♥ CHIA ♥

Chia & Cocnut Fruit Pie

Even though Chia has been around for a while now, it's pretty new to our diet.  We had lots and lots of chia in the cupboard with many well meaning intentions to get to know all about her but, never quite got around to it.  

It was only after Kate Magic's recent visit that I decided I really should get the Chia out and do something with it.  

We were missing out on all of the benefits this lovely seed has to offer!


So, I opened the 1kg bag and guess how long it took us to consume the lot.....                     It was all gone within two weeks.  
We found that

♥ We LOVE Chia ♥

So what did we do with all the Chia?

The recipe for this chia breakfast was in the  August Newsletter

We had a chia pudding everyday, sometimes milky and creamy and other times filled with fruit.  I liked to have mine mid-morning or for lunch, sometime after I'd finished my couple of litres of daily juice.  Pras enjoyed his for breakfast. 

And Oh ~ what can I say?

♥  Chia crackers  ♥

 
I have to buy more chia soon so I can make more crackers.  I've never made such crackers before.  

I'm hooked!

While I've always loved the idea of crackers I'd never loved a cracker before chia came along ♥ 
 

The reason I don't usually eat crackers it that they feel heavy in the body, I didn't find this with the chia crackers.  They were light and crunchy and I just couldn't leave them alone.   They disappeared super fast. 

  
We had some Chia for dessert a couple of times too.  
That makes it sound like we have meals doesn't it?  Which is slightly misleading.  
In the Raw Faerie house there is more of a grazing theme to food, we eat whatever we want when we want it, including desserts.  

Chia and coconut fruit pies were the dessert I chose to make with the last of our seeds and it was thoroughly enjoyed.  
  






We found that the Chia was really easy to digest and filling too.  I also love how it just takes on the flavours of the other ingredients.  Eating Chia once a day made me feel great, I had more consistent energy levels throughout the day.

If you would like to know what the benefits of Chia seeds are... why they are good for you... and what their nutritional profile is ~ You can click through to Angela Stockes-Monarch's blog ~ Raw Reform for the details.  They are an amazing source of protein, nutrients and omegas ~ I'm not surprised I feel so great when I eat them daily.   

Flapjacks Take Two!

I've received quite a lot of feed back from my flapjacks post a couple of weeks ago, as well as some recipe requests.  It seems that my gorgeous husband is the only (kind-of) raw person who misses flapjacks!

I'm pleased to say that since the first batch I've been playing in the kitchen again and this time we have apple and Sultana Flapjacks.

My taste tester loved them even more than the plainer first version.  Here they are!

 

I am not sharing the recipe yet but I will share it in the future.  Not sure if it will be on the blog or in my newsletter yet but, it will be shared soon ♥ 

Next Weeks Orders ~ ♥Goji Berry Love♥

Hello lovelies,

Just a quick message to you all. A big thank you to all of you who have placed orders for Monday!  There are lots of packs of mixed cake squares and goji brownies due to arrive with customers on Tuesday morning/early afternoon  ♥ 

The mixed cake packs seem really popular.  Please let me know if this is something you would like me to offer again in the future.   

 

There is only 1 pack of goji brownies left - it's a pack of 6 and if you would like it, then email or message me through facebook.   Each pack contains 3 brownies topped with pollen and 3 brownies topped with gojis

♥ Goji Berry LOVE ♥     Photo taken by Danaliese Radley

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Raw Vegan Potluck in Lostwithiel - June

Hello Everyone! 


Just a quick post to let everyone know that we have a raw vegan potluck coming up in Lostwithiel next month, Saturday 18th June.  Hopefully we'll have some great weather and have a picnic in the park or by the river :)




There has already been quite a bit of interest which is fantastic!  If you're interested in coming along or want to know more, you can find details through the Raw Faerie Creations page on Facebook or via the My Raw Princess Party Facebook Group.



If you think you can come along, let us know.
 

Everyone is to bring something raw and vegan to share.  If the weather is fine bring a rug to sit on and a picnic plate and some cutlery.  If the weather isn't so good we'll bring it inside.



I'll be in touch with everyone closer to the time with location details.

I can arrange to have some Raw Faerie treats for sale or collection on the day, e.g. raw vegan cake for sale by the slice.  So, let me know if this is of interest and I 'll make sure I set aside some time to make something special.

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hmmmm EMA promoting interests of those it is supposed to be regulating?

Now here is an interesting article!

European Parliament refuses to approve European Medicines Agency accounts


It came across it via Shazzie's blog this morning and really wanted to share it.  So glad I remembered to come back and look it up!

This is not only an interesting article but an important one.  In summary it states:

With this report, MEPs have stated in black-and-white terms that the EMA is acting to promote the interests of the very pharmaceutical interests it is meant to be regulating on behalf of EU citizens – misusing citizens’ money in the process! In other words, the EMA is as corrupt as they come, and its accounts are not worth the cost of the paper they are printed on. Read more here....


Just think about this.  Pharmaceuticals kill over a three quarters of a million people in the USA every year.  Yet they want to ban herbs??? 
 

