Peanut Buttery Caramel Dip. Yum!!

Ingredients:

- 2 ripe bananas
- 10 medjool dates (or more of a smaller variety)

Directions:

- Blend dates and bananas in blender.  If you do not have a high speed blender, you may need to add a bit of water to get the blades turning.

Simple as that! Enjoy! :)

Mexican Dinner Recipe

Ingredients:

- 2 ears of corn cut off cob
- 1 yellow squash, grated
- 2 red, yellow, and/or orange bell peppers, diced
- 3/4 avocado, diced
- 1 pint grape tomatoes, halved

For Sauce:

- 2 lg tomatoes, 1 or 2 more if you want a soupier consistency
- 1 red, yellow, or orange peper
- 1/4 avocado
- 1 stalk celery
- 2 Tbsp fresh cilantro
- fresh or dried oregano to taste
- mexican seasoning blend to taste (salt free)
- chili powder to taste
- 1/2 lemon, juiced

Directions:

1. Blend all sauce ingredients in blender until smooth.
2. Pour sauce over chopped veggies and serve over greens, as a soup or dip, or in romaine lettuce wraps.

Makes about 2 low fat raw servings

Banana Mango Smoothie

Ingredients:

- 8 bananas
- 2 mangoes

Directions:

Blend with enough water to reach desired consistency.

Mint Cilantro Mango Sauce

Hi Everyone,

I've recently filmed my very first youtube recipe video. From now on, I believe I will be making most of my post here in video form.  Enjoy!

Cherry Vanilla Smoothie

Hi everyone,

I just bought some amazing vanilla beans and I don't think anything goes better together than vanilla and cherries! Enjoy!

Ingredients:

- 5 bananas
- 5-6 dates
- 1 1/2 c frozen cherries
- 1'' vanilla bean (If you are not using a high speed blender like a vitamix or blentec, you will need to open the vanilla bean and use just the seeds.  If you have a high spend blender you can throw skin and all in)


Directions: Blend and enjoy!

FruitFullyRaw Recipe Book Available Now!

Hi Everyone,

I recently finished my low fat raw vegan recipe book, FruitFully Raw Recipes, which includes over 50 easy to prepare delicious low fat raw recipes.  It includes smoothies, fruit meals, appetizers, soups, salads, entrees, dressing and dips, and desserts.

Click this link to purchase one now! www.FruitFullyRawRecipes.weebly.com

Here's a sneak peek of what's inside -

 Banana Apple Oatmeal

 Carob Coconut Truffles

 Greek Salad

 LFRV Hummus

 Mint Cilantro Chutney

 Mini Fruit Pies

 Veggie Burritos

Salsa Fresca

Apple Pie Datorade

Oh...so..good!

Ingredients:

- At least 10 dates, personally I make my datorade with 20-30 dates.
- 1 - 2 c apple juice depending on how many dates you use (if bought in the store, get the unfiltered kind)
- 1 dash cinnamon
- Water

Directions:

1. Blend all together until smooth.  Add as much water as you'd like to reach desired consistency.  This can be a drink that's really thick or you can make it as thin as you'd like.

Note: you can warm your water to make this a hot drink!

Winter Cauliflower Salad

This salad is sooo good!  It's very hearty and creamy.  And the rosemary gives it such a satisfying robust flavor.  Try it out for the holidays!

Ingredients:

- 1 Head cauliflower, chopped finely with a knife or pulsed in a food processor.
- 2 c arugula, chopped roughly
- 1 1/2 c grape tomatoes, cut in half
- 1 red bell pepper, diced
- 1 c mushrooms, diced
- 1/2 tsp rosemary, minced
- 2 Tbsp tahini
- 1 1/2 lemons, juiced

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, mix together tahini and lemon juice with a fork.
2. Add all other ingredients to the bowl and mix well.

Enjoy!!

Mint Cilantro Chutney

This is another recipe from my ALMOST FINISHED low fat raw recipe book. SOOO yummy!  

Ingredients:

• 2 mangoes
• 2 Tbsp green onion
• ¼ c loosely packed cilantro
• 2-3 Tbsp fresh mint
• juice of 1 lime

Directions:

1. Blend all ingredients together in blender or food processor until smooth. 

Heap O Fruit

This is a recipe from my almost finished low fat raw cookbook.  Sorry it's been SOOO long since I've posted, but I've been busy working on this cookbook.  Let me know what you think.  Enjoy!

Ingredients:

• 15-20 dates
• few Tbsp. shredded coconut
• fruits of choice (bananas, berries, cherries, mango, peaches, etc.)
• 1 banana

Directions:

1. Process dates in a food processor until they form a doughy ball
2. Sprinkle coconut in bottom of a 8” glass pie dish to cover
3. Flatten out date “dough” in your hand 1 section at a time laying it on top of coconut to make a crust. Keep a little aside for topping.
4. Make several layers of the fruit you chose on top of your crust-chop up any large fruit into bite sized peices.
5. Blend 1 banana and a handful of the other fruit you chose and pour on top of the heap. Sprinkle with coconut and bits of date “dough”. 

Salsa Fresca

This is a recipe from my recipe book that I am working on. It is in the preliminary stages now - figuring out all the exact amounts, picture taking, etc. so I'm not sure when I'll be finished, but I'll keep y'all posted! I was very surprised when I tasted this salsa the first time I made it. It is so simple and yet ssooo delicious!

Ingredients:

- 1 pint grape tomatoes (or equivalent of other kind)

- 1 stalk celery

-1 Tbsp green onions, optional

- 1/4 c cilantro

- juice of 1/2 lime or more if it's not very juicy.

Directions:

1. Place all ingredients in food processor and pulse until all is well combined but still a little chunky. Or if you prefer, you can blend it more.

