Raw Envy with Dayna Martin: April 2014

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Raw Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

This recipe was inspired by my grandmother, Doris. She used to make this for Easter. Her cooking was traditional and I have so many memories of her food. I think she would be proud of the healthy upgrade that I've given her recipes. This is for you, Mammie!

Raw Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Ingredients:

Pineapple, sliced

1 cup dates

1/2 cup water

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup almonds

1 cup raw, organic coconut

1/2 cup raw oat flour

2 tbsp raw agave or maple syrup

1 tbsp coconut oil + more to grease cake pan

1 tsp real vanilla

Pinch of sea salt

Grease spring form pan with coconut oil. Placed sliced pineapple evenly into pan. Pour date and water mixture over pineapples. Grind almonds, shredded coconut, and oat flour using your food processor. Add in agave or maple syrup, coconut oil, vanilla and sea salt to processor. Pulse until you get course crumbs. Press the crumb mixture on the pineapple and date sauce. Place in fridge for an hour to set. Take out of spring form pan. Serves 6. This will keep for about 3 days, but I promise..... it won't last that long!

Raw Cacao Crepes!

I have so much love for my dehydrator! I don't know how I would manage without it and my Vitamix!
This week I've been so inspired to create new recipes! It must be spring being on it's way. The sun is shining and the snow is melting. Soon we will be able to plant our garden and have tons of fresh produce again. I am so excited for rebirth! This week I made these delicious raw cacao crepes.

Dayna's Raw Cacao Crepes with Caramel Filling
Ingredients:

2 bananas

3 tbsp raw cacao powder

1 tbsp maple syrup

1/4 cup ground flax seeds

2 tbsp water

1. In a blender combine all ingredients and blend until smooth

2. Pour the batter onto your dehydrator sheets and dehydrate at 105F for 5-6 hours. You will know when they are ready to flip because they will be easy to peel and flip. Flip onto dehydrator without the Teflex sheet onto plastic mesh and continue to dehydrate for an hour or two.

Decadent Raw Caramel Sauce

6 dates, pitted

1 TBS raw almond butter

1 Tbl maple syrup

dash of sea salt

1Tbls-2Tbl water

Blend all ingredients

Choose the fruit that you love, chop it up and toss it in 1 Tbl maple syrup.
Pour caramel sauce over crepes and add fruit. Roll up crepes and enjoy!
This was a midnight snack for our family, but you can enjoy it anytime!

My favorite raw food quotes:

"Tell me what you eat, I’ll tell you who you are." Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
"Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food."
Hippocrates
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
Albert Einstein
"Nature itself is the best physician."Hippocrates
"If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool."
Hippocrates
“I wake up feeling clear and energized in the morning ... What is most profound for me about this light eating pattern is the flow of cosmic energy I feel coursing through my body. ... During the day it feels as if joy is simply running through every cell independent of external factors.”------Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
"Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. "
Hippocrates
"To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. "
Hippocrates
"Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. "
Henry IV of France
“It was tough at first because cooked food is addictive ... Once I cleansed my body of the cooked-food residues, I no longer craved cooked food. What a liberating experience! I can sincerely tell you – it is magical ... I just did my best each day to go without cooked food and I didn't worry about how much raw plant food I was eating ... I stopped eating cooked food completely after about a year.” -----Stephen Arlin, Raw Power, Building Strength & Muscle Naturally
"We never regret of having eaten too little."
Thomas Jefferson
"The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live."
Socrates
Vegetarians don't believe in killing for food, but too often they kill their food by cooking it! Blatant Raw Foodist Propaganda! by Joe Alexander
"They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing."
William Shakespeare
“Obesity is nothing more than backed-up cooked-food waste trapped in the body. No amount of raw plant food is fattening, only cooked food is fattening. Eating raw bankrupts all the complex theories as to why and how people become fat.” ---Arlin, Dini & Wolfe, Nature's First Law: The Raw-Food Diet
"In general, mankind, since the improvement in cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."
Benjamin Franklin
"More die in the United States of too much food than of too little."
John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist, The Affluent Society
The greatest value of the raw food diet is its transformative value. To a great extent, when you take up the raw food diet, you become a new and different and better person. You don't just stay the old person, only a little healthier. You become, to a great extent, a new being with new interests, a new philosophy and outlook on life, new goals and desires. You become more of your essence, your true and natural self. You become a person who is more a part of the one great life of Nature and less of the confused human world. You become less "of the world" and more "of the Earth." --Blatant Raw Foodist Propaganda! by Joe Alexander