About Rawmazing
- Welcome to Rawmazing where learning about and preparing raw food is easy and exciting.
We use pure unprocessed ingredients, prepared with minimal intervention, to create raw food recipes that are nutritionally dense without sacrificing the taste and presentation of traditional recipes.
If you are simply looking for healthier options, or are ready to dive into raw head first, you will find what you are looking for at Rawmazing.
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I have designed this website designed to help you transition from the SAD (Standard American Diet) to the healthy, tasty world of raw food.
Having been involved with food and wine for years as a trained sommelier, gourmet food and fine wines were a part of my every day lifestyle. Meeting and working with many top chefs and studying classical french cooking along with many other cuisines, inspired my passion and creativity for food. It also led me down a path to excess weight, general fatigue and other symptoms that I knew were associated with my diet. My body was seriously rebelling and I needed to do something about it.
Then I found raw. It was exciting to find a whole new way to prepare and eat food. Exploring the world of raw food was fun. There were new things to learn at every turn. I tried some of my own recipes but experienced a lot of failure, so I just learned how to prepare raw food using every cookbook I could get my hands on. Reading about raw, the health benefits, and the principles behing this way of eating became an obsession.
I became 100% raw. It was amazing. I lost weight, had more energy than I have ever had and the best part was the mental clarity that I began to experience. My health issues resolved themselves and I felt better than I had for years.
But all journeys have their bumps in the road. Minnesota winters are very cold and long. Stress was building up in my life from other sources and I defaulted back to my “comfort” food. All the consequences of what I was eating became glaringly obvious as I gained weight, experienced more fatigue and lost my focus. Knowing full well that all of the symptoms I was having were directly related to what I was eating, when spring hit, I decided to dedicate myself to raw again.
This time, I did it differently. Food is a sensory experience. My greatest desire was to create food that not only tasted wonderful, but also was beautiful to look at. I believe in presentation and that it is an important part of the dining experience. Having fallen off of the wagon also gave me insights on how to incorporate raw back into my life…striving for 80-90% this time, not 100%. With a little patience,planning and some transitional recipes, it is easy to avoid the pitfalls that temp us to this healthy way of life. Eating well is one of the best gifts that we can give ourselves and our loved ones.
It is said that 60% of our illness in this country is caused by the SAD (Standard American Diet). Our current way of eating is not only making us sick, it is also quickly depleting our planet of it’s resources in ways that are completely unnecessary. It is time to bring a new mindset to the masses. Help us spread the word as we show ways to a more nutritional way of eating that doesn’t require you to give up the flavor and beauty of food!
Warmest Regards,
Susan Powers
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Wow! Lovely site, Susan.
Good for you!
You’re a brilliant writer/journalist. Each piece has the magic making it easy and fun to read. Thanks for the contribution.
Thank you Susan. Now I don’t feel so bad. I try and juice and then I stop. While the recipes seem so easy it seems I have to be home to prepare everything right on the spot. Can I prepare ahead of time some of the recipes and take them on the road. I’m out and about quite often.
Carol
I would look at each recipe. Some need to be made and consumed, some are portable.
Hey!!
GREAT SITE SUSAN!!
You’ve been busy!! all look’s WONDERFUL
I’ll atch for you Winter classes..
Love lois
So lovely to see a MN Raw blogger! I just found your site via a MPLS Farmer’s Market tweet, and I’m excited to read more
So glad to have you here!
Susan Such a beautiful site . Thank you for all your healthy information. Green Blessings Arlena
Hi Susan,
Thanks for your site. I especially liked the Oct 3 post.. Blessings! J
Your website and your story are so relatable. Thank you for that. I have followed a similar path. I appreciate and stand up for your honesty. Kat
Great points. I have discovered healthier “natural” foods, then vegetarianism, veganism, and finally raw. I found that with each improvement from the fast food, margarine and coke lifestyle I was living before, Iost weight, felt better, and had better hormone balance (except when I tried eating soy/tofu/TVP as a meat substitute. Very bad for you in large amounts, esp if you already have hormone issues or take the pill). I’ve let things slide for various reasons, but I try to incorporate the various types of eating well that I’ve discovered into my life at least once in a while, and we still don’t eat as much meat and processed food as we used to. So many benefits.
