Recipe Contest Winners!
Howdy Kitchen Wizards,
We were thrilled to receive such an amazing response to this month’s recipe contest. YUM-DIDDY. Thank ya, thank ya for sending in your mouth-watering masterpieces! You sassies made it wicked hard to pick. I felt like a Miss America judge. Actually, that’s kinda cute. Maybe we should call it a “Kitchen Pageant” instead, the winner will be crowned/sashed Miss Apron? Of course that means we need runners up. But instead of flowers they get CSL prezzies. I like it!
For our first contest, the grand prize winner (Miss Apron), will receive Matthew Kenney’s Entertaining In The Raw. Second and third place winners (runners up) will get a Make Juice Not War bracelet.
Remember, there will be many more chances to win cool schwag and in our contests. Hint, hint: We like to keep things simple, so the less kitchen appliances used the better! Dehydrators are great, but not a lot of us have them, so it will probably increase your chances of winning if the instructions include gadgets that most people would find in their kitchens. Be sure to read the blog and check out the newsletters for details. Sign up here at CSL.com in the upper right column for the newsletter if you haven’t already. Junk mail sucks so we promise to keep your email address top secret.
Winner Time!
Our second and third place winners are… (envelope opening, drum rolling, lights dimming)
Meghan’s Raw Vegan Gluten Free Cocoa Mint Truffles
1 cup raw walnuts, unsoaked
1/2 cup almonds, unsoaked
1/2 tsp salt
15 pitted dates, unsoaked
1/4 cup raisins or dried cranberries
2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
2 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
2 Tbs agave
2 Tbs water
2 drops Peppermint Essential Oil (make sure its food grade- I like Young Living)
1/2 cup shredded coconut or 1/2 cup extra cocoa powder
-Place the nuts & salt in a food processor fitted with the S-blade and process until finely ground.
-Add the dates, cocoa powder, agave, peppermint and vanilla process until the mixture starts to stick together. Add water as needed & process briefly.
-Using about 1 Tbs of mixture, roll into balls.
-Sprinkle coconut or extra cocoa out onto a plate or cookie sheet and roll balls through, giving them a light dusting.
-Keep refrigerated until serving, or even better- eat them right out of the freezer.
Julie’s Raw Wild Rice Salad
1 cup organic wild rice
1 organic carrot, shavings
1 organic red, yellow or orange Bell pepper cut into small strips or diced
1-2 stalks organic celery, diced
2-3 green onions (scallions) or handful chopped onion (to taste), diced
1 clove organic garlic, diced or minced
juice of 1 organic lemon
olive oil to taste
chile pepper to taste
-Sprout wild rice by placing in a glass jar with filtered water to cover, place lid on and let sit for 2-4 days. Change water 2x a day to prevent fermentation. Wild rice will crack open when ready and be soft but crunchy / chewy. If rice doesn’t seem to crack open much you can still eat it if it tastes chewable.
-Rinse and dry rice when done sprouting.
-Combine all ingredients and add to wild rice; mix thoroughly and eat! Refrigerate after combining ingredients.
Our Grand Prize Winner is…(The next Miss Apron)
Ali’s Sacred (yum-yum) Monkey Cookies
2 cups almonds blended to almond flour
1/4 cup or 3 tbs maple syrup (or honey) (whatever amount/sweetner you prefer)
1/2 bag of the sunssweet vegan carob chips (or other chocolate chip of your choosing)
3 big mashed bananas (4 small-ish ones) (ready to peel, but not brown-ripe)
dash of vanilla extract
-Mush the bananas in a large-ish mixin bowl
-Mix in the maple syrup & dash in the vanilla extract
-Combine this with the 2 cups of fresh almond flour
-Mix 1/2 (+) bag of sunssweet vegan carob chips
-The mixture should be moist, but shouldn’t be runny – it should be moldable and pretty much hold it’s shape. add more flour/banana to balance accordingly.
-Place spoonfuls of mix onto dehydrator trays lined with teflex sheets. Flatten to about 1/2 inch tall, round “cookie shape.”
-Dehydrate at 100 degrees for about 8-12 hours* – or until the cookies can be peeled off the sheets and maintain their form. they will be moist and gooey, and are super yummy straight out of the dehydrator.
(*may take less time with an excalibur dehydrator. I have a Nesco – takes 10-12 hrs.)
-Store in the fridge.
Makes about 12 cookies — depending on how many survive the 12 hours in the dehydrator and subsequent “testing” to see if they’re done yet 
Congratulations, Ali!
Time to fast again! Can you believe? It really sneaks up on ya. Who’s joining me for Goddess Group today? If you are, remember to keep it green and keep it clean. If not, then remove your fingers from the cookie jar and chow healthy stuff ONLY today. Come on, it’s just 24 hours. You will feel so frickin’ happy you did.
Ok, off to make my 4 quarts of liquid sunlight and then back to writing…
Peace & pageants,
Kris
- Posted by Kris Carr on April 1, 2009 at 9:06 am
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Tagged as: Kris Carr, Recipes
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Awesome! Congrats to all – cant wait to get home to make all these lovely goodies. Kris – perhaps a Crazy Sexy Cookbook? …which would naturally be followed by your own Food Network show?…:)
Hi Kris! Thanks for passing along the great recipes. One question about your post — you said you were making 4 quarts of green juice — I was under the impression that you needed to make your juice right before you consumed it. I thought storing it lost some of the nutrients. I have always wondered, when people drink 6-8 glasses of juice per day, if they got out their juicer that many times per day. Cleaning it that many times would be a JOB! Thanks for your thoughts! Pam
Those recipes sound so good! Congrats to the winners! I will be trying these out soon!
These recipes sounds y-u-m-m-y! I love, love sweets. Congrats to winners! I’m participating in Goddess Group today! Thought about it for a week. I said, this should be easy.. Now the day is here, I want to eat, eat, eat.. but I’m not. Green Juice baby all the way.. ok, I did eat a big ole fat carrot after I came from the gym. It was a must!!! Happy Juicing!!!
Yay! I never win contests!!! I Can’t wait to try out the other two recipes. I do wish I had come up with this other fantabulous raw goodness in time to enter because it is my new personal favourite!
Appropriately named Banana Coconut Almond Heaved… cause it is!
http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2009/03/31/banana-coconut-almond-heaven/
CONGRATS to everyone…not just our lovely winners, but to everyone of us here who strive to make better choices for our bodies, lives, planet and others…one bite or slurp at a time =) Can’t wait to try these….cookbook is a must now, Ms. Kris!!
Another vote for the Cookbook! …and the title is easy : Crazy Sexy Cooking!… Crazy Sexy Kitchen Tips!… Crazy Sexy Jucing! Id buy them all!
Cowboyjane – you are too cute! I’ll get right on all of those after I birth the “crazy sexy you” bee-atch!
Pam – I prefer to drink my juice right away but when I need to travel I make them ahead of time using the green star. It’s a twin gear rather than a centrifugal force juicer. Said to keep longer. It should! Quite costly. But I love it and my breville.
XO and congrats winners!
K
Great work everyone and thanks for running the pageant Kris…lots of fun!
Casey
I am dangling on the edge of this gorgeous valley of raw. It is really inspiring to read your blog and to learn about a new way of being. thankyou from the bottom of my cells.
Great idea…I’m always looking for do able and tasty raw meals, and treats
What can I use in place of nuts? I cannnot have nuts. Diverticulosis. I love nuts, they don’t like me. Help.
I have diverticulosis and cannot eat nuts. I love them, they do not like me. What can I substitute in the receipes? Help. Thanks