Topic: raw food recipes

The Cooking Channel Is Taking Vegan Mainstream (Hopefully) With Jason Wrobel’s “How To Live To 100″

The Cooking Channel Is Taking Vegan Mainstream (Hopefully) With Jason Wrobel's "How To Live To 100"

If the slate of vegan celebrities, cookbooks, restaurants, and chefs isn’t enough to push it over the tipping point, The Cooking Channel is doing their part to push veganism into the mainstream this Sunday, with their new show, “How To Live To 100.” Led by celebrity vegan chef, Jason Wrobel (whose Youtube videos are already a sensation online), the show could be more than just a resolution-helper for the temporarily healthy: It really is the first big cooking show to center around veganism–not weight loss or cutting calories with aspartame–and we’re hoping that it succeeds. More »

Guilt-Free Summer Sweet: Raw Carob Halvah Recipe

Guilt-Free Summer Sweet: Raw Carob Halvah Recipe

Halvah is one of my favorite treats, but the traditional Middle Eastern sesame candy is usually packed with sugar (not my favorite ingredient). This quick and easy raw carob halvah recipe from Stephanie Tourles’s Raw Energy, though, not only cuts out all the bad stuff, it serves as a good source of Vitamins B and E, calcium, magnesium, iron, potassium, protein, natural sugars, healthful fat and fiber. The candies—which are not too sweet, slightly dry and chewy—can be individually wrapped in plastic wrap or waxed paper, and packed in your purse, gym bag, briefcase or backpack— just don’t let them get too warm and soft. Or you can freeze your halvah pieces and you pop them directly from the freezer like hard candy for a cool summer pick-me-up. More »

Kind Coma Earth Week Edition: 4 Raw Food Chefs With Voices to Calm the Mind and Spirit

Kind Coma Earth Week Edition: 4 Raw Food Chefs With Voices to Calm the Mind and Spirit

We’ve listened to the soothing audio of yoga instructors; we’ve heard the dulcet tones of chilled-out painters in our earbuds, and we’ve even included Alec Baldwin on our list of special people whose voices have the power to lull us into a pleasantly calm catatonic state – if only for a few brief minutes. This week’s installment of Kind Coma pays homage to Earth Week 2011 by featuring four eco-friendly raw food chefs with relaxing voices that will have you blissing out and praising Mother Earth in no time. Be sure to put away all sharp kitchen implements well before you dim the lights and hit “play.” Happy Earth Week, hippies! Just don’t get so chillaxed that you actually sleep through Earth Day. More »

Sick and Tired: Chronically Ill All My Life — But No Diagnosis

Sick and Tired: Chronically Ill All My Life -- But No Diagnosis

Me: Alex, I’ll take “Mystery Illnesses” for $1,000 please.

Alex Trebek: This elusive condition consists of chronic headaches, fatigue, insomnia, weakness, chemical sensitivities, irritability, gas, bloating, intolerance to heavy exercise, and requires excessive rest.

Me: What is…chronic fatigue?

Alex: No, I’m sorry, chronic fatigue is incorrect. Janice?

Janice: What is…hormonal imbalance?

Alex: Sorry no, that’s also incorrect. Oh wait, I’m just now getting word that answer may be partially correct. But not entirely. Ted, would you like to attempt to answer?

Ted: Uh, what is…actually, I’m sorry, I have no idea.

And so goes the game of my life. In reality, it’s not nearly as fun or glamorous as a game show, but it’s definitely as challenging.

My story really has two parts. And I’ll just tell you now that the first part has a happy ending. But I don’t want to spoil it all, so you’ll have to read through and find out how the second part ends. More »

How to Cook Raw Food: Chili Maca Chocolate Avocado Pie

How to Cook Raw Food: Chili Maca Chocolate Avocado Pie

Douglas McNish, head chef of Toronto’s Raw Aura organic and raw restaurant is back to help us learn how to cook his healthy, vegan, and — this week — raw recipes. Watch for more of his column, published twice a month here at Blisstree.

Valentine’s Day might be over, but you can celebrate love (even if it’s just of chocolate) year-round with a dessert like Doug’s raw Chocolate Avocado Pie. Maca comes from the Andes Mountains, where it’s been regarded as a powerful aphrodisiac for hundreds of years. It’s best known for boosting the male libido and balancing hormone levels. The cayenne in this dessert not only adds a delicious kick to the chocolate, but it also helps speed up the metabolism, giving you and your partner extra energy and “staying power,” if you know what we mean. More »

Cellulose Gum: Another cheap emulsifier found in everything from hair gel to bread dough. Generally used to help blend two things from opposite ends of the science spectrum. It keeps food on the shelf from spoiling; it’s the reason we have things in this world like bacon candy. And low and behold, it’s used as an appetite suppressor. I’ve got a better weight-loss trick for you: Exercise and eat green vegetables.

Cellulose Gum: Another cheap emulsifier found in everything from hair gel to bread dough. Generally used to help blend two things from opposite ends of the science spectrum. It keeps food on the shelf from spoiling; it's the reason we have things in this world like bacon candy. And low and behold, itâs used as an appetite suppressor. Iâve got a better weight-loss trick for you: Exercise and eat green vegetables.

– Blisstree contributor and raw and vegan chef Douglas McNish, of Raw Aura restaurant in Toronto, on the many cons of cellulose gum, from his post: Health Food Exposé: Calling Bullsh#*! on 5 More Toxic Ingredients