Wow. Can you think of anything much more fun to think about than Oompa Loompas and Sacred Chocolate?! For the uninitiated or unaware, Oompa Loompas were a peoples in the book CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY who just looooooved chocolate! However they were living and working in a place and for people that did not pay them enough to even buy the the chocolate they so dearly loved -- UNTIL Willie Wonka came around and hired them for his chocolate factory. Oh boy, the Oompa Loompas were REALLY happy then, because Willie Wonka even paid them in cacao beans, woo-woo!! ”Well that’s all ve ...
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Well, it looks like I’m going to start my own website again for the first time in some years. It will be called Avocadess.com -- but I still need to build it, so I may not be blogging here (or there) for yet a bit while I am setting it up. Just wanted to let you know what is going on. Hopefully will be back to blogging before you can say the Gettysburg Address!! (smile)   [End]
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We were born into a bleak time on Earth. The Bomb had already detonated over Hiroshima, over Nagasaki, and the same forces that brought that to be became more and more in power over this Earth. Or if you are older, you were born during or before World War II, which was grim enough of itself. I have always loved the miracle, the symbology, the essence of meaning of, the reality of plants we will see that growth through the cracks in the sidewalks and cement parking lots. Yesterday I was laying out by the pool to get some vitamin D from the Sun. On a lesser level than the Bomb, I ha ...
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One thing I discovered some years ago is how much I love how thinly sliced dehydrated organic zucchini reconstitutes itself into a yummy ingredient for my warm winter soups! I use a 5-drawer Excalibur dehydrater. (Note that the drawers of 5-drawer Excaliburs hold twice as much as the drawers of 4-drawer Excaliburs.) I find that one SMALL zucchini sliced thinly with a mandolin type slicer will cover one full drawer. I do not use the Teflex sheets when drying the zucchini because there is nothing wet that will drip through -- and taking out the Teflex sheets decreases the drying time. ...
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It’s a colder winter than we usually see here in Central Texas and I feel a bit like a squirrel huddling with my berries... I have a satisfying little hoarde: my winter tea makings of Chaga (medicinal tree mushroom which this time around I am purchasing pre-ground), shredded Astragalus (which seems like a bark but I think it’s really a root), Pau d’Arco (which really is a bark, and I get it shredded) and Cat’s Claw (which comes looking fairly shredded and I believe is actually a vine -- and is the #1 medicinal herb used for flus and other things in Peru!). I love to put these four ing ...
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David ”Avocado” Wolfe does NOT recommend putting MSM in cacao drinks. In my defense, I will say that e has never USED the MSM in his cacao drinks. I have -- for months -- and it WORKED. So, for ME, I’m sticking with the MSM in my cacao drinks. Here is my newly modified cacao drink I like even better. The only difference from the recipe I posted a few days ago called ”Super Cacao Drink -- Hold the Shilajit” is that I left out the spirulina -- which goes into my seaweed soup pretty much daily anyhow -- and I’m back to 2 TBL. of MSM -- no problem -- YEAH...!!!! One other tweak is a bit mo ...
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FIRE ANTS ON A LOG Celery sticks filled with favorite raw nut butter(s) and trail goji berries down it. For real fire: stir a bit of cayenne powder into the nut butter(s) before filling the ”log”! KIDS will love this. YUMMY...!!! Without the cayenne is when it is called RED ANTS ON A LOG rather than FIRE ANTS. (smile) Today I made this recipe using homemade raw cashew and sesame butter (ground in a mortar and pestle) where I also added a wee bit of apple cider vinegar, a wee bit of local honey, a couple pinches of Celtic sea salt, cayenne powder and a couple cloves of pressed garlic. ...
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Re: Ocean’s Alive marine phytoplankton OOOPS, I was wrong! Just listening to a video of Avocado this morning and he is good friend with the guy that puts out the phytoplankton. Anyhow, he said the marine phytoplankton will last 2-3 months without refrigeration but that he chooses to go ahead and refrigerate it. Good to know!! I had one that was just sitting in my cabinet for a month so now I’ve moved it into the frig. Now going back to your original problem: here is what I do when I have a small bottle like this that I don’t want to fall out of the frig. I just started doing this a f ...
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Okay, here is my CURRENT attempt at a Cacao Drink that will go down easily both with the palate and my finicky digestion. I’m drinking it now so no results yet, but YUM I could get used to this flavor! I’ll call it: SUPER CACAO DRINK -- HOLD THE SHILAJIT, MUCUNA, COCONUT OIL and HALF THE MSM 1 1/2 cups filtered spring water (it had been chlorinated so had to filter it) 1 1/2 cups of my Coffee Substitute Healing Tea sans (without) the cacao (i.e., with pau d’arco, astragalus, cat’s claw and chaga) OR another 1 1/2 cups good water 2 TBL bee pollen 1/2 cup goji berries (yeah, yeah, I ...
