Delicious winter salad with cabbage and carrot

Have you ever seen carrots this big?

Ingredients
1/2 head of white cabbage, shredded
1 carrot shredded, a little smaller than the ones on the picture ;-)
1 avocado, pitted
juice of 1/2 lemon
1 tsp of whole grain mustard
few tbsps of pure water

Preparation
Mix the cabbage and carrot in a large bow.
Make the dressing in a separate bowl by mixing the avocado, mustard, and lemon juice with a fork until smooth (you may use a blender if you like). Add water if necessary. It should have the consistency of mayonnaise.
Pour the dressing over the salad and toss.

Tip: you can prepare the cabbage & carrot in large quantity and save in the refrigerator for few days. Then you’ll always have some ready for a quick salad. To prepare, you’d then only have to add the dressing.

Enjoy!

How to pickle olives video

Here you see how you can pickle olives yourself. Fresh olives taste horrible, but once you pickle them ..... Watch the egg trick to find out how much salt you need!

Quinoa Salad - Diabetes Recipe from Tree of Life

Quinoa is a very ancient grain. It comes from South and Central America. Quinoa is high in protein.

This recipe is with cooked quinoa is considered a fase 1 diabetes recipe, which means that all diabetes patients can eat it, even when on a strict raw food diet. It doesn't raise blood sugar.
This quinoa salad is great for lunch or dinner. You can make extra for the next day.
It gets even better after a few hours or a day in the fridge.

Ingredients for one person
1 cup quinoa
2 cups good quality water
1/2 bunch cilantro, basil or parsley, chopped
1 diced tomato
1 stalk of celery
1/2 avocado
1/4 t chili powder
2 t cumin
1/2 - 1 t Himalaya salt or sea salt
2 T olive oil
2 T lemon juice
optional 1/2 bell pepper and a clove of garlic

Bring the quinoa and water to a boil.
Let is simmer for 15 minutes and cool down.
Mix all ingredients and enjoy this nutritious salad.

Beautiful mixed sprout salad with lovely edible flowers

Look at this beautiful dish, full with living foods in the most beautiful colors. Do you ever want to have a hamburger again, if you can have this on your plate. I wish I had these fantastic foods here in the Netherlands. I'm sure I'm going to find out, how to grow these lovely sprouts and edible flowers. My kids will love the flowers on their plate and be even more proud of their raw food diet.

Enjoy this inspiring video!

Raw tomatilla avocado salsa recipe - raw food video recipe

Here is a raw tomatilla salsa recipe with avocado. As you can see this video recipe is a little different from the one below. You can vary and create your own favorite raw tomatilla salsa recipe.

Try it and let me know, which combination you like best!

Raw tomato salsa recipe - raw food video recipe

This a very easy and fast raw food recipe for tomato salsa.
You can make it more or less spicy by varying the amount of (datil) pepper.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup organic tomatoes
1/2 shallot, sliced up
1/4 cup chopped cilantro
1 datil (or another kind of) pepper, diced
juice of 1/2 lime
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
freshly cracked black pepper
a good pinch of salt

Blend the tomatoes (little pieces still visible) in your food processor or blender.
Mix all ingredients together in a nice looking bowl. Eat the salsa with celery sticks, pieces of cucumber, on sprouted bread or dehydrated crackers.

Enjoy your homemade raw tomato salsa!

Homemade guacamole, a fast and easy raw food recipe

This raw food recipe for guacamole is fast and easy and you don't need any special equipment.
It is ready in minutes and everybody loves it.

Ingredients:
3 avocado's
1 lime
1/2 medium onion
1 medium tomato
3/4 cerano chili (or less if you prefer)
salt and pepper to taste

You can eat the guacamole with dehydrated crackers or use it as a dip for raw broccoli rosettes, carrots, radishes, celery or cucumber.
It is also great as a filling for wraps, sushi or nori rolls.

