Raw Party 2012

The 2012 Raw/Vegan Festival in Toronto is just around the corner. Have you marked your calendar yet?

On Saturday June 9th and Sunday June 10th, you’re invited to hang out with other raw/vegan foodies, learn from amazing speakers, eat some great food, and shop! No admission fees. Read more and get a sneak (video) peek on the festival website: http://torontorawveganfestival.com/

Vibrance Magazine Video Recipe

Hey! It’s me! Demonstrating a recipe for Vibrance Magazine. It was one of my first video recipes. Can you tell I was a newbie? (:

The Perfect Low Fat Salad

Ready to shop for Day 8 in The Muse’s Kitchen? We’re making another recipe by Living Nutrition. Here’s what you’ll need (serves 2):

2 heads Boston (Bibb) lettuce and/or other greens

1 large red bell pepper, chopped

1/2 lime

2 large (or 4 small) mangos

1 orange

“See” you soon!

[Yes! You guessed it: another video recipe this month. Stay tuned!]

Celebrating Day 7 and Earth Day with Art and Ice Cream!

I’m doing Soul Art today, want to join me?

It’s International Soul Art Day today!

I’m doing a Soul Art journey along with thousands of others from all over the world to get a vision for the next level of my life. Do you want to join me?

Laura Hollick is leading our journey today to celebrate the creative spirit and our ability to create the New Paradigm, by creating ourselves. My artwork will be featured on the web site, and I’ll be sharing on video soon after what my experience with Soul Art was like, so I hope you come celebrate with us!

You can sign up for your FREE Soul Art Journey here. No artist experience or fancy supplies needed, just a desire to open up to the wild creativity and spiritual vision already living within yourself. You can use crayons, a pencil, chalk, raw food, whatever you have and are moved to use.

See you there!

with dancing paintbrushes,

Gina

Day 7: Shopping for Ice Cream

Every time I’m in the grocery store, someone asks: “What do you do with all those bananas?”

Without pots, pans and lids, here’s what the cupboard above my stove looks like. After placing the green or yellow bananas I buy at the store into a paper bag with apples or tomatoes to ripen, I put them in this cupboard, leave the door open and not only create extra storage space, but a bonus natural air freshener, and bananas that are easily digestible (never eat bananas that don’t have brown spots on them!).

On Day 7 in the Muse’s kitchen, we’re making raw vegan ice cream. A good blender or juicer is key for this recipe to reach the consistency of ice cream. I’ll be demonstrating with a Vitamix blender later this month. If you don’t have one, you can try a quality food processor to mash up the bananas, then add more water in the blender afterward, but it won’t be as creamy. Investing in a quality blender took me a while, but in the end was worth it to be able to make recipes like these. It will also save me money long-term in health care, and, is as mandatory an appliance as a stove. Who would think twice about buying one of those?

To answer fellow grocery shopper questions, then: I freeze them for banana-cicles or raw vegan ice cream, drop them into smoothies, feed them to my neighbours, and eat them as mono meals myself! YUM!

Okay, fellow monkeys! Back to shopping we go. Here’s what you’ll need for one small batch:

For chocolate ice cream:

2-3 frozen bananas (peel them, break them into small pieces, then freeze, at least overnight)

1 T raw cacao or carob powder

1 tsp agave syrup

water as needed

For vanilla ice cream:

3-4 frozen bananas

1/2 tsp vanilla extract/fresh vanilla bean powder

1 cup unroasted cashews (soaked in water for at least 6 hours)

1 tsp agave syrup (optional)

water as needed

 

Smash the day with our Fruit-a-licious Muse!

A big welcome to the latest addition to our Inspiration Gallery: Fruit-a-licious Muse! Julie Groenewald’s healing story with photographs is below, but first, here she is on the beach, advising us to “Smash the Day:”

Jules believes that eating fruit is the most healthful and ethical way to eat, because no animals are farmed, and the earth’s resources are not depleted. She’d rather see the earth filled with fruit trees and beautiful plants. She calls the journey to achieve this vision “a true peace revolution.”

Growing up eating lots of meat and dairy, Jules suffered for it – but what happened when she started eating mostly fruit?

She lost 45 pounds (20 kg), her fever blister breakouts dropped dramatically, her skin cleared up, and her low-on-strength and low-on-energy life disappeared. She now does boot camp workouts daily, and has not been sick in the past 3 years. Inspiring, right? There’s more: she’s a health coach, gives workshops and talks in Jozi, South Africa where she lives, and is now the face of Hurom Juicers! In her new raw life, socializing with her raw fruity friends, and inspiring everyone she crosses paths with, are two of her favourite ways to pass time. Visit her at www.FruitarianForLife.com

“In my life, I have NEVER experienced such amazing health, cleanliness, and lightness as I do with fruit. I look better now than ever before – even since I was a young teenager. Eating enough organic, ripe, good quality fruit, drinking enough clean water, drinking a fresh juice every day, getting enough sleep, exercising, breathing deeply, leaving the windows open for fresh air, and trusting in God for all your spiritual needs is key to a lifestyle of strength, health and vitality on earth, so we can fulfill our life purpose to the best of our abilities.”