Cruelty-free Feather Earrings Coming Soon!

Hello my lovelies, I thought I would post something not food related. I am (hoping) by late summer that my feather jewellery (and rock jewellery) company will be up and running. I also paint and collect drift wood/rock slates off LOTW (lake of the woods), so I am hoping to do something with those as well too. I collect feathers around LOTW as well as contact people, mainly off etsy who collect feathers from their moulting pet birds. For example, these beautiful parrot feathers I recently purchased were from a woman whose pet parrot has shed over the years. I seriously cannot stop looking at them, they're gorgeous!

I have an etsy account (although nothing is up yet, you will SOON see things there to purchase, and for extremely reasonable prices, not $30 some places charge for earrings that required little work put into them - aka. most stores at the mall, etc.) - the account name is "Megacosm" - designs inspired from the one and only mother nature :)

Basic Zucchini Spaghetti & Marinara (all RAW of course & low fat)

Hello all, here is a little recipe I would like to share with you for the time being (until I upload my many photos from my camera from this weeks food items). This is my zucchini marinara sauce, of course you can spiralize/potato peelize/slicer-stylize the zucchini, any way you like. I also added in some spinach to the mix of zucchini. I usually drink a litre of green juice a day (in the morning), so a majority of my greens are taken in in the morning and at night.

Yay! Okay, doesn't it look beautiful! So much yum right there, here is the recipe:


Sauce:
Sun-dried tomatoes (2) (I make my own with no additives in dehydrator)
4-5 tomatoes (either large or cherry - cherry is obviously going to make it taste very good)
1/4 lemon squeezed
1/2 orange squeezed
Fresh basil (3 leaves)
Fresh Oregano (3 leaves)
1/2-1/4 beetroot <--- this will add incredible salty flavour (and dark red colour) to your sauce, without even adding salt! It's amazing :) you can also use the red stems of swiss chard, which are also ridiculously salty tasting - try it!


Serve over a bed of zucchini noodles mixed with spinach and voila!

Jerusalem Artichoke Carrot Soup

I absolutely love this soup. I created it with inspiration from the lovely Jerusalem artichoke:

Jerusalem artichokes taste just like regular artichokes, but you can actually eat these raw, and they taste amazing! They have the crunch of a radish, but the taste of an artichoke - very interesting. SO, I decided to make a soup out of it!

Ingredients:
6 large carrots (or however many you please)
2 Jerusalem Artichokes (or however many you please)
Water till desired consistency (or you could add coconut water to make it a bit salty)
Spartan apples (2) (or however many you please)
Pinch onion (1 tbsp)
Fresh thyme (1 tsp)


Put in blender/vitamix, blend on high, and serve!

What's in my raw food fridge?

Of course, it varies from week, to month, to year, but generally, I stock up on as many greens as I can for juicing, and then romaine/spinach/mixed greens and zucchini for dinner time creations. I then buy as much fruit as I please. I usually purchase around 40 lbs of bananas per shopping trip, pounds of oranges, around 20 or so melons for breakfast, apples to snack on - and I just recently purchased a 16lb box of organic medjool dates from www.7hotdates.com! Best dates I have ever tasted in my life!

Click on the link below!

What's in my raw food fridge?

Zucchini Mango Pasta

I LOVE Zucchini pasta! It is definitely one of my most favourite dinner foods, and the sauce variations you can make are endless :) - here is one variation that I decided to make, which involves mango (you can use frozen mango if mango's are not in season - this is my case at the moment, all the mango's at the grocery stores are rotten next to the seed and have this horrible sappy taste - this wasn't the case last winter, which confuses me slightly, but perhaps it is just an "off" year)

So, I guess you want the recipe?


Base:
Zucchini (as many as you like), spiralized and ribbonized (haha) I like to mix it up
Spinach
(mix these two together to get it uniform)


Sauce:
Mango
Cherry tomatoes
Basil
Oregano
Freshly squeezed orange and lemon juice
(make this as you like, and however much you please. I never measure anything, I just do it based on my taste. If you want it sweeter, add more mango:tomato ratio, if you want it more tangy, add a larger tomato:mango ratio)


Sprinkle celery on top :)


Hope you enjoy! (and don't forget to carb up before dinner! Eat as MUCH fruit as you please before dinner)

Papaya "fish"

I took a picture of this papaya "fish" I made a couple months ago. I thought he was pretty cute, but I immediately chopped him up so he could go in my salad:

This salad consisted of:
1) Papaya & Mango
2) 2 tbsp of mixed 1-hr soaked pumpkin & sunflower seeds
3) Mixed baby greens with 1 head romaine lettuce


The dressing:
Strawberries & freshly squeezed orange juice, blended together (yum!)


I LOVE this salad, it is one of my favourites, and could eat it every night if I had to. 


Remember to always "Live Love Fruit" :)