2. Serve with fresh raw veggies - I like cucumber, celery, and romaine lettuce.

You can also add 1/2 of an avocado to this if you would like to make it a little hardier.

Note: If you don't have a blender or food processor, you can just dice everything and make a pico de gallo type salsa.

Berry Datorade

Happy New Year everyone!

This is the first time I've added berries to my datorade and it is sooo good! Tastes like fruity candy! YUMMY!

Ingredients:

- 20 medjool dates (+/-) depending on how many calories you need. Or the equivalent of other type of dates

- Mixed berries, fresh or frozen, to taste. (I probably used about 3/4 - 1 c)

Directions:

1. Blend dates with about 1 qt. water until smooth.

2. Add berries and blend again until smooth.

3. Enjoy! :)

Banana Carob Fruit Dip

Ingredients:

- 6 bananas

- 1/4 cup raw carob powder*

- 1/4 tsp cinnamon powder

- Fruit of choice for dipping

Directions:

- Blend bananas, carob powder, and cinnamon in blender or food processor until smooth

- Pour into bowl and place in center of large plate.

- Chop fruit of choice and arrange around outside of plate.

*This is where I get my raw carob powder - http://www.amazon.com/Really-Raw-Carob-Powder-16-Ounce/dp/B001691P6C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323231702&sr=8-1

Note: I think the dip would be even better if you added a few dates to it, but I happen to be out at the moment. :)

Smoothie of the Moment

...so I tend to get stuck on things, food wise, for a few months or so and right now I'm stuck on a simple banana blueberry smoothie! Enjoy! (notice I couldn't wait to drink it after I took the picture (; )

Ingredients:

- 10 or more bananas

- 1 c fresh or frozen blueberries

- enough water to reach desired consistency

- <3

Directions:

1. Blend all until smooth!

Cucumber Al Fredo

Ingredients:

Noodles: 3 - 4 cucumbers

Sauce:

- 1/2 small avocado

- 4 - 5 stalks celery

- 1/2 cucumber

- 6 cherry tomatoes

- juice of 1/2 lemon

Directions:

1. Make noodles out of cucumber using a spiral slicer or a vegetable peeler. You can use the center where the seeds are for toppings.

2. Blend all sauce ingredients until smooth.

3. Pour sauce over noodles and top with veggies of choice.

I like to put my cuke noodles on top of some chopped romaine. I topped mine with cherry tomatoes, the centers of the cucumber, and fresh corn.

Here is a picture after it is all mixed up. You still can't see the sauce very well because it is the same color as the cucumber and lettuce, but it's very nice and creamy and salty from the celery. Hopefully I will get a new camera soon. My old one is broken so I'm using my computer.

:)

Simple Sauce

I made this the other day when I didn't have much in the house and didn't have much money either. :) Turned out to be DEE-licious!

Ingredients:

- 1 large tomato

- 1 small avocado (or less)

- Juice of 1 lemon

Directions:

1. Blend all in blender until smooth or keep a little chunky.

This sauce can be used as a base to add other things to like peppers, herbs, sun dried tomatoes, etc.

Can be a dip, dressing, zucchini noodle sauce, or soup base.

Homegrown salsa

Ingredients:

- 4 lg tomatoes, preferably homegrown or local since it's tomato season!!
- 2 ears of corn, cut off the cob
- 1 ripe (red) jalapeno or more for HOTT. If you can only find green ones you can use that, or set some green ones on your
window sill until they start turning red.
- 1/8 large yellow onion*
- 1 clove garlic*
- juice of 3 small limes
- herbs of choice. For classic salsa I like just using cilantro. This time I didn't have any on hand so I picked some dill and garlic chives from my garden and that worked really well.

Directions:

1. Dice tomatoes, jalapeno, onion, and garlic.
2. Mince herbs.
3. Through everything together in a bowl and mix with lime juice.

Another option is to blend some or all of this, depending on how you like your salsa.

This is good right away, but gets even better if you let it sit in the fridge for a few hours.

*the 80/10/10 diet does not recommend eating onions and garlic. If you don't use these foods, you can leave them out completely or use a milder version like green onions and/or garlic chives.

Summer Corn Salad

Ingredients:

- 4 raw ears of corn, cut off cob
- 2 small/medium cucumbers, diced
- 1/2 pint grape tomatoes or equivalent of larger ones
- juice of 1/2 lime
- fresh cilantro to taste, minced

Directions

1. Mix all ingredients in bowl
2. EAT!

Almost forgot!! - This is really good in romaine or iceberg lettuce leaves!

Apple Pie in a Bowl!

The amounts of ingredients can be changed to make as much or as little as you'd like. This is the amount I use to make one meal for myself.

Ingredients:

- 5 apples, I like gala or fuji
- About 1 c of dates - moist varieties work best - medjool, khadrawi

Directions:

1. Grate apple with a cheese grater. If you don't have a grater - dice small.

2. Blend dates in blender w/ enough water to make desired consistency. Start with a 1/4 c water and add more as needed.

3. Mix apples and dates in large bowl. Tada! Apple pie in a bowl! :)

Cauliflower Dill Salad

- Sorry for the blurry picture, my camera is broken, so I had to take the picture with my computer.

Ingredients:

- 1 small head cauliflower, diced small
- 1 ear raw corn, cut off the cob
- 2 stalks celery, diced
- 1 carrot, shredded
- 1 small avocado, or less, optional
- juice of 1 lemon, or more to taste
- dill to taste, i probably used about 2 Tbsp

Directions:

1. In large bowl, mash avocado together with lemon juice
2. Put all other ingredients into bowl with avocado and mix well.
3. Eat as is, or serve over a bed of lettuce, or in ice berg lettuce leaves.