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I can pretty much guarantee most of you have never tried something like this before (I never did)… A sweet, lemony Live Green Smoothie served warm, like soup or tea. It’ so comforting, soothing, and warming… and exactly the sort of thing your body needs when it’s battling a cold or flu or allergies. I tend not to want Live Green Smoothies during those times because I crave warm beverages then.

Well, now I know what to make.

This tea may be green and blended like a smoothie, but it goes down with the mellow comfort of chicken soup.

Cilantro juice has been known to be a potent detoxifier of heavy metals in the body. Here, the cilantro is blended (into a whole-food juice, if you have a high-powered blender like my Blendtec). Paired withe alkalizing, liver-cleansing power of fresh lemon juice, the sweetness from fresh grapes, and a wee bit of raw honey to round out the sweetness, and it’s revitalizing energy in a cup!

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This may very well be my favorite soup. After Cream of Tomato. :)

It’s so simple, quite bland really, in that mashed-potato blandness that gives such comfort. And that’s the point… it’s warming, comforting, and simple. And there’s so much one can do to dress it up and give it more explosive flavor, if that’s what one is in the mood for.

I never cook with celery root, although I’ve had my share of fancy celery root purees when dining at fancy restaurants. And this hearkens to the joy of a celery root puree… except there is no butter. Of course, you can always add a bit of organic, grass-fed butter — the raw police aren’t going to come drag you in for questioning. Hah. I actually love butter and have far more praise to sing in its favor than not. But this recipe uses cold-pressed olive oil. You can also use cold-pressed coconut oil instead, as long as it’s a very good quality. It will give a lovely aromatic quality, and certainly will increase the heat and energy level you will feel after eating.

Here, I’ve dressed the soup up with some finely sliced raw zucchini, red pepper, and green onion. Nothing more. And I feasted satsifyingly on the entire batch for my Sunday lunch.

If celery root has always mystified you up til now, try this one out. It’s as quick and easy to make as a smoothie, and not in the least intimidating!

Bon apetit!

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Two things I like when I’m eating… something warm and something I can enjoy with a fork, not just drink. And this simple broth brings both together, quickly, inexpensively, and very comfortingly.

You can make this broth very mild… or extremely spicy! Make as-is, or jack up with garlic, fresh chiles, and fresh miso or thai curry paste, then top with some thinly sliced veggies and a bit of fresh greenery (shown here with some simple chopped green romaine lettuce leaves, sliced button mushrooms, and some green onion).

So easy! This is a versatile, comforting, grounding broth you can use as a basic recipe for many meals!

There is nothing “creamy” here, but you can certainly blend some hemp seeds into the mixture, or use almond milk to make the broth.

You can use regular button mushrooms to make the broth, or wonderfully healthifying medicinal mushrooms such as shitake, maitake, or chaga if you want a powerful boost to your immune system. And throw in a larger clove of garlic to really get your head clear!

This would be another excellent broth in which to enjoy some raw liver… which is something I’m doing research on right now, inspired by my dear friend Lauren Michelle Kinsey and her passion for it. Her latest blog post mentions it… check it out.

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Shown here with roast chicken added! Warm Live Soups are not just for raw food purists!

This is wonderful soup for when you want something comforting, soothing, grounding, and warming… but which will enliven and nourish you rather than put you to sleep and slow you down.

And although the recipe is “raw vegan”, it’s not just for raw food purists (which I am not)… there are many health-conscious raw food enthusiasts who do include lovingly raised animal products (even meats) in their diet. And this is a great quick base for a soup which can be further enhanced with some leftover roasted chicken, or even bits of raw liver, which has made a recent resurgence in some health-loving circles.

(To wit, my dear friend and former raw foodist Lauren Michelle Kinsey! Do check out her wonderful, sexy, inspiring blog!)

TCM “Food Therapy” For Treating  Candida

This mild, comforting Warm Live Soup is made with fresh parsnips, your mushrooms of choice, and a bit of garlic… all excellent foods for those under the care of a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner who has advised them to eat more of the foods which diminish “damp” and “damp heat” conditions. These conditions are said to promote yeast and mold in the body, often leading to “candida” symptoms. I have more than one client who is under this kind of care and seeking to decrease these symptoms.

The mushrooms recommended by David Wolfe to diminish candida symptoms are “medicinal” mushrooms, with shitake and maitake being the easiest to find in one’s local grocery store, in my experience. But portabellas and criminis (which are baby portabellas) make good grabs if shitakes can’t be found. And you can always add some dried Reishi or Chaga to this recipe for a particularly potent medicinal brew!

(As with all things, do your research and consult your respected healthcare professionals when making food-related choices to turn a health crisis around. My blogging banter is just for entertainment & informational purposes only… :D)

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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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Warm, comforting, quick (like most of my recipes…), this creamy-white freshly made corn chowder is a great base for other garnishes. Here, blended hemp seeds contribute “milkiness”. And I’ve blended up some sweet red pepper into a small portion of the soup for a garnish.

