RAW SPIRIT FESTIVAL UPPER MARLBORO, MD AUGUST 29-30,2009

Come join the fun at the Raw Spirit Festival! I already had great food on Friday and I'm sure Saturday and Sunday will be fabulous. Stop by the Vita Mix Booth and say hello!

Welcome to my page, thank you for stopping by!

New Raw Spirit Friends: My pleasure to meet you, I look forward to working with you in the near future!

Enjoy my site!

Owey, Goowey, Soft and Chewey Raw Brownies by Chelly

*Soak and dry nuts, my almonds were soaked and dried, the cashews soaked for 6 hours but were wet when used. All ingredients raw and organic.

1 cup almonds
1/2 cup cashews
1/8 tsp Pink Himalayan Salt
1/2 Tbsp Carob
4 Tbsp Cacao
3 Tbsp Agave, or 3-4 dates, or raw honey
2-3 Tbsp Cacao nibs, to cover brownies

Blend all ingredients in food processor or Vita Mix until dough forms, Food Processor is easier because of the space. Use a spatula to wipe sides of container frequently.

Form into brownies on a plate sprinkle and press cacao nibs onto the top of the brownies, and dehydrate 104 degrees for 1-2 hours to dry out just a tad or enjoy as is.

You can make a Cacao or Carob frosting or chocolate sauce to top your brownies or add walnuts, you can also add fresh mint to your brownies and make mint chocolate chip brownies.

Enjoy!

AGAVE

I know it seems that we have already made huge improvements in our heatlh, especially if you have achieved the level of being a raw vegetarian/vegan (I'm using this term now because I occassionally use honey/maple syrup when recipes call for them, however honey comes from bees and maple syrup is not raw) but we should always remain teachable and act as servants.

I have posted this link to share what I'm learning about AGAVE, the beloved sweetner. I just bought my last bottle. I have noticed the more you use it the more you want it. We used to make our smoothies with no sweetener at all, now that is all my husband and children use. I have at least gotten them to cut back. I prefer more banana, sweeter fruit or dates.

http://renegadehealth.com/blog Look down the page for episode #374 AGAVE RE-VISITED

Agave
* does not have a high glycemic index, but that does not make it automatically healthy
* high in fructose, does not cause blood sugar spike, but has no fiber
* fructose is the natural sugar found in fruit, but fruit has fiber which helps our bodies to absorb, digest and properly utilize the fructose
* Negative affects of Agave - causes insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, uric acid build up in your liver (fatty liver)

Better sweeteners to use:
Apples, bananas, peaches, berries, grapes with seeds, pineapples, dates, raisins, stevia (green leaf powder)

No-Bonez Notes of the Day!!

Slow gradual changes will help you to appreciate the journey even more, when we know better, we can then do better!

Knowledge is power and when you have been given the knowledge, it is up to you to use it.

Listen to your bodies love language, what are you addicted to?

Chelly

RAW FOOD AND ME

I HAVE BEEN RAW FOR 4 MONTHS!!! I WAS ABOUT 90% RAW FOR 14 MONTHS, I'VE BEEN A VEGETARIAN FOR 5 YEARS!!!

I CAN NOT CALL MYSELF 100% RAW VEGAN BECAUSE I WILL USE HONEY, IT IS IN THE BIBLE AND IN ITS RAW UNPROCESSED STATE I DON'T MIND IT, HOWEVER I RARELY USE IT, HARDLY BUY IT AND DON'T LIKE THE TASTE MUCH AND IT CAUSES MY TEETH TO BE MORE SENSITIVE, YOU GET THE IDEA.

