Outrageously Healthy

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Ingredients

• 2 cups of socked and or sprouted chickpeas/garbanzo beans
• ¾ cups of cold pressed olive oil
• Juice of one lemon
• Handful of fresh herbs – basil, coriander, parsley, garlic chives
• 1 shallot
• 1 teaspoon Celtic salt
• A dash of  tamari
• ¼ cup filtered water

Directions

1. Prepare chickpeas/garbanzo beans see instructions.
2. Once chickpeas/garbanzo beans are soaked, sprouting is optional.
3. Place all ingredients in food processor, hold back water and add to vary the consistency.
4. Once all water has been added Read more…

Ingredients

• 1 large bunch of basil
• 2 cups brazil nuts
• 1 clove garlic
• Squeeze lemon juice
• Salt to taste

Place all ingredients in food processor and blend to a paste.

Serving Suggestions: serve as a dip with carrot, celery sticks and sliced red peppers, stir through pasta, ad as a an accompaniment to your favorite dishes where you see fit.

Spouting is a great way to add both increased amounts of nutrients and variety to your diet.  Here are some easy instructions to sprout Mung Beans

 1. Take 1 cup of mung beans
2. Place the seeds in a 2litre (or half gallon) jar and fill with water.
3. Cover the jar with mesh screen (some people cut up cheap stockings or pantyhose) and secure around the top of the jar with a rubber band.
4. Soak the mung beans Read more…

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Ingredients

• 150gm raw cacao powder
• 300gm raw cacao (cocoa) butter
• 100gm agave nectar
• 1 pinch of sea salt
• 1 tsp AFA algae
• zest of 1 orange
• Optional ingredients
• 2 tbsp mesquite meal
• 3 tbsp wild bee pollen*
• 1/2 cup goji berries
• 1/4 cup really raw cashews
• 1/4 cup sultanas
• 1/2 teaspoon ginger powder
• 2 vanilla pods
• 3 tbsp coconut oil

Instructions

1. Melt the cacao butter in a dehydrator at 45  degrees or heat in a small saucepan inside a larger Read more…

Yeild: 1 cup

Ingredients

• 1 cup pitted dates
• 1/2 cup filtered water

Directions

1. Place dates and water in a food processor and blend until smooth.
2. Place in fridge until ready to use, can keep up to 2 weeks in an air tight container.

Adapted from recipe in RAW by Charlie Trotter and Roxanne Klein

About The Author: Bec Death recently returned from New York where she studied wholefood cookery with the Natural Gourmet Institute. Bec is the co-owner of Read more…

Yeild: 1 cup

Ingredients

• 1 cup cashews (unsoaked)
• 1 tbsp raw honey
• 1 tspn vanilla extract
• pinch of sea salt
• 1/4 to 1/2 cup filtered water*

Directions
In the food processor combine cashews, honey, vanilla, and salt. Begin processing mixture and slowly adding water in a steady stream. Continue processing for several minutes, stopping periodically to scrape down sides with a flexible spatula, until you achieve a smooth ‘cream’.

*use 1/4 cup to make a stiff cream. Chill thoroughly if Read more…

Yeild: 1 cup

Ingredients

• 1 cup of soaked almonds (or alternative), drained and pealed if you prefer
• 2 tbsn coconut Oil or very subtle extra virgin olive oil

Directions

1. Place nuts in food processor with 1 tbsp of oil. blend adding oil as necessary to achieve desired consistency
2. Refrigerate until ready to use.

Adapted from recipe in Raw Revolution Diet by C Soria, B Davis and V Melina

About The Author: Bec Death recently returned from New York where she Read more…

Yeild: 11/2 Cups

Ingredients

• 1 cup raw cashew butter ( see recipe for nut butter)
• 1/2 cup maple syrup
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder ( or raw cacao powder*)
• 2 tbsp date paste (see recipe  for date paste)
• seeds from on vanilla pod
• 11/2 tsp miso

Directions

1. Add all of the ingredients to a food processor and process until smooth, of mixture is too light, add more date paste/maple syrup or filtered water to taste.

Adapted from recipe Read more…