Watercolor Food — Fruits by Marta Spendowska

I just made a post about my recent fast over at MartaSpendowska.com

There is also a redesign of this website coming, so stay tuned!

Let’s get it straight : I’m not for raw milk. I truly believe that milk is a poison. (Btw, someone needs to redesign their website). What I know is that it should be up to the individual to decide what he/she is going to eat/drink. Below you can find a discussion about it and the controverional debate Ron Paul is leading :

“Many Americans,” Paul explained, “have done their own research and come to the conclusion that unpasteurized milk is healthier than pasteurized milk. These Americans have the right to consume these products without having the federal government second-guess their judgment or thwart their wishes. If there are legitimate concerns about the safety of unpasteurized milk, those concerns should be addressed at the state and local level.”

JUICING PROS AND CONS

As we know juicing is one of the best ways to deliver nutrients into the body. The food we juice we might have to chew on for an half an hour or more to get the boost, nutrients from the veggie and fruit we’ve decided to consume. Juicing though, allows us to digest the food easier and quicker, without using too much of our energy, because food is already predigested by the juicer.

The nutrient can be absorbed to the  blood in 20 minutes and the green juice seems to be our blood purifier.

There is few differences between juicing and blending and one can find few opponents of juicing in nutrition field. One of the cons of juicing is that by juicing the food is loosing some of the nutrients that exist in a fiber. The other states that by juicing we can have a hard time controlling our sugar levels and sometimes we can actually overdo juicing.

On the other hand – juicing is the fastest way to absorb all the goodies that we didn’t have a chance to eat through the day, so it might be a way of catching up!

Additionally, usually we don’t chew our food to well ad juicer brakes the cell walls of the food for us.

I love juicing and I am juicing from time to time and I see it as a way of cleansing.

Also, it is beneficial to make juice feast sometimes and live of liquids for a day, or two to improve the digestive system.

SUPPLEMENTS  AVAILABLE TO ENHANCE  JUICING:

• e3LIVE
• spirulina
• tocotrienols
• wheatgrass
• Pure Synergy
• Camu-Camu
• Goji Juice
• Melatonin
• Pure Synergy for Women ( capsules )
• Chaga and Cordyceps mushrooms
• Parasite Formula
• Orgono Silicon
• DMAE
• OMICA ( Super-Z-Lite, Immune Balancer, Mood-Hormone Balancer )

TODAY’s JUICE :

• whole stalk of celery
• half of bunch of parsley
• half of bunch of cilantro
• half of bunch of kale
• half of bunch of spinach
• 1 apple
• 1 lemon
• inch of ginger
• 2 cloves of garlic
• half of yellow pepper

I split juice into halves and make separate green drinks.

I opened young coconut and split it into halves as well.

1st GREEN DRINK :

• half of a juice
• half of a coconut ( water + meat )
• 1 Tsp Pure Synergy
• 1 tsp spirulina
• 1 Tsp of wheatgrass
• 2 Tsp of Tocotrienols
• handful of frozen blueberries
• handful of frozen raspberries

2nd GREEN DRINK :

• half of a juice
• half of a coconut ( water + meat )
• 1 Tsp Pure Synergy
• 1 orange
• 1 Tsp Earth – fruit
• 1 tsp kelp
• 1 tsp bee pollen

Two days of juicing and my face is already glowing!

No cravings at all.

Wish you all the best and talk to you soon!

Marta aka Rawvolta is the founding editor of RawFoodTip. To stay informed about the best raw food choices and raw food gossips sign up to Rawvolta’s RSS feed. It will deliver this blog to your email daily! Don’t Miss The Tip!

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Yam is:

• Low in Saturated Fat, Sodium
• High in Vitamin C, Fiber, Vitamin B6, Vitamin K, Potassium and Manganese

I have never had a chance to try them in Poland and I instantly fell in love with them in US.

As we know cooked starch becomes a sugar due to loosing it’s natural fiber.

But if you dehydrate them, you are keeping the fiber and nutrients.

Sunday – my snack day!

RECIPE :

• 3 big yams cut into halves, so I can send them through food processor and have shapes like the ones below :

For Marinade :

• olive oil
• water from soaked dried tomato
• 2 dry tomato
• sea salt, pepper, rosemary, dill

And of course you can manipulate this recipe as much as you like !

Because I had some  marinade leftover, I cut the onion and bath her;-) in the remaining oil. Plus I added more pepper and some nutritional yeast.

