Thanks Drhumil for posting Andrea Primm’s “10 minute or Less Delicious Raw Vegan Chocolate Cake!”. Andrea’s YouTube posts are fun, entertaining and to the point, I dig em:) Here is my version of her chocolate master piece:) The recipe is exactly the same and I did make it in under 10 minutes…..YAY~
I shaped my cake dough into a heart by hand because I’m a mushy romantic. Then decorated it with shredded coconut and banana slices. This cake is IDEAL for Valentines Day:) Awwww, romance begins with raw chocolate.
I was really surprised at how light and fluffy this cake was. It wasn’t heavy at all. At first I wasn’t sure the dough was going to stick together because it was so fluffy in the food processor. This is the perfect recipe for making the chocolate fudge cookie parts of ice cream sandwiches. It would also make great pie crust, cookies or cupcakes. The possibilities are endless!!!
♥ Lesley Anne ♥
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January 25th, 2009
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My package from TheRawFoodWorld.com arrived!! Yes, the very package that raised so many eyebrows;) My fellow blogger Sam from Yardsnacker.com informed me Matt Monarch posted a video clip about my blog, on his blog. Check it out, it’s pretty funny, it made me LOL. Matt is the author of Raw Success and Raw Spirit as well as the owner of The Raw Food World. I didn’t realize that Matt owned this site when I purchased my goodies. I’ve read his books and found them entertaining and helpful. I’m glad you found my blog entertaing as well Matt;) It’s funny how small the raw world can be.
Wanna know what I ordered??? Two bottles of Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide for veggie washes and mouth wash. Camu Camu Berry Powder & E3 Live Hemp and Maca Powder, say that three times fast. After reading Yardsnacker’s post on the benifits of the Camu Camu berry I had to get on board that train, choo, choo. The E3 live, hemp and maca combo was too good to pass up. I’ve been putting both these powders in my morinig smoothie and I like em. Neither one of them taste very stong, they’re really mild and blend right in with spiniach, apples and bananas. You can’t go wrong with that.
After watching Matt’s YouTube review, I thought I’d share some insight as to why I named my blog Raw Food Porn. I once heard someone refer to cooking shows as ”food porn” because they would then disire what ever was being made on the show. At the time I loved the sarcasm but didn’t really think much of it. When I first got into raw I found my self surfing the net for beautiful raw food pics. I had to laugh at myself because I realized I was surfing the net for “RAW” food porn!! The light bulb when off and I thought, bingo, what a great name for a blog. I’m always sufing the net to find more “Raw” food porn. That’s one way I keep up my enthusiasm for raw foods. I also rely on great companies like Matt’s to feed my raw food porn habbit;)
Thanks again Raw Food World!!
♥Lesley Anne♥
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January 17th, 2009
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♪ ♫ ♪ ♫Tis’ the season for goal setting fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! While your at it, sing some carols, fa la, la, la, la, la, la, la, laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ♪ ♫♪ ♫♪ ♫♪ ♫ Tis’ the day for New Years resolutions, check out this effective method on how make your New Years resolutions a success.
Recently I found myself in a goal setting class and what I learned made perfect sense, their goal setting structure was very similar to how I started going raw, starting at the bottom, laying out small simple steps to obtain the bigger picture, your goal!!!
My very first raw goal was set and met with the help of David Wolf. He recommended starting your raw journey by incorporating one green smoothie or juice and one salad into your daily routine. The little light bulb in my brain went off at Davids suggestion because I realized, I can actually do this!
He advised newbies to make a list of grocery’s and tools they’ll need to obtain this goal for one week. This was easy enough to do, I had the tools, a blender for making smoothies and a knife chopping veggies. Making the grocery list was as easy as raw pie, a whole lotta’ fruits and veggies.
Now that you have your tools and supplies your ready to rock’n'roll the raw way. My first week was a success and the next and so on. Once I mastered the salad and smoothies I moved on to making raw dinners, oh boy:)
Davids advice and this goal setting system reminds me of stairs. You start at the bottom and work your way up, one step at a time until you reach the top. Have you ever heard the joke “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time!!” Haha funny I know, my mom says this often but it’s true, we all have to start somewhere. It’s either the first bite or the first step. This system helps us lay out our goals one step at a time.
Blog readers, here’s the goal setting outline I got from the class, I find it’s very similar to Davids structure that worked so well for me the first time. This model helped me put a little more thought and detail into my goal setting and thus far has been pretty rad.
A Model to Illustrate Achievement of Your Goals
Goal: What would you like to achieve?
1.________________________
Objectives: What must be done to reach your goals?
1.__________ 2.__________ 3._________
Daily Action Steps: Create your day toward your objectives.
1.__________ 2. __________ 3._________
4.__________ 5. __________ 6._________
Here’s one of my goals that I’ll share with ‘yall to get ‘cha started. I have one for blogging on a consistent basis, going to the gym 3 times a week, finishing school by June and this one saving more mooollah.
