One of my New Year's Resolutions for 2010 was to keep my car and driving record completely legit.  Well it took until July 19th, but I know have my license back.  Laura brought me a hommade arrangement last night of some painted kale!  how great is that!  The weird thing is I was looking in my truck for my registration this morning so I can keep it with my insurance card and found a ticket receipt for something I NEVER EVER saw before.  In 2008 someone got a ticket in my truck for violating a...

These are from Matthew Kenney's book "Entertaining in the Raw."  They're flax based so you'll have to be down with flax.  If not, I think grinding up some sesame seeds might work.  In any case, they're pretty good, and of course you gotta put some good fortunes in them.  I had some like "Heat is murder" and "Just say no to milk."

This is from Ani Phyo's new book "Ani's Essentials."  I've also put her Brazil nut/ Flax pancake batter in the dehydrator.  They look like they're gonna be the best ever.  Below are some old pictures of a chicken-less scramble and curry soup.




 

Here's a sunset picture from Col. Allensworth State Historical Park.  Make sure you get out this summer and do some camping.  This is my favorite place for using my telescope.  It's nice to be home making smoothies and my favorite raw recipes.

Had breakfast at the media center today in ft. lauderdale.  Had some fruit.  brought enough premade stuff to last a day or two.  see more pics here.
 
Here's a boat paying homage to our favorite bean!

First, I've been asked to be a speaker at the Animal Liberation Forum.  It's in April on campus at the state university here in Long Beach.  I've been involved in the underground punk rock, and now hip hip music scenes, for over 20 years, and I'm gonna talk about the role music has in the underground animal lib movement.

Second, this website is getting a pretty good volume of traffic, increasing a lot lately.  Glad you're here.  I've received emails from several of you this week alone, that's ...

I've been making this rad banana bread a couple times a week for a month or more.  It's become very popular with all my friends so I have to keep making it.  The original recipe is from Ani's Dessert book.  I pretty much wing it now.  I'll add a few pecans, or goji berries, raisins, or cacao nibs.  Throw in some medjool dates to sweeten if you want.  I've played around with how thick to make it in the dehydrator.  I've found that I like it to be a little on the thick side.  The picture above ...

In my first entry I started with Ani's recipe for raw oatmeal.  It's continued to be a staple for me.   I just take a scoop of some raw groats and soak them a couple days in some filtered water.  Some soaked and dried almonds are great too.  I'll add it all to the food processor with some (pitted) medjool dates and cinnamon.  I like it pretty sweet and a strong cinnamon taste for sure.  Add just enough water in the food processor to get the texture you like.  This goes so well with fruit and ...

made a parfait entry a few days ago.  made the same thing today pretty much, but with strawberry and mango.  Added some cacao nibs to the strawberry.  just ate it all out of a bowl and man it was awesome.  now I'm too stuffed for Hole Mole on 4th street.  Had "coining" last night to treat my headache.  http://www.ehow.com/how_2228239_prepare-coining-treatment.html.  Gonna see Avatar tonight on Imax.  wish me luck.

I read the JustinMendez.com blog regularly.  He recently posted that he had tried my raw brownies and loved them.  I have apple slices, banana slices, coconut, and persimmon slices in the dehydrator at this very moment.  I'm going up to Big Bear tomorrow and need to be prepared for a shortage of vegan food options.  I also have some avocados and made some spicy mix to make avocado fries with.   I added some raw sesame seeds for a little fun.   Here's the brownies from Ani's dessert book.

I too...

I've got big plans for the holidays.  Will be traveling to the Death Valley for a few days.  will spend tomorrow preparing all the food I'll need for 2 people for 3 days.  Here's a picture of some raw soy sauce.  I put some in a little jar that previously had some kind of spice in it.  I chopped up a clove of garlic and a habanero pepper and added it in.  It's been sitting in the fridge for just a few days and it's super spicy.  I'm gonna use it on some mushrooms I think.

I've gotten really behind on posting after the thanksgiving holiday, i was just so busy.  These Pecan Pie Cookie are from ani's dessert book.

I've made these a bunch lately and started adding lemon juice instead of orange.  I have a lemon tree in my backyard and it's actually got ripe lemons on it.  I'm sure Ani would be proud.  I also started adding about 1/2 tablespoon of vanilla seeds.  It would take forever to get them from the whole bean so I just got a bag of them from Whole Foods.

I've had a lot of late nights recently and wasn't getting up as early in the mornings as I usually do to prepare food for the day.  In an effort to save time and still eat a healthy and filling breakfast all week long I concocted some granola that lasted pretty much the whole week.  I mixed together (in no specific amounts) cashews, almonds, brazil nuts, walnuts, pecans, macadamia nuts,  sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, flax seeds, dates, figs, and dry coconut, all raw.  I chopped them all up ...

"Ani's Raw Food Kitchen" has a recipe for some raw pancakes.  I made these one morning to feed some friends that spent the night.  

bought a couple new raw recipe books on the advice of
Justin Mendez from www.justinmendez.com. 
Mathew Kenney's "Everyday Raw" and "entertain in  the Raw."

Kombucha!  10 cups water/tea.  dissolve 1 cup raw sugar.  must let it set to room temperature.  Must be in a glass container.  spoon in the slimey kombucha culture floating in a bottle of Kombucha from the store.  Cover and let it sit in a dark place at room temperature.  I put my jugs in my oven that I don't use.  Let it sit for 2 weeks.  presto!  you have kombucha.  refridgerate.  I mix with juice and drink almost everyday.  if you have a second glass jug you can put the culture you have in...