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My Least Favorite Comments and Questions

Post by Susan on February 27, 2012

Ok…I realize that I am going out on a limb here and hopefully I won’t offend anyone. First, let me say that I am very grateful to all of you who come here for healthy inspiration, information and recipes. I am grateful for all your lovely comments and wonderful e-mails. But, there are a few…

Harvest Dehydrator
Harvest Dehydrator

One of the questions that I get constantly is whether raw food recipes that involve a dehydrator can be made with an oven instead. Unless your oven can be set below 118 degrees, the answer is no – even convection ovens don’t have the airflow needed for effective dehydration, and the concentrated heat destroys key nutrients…

100% Smart
100% Smart

I am often asked if I eat a 100% raw diet. If you have been hanging out with us, you already know the answer. I do not. The majority of my diet (80-100%) is raw. In the summer, I eat almost all raw food. But when dealing with winter and also social situations, I allow…

Raw Food: Ingredients and Substitutions
Raw Food: Ingredients and Substitutions

  Recently, I made dinner for a friend. Not too unusual but I was in California, not Minnesota, in someone else’s kitchen and without my normal ingredients. Wanting to get dinner done fast, I made one of the recipes from the Rawmazing Transition book, Black Beans with Mango Avocado Pineapple Salsa and Lime Cream. The…

Practically Green!
Practically Green!

I seem to be finding treasures everywhere these days. Recently, at a dinner I was invited to I met Micaela Preston, a fellow author and green living advocate. I was so impressed with her and her book, “Practically Green” I asked her to write a post for Rawmazing. I think you will love the information…

Rawmazing Easy Frozen Desserts!
Rawmazing Easy Frozen Desserts!

  Only 16.95!  | Learn More I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I am to offer my latest e-book, “Rawmazing Frozen Desserts”. You are going to love it! I have spent the last weeks, inspired by the heat, creating a whole bunch of stunning, delicious, EASY frozen dessert recipes. You don’t even…

Farmer’s Market Find: Purslane
Farmer’s Market Find: Purslane

On my latest trip to the farmer’s market, I found a great surprise. I stumbled upon this beautiful bunch of Purslane! My excitement quickly grew as this little green, which many people view as an invasive weed, is a little nutrition powerhouse! Full of omega 3’s, one cup of purslane contains 400 mg of alpha-linolenic…

Rawmazing News
Rawmazing News

Strawberry Lemon Basil Frozen Tort I often get asked, “What is your inspiration when you create raw food recipes?” Usually the answer is ingredients. Or combinations of ingredients that I have seen. I think, what can I do with that to make a great raw food dish. But my latest inspiration has been the heat. No kidding….

Flax
Flax

I often get comments from people who don’t want to make a certain raw food recipe because it has flax in it. If you are allergic, that is completely understandable. But for many, it is a taste that they object to. I am here to say that there is a way around that. But you…

Forbidden Rice
Forbidden Rice

Black Rice and Veggies with Sweet and Sour Sauce from Transitional Raw Foods On Sunday, I posted one of my new favorite recipes for Kabobs. They are a delicious alternative to kabobs on the grill. As the comments came in, people weren’t asking about the kabobs, they were asking about the Forbidden Rice that I pictured the…