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Honeydew Melon Cooler

This summer a church associate has been supplying us with a bounty of fruits. Sometimes we aren't able to finish them,especially the melons. This drink is a true testament to what great ideas one can come up with when faced with bounty overload.

To make this drink wash the honeydew mellon

Cut the top and bottom off the honeydew

Slice the skin off the sides

Cut in half

Score out the middle

Place the flesh inside your blender

Add maple syrup to taste

freeze and serve.

Fun Fact : Honeydew melon contain omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids

Luscious Cantalope Milk

Luscious Cantaloupe Milk

 

When your taste buds get a hold of this drink their going to scream why wasn’t I ever introduced to this before? This drink is awesome; it’s the right balance of creamy and sweet.

 

 

1 just ripe cantaloupe juiced with skin

3 cups of raw cashew milk

½ cup of agave

A Pinch of Celtic salt

 

 

 

Step 1:  Make the nut milk in your nut milk maker or blender

Step 2:  Juice the cantaloupe in your juicer

Step 3: Add the cashew milk and cantaloupe juice together in a large bowl, stir in the agave and salt. Chill and serve.

 

Grown Up Caramel Apples

 

 

 

Sweet Caramel Sauce

 

 

This is a great recipe because not only is it rich in caramel flavor but it is extremely versatile. Use it for fruit dips, cake icings, ice cream toppings,  or  to make caramel apples.

 

 

 

1/3 cup of Lucama powder

1/8 cup of coconut oil

½ cup of maple syrup

1 teaspoon of salt

1 scrapped vanilla bean

 

 

Step 1: Place everything in the food processor and process until well blended.

 

            

            Lucama Fruit is dried and ground iinto a fine powder for mass   production.  

            

Watermelon Three Easy Ways

 

                                                                                            Watermelon Picture Credit

Watermelon is juice-a-licious you can't deny it, when you cut into a crisp juicy watermelon and place it into your mouth it is like breaking through a juicy sugary piece of  heaven.

This season watermelon is big around here I usually buy one per week and devour it in less than two days.

    

 

Their are tons of watermelon varieties and there's even a moon and stars variety with yellow skin,can you believe it ?

Also for the married people watermelon is  a natural aphrodisiac, there's actually not a blue variety however you get the point.

 

Watermelon Juice

Watermelon juice is so nutritious and super easy too. This is a great breakfast tonic to get your body going and started off on the right track.

 

Half of watermelon

 

Step 1: scoop out the inside of a half of watermelon; place the meat in your blender, blend and drink.

 

For a tastier drink add agave and a little ginger to taste.

                              

                                                  Frozen Watermelon Juice Margarita

                                                                                                         

                             

                                                                  Watermelon with Ginger Slices

                             

 

Newbie Tuesday's

 

Newbie Tuesday's is a new addition to Raw Experiences, it is a day were I will focus excluslively on easy but satisfying recipes for newbies or others who would like to spend a little less time in the kitchen !

 

 

Cinnamon Crispies 

 

Buckwheat is natures little raw Rice Crispies!This cereal is crunchy and crisp with natural cinnamon flavor. You can eat it plain or add your favorite nut milk for a true cereal and milk experience.

 

2 Cups of raw Buckwheat

1 ½ cups of water

½ cup of agave or maple syrup

one tablespoon of cinnimon

Pinch of Celtic salt

Dash of stevia

 

 

Step  1:  Soak the Buckwheat in 11/2 cups of water for at least 4 hours.

Step 2: Strain and rinse the buckwheat then place it into a bowl

Step 3: Add the remaining ingredients and mix well

Step 4: Spread the buckwheat evenly over your texflex sheet and dehydrate overnight

 

Fun Buckwheat Fact : Buckwheat is actually a fruit

 

 

Smoothie Solution

 

 

There's nothing that a smoothie can't do ! They can be desserts,snacks,or complete meals ! Also you can talior fit them to your specific nutritional need. Green smothies are great for your skin and can aid in the repair of cells. Sweet smoothies like strawberry and blueberry are great as natural pick me ups and bad snack replacements. They also help to give you the raw glow because they need less digestion from the body and go straight into the blood stream.I have enjoyed all of these in great gratitude. They are also very child friendly and  Grown ups love them too. So continue to drink up I know I will !

                   Whats your favorite smoothie or smoothie combination ?

