Hi there!
We have a need for an additional part-time sewing maven or mister. We need a reliable, dependable, fast and efficient person proficient in sewing. Hours will be flexible although day time hours are what we have a need for. Must work on site. This is an easy sewing job and there will be another person in the sewing room, so you won't be lonely. :-) $8/hour to start. Please call Matt at 223-2111 to apply or respond to this email.
Thanks!
Linda
My Green Smoothie Dinner Tonight
this is what I had for dinner two nights ago. I used what I had and that is GOOD! Use what you have and what works for you. I wasn't really in the mood for anything so I thought a filling smoothie would be great. And it was!
2 bananas
1 head of romaine
1/2 avocado
1/2 cup hazelnut milk
filtered water
Blend until thick and creamy, and drink. I shared this with my son who smacked his lips and said YUM! The kids like the creamy green drinks.
Linda
Vermont Fiddle Heads
18 Worcester Village Road
Worcester, VT 05682
802-223-2111
802-408-1000 (fax)
http://www.vt-fiddle.com
P.S. Keep checking back on the shop. Adding products as we speak! Bulk nuts are now posted! http://vt-fiddle.com/shop/
P.P.S. Need some bulk food items? Well, send me an email or check out what I have on my products page! NEW IN STOCK: really raw oats, raw nori sheets, chia seeds, turkish mulberries, dandy blend (a dandelion coffee substitute), wasabi powder, kelp noodles, dandelion leek miso by south river, garlic red pepper miso by south river, Eating for Beauty by David Wolfe, Naked Chocolate by David Wolfe and Shazzie, Sun Warrior Biofermented Rice Protein powder (in natural and chocolate flavors), marine phytoplankton, lucuma powder, yacon slices, really raw cashews, artisana coconut butter and goji berries. Please contact me if you are interested in getting any of these items. With everything we sell, items can be picked up or I can mail them to you.
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Hi there,
Got a phone call today that was SO pleasant to receive. A woman called me to say she attended one of the documentary workshops I've held recently and she said she wanted to thank me because it has changed her life. She's been researching raw food and changing her diet and her own medication is dropped significantly and her blood sugar has also changed dramatically. She said it's so amazing and she can't ignore this. How cool is that! I love these kinds of phone calls and I want to hear more of them. It is so supportive to me personally. Just helps to keep me plugging away.
A heartfelt thank you to you that write me and send me feedback or call me with your stories. I love to hear them.
Many blessings to you!
Linda
Why, Why, Why
Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting dead?
Why do banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they know there is not enough money?
Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection?
Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?
Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?
Why do Kamikaze pilots wear h elmets?
Whose idea was it to put an "S" in the word "lisp"?
If people evolved from apes,why are there still apes?
Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?
Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?
Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?
Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?
Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end
on your first try?
How do those dead bugs get into those enclosed light fixtures?
When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a shopping cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say, "It's all right?" Well, it isn't all right, so why don't we say, "That really hurt, why don't you watch where you're going?"
Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling off the table
you always manage to knock something else over?
In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat?
How come you never hear father-in-law jokes?
The statistics on sanity is that one out of every four persons are suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends -- if they're okay, then it's you.
I'm writing after the back-to-back documentaries that I had last night and tonight. They were very fun and I certainly never tire of watching these things with new people. On Monday we saw Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes and tonight we saw Super Charge Me. Both very different films and yet have very similar messages about raw food. Next month we'll be showing Healing Cancer part 1 and part 2 will be in March. I also want to show some other favorites of mine like Super Size Me and Who Killed the Electric Car but the latter might have to be here in Worcester. We'll see...
Anyway, I just really wanted to post my gratitude to Sweet Clover Market and Hunger Mountain for allowing me to do these documentary and food workshops. The feedback is so very positive and the discussions are very, very good.
I'll repost the haps that are still in effect and I also wanted to include this recipe that I've been eating and enjoying. I've been playing around with these kelp noodles ever since I got them and I made a recipe that I really L.O.V.E. I didn't make it tonight only because I had marinara sauce leftover from the workshop and ate that but I'll be looking forward to making this again in the near future!
