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You’ll notice that the larger natural food stores these days will have a whole section just for kale chips as big as the rest of the raw food section! This snack/dinner item is healthfully addictive, but unlike potato and corn chips, it is bursting with minerals without the carbs and congestive cooked oils. Now you can make yours at home fresh, the Mexican-style hot pepper way!

Take 4 large bunches of kale (Farmers Market or garden grown is best) and de-stem each leaf: hold the lower stem with one hand, take your other hand and pull out to the tip, stripping the leaf from the fibrous stem. Shred the leaves with your hands and place in a large bowl. If you don’t want to compost the stems, chop or dice them up and mix into fresh guacamole: this will make the guacamole take longer to be gobbled up! Fact: Guacamole is always eaten up faster than any other dish at a raw food potluck…at least until these kale chips came along!

Freshly dried handful of Secret Hot Pepper Kale Chips

Place the following in a high-speed blender:

2 Cups spring water
1 1/2 Cup sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, or sesame seeds or combination of all three, soaked
1 Cup hemp seeds
1/2 Cup cold-pressed organic olive oil
5 Brazil nuts, soaked
Juice of 3 to 4 limes (or lemons, but limes really hit the spot with raw Mexican fair)
1/2 medium-sized heirloom tomato
1/2 medium-sized sweet bell pepper
2 medium-sized garlic cloves, peeled
1/2 teaspoon dried chipotle or cayenne
1/4 teaspoon dried jalepeno (or 1/2 teaspoon fresh)
1/4 teaspoon cumin seed
1 pinch dried habanero (careful not to get this under your fingernails)
OPTIONAL: 3 Tablespoons fresh aloe vera inner gel

Blend on high until creamy, then add:

1/2 bunch cilantro, de-stemmed
OPTIONAL: 2 teaspoons of your choice of medicinal mushrooms extract powders (reishi, cordyceps, chaga, etc)

Blend lightly, keeping the cilantro in tiny bits, but not turning the batter into a homogenous green. Pour into the bowl of kale and sprinkle on:

3 Tablespoons spirulina powder

Mix together with your bare hands, coating every kale leaf. Spread thinly on dehydrator trays with sheets and dehydrate at 120*F or less for 24 to 48 hours. Eat by itself or serve with a Mexican dinner containing other highly mineralized dishes:

RawFried Beans

White Nacho Cheeze

Spicy Meat-Free Ground Beef

Addictive Spirulina Guacamole

So far, my Mexican Fiesta Week has included the following raw, nutrient dense items:

White Nacho Cheeze

RawFried Beans

and the Edible Goddess’ Addictive Spirulina Guacamole

Now we need the “meat” in my Spicy Meat-Free Ground Beef recipe:

2 Cups Pumpkin Seeds, soaked 1 to 24 hours

1 Tablespoon hemp seeds

1 Tablespoon Unpasturized Miso of choice (Chickpea Miso in glass is the best!)

2 teaspoons medicinal mushrooms extract powder (your choice: shitake, reishi, chaga, etc)

1 teaspoon Cumin Seed or Dried Chipotle

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

1 medium-sized Garlic Clove, peeled

Blend in a food processor until somewhat creamy and sticky. Then add:

1/4 Cup heirloom tomato, sliced

1/4 Cup Sweet Pepper, sliced

Blend lightly, having the tomato and pepper remain in small chunks.

I will post one more Mexican Fiesta Week recipe! What type of raw dish do you want me to make with a delicious superfood twist: Mexican salad? Salsa? Tortilla? Raw Mexican Dessert? More than just one more recipe? Comment below!

…Continued from Mexican Fiesta Week part 1: RawFried Beans (Bean-free Mock Refried Pinto Bean Recipe)

Need something to add to your salad? Having a party? Need something hearty and delicious for any reason? Then make my raw dairy-free White Nacho Cheeze! You have the option of adding chia seeds (rich in beautifying omega3 fatty acids) or fresh aloe vera (rich in skin and organ-healing sulfur and immune system healing polysaccharides) to this recipe, either one makes the cheeze creamy and fluffy.

White Nacho Cheeze garnished with parsley and cayenne!

