About Me

I started this blog to keep track of my kitchen creations. I love cooking and eating. In 2008 I was diagnosed with RA. Food started becoming a huge problem. I needed to find a better way to eat the flavors I love. All the recipes I create are driven by my desire to eat good food that won't create extra pain and inflammation in my internal ecosystem. While the recipes are wholesome, the language is not. I swear. I use the word 'fuck'. A lot! I make no apologies for that. It's just a fair warning. I'm raw and real. Happy cooking! Even happier eating! Cheers! Angie

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

CREAMY 7 LILY Soup

I made this recipe spur of the moment to satisfy an onion craving.

2 boxes of organic veggie broth or
1 large head of garlic
2 bunches of chives
2 bunches of scallions
4 leeks
3 large shallots
1 large red onion
1 large sweet onion (mayan, spanish, vidallia)
6 chipolini onions
1 small celery, including heart and all the leaves

SLOWLY bring the broth to a boil.  While it's coming to a boil:

Peel and halve the garlic clove by clove and add it to the broth.
Cut the chives and add them in.
Cut the scallions and leeks, including the green part, and add them in.
Peel and quarter the chipolinis, shallots, red onion, and sweet onion and add them in.
Large chop the celery heart, including leaves, and add that in.

Gently boil veggies for about 15 minutes or until veggies are soft. (no more than 15 minutes!)

Strain out the veg from the soup and put them in the blender.
Blend 2-3 cups at a time until smooth, adding back into the soup after each time.
Repeat until you have blended up all the veg.
Salt and pepper to taste.


You can also find this recipe along with many others on Allergy Free Alaska

Sunday, January 22, 2012

CHOCO-BERRY BANANA Smoothie

1 cup of hemp milk or almond milk
1 banana
1-2 sambazon acai berry smoothie packs
small handfull of sliced almonds
6 medjool dates pitted

Blend this one good to really chop up the dates.

TROPICAL TWISTER Smoothie


1 cup of water
2 bananas
1 sambazon acai berry smoothy packet
2 oranges peeled (leave some of the pith if you can)
2 kiwi peeled
1 nectarine (skin too!)

Blend everything together until smooth.

CHOCOLATE CHERRY MADDNESS Smoothie

1 cup hemp milk or almond milk
1 banana
1 tsp spirulina powder
1 cup cherries
1 acai berry smoothie packet

The combination of cherries and the choco-berry flavor of acai makes this really yummy!

PRETTY IN PEACH Smoothie


1 cup hemp milk
1 banana
1 cup of chopped watermelon
1 cup of chopped cantelope
1 cup of chopped papaya (you can throw in some of the pips too for some added protein)
1 cup of choped mango

Throw it all in the blender a little at a time. Add some ice to make it frothy if you want. This is also really good as a summer drink. Just use seltzer water instead of the milk.

You can also turn the seltzer version of this into a great adult beverage by adding some rum or vodka!

FALL FANTASY Smoothie


1 cup of hemp milk
1 banana
1/2 of an avacado
1 apple chopped and cored
1 pear chopped and cored
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg

Put the milk in the blender and get it spinnng. Add the apple and pear first then the banana and avacado last. You may have to add some water. Ice works well also.

BERRY BERRY GOOD Smoothie


1 cup of hemp milk
1 banana
1/2 of an avacado
1 acai smoothie pack
1/4 cup each of blueberries, cranberries, raspberries, blackberries

Put the avacado in last. It can make the smoothie a bit thick so you may have to add some water.

DRINKING UP SOME SUN Smoothie


1 cup OJ juiced fresh
2 peaches or 2 nectarines or 1 of each pited & diced
1/2 a mango chopped
4 apricots pitted & chopped chopped
1 banana
a 1-inch pineapple slice
a handfull of sliced almods
2 tablespoons each of hemp and flax seeds

Juice the orange and put the juice in the blender with the rest of the ingredients.  If you don't have a juicer then just put the orange in the blender with everything else.

