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Fresh Asian Salad with Sesame Vinaigrette

May 9, 2011

I’m still getting use to our new pad and its smaller and wholly inconvenient kitchen; thus, my motivation to create new raw food recipes has been gobbled up by the ease of eating out. In the process of exploring the local fare, we found a place called Maggie’s that makes the most amazing cinnamon rolls [...]

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Raw Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

April 29, 2011

For those who won’t be able to attend my raw food workshop tomorrow at Schoolhouse Produce in Redmond, Oregon, I thought I’d share the recipe for the dessert I’ll be demoing. I know, this will be the second raw food recipe this week. But I suspect you won’t mind. Besides, who can turn down Strawberry [...]

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Raw Food: Feeding Self Worth

April 27, 2011

One of the self-worth-boosting tactics I didn’t mention in last week’s article, “How to Value Yourself When You Feel Worthless,” is the one I do most consistently: eat raw foods. It helps me cope, especially amidst overwhelming uncertainty, kinda like now. The closer I stay to eating 100% raw food during stressful situations the better. [...]

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New York-like Cheesecake with Strawberry Agave Purée

April 25, 2011

Mmmmm … Cheesecake! Yep, it’s raw. It’s vegan. It’s easy to make, and delicious. Really. I thought we’d revert to a more familiar treat since you guys didn’t get excited about the green smoothie last Monday. I wasn’t thrilled about green smoothies either, until I tried one. Now I drink one almost every day; Mr. [...]

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How-To Raw Food: Just Do

April 22, 2011

I’m loosing my patience with the question, “How do I start a raw food diet?” Equally irritating are the inaccurate and misleading responses that claim to answer it. Today, thanks to Google’s kazillionth attempt to force-feed this rubbish to me while trying to research advanced raw food diet approaches, I snapped. C’mon people … this [...]

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