The Scientist is in the Kitchen

I love experimenting and coming up with new recipes.  Must be the scientist in me. It's been over a year and a half since I last stepped into a research lab. Although I do miss it, at times, I find that I do a lot of research regardless in my own kitchen.

Assay development was my forte so it isn't surprising that I like to play with recipes. The great thing is I get to eat what I make.  Bonus!

Tomorrow is our Spring Walk on the Wild Side.  Yoga, a walk with a master herbalist educating us on the wild organic edibles that are growing in our back yards and their benefits, followed by an array of goodies to try.  Lisa prepares the wild food and I prepare the raw.

Yesterday I made a batch of raw corn tortillas for the workshop to fill with both raw and wild foods.  Of course, I wanted to optimize the protocol (in other words, I changed the recipe to come up with a better tasting wrap).  They turned out great.  Using hemp seeds and an assortment of other nuts along with corn kernels I came up with a spicy corn tortilla for tomorrows workshop.

My focus today was to make a raw dessert.  How do Raw brownie bites sound?

Here is my protocol (scientific term for recipe) for Raw Brownie Bites.

Raw Brownie Bites


1.0 cups of raw almonds
1.0 cups of raw pecans
0.25 cups of raw cocoa
10-12 medjool dates
1 tsp of organic vanilla powder or extract
1 tbsp of raw coconut butter

Pinch of salt
Raw shredded coconut

In a food processor add almonds, pecans, salt, vanilla powder and cocoa and pulse until nuts break down to a coarse meal.

Add dates and vanilla (if using extract) and coconut butter, pulse till blended and sticky enough to form into a ball.
(more dates may be required depending on the size and softness of the dates that you are using)

Form into bite size balls and roll in shredded coconut

or 

press into mini muffin cups forming small bite size morsels and serve drizzled with chocolate-almond sauce (almond butter, cocoa and agave)

Enjoy!

Raw Brownie Bites

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Refreshing Summer Drinks-Enjoy them this long weekend!

As the weather begins to warm up it is so easy to reach into your fridge for anything cold.  This summer arm yourself with refreshing guilt free drinks that will chase that thirst away and cool you right down in the heat of the day.

Strawberry Lemon-Aid
1 cup fresh strawberries
3 lemons
Agave

Remove rind from the lemons, cut them up into chunks, wash strawberries and cut in half, pass both through a juicer.  Pour juice into a large pitcher, sweeten to taste, then fill pitcher with water.

Stir and Refrigerate until ready to enjoy!

Makes 10 or more servings.
Need more?  add more lemon juice and more strawberries and sweeten to taste!


The Honey in the Dew
1 cup honeydew melon roughly cubed
1 cup spinach tightly packed
3 mint leaves
1 cup filtered water
4 or more ice cubes

Add all ingredients in a high speed blender and give it a whirl till well blended.
Makes 1 serving

Have a safe and happy long weekend everyone!
Blessings from the Raw Food Yogini

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What the heck should I have for lunch?

Here is my dilemma, It's the raw food yogini's "Totally Raw Friday",  It's time for lunch,  I'm not home, I'm hungry, won't be home for hours, and need to have something to quiet down the rumblings in my tummy.

Easy right?  Just have a nice organic banana and that will surely quiet down those rumblings.  Great, but what if I want something more than a regular old banana and besides my smoothie this morning had a banana in it already.

Here are some choices that I need to make:

Hold off till you get home?
You kidding me?  No way, no how, and besides my blood glucose levels will drop to a point where I feel faint.

Have a salad?
Ah, no!  I got to think of something more creative than that.  Besides I may need to have a couple to hit the spot.

Eat Thai cold spring rolls?
That is a possibility but I do know that the peanut sauce that comes with them is not raw.  Don't think the rice wrapper is either.  Saw a program where they cooked the rice first then processed it to make it a smooth consistency.

Juice it?
Yup that is a possibility. I'm sure I can find a juice bar that will prepare something for me.

Be creative!

Explore the grocery store and come up with a meal?
Okay we are getting somewhere now.  I could easily put something together using pre washed romain lettuce leaves as wrappers, but what to put in the wrapper?

Yup, you are right, I deserve it.  I should have planned a bit better and prepared something to go!  But the girl needs a break every so often, no?

Okay I like the last idea!  I'm off to make myself a lettuce wrap and fill it with everything raw.

I'll let you know what I put in it a bit later.

Have a Totally Raw Friday everyone!