GREEN JUICE!!!

One thing that we do everyday is juicing! Very often its green juices but sometimes, red or orange.

In the beginning, we used apples/pears together with the greens because it had a sweeter taste and was easier to drinks as a beginner. But, then I realized that it is better to learn to drink it without any sweets - we feel like we wanted to drink just pure green juices. So, I found out that to get best nutrition, wen consuming green juices, especially if it has spinach in it - you should add some lemon. By adding a lemon you don't feel that "strange bitter" taste, and you get more nutritions by that combination. Of course everything depends on what greens you are using in your juice... sometimes I do´t use lemon at all. After a while you get used to delicious green taste!  :-)

Why should you drink green juice?
One glass of green juice balances your pH and gives you a direct shot of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, protein and most of all oxygen which acts as an antiseptic and metabolism regulator. It is rich in chlorophyll which is a key component of life-force energy. It is known that chlorophyll is a therapeutic tonic for a wide range of illnesses and diseases.

Below is one example of green juice which I made the other day:

Ingredients are: wheat-grass, spinach, celery, cabbage, fennel, parsley & lemon

Even my daughter drinks green juice, (not everyday but almost). Its
not her most favorite one but she drinks it up with a little persuasion!  Her favorite one is carrot, orange, ginger and turmeric.

RAW MASHED "POTATOES"

I found a very good recipe of raw mashed "potatoes" made with parsnip and cauliflower. The taste is almost the same as mashed potatoes. We loved it especially me and my husband.
We had it with raw burgers and some salad.

INGREDIENTS:

- 1/2 cups cashews, soaked 3-4h
- 1/2 cups parsnip, peeled & cut into 2-3 inch pieces
- 1 1/2 cup cauliflower, cut into peaces
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- Himalaya salt
- 1 Tbsp extra-virgin call pressed olive oil
- 1 small clove of garlic
- 2 Tbsp of nutritional yeast
- 1/2 cup filtered water
- 1 tsp gluten free Tamari
- 1 tsp truffle oil
- Freshly milled black peppar
- Some fresh dill - optional

DIRECTIONS:

Place all ingredients except truffle oil in the food processor and chop fine. Add water to make a smooth, thick mixture. Transfer mixture to high-powered blender and blend until smooth, adding a little water at a time if necessary to keep blender spinning, use blend tamper to push down. Mixture should be the consistency of smooth mashed potatoes.

Add truffle oil or salt or dill or any other herbs to taste.

Tip: All parsnip taste differently, some sweet, some more bitter, you can substitute with jicama or add more cashews to the cauliflower.

MY FAVORITE RAW RED TOMATO CRACKERS

I bought a while ago amazingly good crackers, so I decided to make them myself since they were quite expensive and out of stuck every time I wanted to buy them. So, I started to experiment and actually managed to get almost the same taste!!!  Now I am so lucky that I can do whenever I feel to which is almost all the time!
So here is the recipe:

INGREDIENTS:

- 2 cups Brazil nuts
- 1 cup sunflower seeds
- 1 cup sun-dried tomatoes (soaked at least 1h)
- 1 cup buckwheat (soaked & dried in dehydrator)
- 1 cup carrot juice
- 1 cup flex seeds meal
- 1,5 tsp thyme or fresh if you have
- 0,5 or 1 tsp of each basilica, fennel seeds, coriander seed and oregano
- 3/4 or 1 tsp Himalaya Salt (depends how salty you like it)

PREPARATION:

Mix Brazil nuts in food processor but not too much, it should still have some crunchiness in it. Than add to mixture sunflower seeds and buckwheat and mix again. (You can also just soak buckwheat for 30 min and runs it well, drained it and use in the recipe as follows).
Add the rest of ingredients, flex seed meal, carrot juice, tomatoes cut into small chuncks and all the spices and mix again well. Spread the dough on dehydrated sheet and dehydrate for approximately 12h or until you reach the cracker consistency, flipping them over after a half time.

RAW PEA SOUP

For a while ago we hade some friends over and I wanted to treat them with a nice raw food dinner. So I prepared raw pea soup, cucumber snacks with red-pepper-paté, raw lentil stew and 2 kinds of crackers.  So I will first present to you recipe for pea soup.

PEA SOUP

- 1 cup water
- 1/4 cup raw cashews or 1/4 avocado
- 1 clove garlic, peeled
- 1,5 cup frozen green peas (no need to thaw)
- 2 cups fresh baby spinach
- 1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 1 Tbsp chopped fresh mint
- ground black pepper and salt to taste

Instructions:

Place water, cashews (or avocado) and garlic into blender & blend at the highest speed until complitely smooth. Add peas (if you have strong blender you don't need to thaw them) spinach, lemon juice and mint, blend at highest speed until its thick and smooth. Taste with pepper, salt and more lemon juice if needed.

Pour up in the nice bowls decorate as you wish and enjoy!

Raw Indian Kofta Balls in Curry Tomato Sauce

This dish can be served in the Indian traditional way as a soup or as an entrée. It makes about 8 serving so if you want to have less just take half of all ingredients.  I really loved this Kofta balls or as we say in Balkan "Chufte". Recipe is take from the book I bought some time ago "The complete book of raw food".

