Raw Vegan Portabella and Mushroom Spinach Quiche from "Living Cuisine" by Renee Loux Underkoffler. Music and Madness. Matt & Trey of South Park and Alan Watts.

Portabella Mushroom and Spinach Quiche. Raw & Vegan.

Living Cuisine: The Art and Spirit of Raw Foods (Avery Health Guides)

 

Living Cuisine: The Art and Spirit of Raw Foods (Avery Health Guides)


Other Posts From this Book:

 *Raw Dehydrated  Sweet Wood Almonds from Raw & Cooked Vegan Thanksgiving Feast. Shrooms vs. Breast Cancer. MRSA in the Meat? Teriffically Terrible Toxic MegaColon. Touch A Vegan for A Safe Holiday! John Salley On Rachel Ray! Ellen's Chef with a Vegan Thanksgiving.

*Raw Vegan Sweet Spiced Sprouted Walnuts.

Part of the filling.

Soy & Gluten Free alternative to Soy Sauce/Tamari/Nama Shoyu

Buckwheat crust getting made in the food processor.

Sliced Portabellas.

Coconut Aminos (alternative to Nama Shoyu or Tamari-this is soy and gluten free)

Spinach and Basil for filling.

Mixing filling up.  Has spinach, basil, cashews, lemon juice, nutritional yeast, and more.

Overall this was a good pie.  However, I don't know if I would make it again, just because I tend to keep it very simple.  It didn't slice super great, which is fine, but if you were looking to make it "Martha Stewart" for guests....ya might have to work on cutting clean slices.  I love the book though and make a lot of the recipes from this book on a regular basis.  But a nice combination of the raw mushrooms and spinach and it's pretty!


 *Raw Dehydrated  Sweet Wood Almonds from Raw & Cooked Vegan Thanksgiving Feast. Shrooms vs. Breast Cancer. MRSA in the Meat? Teriffically Terrible Toxic MegaColon. Touch A Vegan for A Safe Holiday! John Salley On Rachel Ray! Ellen's Chef with a Vegan Thanksgiving. (also from this book) 

 Raw Vegan Sweet Spiced Sprouted Walnuts.From Renee Underkoffler's "Living Cuisine"
Walnuts, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, and Sweetener (Coconut Syrup would be my current choice, or stevia).

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Matt & Trey of "South Park" and Alan Watts.

Music, Poets, and Madness.

Everybody's just a Little Bit Gay. Allen Ginsberg. My Big Gay Ginger LIme Balls from Palmcrantz's "Raw Food" Book. And Hehe, Dates DON'T raise your blood sugar, EVEN the Wet Ones!

My last post featured a video that bummed me out.  But Allen Ginsberg cheered me up!! I know of Allen Ginsberg, but never delved into any of his work too much.  But finding myself quite fond of it.  Addressing pretty serious issues with humor, music, and a bit edge.  

And John Stewart Helped too.  He is trying not to make fun of an easy target, Marcus Bachman. It's really funny to me because recently I was sitting at a reception of pretty conservative folks.  Among them were extremely conservative church goers & even a minister and his wife.  Let's say the general consensus was that being gay was very wrong, being Muslim very wrong, and being a gay Muslim?? Forget it! The funny part, my gaydar was on overload.  The depressing part, these folks had themselves convinced that there was one "right" way to be "Good with God" and it involved only their brand of Christianity (forget any other religion) and it did not involve being Gay.  However, 3 out of the 4 men at the table were very gay.....especially the minister.  But Matt & Trey cheered me up.

 And My Big Gay Ginger Cinnamon Lime Balls Cheered me up too! 

From the Raw Food book of Erica Palmcrantz and Irmela Lilja.


Raw Food: A Complete Guide for Every Meal of the Day

Yes, dates, figs, AND nuts.  A true sugar & fat fest.

The "Secret" Ingredient.  Not just another raw chocolate ball!

All you need is the Cusinart!

These balls were great!!  A nice change from the usual chocolate, hemp, etc...balls that I always seem to make.  The book is fabulous too.  Erica and Irmela are Swedish and there are lots of beautiful photos.  Recipes are slightly different than a lot of the Raw Food books in the States.  They seem more simple and more based on lots of veggies.  I don't there were any really extended, complicated recipes that required you to look at 3 other pages just to "prepare" the ingredients for one dish!
So the giner lime cinnamon balls were great, but didn't make up for all the hate talk flying around these days.  But Matt & Trey sure do their darndest!!!