More Raw Faerie Love - Cacao & Lavender Hearts

Yesterday evening I went a little crazy in the kitchen, working on quite a few new raw recipes all at once!  This is one of them.

I'll post the others another day.





These lovely Cacao & Lavender Hearts are available in batches of 6 or 12.

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Kate Magic is coming to Cornwall!

I have heard from Jacqui Ji that Kate Magic has some dates set to come to Cornwall during this coming summer!

There will be two 2 hour talks ~ one in Truro on the 8th of July and one in Penzance on the 9th of July.  There will also be a workshop with Kate in Penzance on Sunday 10th July.  All are taking place at Archie Browns.

That's all I know and I haven't seen any other information online, but I'm guessing you could find out more directly from Archie Browns :) 

x
 

Green Hemp Smoothies

Quite a few years ago, not long after we had first moved down to Cornwall, we drove up to Glastonbury for a weekend.  Having not visited before our plan was to explore a little and see what was there.

We booked accomodation for a couple of nights at ShekinAshram, a short walk from the centre of Glastonbury. I can't comment on what they curently offer as it has been some time since I've visited but, there was vegan food only allowed on the premises and Monday was a day for fasting.  The people who were running the Ashram were healthy, vibrant and appeared to have lots and lots of energy.  They all seemed to be happy and peaceful people.  

It was at Shekinashram that I was introduced to hemp milk.  They provided jugs of fresh hemp milk made from whole hemp seeds to have with muesli and fruits and they would also serve green hemp smoothies. Those who lived at the Ashram always started their days with hemp milk and they raved about the benefits.  Over the couple of days we were walking around Glastonbury we were quite literally being handed hemp milk fliers by shop owners, all giving information about what I wonderful source of nutrition it was.  Now I am not a nutritionist so I'm not going to write about the nutritional benefits of RAW hemp, but if you google it and are selective about which links you chose you will certainly find a nutritional profile somewhere.

At that time I was still working in a stressful and unfulfilling job and I was vegan (but not raw), but I saw hemp milk as something else I could start incorporating into our diet to benefit our health.  My approach has always been to add things in along the way and eventually when I felt that I needed to, I made the change to raw foods.  I think my transition to raw wasn't too difficult because I made so many changes in the years leading up to going raw.   

So for many years now, thanks to that stay at the Ashram in Glastonbury, we have been benefiting from hemp milk.  Over time I have come to  incorporate it into our diet in a variety of ways, from flavoured milks, to smoothies and in desserts too.  I find that hemp works particularly well with raw cacao or carob but I find that it works equally well in a green smoothies.  My husband absolutely loves hemp milk, in fact when I go through phases of not making hemp smoothies he eventually starts asking me to make them.  He misses them in his diet because he feels so great after drinking them.

These photos are of the green hemp smoothie that we shared for breakfast this morning.  I made just over a litre, which gave us one and a half large glasses each (these glasses really could be likened to bowls). 

What's been happening in the Raw Faerie Kitchen this week?

Kale salad with rustic crackers

It's been a busy week for me so I've made an extra big effort to have a range of easily transportable raw foods at the ready - some fresh and some dehydrated.  One of the things that makes the biggest difference for me is planning ahead.  I find that a little forethought makes raw foods a lot easier. 

Right now there is a huge kale salad in the refrigerator, it's full of tomatoes, avocados and hemp.  There is also some courgette pasta and a lovely Italian flavoured almond meal which is great served with a rich tomato sauce.  That's based on a Russell James recipe and I won't say too much about that now, I'll post some pictures and a link to the recipe later.  

Dried raw green chilli

There has also been a range of raw vegetable powders being ground, ready to be added to raw food dishes.

I've been dehydrating garlic bulbs, chillis and almonds.   I find it really useful to always have raw garlic and onion powders available, they are really convenient when making raw dishes like flans, quiches and crackers.

Beetroot Juice

We've enjoyed quite a few almond milk smoothies and on the desserts and treats front I have been meddling with the RAW Minted Mud Cake recipe and tinkering with some chilli-cacao macaroons (they are shaping up very well, even if I do say so myself).




And of course, as always, there has been a lot of love going into all the foods coming out of the Raw Faerie Kitchen.....

A Little About Me

Hi and welcome :)

Choc-Goji Brownies

I have been delaying starting this blog for a long time but I've finally decided to get started and hopefully I'll keep it going.
 
I have been on a living foods diet for over a year now, before that I dabbled for a long time with raw foods, just experimenting but not really taking the extra step to become more raw than cooked.  I was vegetarian for many years and then vegan for many years.  In August 2009 I took a four week holiday from work to visit Glasgow (where I used to live) and during that time I decided to leave my reliable STRESSFUL job and leave cooked food behind in favour of living foods.  I experienced a strong desire to flush all that was toxic from my life.  When I returned home from my holiday, I started eating raw and handed in my resignation.  I haven't looked back :) 

The raw foods I love to play with the most are desserts, cakes and icecreams.  I do make savoury dishes and juices and smoothies too but, it's the desserts that really inspire me.  So, I'm going to use this blog as a place to post up about what I'm making and let you know what I'm up to in the Raw Faerie Kitchen :)