October RAW Food Meetup Group

This month's RAW Food Meetup Group photos!

Massaged Kale Salad:

Romaine lettuce boats with guacamole and brazilian nut 'sour cream':

Can't remember the official name, but it was similar to mexican rice, although it was actually made from cabbage:

 Here's my dinner, part 1:

Here's my dinner, part 2.  At the top of the plate is a fresh tasting cauliflower salad with fresh herbs.  At the bottom of the plate is an amazing raw carrot cake...with raw frosting! - talk about delicious and perfect for my sweet tooth!!

New friends!  Me, Cindy, Mary and Jan.  Cindy made the awesome carrot cake!  I spent most of the evening talking with Mary and Jan, two amazing women who so willingly pour themselves into people like me who are trying to suck every bit of knowledge out of them!  I love hearing their stories and experiences.

Birthday Dinner for Friends

Just over a week ago I had the joy of celebrating two of my girlfriends' Birthdays.  One Birthday girl, Ann, hosted and made a delicious meal for us.  She wanted to make a meal that I could easily eat.  It was amazing!  Simple, yet much more fancy than what I eat on a day-to-day basis.  For now, here are pictures and eventually I plan on recreating these and will post the recipes.

Dinner was a Tropical Salad that had romaine lettuce, mango, green and yellow peppers, cucumbers and macadamia nuts:

The dressing was raw also and some of the ingredients were lime juice, cilantro, cayenne pepper, olive oil and dill.  May sound weird, but it complemented the salad perfectly!

Here's the second Birthday girl Missi enjoying her dinner:

Then it was dessert time!  Here's Ann eating the leftover batter for Raw Chocolate Cookies. Some of the ingredients were cacao powder, peanut butter, agave syrup, vanilla and sea salt then dipped in almonds.  Can you say HEAVEN?!

We all ate the batter while we waited for the cookies to harden in the freezer.  I ended up taking some finished cookies home and stuck them in the freezer because the next day I started my detox and peanuts and peanut butter aren't allowed. :(  So they're waiting for me...

Amazing friends!

TwinCities RAW Food Meetup Group

Remember how I mentioned here that I had found a group of people in the Twin Cities area that are interested in the raw vegan lifestyle?  These are pictures from our time together in July.  This time there are only pix of the food, without any good descriptions, but I promise I'll get better at giving descriptions and actually having some people in the pix. :)  Everyone brought a dish to share or some raw vegetable or fruit.

 

  

The recipe for this delicious Stir Fry can be found here:  This was my favorite dish of the night!  Thanks to Casey for bringing it!