This little gal is absolutely adorable!The youngest raw food chef, she’s very smart, cute and funny. Her cookies look delicious!!
3 T.flax seeds, ground
2 T. ?sunflower seeds, ground
4 bananas, mashed
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. salt
raisins
Grind the flax. Pour in a bowl. Grind the sunflower seeds. Add to the bowl. Add the mashed bananas, cinnamon and salt. Stir in raisins. Drop onto waxed paper. Flip the cookies after one hour. Wait another 2 hours or so.

Do You Know How to Use Chia?
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Healing with Living Foods ✆

(from Val at GreenSmoothie.com – #88)

Hi — have you heard the buzz about chia?

http://www.greensmoothie.com/cb/chia.html

Chia is high in omega oils, packed with protein and fiber, and more stable than flax seeds.

Multiple benefits:

* Hydrating
* Easily digested
* Concentrated nutrition
* Enhances energy
* Great for Athletes
* Supports healthy weight loss
* Regenerating — let’s grow younger!

But how do you eat it?

The world’s biggest rawfood chef school — Living Light Culinary Arts Institute — has just posted a new video featuring two delicious recipes using chia seeds.

Add more healthy nutrition in a fun way!

http://www.greensmoothie.com/cb/chia.html

Discover how to make:

* Sunny Chia Seed Bread

* Chia Pinwheels Filled with Chocolate and Caramel

* Yum…

And get yourself in on the “Hot Chefs Cool Kitchen” streaming LIVE August 26-29 featuring the best rawfood chefs in the world.

warm hugs — (womon)Val

P.S. You also get printable PDFs of all the recipes (at no charge). Plus Cherie Soria’s quick Breakfast Specials.

Cherie is the founder and head chef at Living Light. She’s such a delight to watch on video.

http://www.greensmoothie.com/cb/chia.html

Another great tip from Patsy-

“I have another tip if you’d like:

I use the Himalayan Pink salt sole` water in a pump sprayer for salting my sprouted seeds and nuts
( the ones I want salty ) before dehydrating them. It works great. I just put them on
the trays and spray them then wipe the edges of the tray. I even spray the sprouted buckwheat.
I could never get the salt just right when I add it to the soaking water and I can’t use the Braggs
Aminos because I’m sensitive to the natural MSG in it.

Have a great day and thanks again for your help and for getting me started making KT.”

Pat

From: Mapuana
Date: Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:09 PM
Subject: The Differences Between Rose Hips & Rose Hip Seeds | eHow.com
http://www.ehow.com/facts_5818392_differences-hips-rose-hip-seeds.html

The Differences Between Rose Hips & Rose Hip Seeds

Contributor

By Roxanne McHenry, eHow Contributing Writer

Petals drop to reveal rose hips in the fall.

Image by Flickr.com, courtesy of Holly Brown

Rose hips are a fruit that develops from wild rose blossoms in the fall. The blossom center grows into a red bulb up to 1 inch in diameter—the rose hip—containing hundreds of rose hip seeds.

History

1. Traditional medicine used rose hips for thousands of years. Native Americans ate rose hips in winter for its vitamin content. During WWII, British volunteers collected rose hips to make rose-hip syrup in place of citrus.

Rose Hips

2. 
   Image by Flickr.com, courtesy of Gordana Adamovic-Mladenovic
   Pick rose hips in fall after a frost.

   For the best flavor, pick rose hips after a heavy frost. The fruit has a pleasant, creamy texture and mildly sweet flavor, and is delicious eaten right off the bush.

Rose Hip Seeds

3. Cold-pressed rose-hip-seed oil reduces scar tissue from burns and treats skin conditions like eczema. Rose-hip-seed tea is a natural treatment for urinary tract infections and water retention.

Uses

4. Rose-hip juice makes a vitamin-packed syrup or jelly, and dried rose hips make a pleasantly tart tea.

Benefits

5. 
   Image by Flickr.com, courtesy of Gordana Adamovic-Mladenovic
   Vitamin C supplements often contain rose hips.

   A handful of rose hips contain more vitamin C than 60 oranges, plus vitamins A and B, along with iron, calcium and phosphorus.

Fun Fact

6. 
   Image by Flickr.com, courtesy of D. Sharon Pruitt
   Wild rose bushes grow all over the U.S.

To see Dorothy make this mock tuna, go to:

Dorothy from taichibozeman.com/rawfoodblog, makes an adaptation of Alyssa Cohen’s “Almost Tuna.”
(3 cu. alfalfa sprouts – optional)
1/3 c. soaked, sprouted sunflower seeds
(1/4 c. sprouted lentils)- optional
(1/4 c. mung bean sprouts) – optional
2 stalks celery.
Grind celery and sunflower seeds in the food processor until mixture comes together. Mix by hand with:
3 heaping T. raw almond butter
1 T. kelp powder (or 1 tsp. seaweed)
1/4 c. onion
1/4 c. tomatoes

*I used the raw, dehyrated, salted sunflower seeds instead of soaking! Maybe that’s why Kevin loved it so much. He loves those. We keep a gallon jar on the table now, at all times. Heidi LOVES them. And with sunflower seeds only $2.00 a pound, we can do it!
love,

Tuna Salad Pate

Tuna Salad Pate served with Herb Essene bread

Tuna fish sandwiches were a staple in my childhood. This recipe is actually my mom’s minus the tuna and other elements (I believe she used white onion, eggs and Miracle Whip and of course no dulse flakes). No disrespect to mom’s, but I like my raw version better, sorry mommy.