Simple, quick and easy raw food recipes with Paul Nison

Preparing raw food is not difficult. You don't need to cook, bake or do other difficult things. With some creativity, you can come up with the most delicious dishes.

Here Paul Nison shows you how to make a very simple, basic raw food recipe. Quick and easy to make. He calls it blended salad. Some call it energy soup or a blended smoothie.

Basic ingredients:
1 avocado
1/2 cucumber
1 stalk of celery
1 tomato
handful of greens or several handfuls of greens, like spinach
1 clove of garlic
seasalt to taste

You can also add lemon, orange juice, edible flowers, fennel or sea vegetables for a change. Experiment with sea vegetables, they are very healthy.

Preparing raw food is the fastest and easiest way to prepare food!

Broccoli with tahini dip sauce, a great raw food snack

This snack is great, if you sit down in the afternoon or evening and want to eat something healthy, that is easy to make. You can also serve it on parties.

Serves two

Ingredients:
½ - 1 small head of broccoli

For the dip sauce:
4 tablespoons raw tahini
1/3 cup water
1 teaspoon lemon
½ teaspoon salt

Cut the broccoli into florets.
Mix all the ingredients for the dip sauce with a spoon.

Sit down, relax and enjoy your broccoli and tahini snack.
You can also add radishes, carrot-, cucumber- and bell pepper sticks.

If you add some dehydrated crackers or sprouted Essene bread, you have a whole meal.

Raw food recipe for a delicious salad with red beets and apple

This delicious raw food salad from red beets and apples looks great on your plate, especially if you put it on a leaf of green (Romaine) salad. Red beet contains a lot of iron and is a traditional folk medicine against anemia.

Ingredients:
1 big red beet or 2 small ones
4 apples
1 tablespoon lemon
1 tablespoon honey
1 teaspoon ground caraway
fresh basil pepper and salt to taste

Wash the beet or peel it. If you peel the beet, it tastes less earthy.
Grate the beet and the apple.

For the dressing mix the lemon, honey, pepper, salt and caraway.

Pour the dressing over the grated beet and apple and add the basil.
Mix all the ingredients en enjoy your salad!

Healthy Raw Recipe for a Salad with Pineapple, Tomato and Walnut

Do you want to make a special raw food dish?
Try this delicious salad with pineapple, tomato and walnut.
Together with dehydrated crackers, you have a complete meal.

Ingredients:
1 pineapple, cut into cubes
4 big tomatoes, cut into cubes
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
12 black olives, in small pieces
1 stalk celery, chopped
2 tablespoons chives, minced

Dressing:
1/2 cup olive oil, extra virgin
1 tablespoon mustard
2 tablespoons lemon
1 tablespoon agave nectar
salt and pepper to taste

Mix all the salad ingredients in a big bowl.
Prepare the dressing and add it. Mix the salad.

Bon appétit!

My Secret: Chinese Five Element Theory in Your Raw Food Diet

In Chinese Medicine there are five elements: earth, metal, water, wood and fire.
Everything in life, also the food we eat, can be categorized in these five elements.
You can make your raw food diet even more exciting, better looking and better tasting, by using this five element theory.

Basics of the Chinese five element theory:

- The wood element corresponds to the color green, spring, the sour taste and the Gallbladder and Liver meridian. Foods belonging to the wood element are lemon, pear, plum, mango, sauerkraut, wheat and barley. Also sprouts, the young plants of spring, belong to this wood element.

- The fire element corresponds to the color red, summer, the bitter taste and the Small Intestine and Heart meridian. Foods belonging to the fire element are hops, radish leaf, romaine lettuce, alfalfa, dandelion, chocolate, corn and many herbs. Also the large leafy plants of summer (often bitter) belong to this fire element.

- The earth element corresponds to the color yellow, late summer, the sweet taste and the Stomach and the Spleen meridian. Foods belonging to the earth element are honey, apple, cherry, banana, corn, carrot, sesame oil, yam and millet (yellow). Also the late summer fruits belong to this earth element.