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RAW FOOD HAPS THIS WEEK AND BEYOND
• Fiddle Heads House Kim Chi is available and is delicious - made with local & organic: cabbages, turnips, shallots, leeks, carrots, radishes, garlic, fresh ginger and lots of love. This is hella good kim chi and it's pretty too - it's pink! (which is why it is the house blend) Comes in quart sizes and larger. $9.00/quart. Please contact me if you are interested in getting some. I'm also taking orders for Dill and Caraway Sauerkraut. This takes a month to make but worth the wait!
• gRAWnola available and delicious - made with all organic ingredients: apples, hazelnuts, sprouted buckwheat, soaked pumpkin seeds, dates, cranberries, dry coconut, agave, vanilla, cinnamon, lemon juice, and Celtic sea salt. Can purchase in 8 oz and 1 lb bags. Please contact me if you are interested in getting some.
• our downloadable recipe book: over 70 smoothie, juices and soup recipes:
http://vt-fiddle.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=52 - I've already started another in the series. Be on the look out for the breakfast recipes e-book!
• NEW IN STOCK: really raw oats, raw nori sheets, chia seeds, turkish mulberries, dandy blend, wasabi powder, kelp noodles, dandelion leek miso by south river, garlic red pepper miso by south river, Eating for Beauty by David Wolfe, Naked Chocolate by David Wolfe and Shazzie, Sun Warrior Biofermented Rice Protein powder (in natural and chocolate flavors), marine phytoplankton, lucuma powder, yacon slices, really raw cashews, artisana coconut butter and tibetan goji berries. Please contact me if you are interested in getting any of these items. With everything we sell, items can be picked up or I can mail them to you. ALSO IN STOCK: Vitamix pitcher replacements. If you have an old vitamix blender, you might want to consider a new plastic pitcher to replace the one that was made with bpa plastic - it also comes with a new lid that stays on so your hand doesn't have to rest on top when you blend.
• Tuesday, January 20th at 6:30 pm, we have scheduled a Cheeze Pierogies workshop at Hunger Mountain Coop in Montpelier. Please sign up in the store or with Krystal or Robin at 223-8004 x202 or email them at info@hungermountain.com.
this is a really awesome recipe that contains NO cacao. I'm diggin' it right now as I type this. I'm trying to stay away from cacao for a while but I'm feeling certain "monthly urges" for chocolate. Well, I made this pudding and it's really delicious and it's busting my craving, so there you go.
chocolate busting pudding
serves 1-4, depending on how greedy you are! :-)
1 avocado
6-8 dates
1 tsp maca force with carob and peppermint)
4 tsps raw carob powder
1/8 cup water
1 tsp vanilla extract
In a small 1 or 2 cup food processor, blend until creamy. You can also use a blender. Serve and enjoy. This is delicious!
this is a delicious and EASY recipe. takes like 30 seconds in the food processor and then it is done. You can blend it too, if you want a smoother texture but chunkier is the way I like it. You can make a topping for this as well:
1 cup cashews or macadamia nuts
1/2-3/4 cup filtered water
1 Tbsp agave
1 tsp vanilla
smalled pinch of Celtic sea salt (the coarse gray kind)
Blend in a blender like the VitaMix until smooth and creamy. Start with a 1/2 cup of water and add more if it is too thick. Then add a small dollop to the top of the applesauce for a creamy dessert finish. Heavenly!
Well, it's all about the dips and the presentation, isn't it? If you cut the fruit OR the veggies and set them up on a table, most everyone will just start snacking. Add a delicious dip to them and how can they resist? There a dips, dressings and hummus recipes that are raw and delicious and the kids will power them down. My NOT Tuna recipe is my favorite with kids and in that recipe alone, they are eating raw onions, dulse, red or green peppers, and celery!
It's about masking things, sweetening things or making them so beautiful that people (kids included) can't resist. Raw food is so colorful, beautiful reds, greens, purples, oranges - they are so dreamy.