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Hi Dorothy! I don’t see my answer that I sent you to your question here and now I’m wondering if it ever went through!! I never refrigerator my Ocean’s Alive marine phytoplankton. I guess I would if I felt my apartment was really hot all the time, but no, I personally don’t think you need to refrigerate it. I could be wrong, but I always figure cool, dry place means a kitchen cabinet and if a label really means for me to refrigerate it will actually use the word refrigerate. Hope that helps! (Did you get my answer before?! It as like a week ago I think!!) Huggers!! Michele   [End]
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This is one that food addict types like me may be able to relate to. It is supposed to be a condiment -- something to sprinkle on a rice dish or whatnot -- but I rarely eat rice anymore and I still want the sprinkles. GOMASHIO (non-raw) 1/4 to 1/2 cups sesames with hulls Celtic sea salt, lightly to taste That’s the whole ingredients. The tools are a saucepan or frying pan -- hopefully NOT Teflon or aluminum which put toxins in your food (as do most stainless steel pots and pans) -- and a mortar and pestle are ideal. However, if you don’t have a mortar and pestle you can use a s ...
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I don’t think I wrote about this, did I? Okay, I just double-checked and it does not appear that I have! It took me a while to decide to make kombucha. I just did not want to use white sugar or black tea. Then in time I heard about people using green tea and decided I would make it, but with my own mother -- so that my mother or SCOBY (which stands for Symbiotic Colony of Beneficial Yeast) would start out with organic and what to me seems more wholesome ingredients. I took a big chance, though. I had heard that you should NOT use different flavored teas because you might get the wron ...
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Awwww! Thank you, Dear Heart!! I do not keep my Ocean’s Alive marine phytoplankton in the frig. It’s already in a very dark glass which keeps out light, and my apartment tends to be 78°F (or less) at room temperature, which I think of as pretty cool (haha). Now as far as keeping it in a DRY place, condensation to wetness might actually happen more easily in the refrigerator. But I cannot understand why you would need to keep something that is already VERY wet in a dry place, LOL...!!! Who was the rocket scientist that wrote that on the label?!! (smile) Of course all my answers a ...
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This 4-year-old Isadora is SO cute...!!! The video starts with her singing (beautifully) Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, and then she proceeds to help her mom and narrate the making of the RAW CHEESE COLLARD WRAPS. It’s clear that she LOVES these health raw foods and would be a GREAT video to show other little kids -- since they relate to one another so well. Love you, Isadora!!! You are a Beautiful Twinkling Star!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuhYa6KKlP4 HEY, and it’s a GREAT recipe, too...!!! Thanks for reading, and here’s wishing you the Best Day EVER...! ...
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INDEX TO ”MY RAW LIFE” RECIPES by Avocadess AVOCADO SECRET CHOCOLATE FROSTING http://www.curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1566951 CACAO DRINK, NEW SUPER - HOLD THE SPIRULINA! http://www.curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1570095 CACAO DRINK, SUPER - HOLD THE SHILAJIT http://www.curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1568242 CHOCOLATE FROSTING, AVOCADO SECRET http://www.curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1566951 COFFEE-LIKE TEA WITH CACAO, DAILY HEALING http://www.curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1557314 CORN - JUNK FAST FOOD TO KEEP IN THE KITCHEN http://www.curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp? ...
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I think I will call this SEA GREEN MERMAID MISO SOUP -- A sea mineral RUSH...~! I thought this was not going to taste good but I had to try it -- and it tastes great!! Miso soup with 1/2 tsp. each of spirulina, bluegreen algae and chlorella, plus the usual things I like to add: pressed fresh garlic (optional but I do 2 cloves, lol) 1 to 2 tsp. of hemp (or olive) oil 2-3 TBL organic frozen green peas which I add to the water heating in the pan I use 2 parts red miso (Miso Master Organic) from the refrigerator section to 1 part Eden Organic Hacho Miso (aged 3 years, d ...
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Three letters. MSM. It has helped me so much! This past month I have not been taking it as much and some arthritis pain is RETURNING...! I had been taking 1-2 TBL of MSM daily for about 5 months and it took a few months but the results were nothing short of miraculous! No, it was not the only thing I did -- but I really believe the MSM had a LOT to do with getting rid of the arthritis pain -- especially now that having stopped taking it for a while the pain is coming back. MSM is sulfur. Some people are allergic to sulfur so if you are not sure if you are allergic or not be sur ...
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Oh, I meant sticking around the Curezone. I was here so much in 2005-06 and really not much at all the past few years, but now I think I’ll be here a lot again. Re the raw, I’m definitely sticking with it -- but making no claims for 100%. I ADMIRE that in those few who can and actually do that, but I don’t see myself becoming one of that elite group until the day I’m living in a community much more...more...well, more RAW than the community I live in today. Haha. But really, every little bit I DO eat that is SUPER and RAW and ORGANIC and LIVING is what really TURNS ME ON...~~~!!!! ...
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We all have ’em. Strengths and weaknesses. I know I have spent a lot of time in my life working on my weaknesses, often to little or no avail. This is certainly true when it comes to EATING for me...!! How can I word this? Well, first I will list my STRENGTHS since that is what I am and shall focus on and work on!! My strengths are that I LOVE the very idea of eating living and wild foods, I very much enjoy trying and eating NEW things, I love EXPERIMENTING with new recipes and making my own. I very much enjoy the magic of fermenting my own foods and beverages (although I have a lot mor ...
