The Live Green Smoothie Diet

This very light-tasting, utterly non-fat “blended salad” Live Green Smoothie recipe is an excellent template to use as a base for… whatever variations you can cook up in your own kitchen. The only fruits in the smoothie are tomatoes and cucumber, which of course we tend to classify as vedge in our cuisine. These are [...]

Serious beta-carotene blast here, with fresh strawberries and rose water adding fragrance, and a bit of banana added for creaminess Use yellow, orange, or red sweet peppers, and substitute raspberries if you’d like. Imagine this with red sweet pepper and raspberry with rose water… mmmmm. Add greens to this one… I left them out just [...]

Usually “creamy stuff” has fat in it. But when you take these two miraculous non-fat creamifiers — fresh corn off the cob and raw zucchini — you can turn a “regular” smoothie concept (or ice cream) into something with great mouth-feel, with none of the fat. And most apple smoothies are rather plan and tend [...]

Now here’s a hot-weather beverage that could really take off. It has the light, truly refreshing quality of iced tea, with the fresh basil having an almost minty accent. Fresh, raw zucchini provides a light, tasteless backdrop for the basil and red grapes for sweetness. (If you have organic zucchini, make with the skins on [...]

Lovely, velvety, with a romantic rosy blush… and you hardly need romance happening to enjoy it. I poured a couple out to enjoy with my father, who liked it very much. By now, if you’ve been following me for any length of time, surely you have some rose water in your cabinet that desires to [...]

This low-fat dressing is made rich and creamy with… fresh corn off the cob! You’d never know. In addition, while one of the things I have never liked about most fruity vinaigrette salad dressings is that they are too tart, and certainly destroy the ability to enjoy a glass of wine with your salad (which [...]

If the last recipe I posted, an amazingly juicy & satisfying ”meat substitute” out of Mushrooms, is the “Meat” in your living-foods equation, this dish is the “potatoes”… a comforting, filling, satisfying starch dish that will leave you feeling grounded and full. I love fresh, just-picked corn off the cob in recipes because it has so [...]

This is a potential life-changing, culture-changing recipe, one I wish I knew how to make back in April 2005 when I first embarked on a journey of discovery with raw and living foods. You could be a meat-eater and eat this instead of meat, and be satisfied. That is not only my own sentiment, but [...]

So refreshing… like Essence of Watermelon, but with a creaminess that must come, almost inexplicably, from the mango! Add a wee bit of Citron vodka and, well… let the festivity start. Gorgeous in a lovely glass. So fresh. Eezy-peezy. I mean… what more could you ask for? There’s enough here for two blenderfulfuls, and the [...]

Haven’t posted on this all week, but have still been with it, even though Monday was a day off (my dad’s 70th birthday with associated marginally raw festivities, and I just was too bizzy to prepare properly the rest of the day). In fact, I’ve been happy with whatever percentage I’ve been all week — [...]