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Stop! Don’t Throw That Recipe Away!

Today, we are going to give you some really useful tips to save any recipe from becoming a disaster.

Have you ever made a recipe that you found online, or in a recipe book, that was a total disaster? Trust us, it happens, even to us when we’re experimenting with recipes. We’ve been sent a lot of raw recipe books to review on the blog, and after trying out some of the recipes in these books, we can say that at least 25% of recipes in fancy raw recipe books published by big publishing houses and found in bookstores have recipes that are disasters.

Some of these disasters could be a typo, but it could be just a bad recipe… you never know!

Maybe they listed too much oil or the wrong amount of spices, or maybe it asked for way too many bulbs of garlic and everything tastes like garlic no matter what you do!

We’ve been there. And after today, you will never have to face that sad moment of tossing out all of that hard work and money.

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Here’s a delicious carrot juice recipe. And as with most of the recipes on this website, very easy and quick to make.

Ingredients

1 bunch of carrots with greens
1/2 lemon
About 1/3 inch fresh ginger

Directions

Wash the carrots thoroughly. Cut of the greens and save half for juicing.

Peel the ginger and lemon with a knife.

Put all ingredients in your juicer. Mix. Drink immediately.

Enjoy.

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First of All…Thank You!

As a special THANK YOU for being the best readers we could ever hope for, we are going to give you a special one week only deal on all three of our Raw Holiday ebooks.

From now until Friday, September 5th at 11:59 PM Central time, get *all three* of our raw holiday ebooks for only $29!

Separately they would cost a total of $42, but we are offering it to you at 30% off for a limited time only!

Grab your copies now: Raw Holiday Package Sale

Thank you all so much. You mean a great deal to us and you help keep us going!

Our Intentions for RFRN and What’s Comin’ Up

We want to have more time to devote to the blog the rest of this year and into 2009. Like we stated in our recent State of the Blog post, we are intending to turn this into a full-time business so we can have more time to dedicate to the currently exploding raw food movement.

Look for the following things coming up:

• Raw Ice Cream ebook on sale…very, very soon…we promise!
• A brand new website that will go along with the blog to offer you more articles, recipes, reviews, and more of what you’ve come to love from RFRN!
• RFRN Radio Podcast interview with Philip McCluskey coming soon.
• More free podcast interviews coming this year. We’ve got some cool guests coming up and will be creating a brand new spankin’ page for RFRN Radio!
• Some really incredibly useful articles, including part two of Heidi’s Raw Lunch series.

~ Heidi & JS Ohlander

P.S. If you already own these ebooks, this is an excellent way to make a donation to RFRN.
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Here’s a delicious and easy raw food recipe: Avocado Carrot Soup. Ready in 5 minutes. You can eat it warm or cold.

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These are the best raw chocolates. I make them myself and consider it a healthy alternative to store bought chocolates.

Recipe

1/2 cup of raw chocolate powder (or mix with raw carob powder, 1/3 carob, 2/3 chocolate)
1/2 cup coconut oil
2 tbs raw almond butter
1 teaspoon raw honey (for taste)
1 drropper liquid stevia (for sweetness)
pinch salt
1 tablespoon vanilla extract (optional)

First warm up the coconut butter (au bain marie) until it becomes a liquid. Then pour in your blender. Add the honey, stevia, vanilla and salt. Mix briefly in your blender. Then add the almond butter. Blend again on low speed or with hand. (more…)

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Here’s a fun, simple and tasty recipe from one of our favorite recipe bloggers.

Raw Goddess Heathy’s Blueberry Cardamom Cake

Perfect for a hot summer day.

Here are a few more desserts from the Raw Goddess that are sure to hit the spot:

• Triple Berry Cake
• Ferrero Rawcher
• Maple Walnut Ice Cream

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August: You will find eggplant, blackberries and broccoli in season (more…)

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Everybody raved about this simple nut mylk I whipped together at our Raw Vegan Activation Class this Wednesday night! Here’s the basic philosophy of making a really good nut mylk: Any nuts or seeds will do — all raw organic nuts or seeds make great mylks and it’s fun to see how the different mylks taste.

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Holy cats there are tons of raw vegan ice cream recipes in the world! The first 4 books I opened I found many many…what to do…well first quit picking up anymore books…here are a few:

Preface: Young (Thai) coconuts (you can find in Whole foods) are different from the easier to find brown coconuts we may have grown up with, inside they are gelatinous and full of fresh coconut milk. You need a butcher knife-like implement to open it (cutting a square in the top ideally with 4 whacks) and they come in an all white shell. Here is one youtube video I have seen on “opening a young coconut”

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I often surf websites that contain pages with great stories of raw food transformations. It gives me warm feelings as I see how the raw food diet changes lives of so many people. I have picked a couple of my favorite sites that feature “before and after” pictures and brief notes of raw food transformations from around the world. I am sure you will enjoy browsing them as much as I do. Perhaps it will help you stay in or make your first steps into the raw food world. If you know of any other websites that contain raw food transformation stories or pictures leave us a comment with a link to them. Cheers! (more…)