Fresh Herbs

Tuesday a friend called me and asked me if I could use some fresh herbs. I was SO excited. I have just fallen in love with fresh herbs since starting to eat the way I have. I can't believe the difference in the flavor! I brought them home and dehydrated them so they will last a longer . Then if I want them "fresh" I just have to soak them for a short time to "REhydrate" them!
Here is the Oregano... Mmmmmmm..... Smells SO good !!!

On the Road Again Bars

Sarah and I are getting ready to go on a little road trip next week. Since I am eating the way I do I need to take most of my food with me. Here is one of the snacks that I tried and I think it's going to be a hit (at least with me!)

On-The-Road-Again Bars

Recipe can be found in the book "Rawsome" by Brigitte Mars.

Sometimes Things Just DON'T Turn Out The Way You Plan !

This morning I was so excited, I was going to get my first batch of homemade fruit roll-ups going!(You know how you feel when you are making something from scratch and you are so excited to be making something special!! I was invisioning taking some to church Wed.night and giving them to my grandsons who would be SOOOO thrilled at the thought that GRANDMA made them !!)

Things started out beautifully! I was also excited to share it with you.....

Just look how nice they look :O)

Two trays turned out great.... two stuck pretty bad and yet they were brittle if that area was dry... the instructions said to turn them over and let them dry a little longer (and the very middle was still not firm SO... I thought okay... this makes sense)

I turned them over for about another 20 minutes......

And my fruit roll-ups became "fruit CHIPS"!! They just got so brittle...SO...We WILL try again....

Anyone out there ever successfully made fruit roll ups and have ANY words of wisdom for me BEFORE I try again???

OH...by the way....

THEY ARE REALLY GOOD !!! :O)

First Raw Foodies Get-together

Saturday noon Rebecca and Rachel hosted the FIRST (there WILL be more:O) )

Raw food get-together at Beck's since Rache was back from Indiana. It was so much fun. There were 5 of us that came. Beck, Rache and I have been eating this way for a while ( I am still new at it... the other girls have been "raw" for quite a while) April and Shannon were just kinda feeling it out... When most people think raw they just think.... SALADS....RAW fruits and Raw vegetables and that's all you get.... You DEFINATELY do eat a lot of the fruits and veggies BUT there is SO MUCH MORE to it....

This is Raw Lasagna

(no real noodles, meat or cheese.... BUT...Oh, SO yummy!!)

Sunflower seed Pata' with homemade flax crackers
Flax Pancakes
Cheesecake
Sadly... I forgot to take a picture of the homemade ICE CREAM !!!
(I must have been oooo-ing and ahhhhh-ing over it too much to think about my camera:O))
I also made my zucchini snacks and my chocolate (go to the 2 latest posts before this one)
one of our hostesses in the kitchen

Sisters AND Hostesses!

( Thanks girls !! It was SO much fun !!!)

Beck and April

Shannon and me

We will have another one before long... YOU will have to come :O)

Zucchini Snacks

I am always trying to find healthy snacks for Myron and I and I had the idea for this a couple of weeks and I just kept working on it and today I was finally pretty happy with the results. This little gadget is really a LOT of fun. A friend loaned it to me for a few days and I have been buying zucchini and spiraling away !!! It is called a veggie spiral cutter. There are three different cutting blade sizes. I have used ALL of them!! The first one seemed perfect until I dehydrated them... They started out about the size of curly fries and ended up about the size of "sprouts" !!!!! :O(

Last night I tried the next size.... STILL too small. Today I tried this one and as you can see from the last few pictures they are still pretty small, but I decided to "pile" the spirals up and that really did work pretty well.

After cutting them I tossed them with some olive oil and herbs.

Looking forward to having a lot of zucchini in my garden this year so I can stay ahead of Myron's snacking with these :O)

Am I Deprived?

NOT AT ALL !!! I am completely enjoying my almost completely Raw lifestyle! BUT... Today I especially DON'T feel like I am !!! I just made this incredible Dark chocolate that melts in your mouth! It is SO healthy for you too. NO guilt chocolate! You CAN'T get any better than that !!! :O)

Ingredients:

- Half a cup cacao butter (melted amount)

- Half a cup cacao powder, sifted

- 2 T agave nectar

- 1/4 cup goji berries

- 1/4 cup almonds, chopped coarsely

Directions:

- On a 7" plate (you can use the bottom of a springform pan or I even used a muffin tin), arrange the almonds and goji berries so they are uniform.

- Mix the cacao butter, powder and agave nectar until smooth. Pour gently over the berries and almonds, until uniformly covered.

- Place the plate in the freezer for the chocolate to firm up, about 15 minutes.