Goal: What would you like to achieve?
1. Save more money in 2009.
Objectives: What must be done to reach your goals?
1. Set up a high interest saving account.
2. Stop buying things I don’t need.
3. Put 10% of what I make into savings.
4. Sell more on Ebay and take more temp jobs. Put that money directly into savings.
Daily Action Steps: Create your day toward your objectives.
1. Get online and compare savings accounts
2. Set up checking account to deposit 10% of each paycheck into savings.
3. Change paypal info to deposit Ebay earnings into new saving account.
4. Seriously evaluate what I’m buying when shopping, making a grocery list, asking myself if I really truly need that new hand bag, sweater ect.
5. When I do truly need something, shop around and find the best price possible.
6. Follow up with the temp job connections I have. Accept the temp jobs I’m available for. Seek out more temporary gigs.
Print this out and make as many copies as you want, fill ‘em out, put ‘em on your fridge save them in your wallet, put ‘em under your pillow, what ever you do PLEASE WRITE THEM DOWN! For what ever reason we take our goals more seriously when we take the time to commit them to paper, can we say manifest?? As Nike would say, Just Do It!
PS. Remember, were human so no matter what your goals are just always do your best! Wishing you a warm and Happy New Year, this is Lesley Anne signing off till 2009, peace out!!
♥ Lesley Anne ♥
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December 31st, 2008
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Aloha, Mele Kalikimaka and Merrrrrrrrry Christmas!
I hope your all having a wonderful Christmas! I’m no longer in Hawaii but thought I’d send you guys some Aloha and holiday cheer from the Big Island. This Sandy Snowman was spotted on Hapuna beach, his chubby cactus arms were so cute I couldn’t resist taking his picture. This was also the beach where I was doing my best running “Bay Watch” impression and ate it! There was sand in places sand should never be, it was a wee bit embarrassing but too funny not to laugh about;)
I have tons of updates and goodies to share with you from my trip to Pangaia. This holiday season has been a bit of a whirlwind for me and I admit I haven’t been the most consistent blogger:( It’s all good because I have tons ‘O’ drafts in the works so there are a more posts coming….awesome ones with exotic and tropical pictures, YAY!
♥ Lesley Anne ♥
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December 26th, 2008
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I’m totally excited to be here!!! What a great way to spend a vacation, living of the land and off the grid! Woohoo! I’m here with my mom for a few days and we are teaching a class on how to make water kefir in exchange for 3 nights accommodations. It’s great here, stunningly green, awesome wildlife, great people and great, great food. I have loads of pictures coming up……they will be totally worth the wait:) I’m sorry for the lack of color and photos in this post:( I’m off to a jungle drum circle concert:) Yay!!
And
Present
A Raw Food Workshop
“The History and Nutritional Benefits
Of
Kombucha Tea and Kefirs”
When: Dec. 13th 10 am
Where: Pangaia Demonstration Kitchen
Potluck Rawfood Lunch to Follow
Please Bring Your Favorite Rawfood Dish to Serve 12
PS. You guys out there in blog land are probably very familiar with Pangaia and you don’t even know it. Do you remember Jenna Norwoods “Jenna in the Jungle?” Check out her you tube clips, they’re allllll awesome and I too have been using leaves as TP:)
♥ Lesley Williams ♥
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December 13th, 2008
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A little holiday humor to help you digest:) Happy Thanksgiving from me to you!!!
♥ Lesley Anne ♥
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November 27th, 2008
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I want one, enough said!!
http://gliving.tv/architecture-design/baumhauser-from-baumraum/
Any one know who’s house this is???
♥ Lesley Anne ♥
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November 18th, 2008
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I VOTED TODAY AND IT WAS AWESOME!! If you haven’t voted yet, stop reading right now, get your cute bunz out of your house and go, go, go cast your ballot!
With all this talk about new voting machines I was surprised to see that mine was prehistoric! This ancient beast stood about 6 feet tall, it was gray, mysterious and a little intimidating. It was an old lever pulley voting system that New York is apparently famous for. It was a little confusing at first but I managed just fine. Also, New York does not allow the “I voted stickers,” I totally wanted one, I coordinated my outfit just for the purpose of wearing that red, white and blue sticker! I pay a ton of taxes in NYC and I WANT A STICKER!!
This vintage voting machine made me think about how many people had voted on this exact same apparatus before I did. I wondered who they were, who they had voted for and what era they came from. I started thinking that my grandparents or even great grandparents could have voted on a machine very similar to this one. My trip down nostalgia lane made me a little teary eyed. I was overwhelmingly grateful to live a country where I have the right to vote and so did the millions of US citizens who voted before me. I’m thankful to have a choice.