I ALSO EAT ORGANIC OLIVES THAT ARE NOT RAW, HOWEVER THEY ARE TOO EXPENSIVE AND YOU DON'T GET MUCH, AND TOO SALTY. I ALSO USE BRAGGS LIQUID AMINOS, RARELY, ONLY IF A RECIPE CALLS FOR IT, MY SON LOVES IT ON NUT MEATS AND IN SOUPS. I ALSO USE AGAVE, THAT SAYS RAW AND ORGANIC BUT IT IS NOT, ONLY THE CLEAR AGAVE THAT CAN NOT BE PURCHASED FROM REGULAR HEALTH FOOD STORES IS REALLY RAW UNPROCESSED AGAVE.

CHECK OUT MY STORE NATURAL ZING AND MY WWW.RAWTEACHER.COM/CHELLY SITE FOR GREAT PRICES ON RAW OLIVES, AGAVE, NUTS, AND OTHER RAW GOODIES!!!

I HAVE MENTIONED ALL THIS TO SAY........

I LOVE YOU IF YOU EAT MEAT AND EVEN IF YOU DONT! I FEEL BETTER NOT EATING MEAT, DAIRY, FISH, COOKED & PROCESSED FOODS, SUGAR AND NON ORGANIC PRODUCE. I FEEL BETTER LEADING BY EXAMPLE AND REALLY TRULY PRACTICING WHAT I PREACH/TEACH!!

I DON'T CHEAT, MY STOVE HOLDS BOWLS FILLED WITH FRUIT AND RECIPE BOOKS, MY MICROWAVE HOLDS DISHES AND IS A SPROUTER, MY OVEN HOLDS MORE DISHES. I WOULD LOVE FOR EVERYONE TO EXPERIENCE THE RAW DIET AND GREAT HEALTH.

I HAVE WITNESSED RECOVERY FROM SICKNESS AND DISEASE WITHIN MY OWN FAMILY AND TREMENDOUS WEIGHT LOSS AND RENEWED ENERGY. I WANT THIS FOR EVERYONE!!!

IT IS MY PRAYER THAT IF YOU NEED HELP OR GUIDANCE YOU WILL CALL ON ME. INTEGRITY IS IMPORTANT TO ME, I SAY WHAT I MEAN AND MEAN WHAT I SAY.

I ENJOY THE RAW DIET BECAUSE I FEEL GOOD, HEALTHY, STRONG, ENERGIZED, I'M FREE!!

FREE FROM THE QUILT OF EATING FOOD THAT MAKES ME FEEL HEAVY, LETHARGIC, MOODY, DEPRESSED, SICK, FULL, GUILTY.

MY CHILDREN ARE HEALTHY THEY LOVE GREEN DRINKS, ALL VEGETABLES AND FRUITS. MY HUSBAND JUST LOST ANOTHER 15 LBS IN ONE WEEK, HE NOW RUNS (WE LAUGH AND CALL IT A SLOW TROT) TO AND FROM WORK, IT'S ABOUT 7 TO 8 MANHATTAN BLOCKS. WE HAD A GOOD LAUGH THE OTHER NIGHT!! A LADY IN HIGH HEELS JUST WALKS PAST HIM WHILE HE IS RUN/TROTTING TO WORK. HE WEIGHS 430 LBS SO HE IS DOING AWESOME. MOVE YOUR BODY, EAT HEALTHY BUT MOVE YOUR BODY, 30 MINUTES PER DAY.

THANK YOU FOR READING MY BLOG, GOD HAS GREAT THINGS IN STORE FOR YOU AND YOURS!!!

BE POSITIVE, BE HEALTHY, BE TRUE TO THE GOD IN YOU!!!

RAW CHEF CHELLY

RAW SPIRIT FESTIVAL UPPER MARLBORO, MD AUGUST 29-30,2009

CHECK OUT WWW.RAWSPIRIT.COM FOR MORE INFO!!!

I WILL BE DEMONSTRATING THE VITA MIX ALL DAY BOTH DAYS!!

$79 ADVANCE PURCHASE WWW.RAWSPIRIT.COM
$85 AT THE DOOR

THIS IS THE FIRST EVENT OF ITS KIND IN THE MARYLAND AREA, THERE WILL BE LOTS OF INFORMATION AND DELICIOUS RAW FOOD TO TRY.