Blend the following in a high speed blender until creamy:

1 Cup Organic Brazil Nuts, soaked 1 to 24 hours

1/2 Cup Organic Pumpkin Seeds, soaked 1 to 24 hours

1/4 Cup Spring Water

Juice of 3-4 Large Organic Lemons

2 Tablespoons Organic Cold-Pressed Olive Oil

2 Tablespoons Organic Cashews, soaked 1 to 24 hours

1 teaspoon Chia Seeds OR 1 Tablespoon Fresh Aloe Vera Inner Gel

1/4 teaspoon sea salt

1/8 teaspoon organic jalepeno powder OR 1/4 teaspoon fresh organic jalepeno

2 medium-sized garlic cloves, peeled

If your blender does not “grab and vortex” the ingredients, add a little more spring water or lemon juice and/or use your blender’s plunger rod. Serve on salad, with organic vegetables, and/or with these:

RawFried Beans (Bean-free Mock Refried Pinto Bean Recipe)

Addictive Spirulina Guacamole

Click for Mexican Fiesta Week part 3: Spicy Meat-Free Ground Beef

This recipe really does taste like that thick mashed pinto bean dish we all love or have loved. Now you can experience the far more beautifying, living Superfood version – the perfect addition to a salad or a night of raw mexican cuisine! This recipe has the option of adding in some of the immuno-modulating and mood-lifting medicinal mushroom extracts, so if you have some, be sure to put them in.

RawFried "Beans" garnished with cilantro and cayenne

Blend in a food processor until creamy, usually a few minutes of blending:

2 1/2 Cups Organic Sunflower Seeds, soaked

1/2 Cup Organic Cold-Pressed Olive Oil

1/4 Cup Fresh Tomatoes or Sweet Pepper of choice

1 1/2 Tablespoons Sesame Tahini

1 heaping teaspoon Sea Salt

1 teaspoon Cumin Seed or Dried Chipotle

1 medium-sized garlic clove, peeled

OPTION: 1/2 – 1 teaspoon Reishi or Cordyceps Mushroom Extract Powder (I like using the Fungi Perfecti mycelium, Shaman Shack Extracts, or Surthrival’s Mushroom Extracts)

OPTION: After blending until creamy, add in 1/4 Cup chopped Organic Yellow Onion, and blend in for a few seconds, keeping the onion chunky.

This truly decadent recipe only gets better with Addictive Spirulina Guacamole!

Serve with a large raw salad made with garden or farmers market greens, or make as a snack scooped with celery or your favorite raw crackers.

If you make this often, you will grow your taste for fine mineralized cuisine, gain and keep the energy that comes with consuming the polysaccharides (slow burning healing sugars) of medicinal mushrooms and quality raw oils (slow burning, beautifying, does not stick to your ribs) of well sourced seeds and olive oil. Enjoy!

Mexican Fiesta Week part 2: White Nacho Cheeze! (Dairy-free!)

This blog post has been written exclusively as a Guest Blog for The Edible Goddess. Read the full post.

“Hi Edible Goddess fans! This is Bethanne’s love, Christian Bates.I love boosting my health through therapeutically nutritious elixirs, superfood drinks, and tonic herbs and occasionally doing a fast or cleanse on them, and I really hope you do to or will start to today.

Christian and Bethanne

And yet I see so many people doing the second best thing, which is trying get their trace nutrients from green vegetable juice only.

May I be frank and bold? There are countless…..”

Read the rest here!

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Although I am the type of person to focus on positive superfood-lifestyle solutions and ask really positive questions, I recently put up a questionnaire on Facebook asking my conscious foodie friends what their greatest frustration and greatest fear is regarding their health and nutrition quest. I was actually looking for personal issues like frustrations in the kitchen or fears about actually healing certain issues. Issues that I can gear my content to in a more “How to do this for this in your own home” style.

Interestingly, people posted more external frustrations like how can anyone find quality food when farming techniques are not fully disclosed even if certified organic, fears about wide spread GMO contamination via pollination of crops, frustrations that their conscious foodie community and family generally can’t afford a complete healing-with-food program, or fears that the world or even the raw food industry just won’t keep up with their leading edge nutrition and lifestyle quality. It seems people have a strong notion of how these exterior burdens feel like a more personal oppression against one’s freedom to pursue an uncapped state of health.

Now to the inspirationally positive content….

I can totally relate to my Facebook questionnaire friends and have had all of those thoughts. They are all worth considering so that we don’t live in a “lala land” of innocence, ignorant of the gloomier possibilities or darker forces that can affect our path. This being said, there is a part of me – in fact the principle part of my heart and my destiny of knowing my power and everyone else’s innate and developable power – that knows:

That when there is no way, then there is a way;

That when things look down, nature can’t help but bring things up;

That when struggle and hopelessness darken one’s site, then a solution of light is right under our feet;

That when you feel like your vision of living in paradise will be forever compromised, then you have found your mission and you will now forever live with your vision.