Alternatively, you can leave the soup plain and just garnish with some freshly cut corn off the cob and a few scallions. This soup would also be great with fresh cilantro and a bit of chile.

If you’re trying to stay as “raw” as possible during the winter months, my advice is to learn as many ways to make Warm Live Soups as you can. Made in minutes, you can enjoy soothing warmth and still flood your body with living enzymes and un-denatured nutrients.

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Yumm-ee! Make this warm live soup and quit yer bellyachin’ about “being cold” while trying to “be raw”. :)

It is entirely possible to make deliciously warm soups that are tasty and truly “undenatured” (my officially favorite food-related word, now).

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not a 100% rawee. I love a good hot soup that’s been bubbling away for a couple hours on the stove. Crikey, I still make the meanest (organic, certified humane) chicken soup there is. But undenatured food is where it’s really at, if you’re after maximal LIFE ENERGY, maximal FLOW in your life, maximal EASE. And that’s why all this “live, green, raw” stuff is so compelling!

And so, however I can pioneer and share ways to enjoy “Warm Live” soups… I’m so there. And this is a gooooood one.

With this recipe, within no more than 5 minutes you’ll have a warm, comforting, enlivening soup in front of you. You can enjoy it plain, of course. But in my fantasy life, I’m more inclined to enjoy it with the perfect raw, dehydrated flatbread. However, since I absolutely detest the taste of flax seed, which is pretty much used in all raw flatbreads, I’ll  temporarily sway my allegiance to organic tortilla chips. And if I’m feeling particularly gourmet, to a fabulously baked “euro-bread” of some sort.

But this is a very soothing, comforting, mild, and tasty soup. It is not over-spiced, but is instead quite mellow. It’s naturally sweet, gorgeously yellow-orange; hasn’t any turmeric added, but certainly you can rectify that on your own initiative; and it’s WARM.

That’s the key, isn’t it? It’s winter, and intuition tells you that you should be eating WARM food. So do it… make it HOT even, only JUST.HOT.ENOUGH that you can handle it with your bare hands, without hurting your own living tissue. And if you’re not hurting your own living tissue, by my own albeit arguable logic, you shouldn’t be hurting the living tissue (i.e., ENZYMES) that exist in the food before you.

If you want a spicier curry of a soup, add chile, add ginger, add fenugreek. But if you want a warm, comforting soup chockfull of living nutrients… this is a great one.

I’m in love. :D

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Raw food enthusiasts are always asking how to “stay raw” or keep up their raw food intake during the winter months, when everyone craves warmth.

I’m one who thinks there’s a logic to desiring warm foods in cold seasons or locales, and therefore think that Warm Live Soups are just bloody brilliant. No need to eat everything cold, for crike’s sake!

If you’re a fan of mushrooms, and of cream of mushroom soup in particular, this is sure to warm your tum! Shoot, you don’t even have to be “raw” to enjoy it… just a lover of the rich earthy taste of fresh mushrooms! I made this one with portabella mushrooms, but I’ve made the same recipe with shitake (wow), and you could use for pretty much any mushroom you have on hand.

This soup is rich, very creamy, full of flavor, comforting, warm without being cooked, made in minutes… and oh-so-perfect on a cold winter’s day. Which is a good deal, since it’s snowing to beat the band as I write this.

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On a cold winterish evening, a nice warm bowl of soup really hits the spot… and you can make Warm Live Soups that are filled with still-living enzymes and still-raw nutrients. It just takes a gentle hand while your soup is over the heat. And the delicious upside: you’ll have your soup ready in just minutes, and you’ll feel great afterwards… soothed but not necessarily sedated.

This recipe is for a basic tomato broth, one you can dress up a gazillion different ways. You can add some fresh greens and sliced green onions into the warm broth… maybe some chopped portabella mushrooms… or a mix of chopped vegetables with a few pistachios or cashews.

This is not a “cream” soup — there’s nothing in it that will make it creamy. But it does has a rich texture, and is certainly smooth and creamy if you’d blended it up using a high-powered blender like my Blendtec or a Vitamix. Experiment with this one and see what combinations you can invent! img_6910 warm-live-soup-blendtec-blender heating-up-warm-live-tomato-soup img_6906

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In the spirit of the Autumnal Equinox, which is upon us this week, I’m offering up this creamy homage to a memorably delicious cooked Sweet Potato-Sausage soup I once was served.

There’s no way to truly duplicate “potato boiled in milk” in the raw & living foods world, but this dish comes as close as is possible. Made with fresh, thick almond milk, the soup is very thick. The sweetness of apple and fennel strategically place throughout the dish, adjacent to fresh sage & thyme, walnuts and garlic, creates a lot of layers would make for a nice soup to enjoy by the fire, and a great addition to Thanksgiving meal.

One small warm, comforting bowl filled me up, gave me the hit of autumnal flavors I was after…and made me feel wonderful afterwards, rather than sleepy and sluggish (the hallmark of the cooked equivalent).

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