Your site is fabulous. I love to cook but want to be raw and have found the two a little incompatible. I keep trying recipes and think oh this is nice, for the first taste, then meh. I love gourmet, I love presentation, I love your website. I am going to try some of your recipes. I am so excited to find some gourmet raw recipes. And you are in the north and have to deal with weather and “local” issues too. I am in Calgary and the Farmers Markets are already bringing in stuff from South America. Which is OK and I buy it, but you understand!!
I got here from the G Living Website that I love as well. Most of my great recipes have come from there and I can see that a lot more are going to come from here!! Thanks and nice to meet you. If you have a newsletter or email or whatever, sign me up. I am going to be one of your groupies!!
Sue
You can sign up for notification on the feedburner link to the right! Thanks for all the kind words. It means a lot to me to know I am helping!
Hi Susan,
WHY AREN’T YOU IN LA? Your recipes look fantastic and I want to take a class!!! If you opened a restaurant out here you would OWN! Just…you know, throwin’ it out there…
xoPaula
WOW…Amazing pictures, amazing receipes!
Thank you very much!
Thank you for sharing your creative dishes.
We met you daughter at Copper Mountain. She was our daughters snowboard instructor. When the kids told her we eat raw in class she gave us your website. Small world
I love this site, so inspirational and delectable!
Does anyone have a recipe for a mashed & rolled soft fig paste mixed with a bit of fresh grated coconut, maybe some mashed date as well, then rolled in semisweet cocoa powder?
This holiday I was given 4 of these luscious tiny raw fruit balls and am not sure how to arrive at the very soft, almost tender texture of the fig/date paste.
Much appreciate any help anyone can give! Thank you kindly, -evw
Hi Susan,
I’m a fellow MN and yes, the winters make eating raw more difficult, I agree. I’m glad that I found your site and am going to have to check my calendar so that I can take a uncooking class from you!
I am an endurance ultra runner and have found that since going raw I have much less recovery between races. It’s been an amazing learning experience.
I found your website online, as I have just started eating raw on an almost full time basis. I am an Inronman Triathlete and have suffered injuries that have kept me from racing the past two years. Eating raw has increased recovery time and given me a sense of overall well being.
Thank you for your great recipes!
Natasha Powers
Wonderful to hear! Love your name, too!!!
Very cool! Drop me an email and I will get you on the class list.
i am really enchanted with your web site!!!!
you are a very special person and i really appreciate your work and write – the pictures are invitation for us to keep on the train and try to do something that can be desire before the taste!
(many of my food did not look good even tastes good!!!) So i only have to say thank you !
Wish you are in Florida – i am in Miami!!! I would be on all your classes!
Also here we have very few raw places to go out! So if you would like to spend winter time on this paradise, you also could have something to work – as a restaurant !!!
Lots of love and Blessings!
Just to clarify did you use almonds with the skin left on for this recipe?
Hi Susan,
What a great site and some of the recipes look great and I can’t wait to try them! I totally agree with you about how awesome you feel eating a high raw diet. I myself am not 100% but not far off and feel the best I have in ages.
Becky
Hi Susan: I just wanted to tell you that your website is big, bright and beautiful! I was just browsing the other day looking for a raw vegan quiche recipe and I came upon your website and found what I was looking for. The photography is excellent and you make the dishes look so mouthwatering and the directions and recipes you give are so thorough and right on point! You make raw food preparation easy (even if it isn’t!).
Thanks so much…it is easy!!! Glad you like the site!!
Hi Susan,
I love your site. It is very motivational in staying on track. I am just wondering what you were eating that was not raw when you were 80%-90%. I ask this because it seems to have made a world of difference when you went 100%. Thanks for the info.
Cheers,
Mandy
All kinds of things. I do not eat meat in any form, but did indulge in dairy, sweets, etc. For me, especially at my age, food adjustments, even small ones make a huge difference.
Good morning…I’m encouraged to find your site….saw it on Raw Cafe ! I just started the raw disipline after reading Paul Nisons’ book The Daylight Diet ! Learning and Learning……EVERYDAY ! It’s a GREAT journey ! I’m a little anxious about what to tell friends and family when confronted about cooked foods & mainly grains ! Could you shed some light on the omission of grains such as oats, barley, corn, and wheat with all it’s parts ! I’d love to have an answer for them. Thank you so very much.
