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!

Ani Phyo serves a delicious raw food meal

Ani Phyo on Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern.

Ani serves a delicious raw food meal in the Holywood hills, consisting of raw lasagne, raw burgers and ..... a durian smoothie!

Sergei Boutenko on the wild strawberry

Wild strawberries are rich in vitamin A, C, and K. In minerals calcium, iron, potassium, and silicon. They are good for fever, diarrhea, dysentery, liver, kidneys, and much more...

This week Sergei and Valya will be in the Netherlands. They will give a presentation in Limburg on Saturday October 4th and in Amsterdam on Monday October 6th. For more information go to www.rawfood.nl.

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Lucuma-yacon ice cream with Ani Phyo

Ani Phyo makes a delicious lucuma flavored ice cream made with cashews and sweetened with yacon.

Ingredients
1/2 cup lucuma powder
1 cup cashews
vanilla extract or a vanilla bean
1/4 cup yacon syrup (or agave, maple syrup or honey)
1 cup filtered water

Blend, freeze and enjoy this delicious caramel ice cream!

Creamy celery soup, a delicious and light summer soup

This creamy celery soup is a delicious and light summer soup.

Ingredients
2 cup shaved celery root
3 cups diced celery
3 cups macadamia nuts or pine nuts
1 t Himalayan salt
¼ cup lemon juice
4 cups water
tomatoes, chopped mint and shaved celery root as a garnish

Blend all the ingredients for 2 ½ minutes. Garnish with some celery root en tomato.
Top it off with fresh mint.

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.

Under the Sea Salad from the Tree of Life in Arizona

This diabetes friendly recipe, made by chef Michela from the Tree of Life in Patagonia, Arizona, tastes great with lettuce leaves, in a nori roll, with crackers or with chopped vegetables. You can make a lighter variation in summer and a creamier one in winter.
This pâté lasts for about three days in the fridge.

Ingredients:
2 cups nuts or seeds of choise
2T lemon juice
2T dill, minced
1T oregano, minced
1t black pepper, ground
1t sage, minced
1t kelp powder
½ t Himalayan or sea salt
1/3 cup celery, fine chopped

Watch this video to see how you can prepare it.

Enjoy!

Raw food lessons by and for kids: Little Zion makes raw cookies

This video is so cute. Little Zion, about 4 years old, makes her own raw cookies.
If she can do it, you can definitely do it.

Enjoy!

Collard wraps, a raw food lunch recipe with little Isadora

Little Isadora, 4 years old, shows you how to make collard wraps.
It’s child’s play. Making raw food is easy.
Here you see how to make a delicious raw food lunch.

How to make raw pasta with Victoria Boutenko

Making raw pasta is very easy. You can do it in a few minutes. I usually add fresh basil, garlic and onion to the tomato sauce. Raw courgette is great for the pasta itself. Enjoy!

Flax crackers, basic raw food recipe with Karen Knowler

Karen Knowler shows how to make flax crackers, a basic raw food recipe.
You need a food processor and dehydrater or normal oven for this recipe.

Ingredients:
1 cup of flax seed
1 cup fresh tomatoes
1/2 red bell pepper
1/4 cup of sundried tomatoes, best pre-soaked
small clove of garlic
juice of half a juicy lemon

Process all the ingredients and dehydrate them.
Enjoy your delicious crispy flax crackers.

For another video on basic flax crackers and using a normal oven watch:
http://rawfoodsuccess.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-to-make-basic-flax-seed-crackers.html

Raw food video: How to make raw vegan sushi and nori rolls

In this video, you can see the basics of making raw vegan sushi. Make sure to have the black nori sheets, they are raw. Some Asian stores sell green nori sheets, which are roasted. Instead of wasabi, you can take fresh horseradish, which is very similar to the main ingredient of wasabi and often used as a substitute. It has a strong flavor, so be careful. And buy raw natural nama shoyu, not the commercial kind.

Personally I add more things to the nut pâté, like fresh herbs, lemon and tomato. You can also use sprouts and edible weeds inside your sushi or nori roll. To close the noriroll, wet the seam with a little water. Press gently to make your roll firm enough to cut it into small slices. It´s a great idea to put it in the freezer for five minutes before slicing.

Enjoy your sushi!