Raw Kofta Balls with Curry Tomato Sauce

Ingredients for balls:

- 3 cups soaked and sprouted sunflower seeds
- 1 cup almonds soaked and peeled
- handful fresh parsley
- handful fresh cilantro
- 2 tsp curry powder
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1/2 tsp cayenne
- 1 zucchini
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1/2 tsp Himalaya salt
- 1/2 tsp coriander
- 1-inch pice fresh ginger
- pinch of nutmeg
- 1 tsp raw honey

When you are soaking the sunflower seeds have in mind that they will double in size.
Process all the ball ingredients in a food processor. Form into medium-size balls and dehydrate for 2-3 hours on each side at 43 C.

For the curry sauce:

- 1 cup sun-dried tomatoes (soaked for 2 h and drained; reserve the water)
- 2 to 3 plum tomatoes
- 1/2 zucchini
- 1 cup macadamia (or cashews)
- 1 tsp curry powder
- 1/4 tsp cayenne
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1/2 tsp paprika
- handful fresh cilantro
- 1/2 tsp Himalaya salt
- 2 Tbsp raw honey
- 2 Tbsp lime juice

Combine the curry sauce ingredients in the blender. Blend until smooth, adding just enough soak water from the sun-dried tomatoes for a thick and creamy sauce.

Serve over the Kofta Balls and garnish with fresh cilantro.

Coconut

My family and I, have been on vacation in Thailand for two weeks. We just LOVED IT - it was beautiful nature, warm, amazing and incredibly nice people and among all so much different & good tasting fruits. But there was especially one fruit which was our favorite - coconut. We had at least three a day. When they bring it to you you always get it together wit a straw and spoon. After that you haven drinking up the juice you can scoop out some coconut meat which just tastes amazing.
Here, back home we always drink (bought) coconut water (me and my husband) after Bikramyoga class - it gives us some kind of amazing energy after hard and sweaty class!

I also use coconut in my daily diet (recipes) like coconut water, coconut meat or shredded coconut.

I wanted to have some more information regarding coconut and I found out that this full of nutrition's and miners. I also found some interesting facts on the web page  www.coconutresearchcenter.org. Below you can read some of it!

The scientific name for coconut is Cocos nucifera. Early Spanish explorers called it coco, which means "monkey face" because the three indentations (eyes) on the hairy nut resembles the head and face of a monkey. Nucifera means "nut-bearing."

The coconut provides a nutritious source of meat, juice, milk, and oil that has fed and nourished populations around the world for generations. On many islands coconut is a staple in the diet and provides the majority of the food eaten. Nearly one third of the world's population depends on coconut to some degree for their food and their economy. Among these cultures the coconut has a long and respected history.

Coconut is highly nutritious and rich in fiber, vitamins, and minerals. It is classified as a "functional food" because it provides many health benefits beyond its nutritional content. Coconut oil is of special interest because it possesses healing properties far beyond that of any other dietary oil and is extensively used in traditional medicine among Asian and Pacific populations. Pacific Islanders consider coconut oil to be the cure for all illness. The coconut palm is so highly valued by them as both a source of food and medicine that it is called "The Tree of Life." Only recently has modern medical science unlocked the secrets to coconut's amazing healing powers.
People from many diverse cultures, languages, religions, and races scattered around the globe have revered the coconut as a valuable source of both food and medicine. Wherever the coconut palm grows the people have learned of its importance as a effective medicine. For thousands of years coconut products have held a respected and valuable place in local folk medicine.

In traditional medicine around the world coconut is used to treat a wide variety of health problems including the following: abscesses, asthma, baldness, bronchitis, bruises, burns, colds, constipation, cough, dropsy, dysentery, earache, fever, flu, gingivitis, gonorrhea, irregular or painful menstruation, jaundice, kidney stones, lice, malnutrition, nausea, rash, scabies, scurvy, skin infections, sore throat, swelling, syphilis, toothache, tuberculosis, tumors, typhoid, ulcers, upset stomach, weakness, and wounds.

I also would like to wish you all A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 with a lots of good, organic GMO free foods full of nutrition's! Also to be happy, be loved and give love to everybody and everyone on this planet! 

ขอขอบคุณคุณ

(Thank you in Thai) 

RAW NUTELLA

There are a lot of different recipes which you can find on Nutella, but I think that this one is the easiest one, and it doesn´t take a long time to prepare it. The big fan of my home made raw Nutella is of course my daughter & me!!!!

It took me some time to learn how to make it smooth. So, don´t give up if you do not succeed the first time.

Raw Nutella

Ingredients:

- 1 cup hazelnuts
- 2 Tbsp cacao powder
- 1/2 tsp vanilla powder
- 3 Tbsp honey - or more if you like it sweeter (or coconut sugar approximately 1/2 cup)
- 1/2 to 2/3 cup filtered water (as needed) - also use coconut milk

For Nutella to be smooth I recommend a strong and good blender. If you don´t have that, make sure that the nuts are properly ground, flour-like. Add the rest of ingredients and blend until smooth, adding only as much water/coconut milk as needed to create a thick consistence like Nutella cream.

Tip: If you want to have a more delicate taste you can also add zest from an orange!