CHOCO BLAST Smoothie


1 cup of chocolate hemp milk or chocolate almond milk(yes kids! they make it in chocolate too!)
6 medjool dates pitted
1 banana
1 acai berry smoothie pack
1/4 cup sliced almonds
ice

The milk and acai should go in first. Once the acai is broken up, add the rest of the ingredients. Add ice to the glass to chill smoothie.

STRAWBERRY FIELDS Smoothie

1 cup of hemp milk or almond milk
1 banana
15-20 strawberries
1 acai smoothie packet
1 teaspoon of spirulina
2-4 wheatgrass cubes

Blend everything but the wheatgrass. After you pour your smoothie, add the wheatgrass cubes and they will melt as you drink your smootie. If you prefer, you can blend in the wheatgrass cubes.

BERRY BLAST PUCKER Smoothie

1 cup of hemp milk or almond milk
1 cup of blueberries
1 cup of gooseberries
1/2 cup of raspberries
1/2 cup blackberries

This smoothie is very tart so you can add some honey or agave nectar if you want it sweeter

BERRY MANGO Smoothie

1/2 cup hemp milk or almond milk
1/2 bottle of 'Naked' brand Mango Maddness juice
1/2 cup blueberries
1/2 cup raspberries
12 strawberries

You can add more of the mango juice or water to thin out the juice. If you want, you can also add some ice.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

THE GREEN TEAM Smoothie

1 cup hemp milk or almond milk
1 banana
8 medjool dates pitted
1 cup of mixed berries
2 cubes of frozen wheatgrass juice
1 capful of aloe juice
1 tsp of spirulina powder
1 tsp of Garden of Life Perfect Food Supergreen Formula

Put everything in the blender and whiz until smooth.

ISLAND BREEZE Smoothie

1 cup of hemp milk or almond milk
1 banana
1/3 of a pineapple
6 medjool dates pitted
2 cubes of frozen wheatgrass

Put everything in the blender and whiz until smooth.

PINAPAYANGO Smoothie

Well that's a mouthful! And it's delish!

1 cup of hemp milk or almond milk
1/3 of a papaya including the seeds
1/3 of a pineapple
1/2 of a mango

Put everything in the blender and whiz until smooth.  Don't leave out the papaya seeds!  They have a powerful kick of protien!

PROTIEN POWER PUNCH Smoothie


4 clementines
1/2 a pomagranate
6 medjool dates pitted
1 cup papaya
2 TBS of the papaya pips
1 banana
1/8 cup of aloe juice
1 heaping TBS each of hemp seeds, flax seeds & hemp protien powder

I did have to add some water to thin it a little. You'll have to blend this for a while.

CHOCO-BANANA Smoothie **Green Monster**


1 cup of hemp milk or almond milk
1 banana
6 kale leaves & stems
1 tablespoon of spirullina
1 tablespoon of chia seeds
1 tablespoon of flax seeds
1 tablespoon of hemp seeds
1 tablespoon of raw, hulled sunflower seeds
1 tablespoon of raw, hulled pumpkin seeds
2 tablespoons of cacao nibs
1 handful of walnuts

Throw everything in the blender and let er rip!



**The term Green Monster is a trademark of Oh She Glows










*Green Monster is a trademark of Oh She Glows

SUNSHINE IN A GLASS Smoothie **Green Monster**

1 cup of almond milk or hemp milk
1 apple
1 banana
1/4 of a pineapple
3 or 4 kale leaves

(I also added in my vit B complex and calcium)

Put everything in the blender and let 'er rip!

**The term Green Monster was created by Oh She Glows

Sunday, January 8, 2012

CRAZY CRANBERRY COCKTAIL Smoothie **Green Monster**

I made this smoothie this morning. So yummy! And I don't like cranberries!

Crazy Cranberry Cocktail

1 cup of almond milk or hemp milk
1/2 an avacado
1 handful of fresh spinach
1 banana
1 cup of cranberries

put them all in the blender and blend away!

**The term Green Monster is a trademark of Oh She Glows