GO RAW FOR YOUR HEALTH, YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE WORLD!!!

Green Drinks!!!!

I realized recently that I've been making the same green drink recipe for over a year alternating the greens of course, but the same basic fruit apple, bananas and lemon. It's time for a change so here are some recipes that I will be making.

Kale & Apples by Chef Chelly

1 large bunch of kale

2 apples (gala or pink lady) My favorites!!

1/2 lemon with peel

1 cup water

Blend on high to liquefy and add ice just to prevent juice from getting too warm, you should not drink your juices freezing cold. Your body temperature is warm, don't shock your cells!

Strawberry Minty Kale by Chef Chelly

4 ripe pears

4-5 leaves of kale

1/2 bunch of mint

2 cups water

8 strawberries

Blend on high to liquefy add ice sparingly and enjoy!

Nutritiously Bitter from Victoria Boutenko "Green for Life"

Blend well:

5 leaves of kale

1/4 avocado

3 cloves garlic

1/4 cup lime juice

1 bell pepper

2 celery sticks

1/2 bunch of Italian parsley

2 cups water

Yields: 1 quart of smoothie

Enjoy your green smoothies on an empty stomach and enjoy!!

Simply Delightful by Chef Chelly

1 banana
1/2 lime w/peel
1 bunch of spinach
2-4 pink lady apples or your favorite(I used just two)
2 cups water
Ice

Liquefy lime in water, add apples to liquefy then spinach, banana and ice to cool slightly.
I was in heaven drinking this, and I'm sure you will be also!


Parsley Green by Raw Chef Chelly

1 bunch parsley
1 handful spinach
1 apple
1 kiwi, 2 peel or not that's the ???, it's up to you
1 banana
1 peach
fresh mint, optional
2 cups water
Ice
Yeilds: 64 oz, 2 quarts or 8 cups :)

Blend in Vita Mix to liquefy and enjoy!!!

Level I Chef Certification Class

This class was so fun and the time flew by!! Thank you for attending this 4 hour intensive RAW FOOD class. We had a ball!!

Here are just a few thoughts from the class:
A BIG THANK YOU!!! That was a tremendous class, again you exceeded my expectations! I made the corn salad for dinner that night for friends. It was so good! Wish Level II was this weekend. It was great fun spending the day with you and all the delightful women in our class, not to mention all that we learned. M

- the more you learn the more you know we BETTER return to God's way of eating. Thought of you yesterday afternoon as I made the Collard wraps & guacamole - it was good but not as good as yours. And I must commend you again on the ease of your preparations, etc cause girl, my kitchen did NOT look like yours did - ha - but don't have a food processor used a chopper that kinda minced the carrot & zucchini - but again it was good - yesterday was an almost total raw day - 97%. Thank YOU for the presentation & the wisdom imparted - truly you DO show people raw is easy & delicious - be well - be greatly blessed - M

Hi, Chelly, Gosh, I don't know where to begin to say Thank You for such a great day. Your personality just added to the fun and also that of your daughter. What a sweet, polite young lady she is. It was so much fun to be around her. I learned so much today and was so surprised at the food items. I just had no idea what it would be like. Thanks for the encouragement and knowing that I can contact you if I have questions. Came home tonight and several of us went out for Pizza (of all things!!). First of all I surely wasn't hungry and second...it didn't even sound good! Everyone wanted to know why I wasn't eating!! My glass of water was delicious and now I am going to bed and dream of all the good food you fixed today and think about what I can do about my eating habits. Thanks again. I know this is a lot of work for you but how nice of you to share your passion- J

CCC's: Coconut, Chocolate, Cherry Cookies

Enjoy these dehydrated or not!  They looked cooked!