Inspire people about what you know everyday ANYWHERE (including corners of the Grand Canyon)

Next time you are going along in your healthy day and a frustration or fear comes up about how health-upside-down the outside world is, immediately start expressing your personal positive passions that are underneath the fear. Express your passion to someone – anyone – or on facebook or anywhere. You will probably have just the perfect words to inspire people, as well as to pick your own self up. Tell those people that you can find food that is grown with quality that is only getting better over time; that nature will always cleverly outdo crazy things like GMO’s and that we humans are clever enough to only get better at knowing exactly which foods are not tainted; that we are all doing our best to acquire the abundance of nutrition that we deserve and that the more you act in alignment with your mission and vision, then the more abundance of a complete nutritional protocol will come your way; and that food quality within the ever growing “raw industry” will only get better and more diverse. I can barely wait for the certain day when we go into a supermarket and there are literally tens of thousands of raw brands to choose from, all with the most exquisite flavors and deluxe nutritional content.

In fact, that is the world I do my very best to live in as our kitchen slowly turns into a supermarket of superfood-rich conscious foodie creations. I am writing this blog on my laptop out in the afternoon sun in a lawn chair that I built myself from bamboo and local wood (having never built furniture before in my life, but I trusted my insight), with a grounding pad underneath my feet, having recently eaten superfood chocolates and coated my skin in Edible-Goddess-style body butters, affirming in my actions what is possible despite what loony-tunes things are happening in the world today. And through my computer I am telling people about my vision and mission, inspiring people all over the world, as well as keeping my own contentment up as I trust my own discernment.

Simply put, in my opnion, the top 2 necessary keys to be a content conscious foodie in the world we live in are:

1. At least once a day, inspire someone with your words of wisdom on how the variety of ways the planet is changing for the healthier.

2. Live the change you see, like its already come to its fruition in your world. And when you do, most importantly, your vision of the highest nutrition and most fantastic natural lifesytle is already actualized within you.

If you are reading my blog then you have probably dabbled with certain superfoods, or you might be well on your way to incorporating a whole superfood program to your best-ever fun and healthy lifestyle. We can make a difference in our health by trying all the big superfoods out there (raw cacao, blue green algae, maca, goji berries, marine phytoplankton, etc.), but I want to talk about 4 of them that you might not have realized can change your life, your body, the radiant vital health of your tissues….if the dosage is high enough!

MSM Powder

MSM (Methylsulfonylmethane) is an organic sulfur molecule that is found in plants, in rain, in your body, and just about everywhere but the Standard American Diet. Most people are seriously deficient in sulfur and suffer the constipating impermeability of their cells and tissue as a result of such deficiency. Taking MSM not only plugs sulfur in where it is biologically needed, but greatly opens up your body from the inside-out, detoxing you and allowing more nutrition of what you are already eating to go deeper into you cells. This promotes more vital tissue function, flexibility and growth, including having hair and nails grow in stronger. MSM can reverse allergies and speed up recovery after exercise, but most importantly it simply is key to going to a newer level of health. We go on MSM programs of having a daily half gallon drink of water that contains over 10,000 mg of MSM (1 tablespoon of MSM powder, 1 heaping tablespoon of MSM crystals). When one first does MSM, spread your daily dosage out over the whole day not having more than a couple thousand mg at once, or it might feel detoxingly-weird. Then within a month, full dosages start to feel really good. We use OMICA’s new MSM Crystals.

Shilajit Powder

Shilajit is a resin found in the Himilayas where it oozes out of walls of rock. It is the product of eons of the Earth pressing plant and soil matter, creating an edible coffee-tasting concentrate of minerals and fulvic acids. Considered the best “herb” of Ayurvedic medicine, the fulvic acid content can pull out heavy metals even when one is already taking zeolites. We recomend getting it in powder extract form. You can blend in 2 tsp of it to a sweetened nut mylk for the best “latte” ever! Again, you gotta do this one everyday for days in a row to push the best health ever button and experience the results!

We have already had half of this batch of coconut water kefir in the last 2 days!