James, I don’t omit grains. I love grains. I think they have wonderful properties and nutrients. On the other hand, if your body doesn’t like them, then you should omit. I really believe in finding out what your body wants and needs…EVERYONE is different. If omitting grains resonates with you, try it and see what the results are…
Thank you for this site!!!
stunningly beautiful on all counts. delicious to boot! so far I’ve tried the onion flax crackers and the three cheese spread(s). oh my! I have buckwheat sprouting to try
in the zuch/carrot bread and wheatberries sprouting to make rejuvelac for the raw
vegan cheese. congratulations on your dessert book tho I must say I do hope
you have a savory cookbook in the works. I’ll be first in line!!
many heartfelt thanks for sharing your brilliantly creative spirit. you are a star!
-chanda
Hi Susan. I am grateful for your website. I am a middle ager trying to make the leap. It would be nice if you made a new recipe section called “transitional” it would help me in cooking for my husband and for the times we I just need something. Thanks again.
Wow! Wow! What a lovely website! My wonderful babysitter just told me about your website! She’s so excited about your apple pie. =) She’s working on balancing her candida so will have to wait. But its the first thing she wants to make =). Also she wants to make it for her family for the holidays to show them how amazing raw can be!
Me, I’ve been suffering from chronic fatigue for the past 3 years after the birth of my second child. I didn’t know what it was, what was happening to me. I spent much of 2009 going to and paying a naturopath without my relief. I took out gluten (no big relief for me but a lot for my 5 yo).
Then I kept hearing RAW everywhere I turned. I’d never met anyone and then met 4 people, it was everywhere I turned. I’ve been eating high raw with a few 100% days in there for 3 weeks.
I have more energy than I have in years. There are way more ‘good’ days, I don’t have to spend so much time recovering from a busy day. I feel more alert. I can feel myself detoxing – headaches, tired, cravings. But it all still feels better somehow than I have felt the past few years. I have to admit, I’m scared I’m not getting enough protein or calcium or just balance. But I remind myself that I’m giving my poor body more ‘good stuff’ than I have in years. So even if I’m not getting enough balance right now, its still better and that I’ll get there.
Thank you for your amazing website! I will share it with all my friends and keep coming back. I love your photography too! Beautiful! And that one photo with the pugs little tongue sticking out just a bit – tooooo cute!
Truly, thank you for the inspiration! Off to droll over your recipes =)
Blessings,
Cari
Cari, There are a couple of good articles here on protein: http://www.rawmazing.com/articles/raw-food-and-the-protein-myth/ and Calcium: http://www.rawmazing.com/articles/raw-food-diets-calcium-and-osteoporosis/
Hi Susan,
I just left a message on a very old post not realizing it was so old–just found your blog and I love it. Thanks so much for these great recipes and your story!
Hi Susan, I am wondering how to substitute for nuts.
Hey, my husband and son are both allergic to nuts and I’m trying to decide what would make a good crust for a pie or base for a cake. Would either coconut, finely ground, or sunflower seeds work? What about raw oats, ground up? There are so many good recipes out there and I feel badly that they (especially my hubby) miss out on them. We’ve all been fully raw for over a year now and we’re feeling great (among other things I’ve been pleasantly surprised to find that my daughter’s hormonal mood swings really leveled off quite a bit!), we eat fairly plainly but it is nice to have a special recipe around sometimes that we can all share.
Oh, I tried going to your “contact me” page and it didn’t offer any way to contact you.
You could try a coconut crust. Is he allergic to all nuts?
Yup, he’s allergic to all of them, unfortunately. My son is allergic to all but almonds, which at least means I can make *most* of the recipes and just have a slightly different flavour to them, but the hubby is completely cut off from all of them.
So would you just sub coconut for the nuts called for at a 1:1?
Shannon sorry to hear about your hubby’s and son allergy to nuts.
I ‘m wondering if you guys eat any dairy food at all ,as dairy can coarse a lot of problems and can completely upset your whole system.
Al allergies are coursed by on natural substance in our body’s.
I have been gluten intolerant but have no problems since I stopped all dairy products.