*all ingredients raw and organic*

Cookie Dough

1/2 C almonds

1/2 C walnuts

1 T cacao, ground

1 T carob, ground

1/8 cup coconut butter or less

1 1/2 T agave

5 T shredded coconut, just enough to see specks in the dough

15 large dried cherries

Make butter out of nuts, do not over mix releasing the natural oils, add other ingredients, except cherries.  It should look like ground nut meat with white coconut specks.  Form into balls the size of a quarter.  Press one dried cherry in the center and form a beautiful cookie.  Eat as is or dehydrate over night (104-115) or longer until dry.  Cookie may be oily, so dehydrating will help, you can use less coconut butter or just grind/chop nuts until just before they form a smooth nut butter.  Let me know how yours turns out!

PEACHES ARE IN SEASON

My family from Michigan is visiting this weekend for my daughters 11th Birthday.  So, in honor of the family I've come up with some great recipes, to go in the cookbook of course. Fortunately, my followers/friends to No-Bonez will get these great recipes to try out at home! Let me know what you think!

Sweet Peaches 

2-3 large peaches, sliced w/ skin

1/4 tsp nutmeg

1 tsp cinnamon

1/8 cup agave or honey

Use a glass baking dish, place peaches in the dish, sprinkle with nutmeg and cinnamon, pour sweetner over.  Dehydrate over night, stir to remix in the morning.  Enjoy as is Yum!! Put over Banana Ice Cream, add to your morning oatmeal or add to your favorite raw cheese cake recipe.

Blueberry Delight by Daijelle my 11 year old

Make a smoothie with lots of blueberries so that it is dark purple. (Strawberries, banana, blueberries, apple or your favorite combo)
No ice is needed.

Blend and then pour it over your oatmeal and stir. My husband says it taste like fruit loops!!

CLASS ALERT:
Paramus NJ WHOLE FOODS
August 10, 2009 6-8 p.m.
Cost: $25.00
Call to preregister 240.498.9639
or email rawchefchelly@aol.com

Raw Spirit Festival
August 29-30, 2009
All Day
Upper Marlboro, MD

Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania

Please check out WWW.BOONSBOROWELLNESS.COM  click on the EVENTS link and come on out.

Class: September 19, 2009

Time: 12:00-2:00 p.m.

Cost: $30.00

Organic Raw Vegan lifestyle at it's best, come discover just what a raw vegan diet will do for you and have some delicious, very tasty food too! 

TO DARRICK JR

Go and hug your “Michael” by Maya Angelou… 

Yesterday I cried watching the Michael Jackson memorial. I cried for a little
black boy who felt the world didn't understand him. I cried for a little black
boy who spent his adulthood chasing his childhood. And I thought about all the
young black boys out there who may too feel that the world doesn't understand
them. The ones who feel that the world does not understand their baggy jeans,
their swagger, their music, their anger, their struggles, their fears or the
chip on their shoulder. I worry that my son, may too, one day will feel lonely
in a wide, wide world.

I cried for the young children of all colors who may live their life feeling
like a misfit, feeling like no one understands their perspective, or their soul.
What a burden to carry.

As a mother, I cried for Katherine Jackson because no mother should ever bury a
child. Period. And I think about all the pain, tears and sleepless nights that
she must have endured seeing her baby boy in inner pain, seeing him struggle
with his self-esteem, and his insecurities and to know he often felt unloved
even while the world loved him deeply. How does it feel to think that the
unconditional love we give as mothers just isn't enough to make our children
feel whole? I wonder if she still suffers thinking, "what more could I have
done?" Even moms of music legends aren't immune to mommy guilt, I suppose.

When Rev. Al Sharpton ("who always delivers one" awesome "funeral speech") said
to Michael's children, "Your daddy was not strange....It was strange what your
Daddy had to deal with," I thought of all the "strange" things of the world that
my children will have to deal with. Better yet, the things I hope they won't
ever have to deal with anymore.

