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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Fresh, raw zucchini added to a smoothie is a revelation, and especially when added to a simple, plain vanilla smoothie, which thrives on having as much of a neutral (as well as a creamy) backdrop as possible. This is just lovely. And there is zero fat in it!

Anyone who follows along with my recipes knows I’m crazy about vanilla and am utterly delighted when I find a way to enjoy vanilla in raw vegan recipes, without the use of dairy products. This is an excellent on!

I’ve used bananas in this recipe. Don’t like bananas? Use raw honey instead, and possibly add a bit of coconut oil to gain some of the texture the bananas provide.

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I must confess, I haven’t read a single article or watched even the shortest expose about Tiger Woods’s romantic escapades. Gossip about the man’s indiscretions is everywhere — on the covers of gossip rags at the grocery checkout, on the tongues of lips at the holiday party I attended over the weekend, on late-night comic standup routines. People just love to fan the flames of the heat bearing down on him.

I figure, this mass enchantment with one man’s love life comes down to one thing:

Fast. Non-fat, except for whatever macadamia nuts you throw on top. Quick. Made from just a few basic ingredients. Filling. Delicious.

If there are a few raw quick-meals you want to learn, something like this should be in the Top 10.

You can whip this up for a filling breakfast that will definitely last through til lunch, if you have a busy morning planned. You can have this on the table in minutes for a quick dinner if you need to be somewhere soon, or don’t want something that will weight you down.

And it would make a lovely dessert. I would serve this simple dish at a non-raw buffet, that’s how delicious it is. And with all the baked, choco-fatty stuff people bring to those things, imagine the delight that everyone will experience that they can enjoy something lusciously delicious, creamy, and sweet… without guilt.

The creamy sauce is made with bananas and juicy medjool dates, without any fat or nut milk. And if you have a Blendtec or Vitamix, you can cycle it through a few times until it’s warm, turning the dish into some seriously soothing comfort food.

Seriously… good eats.

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This unique Live Green Smoothie is a meal, and though you could probably live on the thing, could also easily categorize as either a dessert or a high-test energy drink.

Wow.

Vanilla and macadamia nuts together are just a classic combo. And here, they combine to make a rich, creamy, delicious, mild smoothie, just loaded with minerals from the kale and the macadamia nuts, and rich with polysaccharides from the fresh aloe vera gel, it’s a pure delight. And such a lovely shade of delicate green! Green smoothies never had it so good.

And if you don’t have kale handy, throw in some fresh spinach or parsley instead. If you don’t have medjool dates, use some raw honey, cane sugar, or agave nectar if you’d like. Not into bananas? Use a heaping tablespoon of coconut oil and a good chunk of raw cacao butter instead, and jack up the sweetener a tad bit.

Extremely versatile recipe. And one you should make sure you try to keep the ingredients around as staples, so you can whip it up whenever you really need some deep, natural nourishment.

And a teaspoon of raw maca powder in this recipe would work very well, too!

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(Before chocolate is completely set.)

Chocolate is set here, but much darker than shows up in the photo.

Frankly, this is a great chocolate to make when you just want chocolate… forget the nuts & nibs.

Honestly, when you make a raw chocolate treat like this for the first time and experience and fast and easy it is to make something so satisfyingly delicious, you’ll wonder why you ever made those Peanut M&M runs to 7-11.

This particular chocolate is a little different from my other raw cacao recipes… it highlights some awesome Mexican vanilla a friend so graciously gifted me recently (a gigantic quart-sized bottle… can you imagine???), and is nicely salted to offset the sweet. For best results, definitely use the best quality vanilla and naturally mineralized salt you can get your hands on.

And if you have all these good-but-simple things already in your kitchen as staples, this is a no-brainer to whip up on-the-fly. If you don’t have macadamia nuts or nibs, you can use any other nut or seed — and don’t forget Goji Berries. Or you could just eat the stuff off a spoon as soon as it’s mixed up.

I swear to you, it takes probably just two minutes to get to that point. That’s how quick a chocolate-fix this really is. Heh.

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If you haven’t yet tried any of the smoothies I’ve been whipping up lately with fresh aloe vera gel, maybe this will be the one to send you over the edge and buy a handful of aloe vera leaves at your local grocery store. I’d like to say that this is my favorite one, but the thing is, every smoothie I’ve ever made with fresh aloe has it’s special appeal.

This one… a rich dark-chocolatey blast of well-being from both the intense choco-magnesium and aloe-polysaccharide. Both frothy and refreshing… and it’s made without any nut milk, and without the addition of hemp seeds. Quite spectacular, really.

What a delightful discovery. This one will become a regular in my kitchen, absolutely.

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Last Day for $20 Savings on my LGS Daily Recipe magazine…

The post below was originally published on my “This Raw Life” blog on October 8, 2009: Today’s Raw Smoothie, For The Office or Gym… Pomegranate-Rose With Fresh Aloe Vera

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So.Dang.Good! So.Dang.Pretty! A glass full of barbie pink with fuschia undertones… and bubbles on top if properly frothed and left to sit! Like drinking a rose-flavored bubble bath.

This Pomegranate-Rose Smoothie with Fresh Aloe Vera and a good dose of fresh lime juice is a brilliant thirst-quencher and energy-reviver. Hang on… gotta run… it’s reminded me I have mountains to move…

Alone, this dish is like a raw pasta, which you can enjoy chilled or room temperature as a “pasta salad”, or which you can warm slightly to take the chill off in the oven (with temp set on “warm” and the door open, and your plate handle-able with bare hands).

For those who are seeking to radically jack up the raw foods in their diet, but who still enjoy cooked foods and “rawish” meals, this dish is wonderful over roasted (or boiled) potatoes. In fact, I served this to two marginally raw 19-year-olds who don’t like mushrooms, and they gobbled it up as the “gravy” over roast potatoes and roast chicken, with a bit of extra on the side as a salad. There was very little left of the entire recipe when all was said and done.

When marginally raw teens like one of my recipes, I take it as a great success.

I’ve said many times, I’m not after proselytizing “100% raw vegan, 100% of the time” to create a world of Raw Gods and Goddesses (as fabulous as they are…), but my mission is to take raw and living foods into the mainstream and radically impact the masses to jack up the living foods in their diet. If you’re a steak-eating aficionado who adopts a recipe like this and enjoys it… that makes me deliriously happy!

At the same time, my 100% Raw God and Goddess friends can also enjoy this recipe, adding it to their existing library of savory, “meaty”, explosively flavorful and satisfying dishes! This is a *great* recipe for your next raw food pot luck!

(By the way, even after seconds, my son was moaning “wow…” and going back for thirds. Heh.)

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This recipe is definitely a Christmas gift to me from my generous culinary muses, who know very well that I’m an unrepentant vanilla whore ever in pursuit of raw vegan recipes that can showcase vanilla the delicious way that milk can. If I were in biblical times, I’d go sacrifice a goat or something in gratitude. Things being as they are, however… I’ll just drink another glassful with thanks. The smile on my face says it all.

Am so glad I found the last bit of Tahitian vanilla I’d given my mother on a previous visit, lurking patiently in the back of her spice cabinet for this very day.

Creamy, light, refreshing, with a neutral-tasting backdrop that allows the vanilla to shine without competition, this shake/raw smoothie recipe is one to memorize and show off to your non-raw friends. Frequently.

*slurp*… I am in awe.

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