More Easy, Raw Food Recipes Gazpacho Soup Blend all ingredients together except cherry tomatoes and 1 cup of cucumber (finely diced). Before serving, add cherry tomatoes and cucumber for texture and presentation. Enjoy the perfect healthy treat for a summer afternoon!
Amy’s Favorite Green Smoothie
Toss everything in the blender and blend until smooth. If you like a thick smoothie, use frozen fruit and/or less water. If you like a thinner smoothie, use more water as you blend.
1 fresh banana Stick it in a blender that’s got the guts to handle a few frozen bananas, and just wiggle, plunge and shift those ingredients around until you get the most incredibly smooth, sexy and gloriously red creamy wonderfood! Ahhh… Let it slip into the most gorgeous bowl you have, procure yourself a dainty spoon and proceed to lose yourself in the ecstasy of a whole new kind of comfort food.
Sebastian's Raspberry Bliss Definitely one of the best ways to get more raw foods into the kids is to make them masters of their own creations! This week Sebastian was particularly busy in the kitchen, and this was one of his success stories that make the roommates "Ooooh and Ahhhh."
Ingredients: 2 cups of fresh raspberries
"Creamy Fennel Soup" (4 delicious servings) Notes from Diane: Here is my very popular raw dish. Even my friend's 13-year old picky-eater son loved it!
Ingredients: 1 fennel bulb Chop fennel, cucumber, red pepper, and avocado and put into blender with juice of 1 lemon. Fill with water
Pour it into a sexy glass, slip a berry or mint leaf on the rim and ENJOY! Simplicity has never tasted so good.
2 ripe bananas Wrap each banana in a lettuce leaf and enjoy!
The Simplest Salad Dressing
Ever!
The recipe is as follows: Take 1 ripe and beautiful lime. Place it on your counter top and roll it around with your palm, pressing with some firmness to massage the flesh inside. Cut the lime in half and squeeze one or both halves over your salad, depending on its size, and enjoy! Yup. Told you it was easy!
A Powerful Green Injection
You might think this crazy, but this elixir of life is going to make you feel like a GREEN GODDESS! Do not add any water, just mix the bananas and jam the parsley and spinach into the blended mush. This is not pretty or delicate. This is sheer brute, green strength, but it works. Pour the mixture into a decent sized jug or a big bowl, and let it sit in the fridge. Then several hours later you will have the dreamiest, creamiest, greenest pudding you can imagine. A pure, green injection of nutritional goodness! GO FOR IT! If you dare. ;-) We’re getting ready for a Green Goddess Program that is going to knock your stilettos off! Stay tuned!
We’re getting ready for a Green Goddess Program that is going to knock your stilettos off! Stay tuned! Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?
Place your greens on you plate or in a bowl. We're talking serving platters and large mixing bowls here! Spread your sunflower sprouts over top of the greens. Peel and dice your mango, disposing of the pit, and sprinkle the chunks of fruit over everything. We like to squeeze any remaining juice out of the flesh stuck to the peeled skn or pit over our salad too. This works especially well with very ripe mango. Enjoy each bite of greens with a juicy chunk of sunny mango!
Peel and pit the avocados and place the flesh into a sealable container. Keep the pits aside. Dice the tomato and add it, the corriander, the lime juice and the cumin to the avocado. Use a potato masher - or better yet, add some love and use your hands - to mix the ingredients and mash the avocado. Don't try to make it too smooth. The chunks of avocado are delicious! Put the avocado pits on top of the guacamole, seal the container and place in the fridge for several hours so the flavours can combine. Delicious eaten with romaine lettuce leaves and sprouts, or on celery sticks!
1 large handful of strawberries, sliced Put strawberries, figs and mint into a bowl. Squeeze a little lemon juice and mix the ingredients together. Enjoy!
Raw Tomato Soup Ingredients: Directions:
Post-Workout Smoothie
3 sticks of celery Blend and gobble. Depending on how long your workout was, you might need to make MORE! J If you’re a runner and doing longer races of over 90 minutes, take some dates and blend them with water as additional fuel for your races. Fresh dates are great race fuel.
2 cups apple juice Blend it all thoroughly and you will be rewarded by a nice, thick, deep purple smoothie! I'm sure that this would taste great with greens, but the color would be atrocious!!!
Simple Lettuce Wrap
Diced tomato, cuke and sweet onion with a squirt from half a lime. Nice big crisp romaine outer leaves and a little avocado. I smear the avocado on the leaf and then spoon on the chopped salad and roll the leaf up. This is a juicy mess...but pure bliss.