I’m a strong believer of all natural food and never eat processed foods at all.
If I would eat out it would only be a raw food restaurant.
I get maid when watching adds on tv promoting junk food as a healthy food.
The other day there was a lady on the news who had diabetics and all kind of problems she had major back problems as she was very obese, I saw her eating white bread how silly can one be.
All she has to do is eat raw and her problems will subside.
Mainstream lacks a lot just seams they don’t care my partners nurse told my partner she should lose weight she herself it twice as big as my partner.
My partner used to inject her self twice daily with 22 units now she uses 15units isn’t that great.
There is so much you can do to be in a good health with out the help of a doctor.
I love your site so much Susan! It’s elegant, informative, sensitive, warming, and the recipes and presentation are beautiful and delicious! Thank you so much for sharing this site with all of us. Keep up the fabulously, raw-riffic work!!! =)
Susan, I adore your site and it’s really helped me this time around trying to be raw. I know you are coming out with a dessert book, but how about an all around recipe book? I would most certainly buy one for myself and a couple more for some friends and family who think raw is all about juice and sprouts.
Sara: I am working on one. It takes months to do a cookbook. So you will have to be a little patient.
Can do Susan…your recipes are so worth the wait!
A great journey, Susan. I feel the same way. I am at 100% right now, but will allow myself the 80-90% as time goes on. Though honestly, I’ve lost all desire, really, to eat meat. Reading “Reasonably Raw” kind of sold me on that one, and although it still smells great, its appeal has disappeared. I will remember your story if / when I have trying times.
On another note, I really think it’s way more than 60% of sickness comes from SAD. I bet most cancer comes from our diets. I respect everyone’s decision to eat what they want, but over time I truly hope to show my loved ones how important a raw diet is as they see the change in me.
If you have not read the book I mentioned above, I think you might find it both motivational and educational, even though this is your passion.
My apologies for the long comments.
Best,
Stephanie
Hey Susan! I have been Vegetarian for 30+ years, Vegan for 11 and now 100% Raw and have been for 5 years. I suffered my entire life with migraines and then a non-functioning thyroid. I would literally wake up and chew on about 3-4 Excedrin P.M.’s just to “take the edge off” that migraine and be able to (barely) function with a non-working thyroid made living extremely difficult.
After 11 months eating 100% Raw? Both were healed/cured (this after six years going to a thyroid specialist, which did nothing except load my body with useless chemicals) And my energy level and mental clarity is soaring. EVERY day!
You dishes (the ones I’ve tried) now are so good! I truly believe this is the way humans were meant to eat. Mama Earth provides for us. Thank you so much.
(((hugs)))
lovely, absolutely lovely. i too fell off the raw wagon for a year after 3 raw years. i gained weight, my adrenal fatigue came back. within one month of going raw again, i lost weight and the adrenals were better. i decided then i would dedicate myself to sharing this information that i knew would change peoples lives for the better. i went to culinary school in January and got a job as a private chef a month later! (i turned an oscar winning actor into a raw foodie mostly
nice to hear your story
regards,
Dara
Hi Susan!
I just found your site and I’m really excited to look through it all. I went about 85% raw 5 weeks ago after being confronted with the idea over and over, even though I was not looking for it! I figured someone was trying to tell me something, so I’m giving it a shot. I have read lots of books,borrowed a dehydrator, and started making some things. I started (yet again!) working out 3 days a week. My question is this; I did not really have health problems before, aside from rhuematoid arthritis which I’ve had for most of my 40 years. I do not feel much different and initially lost 7 pounds the first 2 weeks, but no more since, and I would like to lose another 10-15. I already ate kombucha, kefir smoothies, raw dairy, raw honey, and pasture raised meats and eggs before. I want to feel the remarkable results, have radiant skin, and look so much better, like everyone else, and I’m wondering why it’s not so remarkable with me?
It doesn’t happen overnight. And you started from a pretty good place. Everyone has their own path. You still need to make sure you are eating a balanced diet, getting good exercise, etc.
Thanks for responding! I read a book by a famous supermodel, who made it all sound instant and fabulous and another by a woman in New York who could be a supermodel – maybe it’s not so for us normal people! But I’ll keep at it! Thanks!
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