                                                                                                                                            Avocado Smoothie and Recipe from bewellbuzz

Avocado Smoothie Recipe

Half a ripe Avocado                                       1. Vanilla Bliss Smoothie

2 frozen bananas                                             2. Cantaloupe Strawberry

5 frozen or fresh strawberries                   3. Coconut Blueberry

splash of nut milk                                            4. Strawberry Banana

Pinch of cardamom                                        5. Blueberry Strawberry

Pinch of all spice                                              6. Coconut Banana

Blend and serve                                                7. Strawberry

                                                                                8. Strawberry almond Butter Cup frozen

 

Raw Blueberry Yogurt over Agave Infused Fruit Medoly

 

 

 

Hello Lovely's,I have been dying for a taste of pure yogurt you know the puss free kind. The kind that's not made with killer alternative rat poison better known as aspartame. Sorry if im being to  descriptive but the truth is the truth. I bet if there was a commercial for yogurt that said get your daily puss and rat poison all in one cup their sales would go under the ground. So instead of activaaaaaaaaaaaaa I am calling my raw yogurt pussfreevaaaaaa :) Thall be all and I know that thall isn't a word.

Off topic I heard a vegan joke that I would love to share with ya. Is a vegan allowed to eat animal crackers ? at least it's better that the where do you get your protein question.

 

Apple Bar

 

This apple bar is sticky,sweet and crunchy who could ask for anything more.

Peach Smoothies

 

Me and my mother loves smoothies,peach is an often overlooked fruit option however you really don't know what your missing. Pech smoothies rawk !

 

Peach Smoothie

 

Peach Smoothie

Coconut Crisps

 

Raw Coconut

 

 

Coconut Crisp Cereal

 

 

I love being creative and fun,this cereal is a true testament of  what can be done using raw foods.

Beautiful Raw Photography the Fruity Addition

   

   

 

 

 

The Granola Monolouge

Date and Raisin Granola

 

Apple Granola

 

Coconut Granola

 

Orange Granola

 

Plain Granola Monologue

 

Blueberry Fondue Double Duity

This dip is super easy and supper tasty.

Blueberries

Raw Cashews

Vanilla

Pink salt

Agave

Blend

 

Freeze this mixture and you have blueberry ice cream

Chocolate Dipped Fruit

I really love fondues,fruit dips and fruit covered in sweet sauces of any kind. These came out awesome because I used coconut butter which utilizes the coconut flesh as well as the oil. This allows the chocolate to stick to the fruit and when frozen it stays hard at room temperature.

 

raW Chocolate dipped strawberries decorated with dried coconut and chopped nuts.

 

rAW Chocolate dipped apple decorated with dried coconut, cacao beans,goji berries and chopped walnuts .

 

Goji Berry Strudels !

Strudels are such a sweet comforting breakfast treat. I made these strudels with soaked goji berries,agave and orange juice. For the crust I made it out of almond and oat flour with a little drizzle of and a pinch of pink salt. They really reminded my of jelly donuts.

Collard Green Juice

I have to say that collard greens are very powerful,when I drank this juice I started to spit up some really ugly mucus. However it felt good to get it out. 

Also upon doing some research on the internet I found out that collard greens optimize your cells for detoxification. They also help to promote and matain mental health.

So drink up !

Persimmons

I like to call persimmons "Winter Mangoes", I call them winter mangoes because when winter hits and mango season is over it's nice to have this wonderful replacement available. If you never had a persimmon before they are sweet and extremely  delicious. When choosing a persimmon the softer the better.

 

Apple Granola

Granola was one of my favorite foods growing up as a child.It was fast and delicious,however it was filled with sugar and wasn't very healthy. I absolutely have to say that raw granola  is super tasty but not as easy and fast as taking it out of a box. The key to great raw granola is in the soaking,you must soak the nuts before you dehydrate then because if you don't you might end up breaking a tooth.  When the nuts are soaked and you add your sweetener and spices the nuts are then also able to absorb much more flavor,which makes your granola much tastier. Also don't forget to add three different kinds of nuts when making raw granola for a tastier more interesting combination.

  

Soaking nuts to be used for granola 

 

Juicy Fruit Platter

I really love fruit and when arranged in an appetizing way no one can refuse it.

Raw Chocolate Dipping Sauce

 

I really love this recipe because it is so versatile, you can use it for a fruit dipping sauce or eat it plain. This recipe is also great because you can eat this dish for breakfast,lunch or a snack.