Raw Pesto "Pasta"
Place pine nuts and basil in blender or food processor. Pulse at medium speed to break up nuts. Add a little water until you have enough moisture to turn mixture into pudding-like consistency. Set aside. Using a spirooli-type machine or mandoline, cut the zucchini into thin, pasta-style slices. You can also use a regular kitchen knife, it just takes a little longer. Place your "pasta" in a bowl. Mix in pesto to taste and enjoy! If desired, you can also add diced tomato on top, and or serve the mixture on a bed of your favourite greens. Sprouts are another great addition to this dish.
3 bananas Blend and indulge!
Sunday Night Salad This weekend I had the most satisfyingly, scrumptiously yummy salad EVER! I was so hungry on Sunday night and came home to make this: (May it nourish your body and tickle your palette with tasties!) Ingredients: 1 BIG head of green leaf lettuce (sliced thin like spaghetti, or as thin as you can get it) Dressing:1 ½ super succulent tomatoes 1 small avocado (Yup! The WHOLE thing.) 4 halves dried tomato 1 tsp balsamic vinegar 1 stick of celery Blend all ingredients in a Vitamix to get a smooth and creamy salad dressing and smother your lettuce with creamy goodness! Dive into the yumminess!
Ingredients: Dressing: Yum!
"Easy Peasy Tahini Dressing"
Ingredients: For non extremists, driblle a
bit of nama shoyu and lemon juice with water instead of orange juice
and it's absolutely dynamite! Directions: Pour this simple but so delicious sauce over a bountiful salad of sprouts, mixed greens and other crunchy goodness!
Recipe for Environmental Responsibility
Directions: Get out a pen or pencil, and a scrap piece of paper. Print the list below of 99 Things You Can Do To Make The World A Greener Place to Be. While reading, circle any on the list you are already doing. Cross out any items on the list that do not apply. Highlight any of the things that you can start taking steps toward doing. If you tell us at least 3 things you can do to Make The World a Greener Place to Be, then we'll send you a thank you gift. (Electronically, of course!) Then forward this on to as many people as possible and bit by bit, we'll get to where we're going--a Greener, Saner, Safer place to play for a loooong time yet to come!
Recipes from The Green Smoothie Queen's Kitchen  Dill Me,
Darling! 1 serving Ingredients: 3 cups peeled and diced cucumbers 1/2 cup fresh dill 1/2 cup fresh parsley 3 cups romaine lettuce 4 Tbs. tahini celery leaves or celery salt you can add a splash of lemon, too Directions: Blend in the cucumbers until the mixture is liquid, then add in the other ingredients progressively. Blend until smooth.
The Classic Blended Salad 
Ingredients:
Salsa Salad Fresh tomatoes (3 large) green peppers (1 ) corn (3 ears) peas (2 cups) jalapeno (1) cilantro (about a cup - I love this herb) lime (squeezed almost an entire one) Directions: Chop all ingredients except lime, squeeze lime over top and mix. Place on bed of greens. "I used belgium endive (they look like little boats) and filled them up with the salsa and ate that for dinner."
Avocado-Dill Picnic Wraps 1 fresh, bushy head of green, leaf lettuce Take the individual lettuce leaves as you would a standard burrito. Place along the spine of the leave, long, thin slices of avocado, a few sprigs of dill and some sliced sun-dried tomato. Then roll it up, pass it with a smile and make another for yourself. Bring a Green Jug full of water with a juiced lemon to wash it all down and hit "the spot" after the meal.
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2
cups tomatoes
1
Fresh Mango (peeled)
Take
any melon, though canteloupe is a favorite. Scoop out those little
seeds and the slimy middle, then peel it and put the whole thing
into the blender. Don’t add a drop of water, just blend the
melon and watch it become a creamy color and texture.
The
best and tastiest salad dressing I know of is also the easiest!
While it may not appeal to the palate of those used to the chemical-laden,
fat-filled concotions of many common bottled dressings, it deliciously
and perfectly compliments any salad creation. Try it once and you
will love the way the flavor of your crispy greens and delicate
tomatoes, grapes, apples, or whatever you enjoy in your salads,
will shine through.
5-6 bananas
1 ripe mango
2
Ripe Avocados
Nothing like this super hydrating, mineral and fuel replenishing smoothie to finish off an inspiring workout!!
1/4 cup pine nuts (soaked 15-30 minutes)
Here's one great example to tempt your taste buds!
by Denise MacKinnon
Apple-Green Smoothie