Fruit is MUCH easier to mask than veggies, in my opinion. And with fruit, all I really need to do is just cut it up and put it on the table. It seems that even the idea that the kid has to peel something to eat it is too much sometimes! hahaha I make a lot of things like the NOT Tuna, the raw cheeses, things like my Chick-UN salad and the kids will eat them. I make sandwiches with them so they gobble them right down. With kids, you know, you can't get too spicy or use too many strong flavors (not unless your kid shows favor in that way.)
Letting kids help in the food preparation can help with some kids and it may not be such a great idea with others. My daughter was drinking green smoothies until she saw that I was putting kale in it. Then she stopped for a while. She'll have them now but I guess it depends on the kid. Some kids feel a sense of pride in making something and then will try it. Others see what you are putting in it and go OH NO! NOT ME, I'M NOT EATING THAT!
We also found that in the school setting, most of the kids were pretty open to trying new things. But this depended on majority rule. I saw that if the majority of the kids were favoring to go YUM! then it smooth sailing but the converse happened as well.
Raw and Living food is basically the same thing. A lot of people are wanting to call it LIVING food because raw has such a bad connotation. Look up the word Raw in the dictionary - not very positive definitions.
Raw/Living food is about eating food that haven't been heated above 112 degrees. People who eat this way tend to be vegan although there are people who benefit from raw fermented dairy or raw fish (even some have raw egg yolks but I'd personally need to really be sure the eggs were clean for that although I am tempted to try it.)
Things to eat include: fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, sprouted grains, sprouted legumes, seaweed, super foods, super herbs. It's not just about eating salads although I love my salads more than anything. It's NOT about chewing on raw broccoli or carrot sticks. It is NOT rabbit food. You can get as simplified or as gourmet as you like with it.
The dehydrator is the raw fooder's oven and in it you can make cookies, crackers, breads, tortillas, enchiladas, pizzas, etc. You can warm up anything that you'd like to eat like raw lasagna, raw shepherd's pie, etc.
Raw/Living food can be very rich and all of it bursts with color and flavor and texture. After eating this way for even a week, you'll taste cooked food and it was taste bland and lifeless. To me, a lot of cooked food tastes like sludge, sticky and gooey and not at all appealing although there is a highly addictive quality about it.
You can basically make anything that you made in the cooked food world in the raw food world and usually it's a lot easier and quicker to do. No more standing over hot stoves, no more washing of endless pots and hard to clean casserole dishes. No more burning of food and having to juggle when you make something and have it remain hot while you make something else. My thanksgiving meals are enormous and take me 2 hours to make which includes prep and clean up. I now have time to enjoy with my family rather than cooking and cleaning, etc.
I eat a variety of food and I am a lot less hungry than I used to be. I really feel fed so I don't need to eat as much as I used to. I also am not eating addicting foods so I'm in greater touch with emotional triggers that used to send me to the fridge. The food I eat is minimally processed with no chemicals, herbicides, fungicides, pesticides, flavorings. I can pronounce ALL the ingredients! None of my food comes in boxes and I'm in charge of knowing where the food comes from - most of which comes from my garden or a local CSA.
I make cookies, fudge, puddings, ice creams, pates, dressings, dips, salads, pies, cakes, salads, cheeses, smoothies, wraps, & juices that will kick your asses in terms of flavor and time it takes to make them.
Raw/Living food lasts longer than you'll expect as well. My NOT Tuna lasts 10 days in the fridge. My chili lasts 3 weeks in the fridge. I make a raw nutella that is soooooooo much better than what you get at the store. My fudge is like having a delicious and sweetie vitamin. I make a chocolate mousse pie that makes everyone weep, it is that good! :-)
Think about the saying, "You are what you eat." Living food heals and fuels a LIVING body. Cooked food is dead food and dead food slows you down, makes you sick, gets you addicted and really gums you up inside. When you eat living food for a while, you shift out of old patterns in mind, body and spirit. It's a very fast track to healing and I recommend people do it slowly because it can freak you out if you do it quickly sometimes. It did for me anyway. When you are no longer eating for emotional reasons, you are only left with yourself and that can be scary until you realize you have given yourself the best gift in the world. So sit back, enjoy the ride and start eating something raw in your meals today.
