The Live Green Smoothie Diet

Maca root is something I have long-wanted to develop a recipe library for. It’s a tricky ingredient because of its pungent flavor, but its long list of wonderful health benefits quickly inspires the desire to want to take it regularly. You could just dose up on capsules, if that’s your thing. It’s not mine. I [...]

This being New Year’s Eve, the juiced ingredients in this deceptively mild raw punch cocktail are symbolic for celebrating the New Year. Pomegranate, a symbol since ancient times of gods and royalty, is a symbol of prosperity and fertility to invoke your expectation of wealth and creative vitality. Gorgeously green parsley juice and fresh lime [...]

Wow… love this recipe. It honestly doesn’t get any easier than this, and it’s recipes like this that, as you slurp them up with relish, you’re bound to wonder… “Why in the world did I never make this stuff before???” I’ve had this bin of raisins in my fridge for awhile…raisins homemade and sun-dried by my great-aunt in Greece, [...]

This morning’s LGS is a great example of how you can’t judge a book by its cover when it comes to Live Green Smoothies. I tossed in a bit of gorgeously vibrant orange pepper, added half of a vibrantly crimson peeled pomegranate, a bunch of alluringly red grapes, and brilliantly green parsley… a veritable rainbow of [...]

Heretofore, all of my pomegranate recipes have been blended or juiced, but here we have the lovely juicy-red gorgeousness of the pomegranate coming out in full color, tossed with a light honey-rose dressing to stain the apples an exquisite shade of pink.  A perfect side dish for any holiday table… or just make it and [...]

Pomegranate season is in full swing… they’re everywhere! Tonight I picked one up which was surely as big as my head. Darn-near exploded my Blendtec, it was so big. Three cheers for yet another way to smoothify fresh whole pomegranate is all I’m sayin’. Pomegranate is just so gorgeous! It also has a rich mythic [...]

Oh. Dear. Me. So good. So simple. So utterly GORGEOUS. And it whips up so quickly you could probably fit it in during a television commercial break (if you watch TV, that is…). If people knew they could be drinking this amazing stuff, would they flock to Starbucks for fancy milky-sweet coffee drinks? I suspect [...]

Yah, I do love these Barbie pink drinks. And I do love my rose water. But you can make this without the rose – it’s delicious either way. The pear in this smoothie gives a juicy voluptuousness which plays so nicely against the the tannic tartness of the pomegranate. And honestly, it almost doesn’t get [...]

What a pretty cocktail! The body of this lovely drink is pomegranate-red, but it has a frothy golden halo that holds up until the last sip. This highly photogenic drink (which would shine all the more in the hands of a more capable photographer) is both sweet and tart, is loaded with antioxidants and Vitamin [...]

If you love the astringent fruitiness of pomegranate and the taste of fruit with chocolate, you will enjoy this antioxidant-rich chocolate smoothie and (optional) Raw Superfood Cocktail! Combined with hemp seeds to make it creamy, there’s enough superfood fuel in this drink to see you through much of the day (or night). This recipe uses [...]