Archive for April, 2006
Wow, what a weekend it’s been. We had four people come to do our “Raw and Wild Weekend”. It was amazing but just didn’t go anything like we had planned. As with all our workshops we started off by making Chocolate Pudding, and, as always, everyone loved it. But then we just got further and further behind time and at about 4.30pm we sat down to “Lunch”. Which then meant we had “Dinner” very late and had to make less stuff as we weren’t as hungry.
We live in the middle of nowhere, a quiet sleepy crossroads with about 10 houses. Apart from this weekend one of the neighbours decided to have a big party. Not just a house party, he errected a giant marquee on the land at the back of his house, got in a large soundsystem, lighting, etc, and lots of techno DJ’s. Not quite what we had planned for our advertised “weekend in the beautiful countryside”! So anyway, even though I had thought earlier in the day that there would be no way that I would be going to the party, sometime after midnight, me and two of our guests went over to the party. I had a good dance but didn’t stay too long as I knew I had a pile of washing up to do before I could go to bed!
Today things also didn’t go to the original plan, but it gave me and Holly a break as the students took over and made about eight different kinds of flax crackers, all of which were delicious. One noteable recipe was a sweet version which contained dates, cinamon and cardamon.
We then went out for a walk and identifed and collected a large array of wild greens. Now running quite late we started to prepare dinner (having given up on the idea that we could fit in two large meals!) and ended the day with a large meal including raw pizza and then five deserts. Yes, that’s not a mistake, we had Holly’s golden cream pie, banana ice-cream, chocolates, fruit cake with goji berries and chocolate kefir. What a feast. Everyone left feeling very full but happy.
Hopefully I will add some photos of the day fairly soon.
April 30th, 2006
I made the following dressing for tonights salad:
- 1 avocado
- 1/2 red pepper
- 4 wild garlic leaves
- 1 sun dreid tomato, soaked
- 1 tomato
- 2 tablespoons flax seeds
- 2 tablespoons pumpkin seeds
- 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 2.5cm (1inch) piece of lemongrass
Put everything into a blender, including some of the soak water from the tomato and blend.
April 24th, 2006
I’ve just listened to ephisodes 7 and 8 of Raw Vegan Radio which constitute a two part interview with David Wolfe. I really enjoyed this interview, David is an interesting guy and always has lots to say. I find his research on Ormes particularly interesting.
www.rawveganradio.podomatic.com
April 19th, 2006
My friend Tony Wright was in the Western Morning News today. He’s planning to break the world record for staying awake which is currently about 10 days. The reason for this is to try and draw some attention to his research on consciousness and his left brain, right brain theory. He has stayed awake for seven days on several occations and has had some interesting experiences, you can read most of a manuscript he has written at his website www.kaleidos.org.uk, it’s fascinating.
Today’s dressing
- 1 avocado
- 1 carrot
- 1 sun dried tomato, soaked
- 1 tablespoon of sesame seeds
- 1 tablespoon of flax seeds
- 8 wild garlic leaves
- 1/2 tsp ground cumin
As always, put everything into a blender, including a fair bit of the soak water from the tomato and blend until you have a nice thick dressing. Hope you like it.
April 19th, 2006
I thought I’d expand on the laver recipe from a few days ago. This is what I used:
- 1 avocado
- large handful of laver (soaked)
- 1 1/2 sun dried tomatoes (soaked)
- 6 wild garlic leaves
- 1 tablespoon flax seeds
- about 5 walnuts
As always, everything went into the Vitamix, including all the soak water from the laver.
I had this over a salad of grated carrot and sweet potato with loads of wild greens - pennywort, dandelion, wild garlic and dead nettles, mmm delicious.
On the 29th and 30th of April me and Holly are running the “Raw and Wild Weekend” at our house here in Devon. We’ll be showing you how to make all kinds of delicious raw foods, including lasagne, pizza, paté, soup, chocolate pudding and of course I’ll share with you some of my avocado dressings! We’ll also go picking wild greens, do some eye connection meditation and bhajans/chanting.
If you want to come you can email me directly on rob@funkyraw.com. There’s more info on the Funky Raw website and you can even book online.
April 18th, 2006
Went for a good walk today, found some very large pennywort, dandelions and wild garlic.
I made this for tonights salad:
- 2 tomatoes
- 2 sun dried tomatoes, soaked
- 1/2 avocado
- 8 wild garlic leaves
Blended up in the vitamix with a bit of the soak water from the tomatoes, delicious,
April 16th, 2006
Laver is a type of seaweed, popular in Wales, and I remember several years ago a Welsh housemate of mine making “laver bread” which is not bread at all, but is made by frying laver and other things which I can’t remember. Anyway, on to todays recipe, which is raw, absolutly no frying involved:
- 1 avocado
- a couple of large handful of laver, soaked for about 15 mins
- 1 1/2 sun dried tomatoes, soaked
- 3 wild garlic leaves
All the ingredients go into the Vitamix with some of the seaweed soak water and some of the tomato soak water. It was delicious. I often find the simple recipes are the best.
April 13th, 2006
Today we got the flyers back from the printers. I can’t beleive how good they look. Really good quality at a bargain price. If you want me to send you some to distibute, drop me an email.
If you need any flyers designing and printing, let me know, I can do you 5,000 A6 full colour double sided flyers for £195! For more info or a quote for any other design work contact me rob@madmousemedia.co.uk
April 12th, 2006
Just a quick one to tell you all the dressing I made for tonights salad:
- 2 avocados
- 2 1/2 sun dried tomatoes. soaked
- 2 fresh tomatoes
- small piece of spring onion
- 4 wild garlic leaves
- small piece of chili
A simple one which worked really well. Everything in the vitamix including a little soak water from the tomatoes. Had it with a salad of cucumber, grated carrot, sweet potato and beetroot, and lots of wild greens - pennywort, dandelion and wild garlic.
April 6th, 2006
On Monday we went to visit the Funky Raw festival site near Helston in Cornwall.It’s a really beautiful place. There is a large barn where we will have the cafés, juice bar, bands, DJs and that kind of thing.
Next to the barn is a nice courtyard area where we can set up some tables for an outside eating area.
Next is a beautiful field with some young trees, which could be used for workshops.
Then there is the “anceient settlement”. This is a masive round field which has a wall all the way around it and was probably some kind of ancient settlement. This will be the camping field.The site is about 3 miles walk to the beach.We’re going to have Raw food preparation demos, Qi Gong, Tai Chi, Kundalini Yoga, Chanting, Massage, “The Scented Tent” (learn how to make natural skin care products), Wild food walks, etc.Music: bands, DJs, open mic, impromptu (bring instruments if you want).
Food: 2 cafés including the Magic Café, juice bar, fruit and veg stall, superfoods stall.
See www.funkyraw.com/festival for more information
After visiting the site, we went on to visit Tish and Tony. Berite and Lizzy brough their pet aligator for a bit of a swim! I went for a really good walk along the coast path.
April 6th, 2006
