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• Thorne, thank you so much for the website and your posts! For me I try to find vegan wines as I'm now a vegan and would prefer not to consume a wine with animal products. Thorne - do you have any favorite wines from this website? Please do tell :-) …

  in Alcohol & Raw? Comment by JoyceH
• A few decent vegan/organic wines that I like are Frey (the red table wine and their cabernet) and Our Daily Red. Our Daily Red is also very well priced at $8/bottle. Don't let that scare you as it's a lovely ,simple and enjoyable red wine. Frey's ca…

  in Alcohol & Raw? Comment by JoyceH
• ooooh, good to know about the Jelly Rolls. So glad they were a success. They look so good! And thanks for the tip on the Cashew Vanilla Frosting! yum!! :-) And thanks for the encouragement on the coffee. I'll remember the 3 days if/when I try to giv…

  in Chocolate Mint Cheesecake/Vitamineral Green Comment by JoyceH
• Hi SimplyRaw, wow that's great you're doing the MC for 42 days. Geez, I'd be lucky to last 4 days! Well someday if I can ever give up coffee, I think I could go longer. I tried it once and lasted 3 days due to severe caffeine withdrawl headaches....…

  in Chocolate Mint Cheesecake/Vitamineral Green Comment by JoyceH
• Hi - my first post mentions that the particular recipe I'm going to make is in the book **Sweet Gratitude**, Cafe Gratitude's second book which focuses on desserts only. It's a very cutting edge raw dessert book. If you're into making really wonderf…

  in Chocolate Mint Cheesecake/Vitamineral Green Comment by JoyceH
• Hi Carrie! Oh I've heard nothing but great things about Vanessa's cheesecakes! I was also thinking her white choc strawberry cheesecake would be another great one too. mmmmmm.....black forest sounds sooooo good. Glad it turned out well! Another to a…

  in Chocolate Mint Cheesecake/Vitamineral Green Comment by JoyceH
• PS - Linda gave me a free sample of the Vitamineral Green to use for the mint choco cheesecake. I'm planning on making that cake on a weekend near St Patty's day weekend :-) Right now I have the Cappuccino pie from Sweet Gratitude chilling! OMG!!!! …

  in Chocolate Mint Cheesecake/Vitamineral Green Comment by JoyceH
• Hi Bitt! Oh wow that's so cool you're going to a class by Cafe Gratitude!! Please let us know how it went. Was it focused on desserts or entrees (or both)? I just love both their books! Someday I'd love to take another vacation out to San Francisco …

  in Chocolate Mint Cheesecake/Vitamineral Green Comment by JoyceH
• You'll love Heathy's dessert book. She's got some lovely creations! Did you see the jelly rolls on her new blog post this morning? She used her cake batter recipe for those. The photos look sooooo yummy! Still not quite sure what I'll make this week…

  in Chocolate Mint Cheesecake/Vitamineral Green Comment by JoyceH
• Yeah the spinach juice is a brilliant idea. I don't have a juicer (yet). But I'm guessing I could use my vitmix. I've used beet juice for coloring as well and that works like a charm! Thanks Edamame3!

  in Chocolate Mint Cheesecake/Vitamineral Green Comment by JoyceH
• Angie - the cake is going to be photographed so I need it to look pretty ;-). Basically this cheesecake has a mint green cake batter and a dark brown/black chocolate batter. They both get swirled together for a beautiful marble effect. So, that's wh…

  in Chocolate Mint Cheesecake/Vitamineral Green Comment by JoyceH
• Kelp noodles are a wonderful sub for the zucchini noodles. My husband does not fancy the 'zoodles' but he just loves the kelp noodles with a nice raw pasta sauce or dressing :-)

  in Falling off the Wagon Comment by JoyceH
• Hi Dagney Taggart! I always do enjoy reading your posts! I'm guessing this woman saved a boat load of cash by not *purchasing* milk from the store for her children :-D Joyce  

  in Literally...speechless. Comment by JoyceH
• I just got Cafe Gratitude's new dessert book, Sweet Gratitude (it's soooo awesome btw!!!). Their cake recipes call for 8 cups of almond flour which is almond pulp from nut milk according to their book. Right now I have about 1 cup of almond pulp in …

  in what do you do with your almond pulp? Comment by JoyceH
• Hi Vegan2raw - thanks for the encouragement! I'm good at following recipes, but I need to start creating my own raw food dishes and desserts. All in good time I suppose. I just updated my blog for some Italian gnocchi and tiramisu I made over the we…

