http://www.rawrob.com Tue, 06 May 2008 23:17:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a quick one for anyone in or near London - I've organised a couple of wild food walks in the next couple of weeks. The first one is this Saturday (10th May), starting from Canada Water Tube Station (Jubilee Line) at 1pm. The walk will be in Russia Docks ... http://www.rawrob.com/2008/05/07/wild-food-walks-in-london/ Some of you might have already seen this as it's been around for a little while, but I finally watched it this morning and had to share. Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroscientist who had a stroke on the left hemisphere of her brain, which left her to experience ... http://www.rawrob.com/2008/04/30/right-brain-experience/ Kate Magic Wood's new book Raw Magic was released a couple of weeks ago. It's full of amazing superfood recipes like "Sweet and spicy sunshine soup", "Flaxtastic olive bread", "Purple Power Pudding", "Hempilicious Ice Cream", "Chocolate Crispy Cakes" and loads more. It's printed in full colour throughout with beautiful photography ... http://www.rawrob.com/2008/04/28/raw-magic-book-launch/ Spring is here, brining with it lots of wild flowers, many of which are edible. Here is a selection I found yesterday. Click on an image to enlarge. [gallery]Hawthorn flowers are a good flower to start with, they don't have a strong flavour. White dead nettles are another easy flower, not ... http://www.rawrob.com/2008/04/23/edible-wild-flowers/ I made a delicious soup today, based on Holly's Dream of Wild Garlic Soup recipe. I put the following in the Vitamix: about 100g wild garlic leaves 1/2 a red pepper 1/2 a courgette (zucchini) 4 sun dried tomato halves, soaked 2 tablespoons wakame seaweed, soaked, plus soak water juice of half a lemon water, a few ... http://www.rawrob.com/2008/04/18/wild-garlic-soup/ Here are some photos from last years trip to Lithuania. Click on any image to enlarge. [gallery] http://www.rawrob.com/2008/04/17/lithuania-photos/ The wild garlic (ramsons) is just coming into flower. The leaves are great in salads or made into pesto. The flowers are delicious, they have a strong garlic flavour with a nice touch of sweetness and creaminess. Tulips are beautiful, this is taken in Nunhead Cemetery. According to Twinkel's article in ... http://www.rawrob.com/2008/04/16/spring-flowers/ I was sent some samples of a new range of raw chocolates from Pure Flavour and I was very impressed. Soft and creamy, and just the right sweetness, not too sweet. The ingredients are all organic: cacao butter, cacao powder, mesquite, and agave and the fruit and nut version has ... http://www.rawrob.com/2008/04/16/pure-flavour/ A quick recipe, I'm sure it's got many uses as a kind of icing, maybe to go on cakes or maybe inside chocolate, I've not tried that yet... 1 tablespoon agave 2 tablespoons lucuma powder 1 teaspoon coconut butter a few drops of peppermint oil Mix all ingredients well (it takes quite a bit of ... http://www.rawrob.com/2008/04/14/raw-peppermint-cream/ Good news, Issue 12 of the Funky Raw magazine is out now, with amazing cover artwork by Nemo. It seemed to take forever to get it finished but I am so pleased with the result, including the use of full colour for Twinkel's edible flowers article. The magazine is available ... http://www.rawrob.com/2008/04/12/funky-raw-update-magazine-and-stevia/