Vegan & Raw Food Recipes with Coconut

This recipe is courtesy of Donna Weidler.

Coconut and hemp seeds provide a perfect marriage of complete protein and healthy plant-based fats to round up any green salad.

Ranch, a universal salad dressing, lovingly prepared at home from raw ingredients, will delight your taste buds and help you eat more greens without the detrimental effect of the unhealthy oils and additives of a commercial dressing.

We invite you to celebrate Easter with Paskha, an Eastern Orthodox Easter dish, traditionally made from sweetened cottage cheese in the form of a cone or a pyramid with a flattened top.  Even though you won’t find cottage cheese among the ingredients in this recipe, this nut-and-fruit Paskha will be a delicious and welcome addition to your Easter festivities.

Pudding is the simplest raw dessert you can whip up at a moment’s notice. Thick and satisfying, it can replace your whole meal, so not only will you eat your dessert first, but you will eat only dessert!

Here are some sweet treats to treat your sweets! Express your love with hearts and strawberries this Valentine’s Day, and expect some heart melting, tension releasing and a lot of spoon clinking over the plates.

We will use the same crust recipe and a variety of fruits for garnishing to create the tartelletes – festive holiday finger food. Use any fruit you have access to at this time of the year. The more colors, the merrier!

For all you key lime pie lovers, get ready to dig in! Our raw take on traditional key lime pie, made with real key limes, which are available at stores this time of the year. No key limes near you? No problem:  use regular limes instead.

The cranberries and kale in this smoothie offer you the best in antioxidant protection as well as a nutritional boost to jump-start your day the quantum way!

You don’t need any special skills to make simple containers for a special holiday breakfast or Halloween party treat – pumpkin pie smoothie. It will taste good in any vessel you choose to serve it in. You might find your family enjoys “liquid” pumpkin pie so much, that it will become your daily fare when you can get a hold of pumpkins this season.