Getting Raw at Gilda's Club: "The Basics"

This week my daughter and trusty sous-chef, Ellie, and I had the honor of teaching a raw, plant-based cuisine workshop, “The Basics”, to eager Gilda’s Club members and staff. What a great place to spread the knowledge of food that heals!

Because this was our first raw food workshop here, we kept it simple.

Raw, Plant-Based Cuisine: Any fruits, vegetables, beans, legumes, grains, seeds, nuts and sprouts that have not been heated over 117* (or thereabouts).

Why?: Common sense tells us that outside if the temperature reaches 117* (or thereabouts) things wither and die. It follows that at this temperature, food dies. Enzymes die. Vitmins die. Nutrition dies.

Raw foodies like to eat things that are ALIVE so that we can absorb all those vital enzymes, essential vitamins, and power-packed nutrition. Then we use them all to THRIVE. The ideal is to live a life without sickness or disease. However, raw, plant-based cuisine can also be used as part of a cure…

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”-Hippocrates

“The Basics”
Menu

“Gimme Green” Pure Energy Super Smoothie

(see recipe below)

“In Greens We Trust” Soup
Seed Cheese Trio
Down & Dirty Flax Crax
(click on the above three links for the recipes)

If you add only one of the these foods to your diet,
make it this…

“Gimme Green” Pure Energy Super Smoothie

Start your day off right by whipping up some PURE ENERGY! Start here then add other raw, plant-based recipes to your diet. After a while, your body will crave this nutrient dense, power packed smoothie!

Ingredients:
1-2 C Apple juice or coconut water

(electrolytes & enzymes!)

1 Banana, frozen

(potassium!)

2 T Flax oil

(antioxidants, Omega-3 fatty acids!

CAUTION: Contains phytoestrogens)

1 C Dark leafy greens

(enzymes, protein, vitamins, fiber…all the good stuff!)

2 T Maca powder

(hormone balancing agents great for PMS

and an aphrodisiac, apply liberly!!!)

2 T Soy lecithin granules

(feeds your neurons and makes your smoothie creamy!)

2 T Coconut, raw & dehydrated (or 1/2 C fresh young Thai coconut meat)

(antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, boosts the immune system

plus it tastes de-lish and will keep your tummy happily full until lunch!)

1/8 C Sprouts

(ENERGY!)

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Optional:

Ginger, to taste

(antifungal, antibacterial and boosts the immune system!)

Cacao nibs

(magnesium, lowers appetite, phenylethylamine (PEA)
or our body’s LOVE chemical,

anandamide or our body’s BLISS chemical,
and antioxidants!)

Directions:

Place ingredients in a high-speed blender and blend until smooth.

When breaking your fast with BREAK-FAST doesn’t it make sense to give

your body super fuel instead of coffee?

Sprouts!
(radish, alfalfa & lentils)
Sprouts go in EVERYTHING.
Shhhhh….your kids will never even know they’re there,
but they’ll reap all the benefits.

Flax Crax
(clockwise from top: plain, rosemary-sage & tamari)
Flax crax are a healthy replacement for deep-fried tortilla chips or hydrogenated processed crackers.