For The Love of Food. (My first blog EVER)

This is G.I. Joe Ninja (aka Aiden) at his 5th birthday party, about to eat his raw vegan cake. This cake took nearly 3 hours to create-but was it was time well spent when I saw the enjoyment on everyone's face.
Recipe:
5 c walnuts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 c Almonds into paste.-------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 c raw cacao -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1/2c lucuma ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 c raw carob -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1c raw cacao butter ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1/2c agave -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
meat of 1 young thai coconut -------------------------------------------------------------------
8 dates soaked----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
8 apricots soaked -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1/2 tsp of vanilla -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Grind walnuts and almonds into flour- blend dates and apricots Melt cacao butter. Mix powders and nut flour well add paste,agave, and butter. Put aside some butter and agave for frosting (about 3-4 tbs each). Put batter into two flexible pie pans Press and freeze for 15 mins. While waiting, blend coconut meat with lucuma, vanilla, cacao butter and agave. Spread some frosting between both cakes, on top and around assembled cake. Freeze again. Mix 2 tsp of each -cacao powder, butter and agave. pour in a ziplock bag, cut a tip of the bag and use for writing and decorating.








My kids love food, not just any food, they love the most nutritious and beneficial food the earth has to offer. This is lunch time at our house, Audrey is 14 months and is lovin her seaweed salad (seaweed, carrots, sesame oil, nama shoyu, agave). She loves foods that most kids would run away from like avocados, onion and DURIAN. She nearly at an entire pod of durian to herself at a potluck last night. She can even say durian!

As my kids are familiarizing themselves with the best foods ever, I am erasing my relationships with the types of food that hurt me more then helped me. I have been on a slow but steady transition path for the past year but two weeks ago (the day before my 25th birthday) I decided I would go 100% Raw as the best gift I could ever give myself. Nothing was holding me back, I have the tools, I have the support of my family, friends and the awesome raw food communityhere in AK. For once in my life I put a little spot light on myself and I'm going to be documenting my journey on what its like on the other side.