Here’s a quick and easy recipe, I just made this and I though it was worth sharing:
Simply mash the avocado and banana with a fork, then mix in the powders. Great as it is as a sweet snack, or could be used as a cake filling.
Add comment November 6th, 2008
Here in London, the rose hips are ripe! They are one of my favourite wild foods, they taste great and if you read my post last year on the subject, you will know that rose hips are full of vitamin C.
There are a couple of indicators of ripeness:
Rose hips have lots of seeds which are hairy and can be irritating to the throat. After picking, it is possible to pull the end off and squeeze all the seeds out at the same time, although this doesn’t always work. I do find that when they are properly ripe the seeds are not irritating.
Also still around at the moment are hawthorn berries. These taste a bit like avocado and are supposed to be good for your heart.
When picking wild food, always make sure you have the right plant, especially with red berries. With hawthorn berries, check the leaf shape to make sure you have the right tree.
1 comment October 10th, 2008
I made this for my dinner last night and it was delicious so I thought I’d share. The tomatoes I used are a rare type, called “Black Cherry” they’re well worth trying if you spot them, they are less acidic and slightly sweeter than regular cherry tomatoes.![](http://www.rawrob.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/black-cherry-tomatoes.jpg "\\"Black Cherry\\" cherry tomatoes")
This all went into the blender. I served it on a load of wild greens, with an avocado and a bit of unpasteurised goats cheese.
Add comment September 19th, 2008
It’s all over the papers: gas and electricity prices are rising, and rising fast. Which makes now a great time to think about eating more raw food! Yes, when you eat raw food you save money on fuel used for cooking. And you get more nutrition out of the food, which helps with the rising food prices.
You might not think of winter as a time to start eating salads, but raw food isn’t just about salads. Using chilli and other spices you can make raw food that makes you feel warm inside. Also, raw food doesn’t mean cold food; food should be at room temperature (not straight out of the fridge), but you can warm food up gently. Soup is a good example of this, you can make a raw soup and warm it gently, using much less energy than if you were cooking it. You shouldn’t let your food get over about 40 degrees C, think about body temperature (37 deg) if you have trouble remembering.
Here’s a spicy chilli sauce recipe you can use to heat up any raw dish:
Grind up coriander seeds and cumin seeds. Add some fresh chillis, garlic, flax oil (or other oil), garam masala (or other spices) and blend (or grind, probably could do this in a pestle and mortar if you chop the chillis first, and save even more energy).
Add comment September 12th, 2008
If you want to learn how to make some of the delicious recipes I’ve posted on this blog and more, then why not come to one of our workshops here in Walthamstow, London E17. You can learn how to make a good selection of raw food recipes including chocolate pudding, soups, salads and dressings, chocolate and of course my partner Jolita’s wonderful cakes.
The date for the next workshop is Sunday January 10th 2010.
Raw Food and Wild Food Workshop with Rob and Jolita
The day runs from 10.30am to 4.30pm and only costs £85 which includes breakfast, lunch and snacks – ie all the food we make throughout the day. You can book on the Funky Raw website or contact me by email for more details: rob@funkyraw.com
Add comment August 22nd, 2008
I moved house last week, and this new place has a freezer, so I can make ice-cream. I’ve been wanting to start experimenting with raw ice-cream for a while… Here’s my first attempt at chocolate ice-cream, as always, all quantities are very approximate:
Hemp Milk
The rest
First make hemp milk: drain and rinse the hemp seeds, then blend with the fig soak water and some young coconut water. Try not to use too much liquid, but this will depend on your blender. Squeeze through a nut milk bag (or muslin bag / cheesecloth) to make the milk.
Then put the rest of the ingredients into your blender along with the hemp milk and blend until smooth. Place in a container and freeze. With my freezer, it was ready after about 8 hours.
I’m sure there are many variations – if you find something that works well, leave a comment and let everyone know…
Enjoy, love Rob
Add comment August 6th, 2008
I went to a potluck yesterday and I made my own version of the Super Duper Raw Chocolate Fudge recipe. First I made coconut cream from one mature coconut – blend the meat dry in the Vitamix and then squeeze through a nut milk bag. I then mixed the cream with the following:
Just keep mixing until you have a thick chocolate pie filling.
I made my own base, I soaked lots of sunflower seeds and a small amount of pumpkin seeds for a few hours, rinsed and dried then and put them in the food processor with some nice fresh dates. Processed until a pie base consistency – for me it was not thick enough so I added a tablespoon of lucuma to thicken.
I also made a raspberry sauce to serve it with – I blended two punnets of raspberries from the farmers market with a handful of fresh dates and a squirt or two of agave (more dates and less agave and this could have been raspberry jam!)
And of course it was delicious and everyone wanted the recipe – so here you are!
Add comment July 29th, 2008
I spotted this video posted on We Like It Raw and I just had to make it (or my version of it, I used agave instead of honey) and it was so delicious that I need to share with you all:
This video shows how to make the coconut cream. If you don’t have a juicer, I made it in my Vitamix by grinding the coconut up (dry) and squeezing through a hemp milk bag.
Add comment July 26th, 2008
I’ve been away for a couple of weeks, we went to Sweden and Lithuania with a day trip to Denmark – I’ll post photos from the rest of the trip soon, but I will start with the Fresh Food Festival, Scandinavia’s first raw food festival.
There’s only one place to start, and that’s the food – it was amazing! As you can see from the photos, it was top quality gourmet raw food – pizza, nori, flax crackers, pates, soup, etc, etc. The day started with yoga, then breakfast of a selection of fruits. Throughout the days there were a selection of talks, given in various languages with an English translation, a wild food walk and some food demos.
Apart from the food, the best part of the festival was connecting with raw fooders from a different part of the world – I know what is happening in the UK and US raw food world but I never really knew about the growing network just across the water!
The coast was about half an hours walk away and we found lots of local wild food including raspberries, red currants, various greens and a new berry for me, the June Berry (Amelanchier lamarckii), which is delicious, I’ll be on the lookout for that here in the UK. I have some photos but they are on Jolita’s camera so I will post them as soon as I can.
While I’m on the subject of festivals, don’t forget the Funky Raw Space of Love Gathering coming up very soon (15 to 18th August)…
Add comment July 23rd, 2008
There have been rumours going round recently that young Thai coconuts were dipped in formaldehyde before being exported, which many of us hoped was not true. Matt Amsden (of RAWvolution) decided to find out by having a coconut tested, and thankfully for us young coconut lovers, the test came back negative – no trace of formaldehyde in any part of the coconut. Read the full story here.
Add comment June 20th, 2008
