drilling into my kids over the next year, as they have determined that this is the year which they want to learn all about how to navigate the kitchen and feed themselves (and their prospective guests in the future) under the auspices of their own acquired knowledge.

Live Green Smoothies and raw smoothies may be super-easy, but these Mono-Smoothies are in a whole new category of easy! Complete and utter no-brainers.

And they are DELICIOUS… light, sweetly refreshing, and just the very essence of freshness!

And Not Only Are They Both Delicious & Easy… They’re Cheap, Too!

And for anyone who has a concern about the cost of radically jacking up the raw and living fruits, vedgies, and greens in their diet, being able to make use of this easy smoothie-making technique will be a budget-saver!

I’m introducing 4 Mono-Smoothie recipes here, and I have 4 more to follow… and I will be sharing boatloads in the coming days so that my readers and subscribers truly gain an understanding of how valuable and useable the Mono-Smoothie concept is.

What do you need to make a Mono-Smoothie?

To make a Mono-Smoothie, you need a single kind of fruit, vegetable, or green (fresh and uncooked should go without saying…), some raw honey, spring water, and ice (ice is optional, according to your preference).

If you don’t want to use raw honey, that’s your business — do what works for you. But I’m an advocate of raw honey and all things made by bees. It is not “just another sugar” (can’t in any way compare with white sugar in my opinion, sorry).

It is rich with living enzymes, is a natural anti-inflammatory agent (read up on its helpful effects for people with asthma and arthritis), and has been famed for ages for its health-promoting, longevity-enhancing, and various healing properties. It is also included in a list within the TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) paradigm of foods that are recommended, as a part of “food therapy”, for diminishing candida-causing yeast and mold in the body.

I use raw honey generously. You use it according to your own taste and health requirements.

Pineapple Mono-Smoothie

Red Pepper Mono-Smoothie

Pumpkin Mono-Smoothie

Mint Mono-Smoothie

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Just a few more days to take advantage of my

“Jack Up The Raw Coaching” for just $99!

You can sign up here right now.

Because several people have expressed interest in my coaching this week, and I’d love for them to get the same value I’ve been offering since last fall, I decided to extend my $99 Jack Up The Raw Coaching offer one more week, through this Thursday.

Starting this Friday, February 26, my 6-week, one-on-one, personal, individualized coaching program will increase to $150…so sign up now to take advantage of this extreme savings!

At just $99, my 6-week Jack Up The Raw Coaching program, it’s my opinion that this offer is a complete and utter no-brainer for anyone who wants some completely personalized attention to help sort out the right approach to increase the use of raw and living foods in a way that works for *you*.

What do you get for that $99?

• Access to all my LGS Daily Recipes for the duration of the program, which officially lasts 6 weeks, but in practice may take longer.
• An initial 1-hr intake phone consult (originally intended for 45 minutes, but it usually goes over an hour in order to address each client’s initial concerns).
• A follow-up 30-45 minute phone session the following week or so (as can be mutually scheduled).
• Four subsequent 15-20 follow-up phone chats, roughly a week or so apart.
• And unlimited email support during that time.

What do I provide during that time?

• A simple framework of guiding principles for increasing the raw and living foods in your diet in a way that’s practical and enjoyable.
• Some suggested tools and recipe ideas, and an explanation of how to use them, and in a way that’s unique for *you*. Aside from a basic structure of principles that form the basis of my Jack Up The Raw approach to living food, this is all about what *you* need and what *you* want.
• My help and research assistance in puzzling out any unique personal health & diet challenges you may have. For example, I have clients with stubborn weight loss challenges, and some with serious health concerns that medical practitioners in both traditional and alternative fields have been unable to resolve. I offer my assistance in researching different approaches or the use of specific foods and herbs to help turn these conditions around.

I am not a nutritionist or a medical profession, but I am a good sleuth and a natural intuitive who may be able to help you uncover some information or possibilities you have not yet identified. You, however, are at the helm of your own choices, always, whether you make them on your own or bring them back to your medical professionals for advisement. I’m just a short-term companion on your journey… a helper who’s delighted to be of service, however I can.

So, if you’ve been eyeing this program… now’s the time to give it a go, because the cost is about to go up 50%.

Even at $150, it will be a great value.

But while it’s still at $99…? Total no-brainer!

Sign up here right now…

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In clarifying my plans and intentions for this year and beyond, I’ve decided that I will be committing to the continuation of my LGS Daily Recipe online magazine only through January 8, 2011, and will then take my creative focus with respect to raw and living foods into a new direction.

What Lies Ahead:

During the remaining winter months, I’ll continue to focus on generating more warming dishes… Warm Live Soups, Warm “Pasta” dishes, and other dishes that are comforting, grounding, and give a sense of heat and comfort.

Also, likely as spring rolls around, I’ll be getting my dehydrator out of storage and will start pioneering raw, living, dehydrated, sprouted flatbreads, chips, cookies, and such… without flax seed. For whatever reason, I just abhor the taste of flax seed, which has basically eliminated my ability to easily incorporate crunchy and “bready” dehydrated goodies into my lifestyle. And without that option, I know I will never be able to remain 100% raw for any significant length of time. I’m very excited to explore all ways of making utterly delicious raw, living “bread substitutes” this year! I think there will be many who will appreciate those recipes, as well…

Also, although I’ve stayed away from the “blended cashew cheezecake”-type recipes, I *will* be introducing all sorts of dairy-substitute recipes as the year goes on. And I will also be adding more in the way of desserts, cookies, frozen treats… and of course raw chocolate and creamy vanilla specialities.

