i have worked at two juice bars here in LA and think i’ve gotten a pretty good taste of the raw food experience. i’ve sampled and prepared many raw creations, learned about the health benefits and most importantly, met a lot of people that have plenty of experience with raw food.
personally, a completely raw diet [...]
i’ve been baking vegan treats for at least 2 or 3 years now and i can safely say that i’ve got the cookie down. there are so many cookie recipes already that leave out eggs or substitute oil for butter, that a vegan cookie recipe is easy to come by and hard to screw up.
but [...]
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i’ve been getting really into baking my own bread lately. why buy loaves for sandwiches or buns for burgers at the grocery store when i can just bake them fresh myself!? in the past few weeks this recipe has become a fast favorite of mine – it is a completely whole wheat roll that is [...]
i’ve been working at my local juice bar for a few months now where we make all the milk for our smoothies fresh daily. we make coconut milk by blending the meat and the water – we make almond, oat and buckwheat milks by simply soaking, blending and straining the grains or nuts.
the pulp that’s [...]
sometimes you want a nice pasta dish without having that heavy, starchy fullness it can leave you with. that’s where spaghetti squash comes in. it takes a little longer to cook than regular pasta, but it tastes and feels a lot lighter, can be prepared any way pasta is, and is a gluten-free, low-carb, low-calorie [...]
when i first had the idea for this recipe i wanted to call it a lavenderdoodle. i was inspired by the simplicity of snickerdoodles – basically a sugar cookie rolled in cinnamon sugar – so i wanted to make a version with lavender instead.
but the final result ended up much more subtle, not resembling a [...]