Edible weeds: Dandelion with Sergei Boutenko, Harmony Hikes

Dandelion is an edible weed, that you can find almost everywhere in northern climates. All parts are edible: the roots, leaves and flower. There are 300 different kinds of dandelion, all edible. They have different sizes. If you want to check, if you have a dandelion, flip over the leaf and check the main vein. It should be smooth, not hairy. If you are not sure, don’t eat it.

Dandelion is good for:
- Arthritis, anemia, breast cancer and cancer in general, candida, cysts and urinary tract infections.
- Dandelion is good for is good for the kidney, liver, gallbladder (not mentioned in this video), bladder, pancreas and spleen.
- Emotional satisfaction and wellbeing.

It contains the vitamins A, B, C en according to some even vitamin B12.
It contains the minerals beta-carotene, phosphor, magnesium and calcium.

Dandelion Pesto:
Ingredients:
Dandelion greens
Dandelion flowers
Garlic
Basil
A lime
Pinenuts
Salt
Extra virgin olive oil

Watch the video for the approximate amounts and experiment.

To your dandelion success!

Raw Live Lasagna Recipe made at Blossoming Lotus, Kauai, Hawaii

Look at this fantastic raw food recipe for live lasagna, it looks so beautiful and delicious. This inspiring video is made at Blossoming Lotus, Kauai, Hawaii.
Before we get "cooking" this live lasagna, we head out to visit the local organic and bio-dynamic farms that supply Blossoming Lotus.

I would love to visit Hawaii someday. After seeing this video, even more so :-)

Fast and easy raw food recipe for a cashew cheese sandwich

This is a very fast and easy raw food recipe. Within a few minutes you prepare a whole meal.
Take cabbage or romaine lettuce leaves, make a nut pâté, add some sprouts and if you like other vegetables and create a fantastic and nourishing raw food dish.

Ingredients nut pâté:
1 cup cashews
½ sunflower seeds
2 limes
1 cup red bell peppers and yellow bell peppers
½ handful parsley
1/4 red onion
2 cloves of garlic
little rosemary
pinch of sea salt

For the sandwich:
cabbage or romaine lettuce leaves
nut pâté
sprouts
optional: cucumber, black olives, more onions, mushrooms, more bell pepper

Mix the ingredients for the nut pâté in your food processor or blender.
Make a pretty fine puree with a little bit of chunks, not like a smoothie.
You can also add olive oil, more salt, cayenne, chili powder or curry, whatever you like.

Take the cabbage leaves, add the nut pâté and sprouts and other vegetables and make a sandwich out of it.
You can put in on a bed of rucola or spinach with a little salad dressing on top and your meal is ready!

Watermelon juice: use the whole watermelon for a refreshing drink

Did you ever juice a whole watermelon? You can use the pink inside, the white part, but also the green rind. Save some flesh to eat later and juice the rest. Watermelon juice is a fantastic and refreshing summer drink.

Dr. Barbara Hendel: how to make sole from Himalayan crystal salt

Dr. Barbara Hendel demonstrates how to make a sole drink from natural Himalayan ground salt or crystal salt and natural spring water for a daily energizing and detoxifying drink.

This sole drink is very easy to make. You dissolve Himalayan ground salt or crystal salt in good quality water. Use enough salt, so that there is still salt visible on the bottom. This way you make a sterile salt solution of 26% salt.

Take a teaspoon or half a teaspoon of this sole and mix it into a glass of good quality water. Drink this every morning on an empty stomach. This sole drink contains the energy of the sun (sole means sun in Latin) and is great to build up energy. It also helps your digestion and to detoxify.

You can take this sole every morning for six weeks or two months, stop for a while and start again. You will feel much better and have more energy.

Victoria Boutenko makes raw almond milk, an easy raw food recipe

Victoria Boutenko makes raw almond milk. In this video you see, how fast and easy it goes. Going to the store to buy soy, rice, nut or cows milk takes a whole lot longer and is much more expensive. A Vitamix (or any other blender) full with fresh almond milk costs you about 50 cents.

You can keep this nut milk in the fridge for about two days.
Instead of almonds, you can use sunflower seeds, macadamia's, cashews, walnuts, sesame seeds or any other kind of nut or seed. It is best to soak nuts overnight or at least four hours before you use them. This makes them easier to digest. Throw away the soaking water.

The leftover pulp from the nuts is great in salads, desserts, pies, dehydrated crackers or smoothies. You can also make seed cheese from it.

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!