- The metal element corresponds to the color white, autumn, the pungent taste and the Colon and Lung meridian. Foods belonging to the metal element are onion, chive, coriander, parsley, radish, garlic, ginger, cayenne, peppermint, clove and rice (white). Also the small contracted plants belong to this metal element.

- The water element corresponds to the colors blue or black, winter, the salty taste and the Bladder and Kidney meridian. Foods belonging to the water element are salt, kelp, seaweed, nama shoyu, salty pickles, olives, celery and beans. Also the roots of plants belong to this water element.

To eat a balanced diet, it is necessary to eat all the different tastes regularly. It is best to have them all in each meal.

An example of a balanced meal is:

1 a smoothie with banana (sweet), avocado (sweet), small amount of lemon (sour), raw chocolate (bitter), a celery stalk (salt) and a pinch of cayenne (pungent)

2 a salad with romaine lettuce (bitter), olives (salt), grated carrot (sweet), red onion (pungent), sesame oil (sweet) and lemon (sour)

3 a juice of apple (sweet), lemon (sour), celery (salt), romaine lettuce (bitter) and ginger (pungent)

4 a dehydrated cracker with flaxseed (sweet), tomato (sweet and sour), nama shoyu (salt), chive (pungent) and white pepper (bitter and pungent)

As you can see, it’s not difficult to eat according to the Chinese five elements. If you vary your diet, it happens automatically.
If you want to create special, nice looking, great tasting dishes, keep the five elements, the five colors and the five tastes in mind. Now you have my secret to the best tasting and best looking healthy raw food dishes ;-)

Raw Food Recipe for Orange-Sesame Salad Dressing

Here is a delicious raw food recipe for an orange-sesame salad dressing.

Ingredients:
4 tablespoons orange juice
1 teaspoon orange rind
1 teaspoon mustard
2 tablespoons sesame seeds (not roasted)
4 tablespoons sesame oil
1 tablespoon fresh tarragon or dill, minced
pepper and salt to taste

This dressing tastes great on a mixed salad with baby greens, bell pepper and spring onion or on a mixed salad with chicory, grated carrots and walnuts.

Raw Food Recipe for Fennel-Orange Salad with Lemon Dressing

If you want to prepare something special, try this delicious salad recipe.

Ingredients:
3 oranges
3 fennel roots
1 red onion
½ cup black olives, pitted
1 or 2 tablespoons lemon juice
4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
pepper and salt to taste

Peel the oranges thicker than usual, so that you also take off the outer white layer.
Slice the oranges, the fennel roots and the onion.
Mix the sliced orange, fennel root, red onion and pitted olives.

For the raw dressing, mix the lemon juice, olive oil, pepper and salt.
Pour the dressing over your salad, mix well, and enjoy!

Greens and Raw Food for the Best Acid Alkaline Balance

Interview with Mark Galvin on:
- greens, the importance of greens for the right acid alkaline balance in the body
- what are the benefits of raw food
- enzymes, vitamins and minerals in raw uncooked food
- the dairy conspiracy
- mucoid plaque
- vegan bodybuilding and quality protein

Our diet should be 80% alkaline and 20% acid. The diet of most people is 70% acid and 30% alkaline. Greens make the body alkaline. Barley grass is very good for alkalizing, so is chlorella. On a daily basis eat plenty of greens in your diet. Fresh salads and uncooked food contain a lot more enzymes, vitamins and minerals, than cooked foods. In a warmer climate it's easy to live on a live food diet, in colder climates, you need warmer foods. But always add a lot of salads to your (raw food) diet.
You can also add wild plants. They are great for alkalizing. Examples are stinging nettle, hawthorn and dandelion. Stinging nettle is an anti-inflammatory and it cleans the blood. Hawthorn is great for the hart. Dandelion is a diuretic. Make a soup of them and drink it.
The vegan raw food diet has plenty of good quality protein. This protein is unprocessed and undamaged and the body can use it. There is a vegan world champion bodybuilder at the moment. He is a wonderful example. He eats plenty of everything and it is all vegan.
Dairy products are very mucous forming, fattening and causing heart disease. Pasteurising destroys all the enzymes in dairy. Our dairy products have changed a lot over the past 20 years.