And as a mother raising a young black boy, I feel recommitted and yet a little
confused as to how to make sure my son is sure enough within himself to take on
the world. Especially a "strange" one. To love himself enough to know that even
when the world doesn't understand you, tries to force you into its mold or
treats you unkindly, you are still beautiful, strong and Black. How do I do
that?

Today, I am taking back "childhood" as an inalienable right for every brown
little one. In a world, that makes children into booty-shaking, mini-adults long
before their time, I'm reclaiming the playful, innocent, run-around-outside,
childhood as the key ingredient in raising confident adults. Second, I will not
rest until my little black boy, MY Michael, knows that his broad nose is
beautiful, his chocolately brown skin is beautiful, and his thick hair is
beautiful.

And nothing or no one can ever take that away from him.

"Now aint we bad? And ain't we black? And ain't we fine? ---Maya Angelou

Dear Blog,

So, I have not written in a while. Been Busy, what can I say!! I have lots to tell you. For starters, I woke up this morning and made a mexican flavored breakfast scramble, a salmon pate, jalapeno lime corn chips, and croutons!! Everything is all raw, organic and vegan of course. I also made green drink! We are going to Great Adventures on Monday and since we don't eat traditional amusement park food, we must go prepared. So, I've started early so we can eat like the Kings and Queens that we are!

I have a testimony......some good news........a miracle to share..........an I told you so moment!!!!!

All of those and a bag of raw chips!!!!!

In the search box of my blog, type in "oil pulling". Read that post about my dental appointment and what I was told. Sept. 2, 2008 Post

For starters I did the oil pulling for about 3 months. I did not notice any results, many people have, so I'm not knocking it.

In April, 2009 I purchased a Water Pik, it works just like the tool your dental hygienist uses to squirt water onto your teeth when being cleaned. For 3 months I have flossed ( first off, I've flossed my teeth for 17 years daily), brushed my teeth ( using toothpaste with no fluoride, Nature's Gate/Toms) and I have used the Water Pik (which still removes food even after flossing).

Three Months............**Floss**......**Brush**......**Water Pik** Before Bed, missed 3 nights

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE * I already posted a blog on flossing, but it is best to FLOSS AT NIGHT, a dark mouth is the perfect environment for bacterial growth. Of Course follow with brushing and YES, I brush in the morning, also!!

If you were not able to read my post from Sept. 2, 2008 here is an update: My dentist wanted me to have underneath my gums scrapped and the antibiotic arestin applied to prevent bacterial growth and the advancement of what had already started, periodontal disease (gum disease).

I refused, he yelled at me, "You have gum disease, if you don't do anything about it, it will only get worse. Diet has nothing to do with it!!!!", said Dr. Zaner. Jan. 2008

July 24, 2009: Dr. Zaner said, "Your gums look wonderful, beautiful color, what ever you did keep doing it, it's not there now. They look great!"

As the hygienist cleaned my teeth she said, you have no bleeding at all, that is the first sign of disease, you have no swelling, your diet and preventative care is working, you have prevented the bacteria from growing! All signs of gum disease reversed!!!

So let's review the obvious, shall we????

I eat 100% raw organic vegan food, I floss nightly, brush twice a day and use the water pik nightly. I had gum disease and in Jan. 2009 was told to have the scrapping done and antibiotics applied to kill the bacteria and prevent more growth.

I refused.........because God knows best........and here I am today..........cured.......healed.......better........no bleeding gums........no swollen gums.........just a healthy mouth!!!

Now, just who do I have to thank for all of these blessings??????????????? Only God!!!

No antibiotic, no surgery, no chemicals, no drugs, no cooked food, nothing can do for me what God can.

Coincidentally: He gave us fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds!!!!!!

Good Bye Gum Disease!!!!!

Love,
Chelly

Annapolis Culinary Center at Whole Foods Annapolis, MD

Thank you to all those who came out to Thursday nights class, we had a ball and way too much delicious raw food!!!

I hope you enjoyed the class as much as I did and I hope to see you all again!

Chef Chelly