This is the big red lever that you have to push to the right to cast your vote. It makes a great clicking machine whooshing sound when you do it:)
Being of patriotic spirits I made some red, white and blue popsicle’s to munch on as the polls roll in:) I came across this recipe on Goneraw.com it was made by Hanna Hunnicutt. You know me, I added some extra ingredients to my liking:)
Patriotic Pops
● 1 Cup blueberries
● 1 Cup strawberries
● 1 Ripe banana
● 1 Avocado
● 1 Packet Sweetleaf stevia powder
● 1/2 Cup filtered water
● Juice of 1 lime
Your going to need a Popsicle mold, if you don’t have one you can use mini Dixie cups and Popsicle sticks, these work great. This is a three step freezing process in order to make the tri-layer Popsicle.
First blend half the avocado with the blue berries and 1/4 cup water. Pour 1 inch of the blue berry puree into the bottom of your molds. Add a Popsicle stick to each mold and freeze. The avocado makes it extra, extra creamy.
Blend the lime juice and one whole banana, pour one inch of the banana puree onto your already frozen Popsicle mold. The lime is so delicious with the banana, they compliment each other very, very well.
Blend the strawberries, stevia, the other half of the avocado and 1/4 cup of water. Fill the rest of the Popsicle mold with the strawberry puree and freeze. The stevia is optional, my strawberries were a little tart so I added some sweetener.
Removing the Popsicle’s from the mold can be a little tricky. Put some warm water into large bowl and dip the mold a few times until they slip out easily. Watch out for brain freeze:)
♥ Lesley Anne ♥
p.s. please check out this great post from Dhrumil on welikeitraw.com about voting with your $$$$$ every day.
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November 4th, 2008
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Today is my Birthday and tomorrow www.rawfoodporn.com will be one year old. We’re celebrating with an S & M salad and a lip smacking chocolate pudding from Pure Food and Wine!! Hooorayyyyy for our BIRTHDAY!
It’s crazy to think I’ve been blogging for one whole year, just crazy, time sure flies when your having fun.Thanks to everyone who reads my ramblings, encourages me to write and helped me make this awesome site. I have really, really enjoyed posting. THANKS SOOOOOOOO MMMUUUUUUCCCCCHHHH!!!!!
♥ Lesley Anne ♥
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November 3rd, 2008
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Yours truly is going as Princess Leia this Hallows Eve. The “Force” was running strong and encouraged me to make a matching accessory to my Halloween ensemble, a fashionably coordinated “Storm Trooper Pie”. Some women like matching bags and shoes, not me, nope, I’m the crazy lady who wants a matching pie! This decadent dessert is headed to a Halloween Bash tomorrow night, this way every one can get a piece of this creamy, dreamy storm trooper.
Loco Coco Crust
● 1 Cup ground almond flour
● 1 Cup cocoa powder
● 2 Packets Sweetleaf stevia or 1/2 Agave Nectar
● 1/2 Cup coconut Butter
● 1/4 Cup coconut oil
● 4 Dates soaked and pitted
●1/2 Tsp sea salt
Place all your ingredients into a food processor and blend until a dough forms. Press the dough into the pie or tart pan evenly. When finished place in the refrigerator to set.
Banana Dream Cream
● 3 Cups young coconut meat (3 coconuts)
● 3 Ripe bananas
● 1 1/2 Cup coconut water
● 1/2 Cup coconut butter
● 1/2 Cup coconut oil
● 1/4 Cup agave nectar
● 2 TBS lime juice
● Seeds from 1 whole Vanilla bean
Combine all your yummy ingredients in a Vita mixer, except, for ONE banana. Blend until the mixture is smooth and creamy. You may need to add more coconut water if the filling is too thick. Remove the pie crust from the fridge and slice the last banana into the bottom of the pan. Arrange the bananas evenly and pour the blended filling into your pie pan. Place in the freezer until the filling is firm.
Chocolate Storm Trooper
● Star Wars Stencil
● Exacto knife
● Thick paper
● 1/4 cup cocoa Powder
● Sifter
Now it’s time for the chocolate magic to begin. I got my Starwars stencil via grrl.com she has a plethora of stencils to choose from. I picked a stencil that would be easy to cut out, this is a bit of a work out for your fingers. Once you find a stencil you like, print it out, make sure that it fits onto your pie. Tape the printed stencil onto a thicker piece of paper, using your exacto knife, cut out your stencil.
Place 1/4 cup of cocoa powder into a flour sifter or tea strainer. I recommend doing a test run to make sure you get the hang of sifting evenly. Place the stencil on top of your pie and sift a fine powder of cocoa over your masterpiece. Be sure to fill in all the white spaces. Carefully remove the stencil, make sure you don’t bump your pie or spill the excess cocoa. Presto, your finished, serve, eat and enjoy!!!
A few words of Starwars wisdom from The Geeks Of Doom!!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN,
♥ Lesley Anne ♥
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October 30th, 2008
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