Category Archives: raw

of Russians and swans

By Lucy | Published April 8, 2010

Totally loving the gorgeous springness that is all around now Had some lovely wild garlic pesto yesterday and think may do same today. Seems to have less of a garlic hit when very young though still very good. Swans are still following us around – whooping ones fly over the garden and woods regularly just [...]

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MULU Raw Chocolate

By Lucy | Published September 12, 2009

Wow. This is the best raw chocolate weve ever tasted. It’s totally smooth in texture which weve never experienced with raw choc before. Some of us girls sampled it together and it even went down well with one lady who usually prefers milk chocolate The rich taste and heady smell enable this product to easily compete with [...]

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curry noodles

By Lucy | Published September 9, 2009

Sounds like junk food but these are raw and healthy and very tasty, just had them for lunch :) 1 courgette spiralised into noodles with something of this ilk 1 red pepper, cut into thin slices a tablespoon of sunflower seeds a tablespoon of nori sprinkle (Goodness Direct should have) a tablespoon of olive oil about [...]

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summer snowballs

By Lucy | Published September 1, 2009

Luscious and ready from Charlotte’s garden, very good in soup later edit in – we very highly recommend these as they kept going through winter too! Snowball turnip seeds here Then the last photos my camera took before it broke… oh the tragedy… the drama… but it makes an interesting change not photographing beautiful things, just [...]

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garden doings

By Lucy | Published August 10, 2009

Browsing Sutton’s seed clearance, some good bargains…(would it be totally daft to attempt goji berries here???) got quite a few of our seeds from there this year and they were very good, no disasters B&Q have got lots of trays of veg plants reduced to 50p just now – nabbed a load of cabbage and kale [...]

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in the garden, from the garden

By Lucy | Published August 2, 2009

A lunch weve been having often lately is potatoes and salad from the garden. Above are garlic potatoes (boil with mint sprigs, drain, then slosh in a little olive oil and chopped green garlic and do on a high heat for a couple of minutes, garnish with parsley) and salad comprising 3 types of lettuce, [...]

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blackcurrants and tyres

By Lucy | Published July 14, 2009

got totally soaked collecting blackcurrants for the smoothie this morning – was worth it, quite delicious In that jug are borage flowers, blackcurrants, plantain and curly kale plus a fair amount of rain  - added to it were bananas, apple, brazil nuts, linseeds and red grape juice. The tyre garden is growing well The mint is [...]

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swimming with the fish

By Lucy | Published July 1, 2009

not in a mafia style way but a ‘lovely hot day, need to be in the sea’ type way a lovely jug of stuff from the garden, added OJ, avo, banana and hemp seeds to it there’s a large section of the woods covered in these: This morning we could tell it was going to be [...]

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jolly

By Lucy | Published June 29, 2009

Gorgeous hot weather continues… gooseberries and rasps from the garden are making their way into the breakfast smoothies now Talking of smoothies, the green smoothie blog has been added to the sidebar, lots of good ideas there. The clearout has reached the kids wardrobes so many more puzzles and educational games are up here In [...]

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raw mom summit

By Lucy | Published June 27, 2009

here - lots of interesting interviews which you can listen to for free each day or sign up to get them all. Not just about raw food, lots of conscious parenting subjects covered :) Related posts:Scott James – X Factor contestant with aspergerssquashes againstrawberries

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