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Thanks for the welcome back, ren. Hopefully I’ll stick around this time...!!!! How are things?! Michele Deradune   [End]
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Something curious happened last weekend. I was at the 100th birthday party of my long-time friend’s mother, Mary Bolton Eckles. About 150 of us had descended upon a Mexican restaurant and basically had our own wing of mayhem there. My son and I sat at one end of a long table across from a couple people I often see as sort of extended family at times like Christmas. Celia said, ”I know someone that went on raw diet, but it didn’t take and she quit.” I looked at her feeling stunned. I wasn’t sure why. I said nothing. I was having my own little battle with slipping on raw at that very momen ...
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You are right -- there are SO many healing herbs to learn about! I have come to believe it is true that marijuana is MOST healing only when imbibed in its raw form. That really makes sense to me because back those decades ago when I used to smoke it I found that before long it came to make me feel paranoid. According to David Wolfe -- and I don’t know where he got this information but it really feels RIGHT to me! -- marijuana is like the guardian of the garden and it does not like fire. He said that is the reason people feel paranoid when they smoke it. Apparently, for someone w ...
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Avocados Today I once again remembered my great love for avocados. What helped remind me was reading about how avocados contain the enzyme called lipase which helps to clear out the old gunk that was put in the arteries and pipes in the body by the bad oils -- like fried oils, rancid oils and generally not-the-best-ever oils one has eaten. I had forgotten about that. It reminded me about Victoria Boutenko saying how avocados helped her when she was losing weight years ago -- but better yet, it reminded me that *I* lost a *heck* of a lot of weight years ago eating about a 90% raw di ...
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I do not think of this food as ideal, but it fills some perverse space in my heart that wants to eat something right away that fits the bill of comfort food and junk food. By eating this I have many times avoided eating TRULY junky food, so even though I just did a blog entry a few minutes ago I’m going to go ahead and share my little instant fast trick here, and that is JUNK FAST FOOD TO KEEP IN THE KITCHEN 1 or more bags of frozen organic corn and/or organic peas When I find myself going into a crazymaker mode and I want to eat something that spells COMFORT to me and I want it g ...
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I’ve made these chips quite a few times over the years. They are amazingly good to eat and once I got over the idea that chips HAD to be fragile like junk-style potato chips, I realized these garnet yam chips are really quite superior as dip chips as they do not hardly ever break -- and yet they get just crispy enough and ”chippy” enough to truly enjoy as chips. Update: Hold the phone!! I was lost in the ozone when I wrote this recipe -- HOLD THE OIL until AFTER you dehydrate the chips -- then you can spray or light brush the oil on and then put them in the bag to shake and coat them w ...
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YES -- and not only that, it comes under a number of different names on labels. Memorizing MSG and monosodium glutamate is not enough anymore! Some other names for MSG -- are you ready for this? -- Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein Hydrolyzed Protein Hydrolyzed Plant Protein Plant Protein Extract Sodium Caseinate Calcium Caseinate Yeast Extract Textured Protein Autolyzed Yeast Hydrolyzed Oat flour Malt extract Malt Flavoring Bouillon Broth Stock Flavoring Natural Flavoring Natural Beef or Chicken Flavoring Seasoning Spices Carrageenan Enzymes Soy Protein Concentrate ...
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Yesterday a friend came by and I offered her some of the healing tea that tastes like a mellow cacao coffee. She drank a cup and told me it made her feel high! Then today another friend came by (who is not into raw foods at all) and at first she demured on trying it until I mentioned that it tasted like coffee. She had a cup and was going on and on about how great it was and said I could sell it. Pretty good! Meanwhile, I have been emptying my coffers in my relentless effort to really go full throttle into the super healthy and superfood lifestyle: getting a 316 Ti (titanium) Sal ...
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It’s been really nice to be home again, no longer surrounded by all the food temptations. I know I make it sound like all I cared about was the food and not the PEOPLE I went to see, but that is not true. I’m just focusing on the food part for the blog donchano. It was GREAT seeing so many old friends and making new friends there as well. One person who read my first entry here said she just forgives herself when these things happen. I really like that. I was thinking more I was going to ACCEPT it -- but I think FORGIVING it is even better!! Some good news: Upon the day of the ret ...
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Thank you, vib8! Wow, that owl-dog pic is still there? Not my pic. It was the default when I started this account and I uploaded another pic to replace it but I guess it didn’t take!   [End]
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Oy vay! I know I am making progress and inroads, but my gosh, what a wildly uncontrollable weekend I experienced with the foods...! I had had it all planned out, I took durian with me, I took my own version of Deradune Tribal Mix for snacking and mealing on at any time (cacao nibs, goji berries, bee pollen, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, bee pollen, a few raisins and a little Celtic sea salt), and I took my own version of Chia Seed Porridge (can’t remember all ingredients but it is a non-sweet porridge with cacao and chia and goji berries and maca and a couple things I cannot rememb ...
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