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10/03/2011

RECIPE OF THE WEEK: Raw Vegan Spaghetti with MeatLESSballs!

So you're trying to adapt a raw vegan or plant based diet into your lifestyle. But you miss pasta? Well this recipe is for you...

MeatLESSballs Ingredients
  • 1 cup raw sunflower seeds
  • 1 tbsp chili powder
  • 1 tbsp cumin
  • 1 tsp celtic sea salt
  • 1 tbsp pepper
  • 1 tbsp onion flakes
  • 16 oz of portabella mushrooms
  • ½ green bell pepper
  • ¼ red onion
  • ½ red bell pepper
  • 1 ½ cups of carrot pulp,
  • ½ cup beet pulp
  • ½ cup spinach/kale/collard pulp
  • 1 tbsp hemp powder 
Please Note: in place of pulp you can use finely chopped those ingredients. I used pulp from when I juice---this is why I stress to save your pulp from juicing--nothing goes to waste!

Please also note: I usually make all my meatLESS burgers the night before. That way when I go to sleep and wake up, it's ready.


Spaghetti Sauce Ingredients 
  • 7 oz sundried tomatoes
  • 3 tomatoes
  • ½ green pepper
  • ½ red pepper
  • 1 tbsp onion powder
  • 1 garlic clove
  • 1 tsp celtic sea salt
  • 1 tsp pepper
  • ½ tsp cayenne pepper
  • 1 tsp curry powder
  • 1 tsp oregano
  • 1 tbsp basil
  • ½ tsp thyme
  • ½ tsp sage
  • pinch of morgoram
  • a few pieces of jalepeno peppers 
Please Note: I make my tomato sauce the day before so it can marinade in the sauces over night.


Spaghetti Ingredients
  • 2 Zucchini's
  • 1 carrot
  • ½ bell pepper
  • ¼ red onion
  • 3 garlic cloves
Making the Tomato Sauce

Throw all of the Tomato Sauce ingredients into your Vitamix, blend. Pour into a bowl and let it sit to marinate in the ingredients. I usually make my sauces the night before and let them marinate in the seasonings overnight.

Making the MeatLESSballs
Mix the dry ingredients in your food processor (i.e., sunflower seeds, chili powder, cumin, celtic sea salt, pepper, onion flakes, and hemp powder. Set to the side.

Chop onions, bell pepper (green and red) very fine fold into dry mixture, add in pulp wet mixtures (i.e., carrot, beet and spinach/kale/collard pulps)…mix, mold into desired size balls. Then let it sit in the fridge for an hour so that it can set. Take out, let it sit for 20 minutes then put it into the dehydrator and un-cook it until its done. For my Dehydrator, it took about 5-7 hours. But you'll know when they're ready, because like a meat burger, it will brown a little bit and that’s when its done. But remember you want them to be a little hard...because you're going to marinade them in the tomato sauce. I typically make these the night before too. When I wake up, they're ready.

 Then take them, let them marinade in the tomato sauce. 
 
Making The Spaghetti
First I peeled the green off of the zucchini with a potato peeler. Then I spiralized both zucchini's making them into spaghetti shaped pasta like forms. Then I let it marinate in a lil olive oil and celtic seasalt for about 2 hours. I simply folded in some finely chopped bell pepper, garlic and red onion, then I mixed the tomato sauce with the zucchini and I got spaghetti! I wanted it warm so I put it in the dehydrator for a bit.

Its amazing what you can do with vegetables, don't you think? 

When your Spaghetti and MeatLESSballs are warm to your desired taste...then eat them! Enjoy!


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10/02/2011

VIVACIOUS SKIN: Dry Skin Brushing

Many pay close and often extreme attention to their face, but what about the rest of your body? There’s skin covering your entire body that needs attention. Toxins are not only released in your face, they are released through your skin, which is covering your entire body.

Your skin is the largest organ of your body. It’s often called the 3rd kidney because next to the kidney and your lungs, it releases a large amount of toxins from your body daily. Actually about ¼ of toxins are released through the skin. Skin has the very important job to protect the inner layers of our organs and our bones. So we must do our part to help our skin help us. Aside from keeping clean and moisturizing daily, another thing I do is “Dry Skin Brush.”

If you’ve never heard of Dry Skin Brushing before, you’re going to learn a little bit about it today. It is exactly what it sounds like. I take a brush (like the one in the picture above) and rub it against my skin (all over my body-from head to toe-always brushing in the direction towards my heart). 
Direction to brush towards heart
Be sure to always brush, no matter what body part you’re on, in the direction of your heart (see picture above). This is very important, because while dry skin brushing helps remove dead skin, it also stimulates the nervous system and blood flow while also stimulating hormonal glands.  Always be sure to brush in towards the direction of your heart! Additional benefits of dry skin brushing: it helps reduce cellulite, massages the skin-helping to awaken live new cells and it’s rejuvenating!

After dry skin brushing, I shower or bathe, as normal, and after washing I promptly moisturize my skin with either my home made Anti-Aging Skin Tightening Crème or Organ Extra Virgin Coconut Oil (depends on how I feel). If you do this you will soon discover that your skin will be so soft and subtle to the touch. You’ll be tempted not to moisturize your skin, it’ll be just that soft! (But never skip moisturizing your skin!)



By the way, I did a test of dry skin brushing and saw remarkable differences in my skin immediately. Then I stopped and saw differences immediately, except these not so positive. *smile* So without getting into the grimy details, let's just say that dry skin brushing has proven itself to be quite effective. And this isn't something that is just for women. Men can and should do this too. Toxins releasing from the skin is not a gender thing. *smile* 

Now for those of you who are about to run and grab your hair brush…hold on! There is a special brush that it used just for dry skin brushing. I use a simple Yerba Prima Tampico Skin Brush. I like this one because it has a handle if I need it or I can remove the handle and just hold the brush and begin my brushing. However, they come in all different shapes, sizes, models, brands and types. Play around with a couple and see which ones work best for you! Happy Skin Brushing!



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