I know, there are some date haters out there.  But check out this NutritionFacts.Org Video created by Dr. G.  Apparently Dates aren't the Satanic Beast that some Raw Foodists have made them out to be!  Not meaning to say to just eat 4 pounds of dates a day..........but it did make me feel slightly better about  my raw cookies.  I'm just not the wheatgrass guzzlin', green juice drinking, 90 day juice feasting kind of striving to be breatharian yet......Anyhoot. A short video below, and follow the link really, if you too are slightly bummed out about the "current" affairs.  Funny, you would think that most of the politicians are too busy having their own private illicit affairs to be too concerned with what everyone else is doing in their bedroom, or gasp, in other rooms of the house.  Don't forget, Wet or Dry Dates, they are okay. 
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Vegan Phat: Raw Cashew Banana Pudding.

I was tickled to find these animations from South Park's Matt Stone & Trey Parker on YouTube!  They take excerpts from talks of Alan Watts and animate them.  Alan Watts got my attention in college, where I had accumulated a stack of his books from a favorite used book store.  I tried to no delve into them too deeply as they didn't seem conducive to "study" (maybe this video explains it).  But it's funny, because a few years back my folks were listening to audio of Alan Watts, my mom asking to be dropped at the bookstore to buy Kerouac's "Dharma Bums" with a copy of "Be Here Now" in her hand!  My folks are the right age to have done all of that the "first time around", but married at 19 & 20 years of age, and a baby (me) one year later probably didn't leave lots of room for relaxation, or philosophizing.  While I often find South Park completely offensive, I do think it is witty and my favorite episodes are when they deal with religion.  Well, I lent a lot of my favorite Watts to a boy (2 decades ago) along with a beautiful copy of the Tao de Ching.  I hope the boy enjoyed them.  Probably better he have them anyway, as he ended up in ethnomusicology studying Indian Music.  I'm still too type A for that.........Funny fact.  Perusing journals from grade school, I have quotes from Ramakrishna and extended rants about Phyliss Schlafly and how she was destroying women.  I haven't changed a bit.  I think the Up series is true.  Our core is developed by 7.  If you haven't seen this series, put it on your Netflix list.  It follows a group of kids and checks in with them every 7 years.  You see how they change, if they change, and you also realize that your life flies by so quickly, that you had better not always be thinking about the last measure.

Except for running.  Or in my case, slow jogging.  Just because maybe the zen of running isn't enough when you are wondering, how many miles did I go?  Maybe it was 5?  Or maybe it was 2 and it felt like 5.  That's why I was stoked when my new toy arrived.  Not thrilled about the label that said it contained substances known to cause cancer in the state of California, but I figured it I wasn't in California, then what the heck.

The Garmin 305.  A bulky watch that tells you that it takes a really friggin long time to burn off the 900 calories worth of pudding I just ate.  That's why I don't count calories.  I would be depressed all of the time, and would never get my dishes done.   Now I can't pretend I went 5 miles though, when I only went 2.  It tells me all sorts of cool stuff like my heart rate, mileage, pace..........




Recent eats (yeah, don't even try to run these off unless you are feeling particularly ambitious).  Fat & Sugar for morning time eats.  I'm terrible!

Bananas, Cashews, Stevia (or sweetener of choice).  Put in Vita-Mix with enough water to blend smooth.  Or, put in Food Processor, add small amount of water to created desired texture.  Yes, Super Phat.  Really, Super Fat.  I don't count calories.  But I don't eat refined foods generally either, so thinking there is some fiber in all of this!

Finished Breakfast.  

Goofball.  This guy literally followed my friend and I around a park, several times and people were asking if it was our cat.  He acted like a dog.  Then he preceded to scarf down 2 bowls of food from my neighbor's porch so she determined he was famished (I thought this too at the time).  Come to realize, he is just a glutton.  I had him quarantined in part of our house that had no air except a window unit.  The guy managed to pry himself out of the window and fell/jumped 3 very tall stories.  We thought he would be at the bottom, not doing very well.  He was nowhere to be found.  We thought he must have crawled off somewhere and was no longer with us.  On a whim, I went out that night to "walk", really to "look" for him.  When I went to the front door, he was meowing for food!  He seems very much like our dear Otis who passed away several years ago and it just makes you go hmmmmm.....Could it be Oatman?  If Oatman came to me now, would I turn him away?  Oatman is why we have a juicer more powerful than some people's cars (mainly our cars).


Saturday Update: We just got back from digging for hours and hours in a collapsed house in East St. Louis, trying to rescue puppies.  We were able to get one today.  One was MIA today and the other fled to an area that we never could have caught him/her.  Covered in soot.  Puppy will be named "Jois" pronounced "Joyce" but spelled "Jois" because she was hiding under the floor joists.  Many hours of shovelling with our hands, and big thanks to SuperHero Paul, who we called midway through & he met us there bearing lots of manly tools (like shovels which he claims were not invented by a chic).