http://www.choosingraw.com A Celebration of Vegan and Raw Food Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:59:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Happy Monday! Hope you all had good weekends and good game days. I was memorizing amino acid side chains as my home team secured a victory, and it wasn’t until a friend texted to tell me NY had won that I actually flipped on the TV. But I hear there were some pretty funny ads [...]]]> http://www.choosingraw.com/millet-and-oat-soft-granola/ Happy Saturday! I’m interrupting a day of studying to say, first of all, great comments on yesterday night’s continued discussion of diet, beauty, and health. Check the post out and share your thoughts! And after you do that, you can feast your eyes on this little compendium of ten vegan recipes for Super Bowl Sunday! [...]]]> http://www.choosingraw.com/ten-recipes-for-super-bowl-sunday-entertaining/ As usual, you guys blow me away. Thanks for the intelligent and very brave comments on yesterday’s post. Big thanks, too, to the many women who emailed privately to say that the image had made them feel nervous about their looks, their age, or their diet. As JL pointed out, the very purpose of that [...]]]> http://www.choosingraw.com/moving-away-from-vegan-and-raw-food-as-a-beauty-formula/ Image courtesy of Wendy About a week ago, I received the following email from a reader: “…I felt compelled to message because of an image in circulation. It’s aimed at a British audience, as it consists of two British TV personalities and is targeted at women who are considering vegetarianism/veganism. It depicts a juxtaposition of [...]]]> http://www.choosingraw.com/nigella-lawson-and-gillian-mckeith-a-challenge-and-an-opportunity/ Happy humpday! Having just spent a solid two hours working on impossible dilution problems with my fellow post-baccs, I can officially say that I’m glad the week is drawing to a close. Today’s recipe—a scrumptious and filling brown rice salad with edamame, broccoli, and a citrus miso dressing—was mostly an accident. I made rice this [...]]]> http://www.choosingraw.com/brown-rice-edamame-and-broccoli-salad-with-citrus-miso-dressing/ Thanks for getting so excited about yesterday’s juice post! Before I tell you all about the fantastic raw “beet ball” recipe I recently made from recycled juice pulp and almond pulp, I wanted to pause to answer a couple of questions that popped up about juicing. If I don’t answer your particular question in this [...]]]> http://www.choosingraw.com/raw-spaghetti-and-beet-balls-juicing-questions-answered/ Happy Monday, all! Before I get to juice, thanks for all of the enthusiasm over my cashew vanilla milk. Since a few of you emailed me to ask if store-bought almond milk is OK, I just wanted to be clear: yes! store-bought almond milk is just fine, and in fact, it carries the advantage of [...]]]> http://www.choosingraw.com/get-juiced-five-delicious-recipes-to-boost-your-vegetable-and-fruit-intake/ One of my most popular posts to date is my DIY tutorial for making raw almond milk. In spite of the dinky photos and bad lighting, this post embodies what I always wanted Choosing Raw to be: an easy and practical resource for eating (and living) vegan and raw. I will never forget how astounded [...]]]> http://www.choosingraw.com/vanilla-cashew-milk/ Happy Friday! Nice responses to yesterday’s Vitamin-rich juice. I am so glad you all enjoyed the recipe. Today, I’m switching gears to offer you a Friday giveaway for two copies of the Complete Idiot’s Guide to Raw Food “Detox” (quotations mine). I was offered copies of this book by Adam Graham, a wildly talented raw [...]]]> http://www.choosingraw.com/friday-giveaway-the-complete-idiots-guide-to-raw-food-detox/ Allow me to geek out for a moment: this week in Biochem, we learned about scurvy, a disease that is caused by a lack of Vitamin C, or ascorbate. Famously, sailors on transoceanic voyages in centuries past were susceptible to scurvy, since they had little access to fresh fruits or vegetables. Advanced cases of scurvy [...]]]> http://www.choosingraw.com/a-study-in-scarlet/