370 more recipes… It’s a journey I’m excited to take with you.

What’s So Unique About My Recipes…

When I first began exploring the raw & living foods lifestyle, nearly 5 years ago, I bought a bevy of raw food cookbooks and dug passionately into learning how to feed myself within this new and sometimes wonderfully strange food culture. But what I quickly found — and have consistently found ever since — is that, if I wanted to eat something besides whole fruit, a green salad, or a Live Green Smoothie… there wasn’t much in the way of truly useable recipes, at least for my tastes.

The predominance of recipes I encountered (and still come across…) are along the lines of “soak for 2 days, sprout for 3, dehydrate for 2 more…”. Or they’re heavy on cashews and other whipped nuts, trying to fake out non-raw-vegan taste buds to approximate various dairy dishes (that’s nice, but I can’t live on that). Or they’re desserts, desserts, desserts…

I appreciate all of these things, absolutely. But the bottom line is, when it’s 8:00 pm and I’m hungry, I want to know what I can do right now to feed myself.. not in 3-7 days. And I want to know how to feed myself truly flavorful, satisfying, savory, wonderful dishes using a rich array of produce and other various bits & pieces of superfoods and staples in my kitchen. I want variety. I want options. I want to understand how to make an assortment of dishes and feasts using whatever I have on hand, a la the “cuisine bonne femme” that a French homemaker uses when she enters her kitchen to spontaneously prepare everyday feasts for her family, using whatever was fresh that day at the market… or whatever remains in her cupboard when the pickings are slim!

I want foods that aren’t necessarily whipped and mushed in my blender and food processor — I want foods I can eat with a fork, for crying out loud. And I don’t need desserts upon desserts upon desserts.

So, I set about contributing my own creativity to this tremendously interesting endeavor of pioneering a new food culture around raw and living foods! These are real recipes for real people, for people with meat-eating taste buds… mainstreamers… not just for those with more esoteric “raw” or rarified vegan sensibilities!

“Why do you charge for your recipes? You have so much competition, you know…”

I’ve received so much support for my work, and have been tremendously grateful for it! To create, photograph, and publish one new, original recipe every single day isn’t something you can pull together as an after-thought in 15 minutes. Every recipe generally takes at least one hour to produce & publish… and 2-3 hours for the whole effort has not been uncommon. Because it takes a lot of time, it is always heart-warming to receive feedback from those who appreciate the effort and enjoy the recipes.

I have, also, consistently heard comments and questions such as “Why should I have to pay $5 to see your recipes? The Internet is full of raw recipes… You have a lot of competition, you know!” So I thought I’d take the time to address that question directly.

Over centuries, our cooked-food culture has generated an untold number of cookbooks, magazines, chefs, and cooking shows… and still new ones pop up everyday. If you’re really into the alchemical magic of food and the joy of cooking, you don’t complain about the cost of a new book or magazine… you peruse the pages and gleen inspiration whilst salivating over every page. There’s still always the prospect of a new recipe you never thought of, or a combination of ingredients that you never heard of.

So when I hear people imply that this relatively new culture of raw foods has somehow already been glutted with creativity, I simply cannot wrap my mind around it. To those people, I have to ask: do you walk into Barnes & Noble and lament that books should now all be free because all the creativity in the world has finally been exhausted? Or are you excited to find a new creative voice that might enhance your day in some small (or not-so-small) way?

Seems to me that just a few bucks a month is a pittance to support a creative venture you value. If you don’t value it… just move on, but honestly… quit your bellyachin’. There, I’ve said it.

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These Recipes Aren’t Just For You… They’re For Me, Too!

Through my LGS Daily Recipe venture, I’m creating the foods I desire to feed myself and my own family, as well as for others. I’m seeking to compile a library of highly-useable-in-the-home-every-day recipes which I wish already existed… a piece of new food culture that adds to the options that will enrich my own life for the rest of my days. And hopefully along the way, I’m revealing some new ways to prepare food to those who are following along with me.

Hope you’ll stick around and take this journey with me!

With this one recipe you have a few options — with or without greens, super-lemony or just mild, and dessertly sweet or just sweetly average. Personally, I’m partial to With Greens, Super-Lemony, and Quite Sweet to off-set the lemon… but you pick your fave combo!

Any way you do it up, tho, it’s a great combination. Super way to take advantage of the yummy pineapples and Meyer lemons currently overflowing the grocery bins!

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If you’re not a drinker, no worries… this is a GREAT combination to enjoy without alcohol! Just wonderful!

There is no tangerine in this delicious martini cocktail, but it tastes like pure tangerine. Made of fresh cantaloupe juice with Meyer lemons and fresh orange juice, this cocktail does not taste like cantaloupe in the least! Some kind of mysterious taste alchemy occurs… and it is one of the prettiest drinks of any kind I have ever seen.

Very delicate. Don’t overdo the vodka. Great for a party. Have enough on hand for a second batch.

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You’ll be so surprised how this tastes… no one would ever suspect that there’s fresh, raw zucchini in it! Talk about a reason to over-plant your garden with squash this year!

You can even make this rich, creamy smoothie utterly non-fat… or luscious-it-up with a bit of raw cacao butter, which really makes a fabulous difference in taste.

What a great, healthy way to get your chocolate fix!

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