Dehydrate for 8 hours.

TIP : To really nicely coat your yams with the marinade, you can use a square/rectangular dish and build up some layers. Glaze your marinade over each of your layer. You can the yams them sit for half an hour.

If you are interested in the outcome of my SUNDAY SNACK , please, visit in 10 hours, once the snack is ready and warm!

Cheers!

Most of us think that raw food recipes are always cold. It is mostly truth, but you can “adjust” them to your needs.

One way to warm up the food is by using ceramic pot on very low temperature and all you have to do is use a finger as a thermometer; it should be warm enough to give a pleasant feeling but cold enough to allow you stick your tissue in!

The other way to feel the warmth of the food is to use a dehydrator as a heating tool. Again, it protects all the goodies from being destroyed by the extremal cooking.

My favorite soup recipe I am going to present to you is:

Coconut Curry Chowder

2 servings :

Ingredients for blending :

• 1 or two coconuts ( depends on their water content )
• 4 cloves of garlic
• ginger root ( close to 2 inches ) or 2 Tsp of minced
• juice of half of a lemon
• 2 dates
• 1 tsp curry powder
• 1 Tsp turmeric
• half or 1 jalapeno pepper
• salt
• black pepper
• cilantro ( I usually use half of a bunch )

Blend everything to a creamy consistency.

Chop :

• 2 stalks of celery
• 2 stalks of leeks
• 1 carrot ( round )
• shiitake mushrooms
• 1 red bell pepper
• 1 tomato
• 1 avocado

HOW TO :

You might want to have a warm soup this time a year.

Put all the blended cream into ceramic pot and warm it on a low heat ( stick your finger after a while to check if you didn’t overdo it )

When you think it is ready ( warm enough ) , put all the chopped ingredient into the pot, excluding tomatos and avocados. These guys go into the bowl on the bottom.

Cover your tomatos and avocados in glass or wooden bowl with coconut chowder .

Voila!

I believe that this type of food preparation might let these suppressed ‘ugly betties’ come to the surface.

Imagine – as a human being ( and I am sorry, but we all are attached to something ) – you want your dream snack right here, right now. At this point we don’t care if the message about your wants comes from the brain, from your belly or from your empty emotions. You are feeling good , because the thing you are desiring is not processed chocolate or some gluey suicide pudding.

All you want to enjoy is this famous KALE CHIP!

So, you grab my recipe , that does not have measurements, because it is time to start using our own eyes and intuition to determine how it all should look like. And imagine your own inventions once YOU, my green rockin’ friend have to figure out the amounts!

HERE IT IS :

INGREDIENTS : ( free your hands and eyes, please )

• one bunch of fresh basil
• app. 1/2 cup of pine nuts
• olive oil
• soaked dried tomato ( reserve the water )
• nutritional yeast
• app. 1 Tsp of miso ( I use chickpea miso )
• turmeric
• ground black pepper
• celtic sea salt
• rosemary
• your tomato water

The idea is to have a pretty nice flowing consistency.

Dip your kale pieces in pesto, massage and put on dehydration trays. My kale chips usually need between 6-8 hours of dehydration time.

And now the torture begins.

If you are at home, you are probably checking your kale chips every hour, half an hour..your hope is that maybe you can find one that is ready! But it is not. It needs this 8 hours to fulfill your dreams.

Sometimes this feelings reminds me of my chocolate ( magnesium ) cravings during or before my moon-girl days . I can see a resemblance this dorky TV spot about some insurance when people are yelling from their windows :

” It’s my kale chips and I need it NOW ! “

Well, sisters and brothers, dehydrator teaches us something.

The message it carries for us is : If you have taken this raw /life food nutrition trip already, you need to know your weak spots and work on them. Either prepare your kale chips the day before, BUY some for snacking here: Kale Chips (Habanero Ranch), 3.5oz or learn how to wait to get it finally and fully enjoy them. Or, simply, go for a long long walk!

p.s. I am writing this post in a public place. So, the guy comes in and the person behind the counter asks politely : ‘How are you ?’. The guy answers : ‘ Living The Dream ! ‘. Cool, huh ?
- is the founding editor of RawFoodTip. To stay informed about the best raw food choices and raw food gossips sign up to Rawvolta’s RSS feed. It will deliver this blog to your email daily! Don’t Miss The Tip!

Kale Chips (Habanero Ranch), 3.5oz