Pumpkin Cupcakes with Five-Minute Chocolate Frosting

IMPORTANT NOTE: I REMOVED THE MUFFIN RECIPE BECAUSE PATTY APPARENTLY WROTE SOMETHING DOWN WRONG WHEN SHE MADE THE MUFFINS. PLEASE FORGIVE ME! I will re-post if we re-make the recipe and I have more confidence in it. Thanks for your patience as I make mistakes sometimes. Five-Minute Chocolate Frosting: 2 cups Cocoa MoJo 2 cups [...]

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Salt

Hi Robyn, Can you clarify your opinion about using salt once again please? I’ve just read the post from Debbie Took http://debbietookrawforlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/salt-pt-1-sodium-pinch-or-ten-of-salt.html and I’m totally confused.

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dehydrator recipe . . . part 3 of 3

Sprouting (and dehydrating) is very frankly the most sophisticated nutrition principle I teach.For newbies, I start with lower level things: getting more fruits and vegetables in the diet, and eating whole grains, for instance.Most Americans are not prepared for the idea of sprouting and live foods.Some of my readers are so ambitious that they go [...]

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Reflecting on nutrition, food storage, and hard economic times

What a year this has been. The much-predicted failure of American investment banking has come to pass, our nation’s net worth has plummeted precipitously, and we’ve started into what promises to be a long recession. I just came across this quote by a wise man named Joseph Smith, from 175 years ago: “Our [...]

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recipes to use your raw almonds

Those of you who subscribe to 12 Steps to Whole Foods (http://www.greensmoothiegirl.com/12-steps-to-whole-food-eating.html) have recipes to use raw, germinated almonds in Ch. 7 and will have more in Ch. 11. But here are two more recipes for you: SPROUTED ALMOND PATE (WRAP FILLING) 2 cups almonds, soaked overnight and drained 3 carrots handful of fresh [...]

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how to make that amazing coconut-milk ice cream

So I’ve been a little obsessed with duplicating the Turtle Mountain chocolate “ice cream” I blogged about recently. Obsessed enough to dig the ice cream maker we got as a wedding present 20 years ago out of the basement.(It got used once. By my sister-in-law.) Using the ice cream maker, the result was fabulous.Only problem [...]

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sprouted quinoa salad recipe

A few days ago, I referenced a sprouted quinoa salad I made that my family loved, which I’ve typed for you here. Our next chapter is PLANT-BASED MAIN DISHES . . . to be released June 1 to the January 12 Steps subscribers. And in it, I introduce you to quinoa (pronounced keen-wah), one of [...]

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good, better, best . . . part III

I have more stuff to say (and photos to blog) about traveling and eating right, but by request, I interrupt: Dear GreenSmoothieGirl, will you please continue the good, better, best discussion, specifically covering pasta, seasonings, nut butters, and fats? Pasta: white-flour pasta doesn’t belong in the kitchen of a health-conscious cook. The more coarsely [...]

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sweet potato fries

So I wrote recently about the fabulous raw sweet potato spears you can get at Costo now! And even though I rolled my eyes at the lady on the way out of the store who told me to DEEP FRY THEM, it did give me an idea. I put ¼ cup of coconut [...]