Dishing out my awards..

Okay so it has taken me a few days to decide who to nominate my 5 Blogger awards to. So I hope I manage to do this right!!

Link back to Writers Review to collect your award !
http://www.writersreviews.com/2007/07/writers-reviews-blogger-awards.html

Here goes..

1. Creative Blogger Award

http://rawdorable.blogspot.com/
Shannon Marie @ Rawadorable

Her creations are truly amazing, posts thoughtful, inspiring and always intresting and a joy to read!

A creative genius!

The rest are all Inspirational Blogger Awards

2. Going Banana's

http://sarah811.blogspot.com/

Sarah's blog is amazing, inspiring and really was a life saver!! This is one of the blogs I read daily at the start of my journey, which has lead to me finding healing from crohns. Sarahs frank, thought provoking and intelligent blog gave me the kick I needed to get RAW!!

So Many Thanks, and a very deserved award Sarah!

3. Raw Model

http://rawmodelcom.blogspot.com/

This blogger is thought provoking, hard hitting and hits to the core of some hard issues as well as the day to day raw lifestyle. Amazing blog, essential reading!!

4. Banana Island

http://bananaislandgetaway.blogspot.com/

Yes.. The lovely Connie and family. Inspiring, intresting, lots of fruity fun and never a dull post!! You guys RAW-K hard!!


5. Blue Skies Within 80-10-10 Blogger

http://blueskieswithin.blogspot.com/
Showing the true ups and downs of 8-1-1 and her own healing. Truly inspiring!!-- always great to see other guys doing high fruit!!

Apricot sesame cookies..

Apricot Sesame cookies

Soaked 200g Apricots—dried

For about an hour, you could do for longer.

Blended, with as little water necessary—I left some chunks in for a bit of bite, along with the puree.

Then poured the puree out, with the chunks. Stirred in 150g sunflower seeds, approx 50g coconut—was just what was left.

I then rolled the mixture into balls, flattened and coated in shredded coconut.

Voila!

Here they are, now popping them in the D for a short while. If you wanted to do it without, I would add 150g almond flour to dry them out nicely, then refrigerate.

These remind me of oatmeal/dried fruit cookies you get as a kid—they smell lovely, will report back on the taste!!

Here they are after being in the D for.. about 6-8 hours, crunchy on the outside, soft and moist inside..yummy!! Raw biscuit jar!

Next project… fruit soup..Watch this space.

Raw kitchen toys...

Okay so I have bought a few things today, for enjoyment, playtime and to bring extra joy to my creations this week!



I think presentation can really help-- sure I am happy now eating just fruits etc..but sometimes its nice to eat like a Queen--- make it a beautiful, vibrant affair..and really enjoy your meal. Rather than feeling deprived eating a solitude banana off a plate!! It isnt about deprivation, its about fun, playtime and joy..



I am not going to photo all the things, mainly as I will showcase them in action in the next few days!!


The lovely ShanonMarie... AKA .http://www.rawdorable.blogspot.com/ had some lovely looking pudding in a 50s style dish this week, so I bought a very heavy knickerbocker glory glass. Fabulous, really retro and.. just drop dead gorgeous!!!



Also got some chopping boards--glass and wooden, yes I use a plate, pizza stone or bamboo boards.. so time for something new!



Huge stainless steel mixing bowl.. can double as a fruit bowl also



Square plate with matching soup bowl-- simple but lovely. All white-- thinking of doing a fruit soup in these



Also found some weird and wonderful gadgets in the corner of a bargain shop! .. wooden scewers..long ones.. fruit kebabs!! :)



Veryyy excited about all my new purchases!! Will post again later my foods etc for the day, some photographs.



Its freezing and snowy so just having a relaxed day.



Thats all for now!

Unbaking...results

Okay so a bit of an experiment, not a very costly one considering it was all fruits, no nut butters or nuts etc..

so here it is, I was impatient, turned it out, so the base was on top, lovely vibrant pink colour-- think it would work well as a layered cake.

Anyway here it is

Thinking would work in a chocolate stack layer cake..very nicely :)

Unbaking time...

Okay so I finally got my bluetooth dongle today, so can now take pics on my phone and move them onto my pc! yipee

Here is from last week strawberry chocolate desert, topped with strawberries

4-5 Cut strawberries
1/2 cup coconut-- mature, grated or organic shredded store bought

blended, add carob to taste

This was rich and filling.. whats better than eating choc pudding first thing in the morning!! Tastes better than anything SAD I ever tasted!!

This one is in the making currently.

The base is raspberries/coconut
(15 rasberries/ 1/2 cup coconut)

layer on top carob/banana/raspberries

(3 tablespoons carob, 3 banana, 10 raspberries)

Just an experiment so very very rough.. but man it smells so so good!!

If it comes out well I will refine it at the and give you some proper measurements

Its dehydrating atm..so will report back when its finished!

Here is the base being mushed, and the dehydrating "pudding cake"

Green Smoothie joy..

So 6am I woke up.. blended together a load of stuff, threw in some raw cacao and took it to work with me..

Lots of people came to my desk, shook it, sniffed it..looked at this brown smoothie..perplexed as to what it was!... okay so blueberries I have found not such a great idea, they have a gelling property of their own-- which is fab for making raw jellies, but not so much for smoothie unless you want a giant brown jelly(JELLO to you lovely Americans)!!

Okay so I am in love with green smoothies, in fact I start getting a cold sweat if there isn't 3 hands of banana's and at least three types of greens in the fridge!!

Frozen Banana seems to make a velvety mylk that works as a perfect base, then soft fruits.. greens.. ice if wanted..for a kick a bit of cacao or goji berries towards the end..

Mmmmmm!!

My camera is down at the moment but I will take pictures and post recipes as soon as I can of various smoothie variations I am trying!!

I don't ever eat greens, but more than happy to drink them this way!

Go on...be brave... try a green smoothie... (green moustache..far sexier than a mlyk one!!)

As a side note:

Some fab Green smoothie sites I found today

Green Smoothie Recipes http://www.eatsprouts.com/blend/green.html

Valerie Winters Experiment (closed now but awesome) http://greensmoothieexperiment.blogspot.com/

Some green..... raw-kin video's!!

Inspirational blogger.... Thank you Banana Island!!

Thank you so much Connie for your sweet nomination!!

So glad you enjoy my little commentary!! So pleased, it was one of those nights I was feeling so low, and this has shoved me and kept me going!! -- was just thinking how to keep going, keep inspiring and starting a little raw-volution in my home!!

Thank you so much.. link here for Writers Review :)

http://www.writersreviews.com/2007/07/writers-reviews-blogger-awards.html

So with that.. I will continue, if my rambling on is inspiring then I hope long may it continue!!

Today had a huge green smoothie; greens, blueberries, 2 banana and some agave, raw cacao

Going to make banana mlyk tonight

Excited, motivated!!.. watch this space :)