Grow Your Own Bean Sprouts: Lentils

This short video shows exactly how to grow your own bean (lentil) sprouts. Growing sprouts is easy, cheap and healthy. Sprouts are very rich in nutrients.

Make sure to buy organic beans, seeds and grains to sprout. Some commercial beans, seeds and grains are treated, to prevent sprouting.

My children love to grow their own sprouts. This is a great way, to make them eat healthy food.

Easy Recipe for Health Food: Sprouting Seeds

Are you looking for an easy and cheap health food recipe? Consider sprouting seeds!

Many people complain: health food is so expensive. Yes, some health food is very expensive. But did you ever realize, that the best food on earth is often the cheapest? Think about wild herbs and sprouts. They cost hardly anything. They are complete foods, full of lifeforce, but we tend to forget about them.

Sprouts are full of nutrients: vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, amino acids, easy to digest carbohydrates and enzymes. They taste great in salads, smoothies, stuffed vegetables, herb teas or as a garnish.

A wellknown delicious sprout is alfalfa. It has a high mineral content, containing magnesium, calcium, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, sodium, potassium and other minerals.
They are easy to grow yourself. Even in winter in the city.

Take a hand full of seeds. Soak them overnight and throw away the soaking water. Place them on a deep plate in the daylight and rinse them twice a day. They should stay moist all the time, but not wet.
After a day, the alfalfa seeds start sprouting. First you see white ends appearing. After a few days, these turn green. Now they are ready to eat. At this point they taste the best.
You can keep these seeds (covered) in the fridge for a few days.

Do you have kids, who don't want to eat greens?
Let them grow their own sprouts!

Raw Olives Marinated with Fresh Herbs

Use fresh raw olives for this recipe. If they are very salty, soak them first for a few hours and throw away the soaking water. Put them in a bowl.

Pour over some olive oil to cover and stir in your favorite fresh herbs or a few shakes of dried Italian herbs. Add 1 or 2 cloves of fresh garlic and some lemon peel.

Marinate in the fridge for 1 or 2 days. Bring to room temperature before serving.

Personally I would not eat them with cheese and crackers, but in my salad or as a side dish.

Take a special look at the part about growing your own garlic grass. I'll give it a try!

Recipe for Raw Olive Tapenade

This raw homemade olive tapenade is great with dehydrated crackers, sprouted bread, salads or inside sushi or wraps.

Ingredients:
30 raw olives
1/3 cup pine nuts
1 handful of basil
2 sundried tomatoes, soaked
1 tomato
1 clove of garlic
a little bit of soaking water from the tomatoes
a pinch of cayenne

If the olives are too salty, you can soak them first and throw away the soaking water.
Blend all ingredients with a (handhold) blender or food processor.
Don't blend until smooth. The tapenade should still contain little pieces.

Enjoy this healthy dish!

Recipe for Raw Almond "Peanut" Sauce

This raw almond "peanut" sauce it a variation of the traditional peanut sauce everybody knows.

Ingredients:
1 cup raw almond butter
2 tablespoons of fresh grated ginger
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup agave nectar
1 teaspoon sea salt or 3 tablespoons nama shoyu
3 tablespoons lemon juice
2 gloves garlic
1/4 teaspoon cayenne

This sauce tastes like commercial peanut sauce, but it's much healthier because it's raw. It doesn't contain transfats, which are bad for us. But it does contain essential fatty acids, which most western people have a lack of and which are very good for us.
You can eat this sauce with zucchini spaghetti, as a dip with your vegetables, inside wraps or as a salad dressing.
You can vary the consistency by adding more or less water.