Tuna Salad Pate

2 cup sunflower seeds, soaked for two hours
1 tablespoon dulse flakes
juice of one half lemon
2 tablespoons dill pickle juice
½ cup diced celery
¼ cup diced red onion
½ dill pickle, finely diced
½ teaspoon sea salt

1 In a food processor, combine sunflower seeds, dulse flakes, lemon and pickle juice. Process until seeds are a pate consistency. Transfer to a large bowl.

2 Fold in celery, red onion and diced pickle. Sprinkle in the sea salt.

Serves 2-4

Posted by Terilynn

From Raw Pleasure.com.au
In This Newsletter You Will Find:
Article: The Benefits Of Soaking Your Nuts, Grains, Seeds And Legumes
Recipe: Raw Vegan Ice-Cream ~ 3 Flavours
Kitchen Hint: Easy Cleaning
From The Web: Green Smoothie Song
Product Specials: Great savings to be had here!
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Soaking Your Nuts, Grains, Seeds And Legumes
Nature has set it up so that the nut, grain and seed may survive until proper growing conditions are present. Nature’s defense mechanism includes nutritional inhibitors and toxic substances that can be removed naturally when there is enough precipitation to sustain a new plant after the nut, grain or seed germinates. When it rains the nut, grain or seed gets wet and can then germinate to produce a plant. So we are mimicking nature when we soak our nuts, grains and seeds.

Raw Vegan Ice-Dream ~ 3 Flavours
Mmmm… summer is over and we’re into Autumn but there is still time to enjoy a yummy ice-dream… in fact, we enjoy ice-dream all year around! Who needs summer as an excuse?

Easy Cleaning
When using your juicer or blender, always clean straight after use. This way nothing gets a chance to dry on and it’s almost a matter of rinsing your blender or juicer.

However if you forget, as sometimes happens to the very best of us, soaking is your answer. For juicer parts warm water and a good soak for 10-15 minutes should be enough. After that you should be able to scrub your juicer clean as per normal!

If you have left your blender overnight and have a dried sauce all around the sides you can fill the jug with warm water and a small amount of environmentally friendly detergent. Allow to soak for 10 minutes and then turn it on. After that a good wipe with a cloth will help to remove any residue that is left.
From The Web
The Green Smoothie Song By Victoria And Valya Boutenko

Yes that IS Victoria in the picture! Food is healing and important to health. But so is song and laughter! Victoria Boutenko shows her playful, and creative sides in this warm catchy video created with her daughter Valya. Enjoy!

Dr. Theresa Dale, hormone expert, explains how flax seed affects hormones -
using 1 T. flax oil a day to balance your estrogen level
1. Does Eating Flax Seed Produce Estrogen – The Renegade Health Show Episode #518

– 2010-03-04 20:22:38-05
There has been information out in the health world about flax seed producing estrogen in the body… Today, I interview Dr. Theresa Dale, hormone expert, and let her explain how flax seed affects hormones. She also explains why hormone replacement therapy may not be such a good idea. Check it out… Your question of the day: What do you [...]

http://renegadehealth.com/blog/2010/03/04/does-eating-flax-seed-produce-estrogen/

Hi, Dorothy,

Whole Foods did have Bob’s Red Mill flax seeds and the whole ones were even labeled raw so thanks for that! What is it in flax that is supposed to affect BP?

http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/flaxseed-oil-000304.htm

Flaxseed contains the essential fatty acid alpha-linolenic acid (ALA).
Evidence suggests that people who eat an ALA-rich diet are less likely to suffer a fatal heart attack. ALA may reduce heart disease risks through a variety of ways, including making platelets less “sticky,” reducing inflammation, promoting blood vessel health, and reducing risk of arrhythmia (irregular heart beat).

and from Cardiology Channel:
Flaxseed meal—For high blood pressure, grind 2–4 tablespoons daily. Flaxseed meal is a better choice due to its fiber, lignan, and vitamin content, but flaxseed oil (1 tbsp daily) can be substituted.

Soak 1 cup sunflower seeds overnight.

Sprout for 1 -3 days, watering and draining daily. Sprinkle with Bragg’s amino acids. Place in dehydrator at 105 degrees about 4-12 hours. Try not to eat them all right away!
Probably great on salads. I don’t know, I ate them so fast!