  in My new blog! Comment by JoyceH
• Hi Ladies - thanks for the kind words. So happy you like the blog. My husband has passed on my blog to some of his co-workers and their wives who have 'meat & potato' type diets. And they are really interested and intrigued with this way of eati…

  in My new blog! Comment by JoyceH
• Hi Everyone, I look forward to checking out your blogs! Thanks so much for sharing them! Thanks for the kind words, SimplyRaw. Glad you and your dd like the kitties! They are like kids to us since we don't have any children of our own. We spoil them…

  in My new blog! Comment by JoyceH
• I couldn't find the link to the old tread about who had blogs so I started this new one. Hope it's ok to post this here. If anyone can find that old thread with everyone elses' blogs, that would be so great :-)

  in My new blog! Comment by JoyceH
• hmmmm, yeah, the jicama had to be strained. I used a strainer but maybe should have used a nut milk bag for better results as mine was watery. Next time I'll use the nut milk bag for the jicama. Thanks!

  in Entertaining in the Raw by Matthew Kenney! Comment by JoyceH
• So glad you liked the gnocchi! I thought the sauce was just fantastic! (I did cut down on the salt he calls for). Did you have to use teleflex sheets when dehydrating the gnocchi? I had to use them as the batter was too thin. But it still worked out…

  in Entertaining in the Raw by Matthew Kenney! Comment by JoyceH
• ps - I think I must break every food combining rule and law imaginable (hehehe). But for some reason it works with my body. I actually feel the best ever since I started experimenting with gourmet raw food on the weekends. Go raw food go!! :-)

  in Entertaining in the Raw by Matthew Kenney! Comment by JoyceH
• Superfood2, The Strawberry Brilliance pie in Sweet Gratitude is really good. It's my husband's favorite dessert so far out of that book. He loves it! The 2 layers make it very pretty too :-) We have our eyes on Everyday Raw's pototato salad too! Loo…

  in Entertaining in the Raw by Matthew Kenney! Comment by JoyceH
• I'm going to be making the Mediterranean Tarts from Matthew's new book this weekend. Very excited about it. Especially after Fuzzywater's success with this recipe: Fuzzy wrote: "So for both the mediterranean tarts and the truffles, I cut the recipes…

  in Entertaining in the Raw by Matthew Kenney! Comment by JoyceH
• Hi Ddigiacomo, thanks for the kind words. I've had a lot of beginners luck lately. But I still have my moments where I wish I had more experience in the kitchen from the days when I was making cooked vegetarian food. I just love gnocchi too and have…

  in Entertaining in the Raw by Matthew Kenney! Comment by JoyceH
• Oh the gnocchi in Matthew's new book was a smash hit. We loved it!! I wrote out all the details on my blog if anyone else wants to make these. They weren't that complicated. The gnocchi batter was rather thin but I was able to work with it. All and …

  in Entertaining in the Raw by Matthew Kenney! Comment by JoyceH
• Hi Fuzzywater, glad to hear the med tarts turned out so well. I was thinking that recipe would be a good one for us as well! And you used Lucuma in lieu of the mesquite in the truffles? I like maca and lucuma but haven't tried mesquite yet. I can't …

  in Entertaining in the Raw by Matthew Kenney! Comment by JoyceH
• Hi Greenghost! Glad you like the blog :-). We had fun doing a St Patty's day theme. Do let us know how you like the mint chip cheesecake if you make it.

  in Entertaining in the Raw by Matthew Kenney! Comment by JoyceH
• Hi Bitt, the tofu scrambler is awesome!!!!! OMG (and the possibilities are endless as I love tofu dishes and tofu scrambles!) We both loved it! I'm so happy that my picky husband was so enthusiastic about it too. It's a brilliant and simple recipe. …

  in Entertaining in the Raw by Matthew Kenney! Comment by JoyceH
• Yes, Ani Phyo's scramble is also very good. I made it probably over a year ago when I first got the book. The raw tofu scramble dish in Matthew Kenney's book is the one I'm going to attempt this Saturday. I'll definitely get some photos up on the bl…

  in Entertaining in the Raw by Matthew Kenney! Comment by JoyceH
• oooh the Mudslide pie! Do let us know how it turns out :-) I'm going to finally make the mint chocolate swirl cheesecake in Sweet Gratitude for a bit of a St Patty's day theme (cheezy I know! but it will be fun and a good laugh). It looks so pretty …

  in Entertaining in the Raw by Matthew Kenney! Comment by JoyceH