Coconut kefir is a drink made from taking coconut water and kefir grains and fermenting them for two days into an effervescent sugar-free probiotic-rich soda. We recommend taking 3 large packs of ONE brand coconut water (word is this product is the best quality and is pasteurized at a raw temperature below 120*F) and mixing the coconut water with a small bag of kefir grains (purchase kefir grains organic and vegan from eBay), let sit in a towel-covered lid-open gallon glass jar in warm area. When done, blend the kefir with some vanilla and stevia to make the best soda ever! This substance makes me smile with my first sip as my ecosystem of good bacteria in my body light up as new friends come aboard. We need a lot of probiotics because we are supposed to have pounds in our gut, and we all come from a toxic background where everything we ate had some antibiotic poisonous bad-bacteria and yeast promoting trait. Taking small probiotic capsules usually aren’t enough, and to take an efficacious amount of capsules is not a good bang for your buck. Doing a daily regimin for weeks at a time with coconut kefir can reverse the sad symptoms of residual vitamin B deficiency and probiotic deficiency, as well as boost digestion to no end! If you have any yeast issues, your solution may center around coconut kefir.

Amla berry extract powder

High Vitamin C Berries: These berries include Camu, Acerola and Amla. The tissue-healing, immuno-modulating, feel-great qualities of taking these daily in large dosages is perhaps necessary for health. Just having the vitamin C from eating oranges is really only enough to prevent scurvy. We want to have wild amounts to get the results we are looking for. Daily blenderfuls of water, couple teaspoons of camu or amla powder or a couple tablespoons of acerola powder combined with a pinch of salt and stevia will get the job done.

Now if you can somehow get all 4 of these substances in large doses most days for the next 3 months, then your next level of health is imminent and uncapped. Stay tuned: Bethanne and I are creating a tonic elixir recipe ebook soon that will show you how to make high dosage drinks with these superfoods in the tastiest way ever!

I want to hear from you! Please respond to this post if you have any success stories or any healthful results you have experienced from taking any of these 4 magical superfoods. I read all comments. Thank you!

I just described how to make my “special no-refridgeration-needed 50%-wild-food cabbage-nori-pate-saurkraut burrito!” in part 2. It was a savory recipe. We also need sweet recipes for traveling…Chocolatey sweet! I am going to give you a guideline formula so that you can create your own raw truffles – cacao covered superfood nougat – that you can munch on while traveling and get your nutritional needs met. This is my specialty. After creating the first two flavors of WildBar 4 years ago, I have figured out how to teach people how to make their own rich treats without giving away my precious trade secrets.

Truffles are great because the outer raw chocoalte coating can be very high cacao content which means it won’t melt until it reaches 90*F (the point when cacao butter goes from solid to liquid), and then a much creamier inner nugget which gets soft at a lower temperature but is held in place by its hard chocolate exterior. Melts in your mouth, not in your car, bag or whatever warmth your traveling might lead you to.

First pick your favorite nuts and seeds, soak them 12 hours and then dehydrate them. A good dehydrator can fully dehydrate larger nuts in 12-36 hours. I love brazil nuts (because they are wild) mixed with pumpkins seeds and anything else (macadamisa, walnuts, pecans, pine nuts, almonds, sunflower seeds and hemp seeds). Note that hemp seeds don’t need to be soaked and dehydrated.

Fill a food processor half full with your dehydrated nut and seed choices and add a handful of chopped cacao butter. Blend until warm and creamy. Don’t let get too hot. Feel free to write down the exact recipe you’re using so that you can tweak it with your future artisan formulations.

Add a couple spinkles of salt, a small amount of sweetener (low glycemic is better, you might try: a sprinkle of xylitol and a few spoonfuls of yacon syrup or Jerusalem artichoke syrup.) Then definatly add a couple small dashes of the NOW brand of organic stevia extract powder. If you have had problems with stevia in the past, this is your solution. This stuff is enzymatically pre-digested to remove the chemical-like aftertaste of the stevia, resulting in a much more neutral creamy sweetness. Place in bowl and stir in all your superfood powders: spirulina, blue green algae, shilajit, mucuna, vanilla, mushroom extract powders, etc. Then add some crunchy whole nuts and seeds. Drizzle into ice cube trays and freeze until hard.

To make the raw dark chocolate: Melt a bunch of raw cacao butter and put equal parts cacao butter and cacao powder together in a blender. Keep warm and act fast. Most importantly, don’t let any water droplets make their way into your dark chocolate formulations or it can mess up the texture (or “temper”) of the finalized hard chocolate. Add vanilla powder, a tiny pinch of salt and sweeteners of choice. A little NOW brand stevia again and small amount of xylitol is all it takes as this chocolate can be bittersweet. Pour into narrow bowl or large measuring glass.

Pop the nougats out of the ice cube trays, hand dip them in the liquid chocolate, and place on wax paper or dehydrator sheets. The chocolate will very quickly harden around the new frozen centers. Chow down immediately to enjoy your personal travel-able decadence. Have the best superfood travels ever!