RECIPES

"Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package."

~ E. R. Squibb

Courtney and I enjoy growing fruits and vegetables. We have a fig tree, nectarine tree, and a plum tree at our house. We're planning on planting a persimmon tree next. We have fun trying new recipes with fruits and vegetables.

~Erik

For a great tropical treat try this pineapple orange drink. Blend 1 cup of orange juice and 1/4 cup of fresh chopped pineapple. Have a few slices of pineapple rolled in coconut on the side!

~Courtney

Erik and I like to blend tomato with a slice of avocado to make a great soup. We slice bell peppers and other veggies to go with our soup. We enjoy shopping at farmer's markets to pick out fruits and vegetables we don't grow in our garden. My mom gives us each a bag and $10 so we can go buy exactly what we want.

~ Courtney

We get a lot of our recipes from our friend and nutritionist, Chris Kendall. Chris has a website, The Raw Advantage where he has video blogs showing you how to make some of these recipes. He also has some recipe books with totally rawsome recipes! ~Erik

Blend 4 ripe bananas and add balls of dragon fruit to make a great smoothie. We love dragon fruit and find it at Asian Markets. We put it in our smoothies or eat it alone.

~ Erik

Durian is a fun fruit from Thailand.

Courtney doesn't like these, so I get them all to myself!

Tomato slices with avocado and a cucumber on top makes a great snack!

Candied Apple for breakfast!

I remove the seeds from a bunch of dates and smash the dates all over the apple. It's a great breakfast!

Dragon Fruit

We cut the top off of a bell pepper and fill it with blended mango and tomato soup. You can make mango tomato soup by blending 6 Roma tomatoes with 1 mango.

The bell pepper is also an edible bowl that can hold avocado dip.

~Courtney

Cut up kiwi, pineapple and strawberries. Put the fruit into a frozen treat mold and pour in fresh squeezed orange juice. These are sooooo good!!!

~Erik

Avocado Dip- Smash a few avocados. Add diced tomato, celery, red bell peppers, zucchini- and whatever else you want. Cut up veggies to dip, and you're ready to eat!

~Courtney

When we have our Not So Creepy Critter resort, we will invite speakers to come and teach more about food and nutrition. We'll have yoga classes, too! Star parties! Concerts! Cabins! Petting Zoo! Classes! Rock Climbing Walls! and more!

~Courtney and Erik

Web designers: Courtney & Erik Honer

This is my favorite pie! And the best part about this pie is that you can eat it for breakfast, lunch or dinner! I got this recipe from Dr. Doug Graham's recipe guide, The New High Energy Diet.

I remove seeds from about a pound of dates and soak the dates for an hour. I blend them in the food processor until the dates are like a paste. I spread the dates into the pie plate. I put frozen mangoes in the blender to make the filling. After the mango filling is in the pie plate, I top it with sliced bananas. I toss it in the freezer over night. The pie is defrosted for about an hour before serving. It's totally rawsome!

~Erik

My family and I started eating a low fat raw vegan diet a couple of years ago when I was having up to 15 asthma attacks a day. I had tried every asthma medication and wasn't seeing any improvement. I was tired of visiting Emergency Rooms, so we decided to give this diet a try. After eating low fat raw vegan for 3 days, I went from having 15 asthma attacks a day to zero! It was tough at first, but now we know how to make the diet fun! And we feel better!

~Erik

We've learned about a lot of new fruits and veggies!

Recently, Erik and I met a lot of kids with food allergies. It's not fun giving up some of your favorite snacks, so we added this recipe page to our website to give kids ideas for fun alternatives. Diets with more fruits and veggies can be fun. Erik and I like to invent new recipes and have raw parties with friends. We will continue to add new recipes.

~Courtney

Avocado dip is also good when wrapped in a leaf of red leaf lettuce. Makes a fun raw taco! On special occasions, I use Just Veggies to sprinkle on top of my tacos.

~Erik

Fall Soup - Erik and I missed soup when we started eating raw. This is my recipe for a great soup that is filling and packed with vitamins. I fill our Vitamix with 2 tsp of raw tahini, 1 zucchini, a handful of chopped carrots, 2 stalks of celery, and 8 Roma tomatoes. I change the recipe each time I make it - sometimes I add cilantro. Chopped red bell pepper, slivers of carrots, zucchini and a few raw black-eyed peas make great toppings for this soup.

~Courtney

Check out this Buddha Hand! Courtney and I LOVE finding crazy fruits and trying them out in our recipes. This Buddha hand has a lemony scent and slight citrus flavor- we shave off parts of it (zest it) and use it in salads and soups. It's believed that this fun fruit brings good fortune!

~Erik

Pear Pudding

1 ripe pear - peeled and diced

2 ripe bananas (they're sweeter) - smashed with fork

stir to blend

top with raisins and cinnamon

Makes a great snack or breakfast!

When people find out that we only eat raw food they always want to know what the heck we eat! Well, there are COUNTLESS varieties of fruits, veggies, seeds and nuts that we enjoy. Here are just a few...Sweet peppers, cherry tomatoes, roma tomatoes, grape tomatoes, mangoes, nectarines, peaches, grapes, strawberries, red leaf lettuce, green leaf lettuce, butter lettuce, cucumbers, celery, bananas, oranges, blood oranges, grapefruit, durian, dragon fruit, lemons, limes, iceberg lettuce, avocado, raisins, dates, jackfruit, apples, bell peppers, pears, pineapple, blackberries, blueberries, guava, cantaloupe, honey dew melon, watermelon, raspberry, pomegranate, kiwi, squash, zucchini, swiss chard, kale, spinach, arugula, romaine lettuce, green cabbage, purple cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, green beans, sugar snap peas, snow peas, carrots, pecans, walnuts, tahini, cashews, sesame seeds, cinnamon, basil, oregano, cilantro, parsley and many varieties of each of these! Sometimes we eat monomeals (one food at a time until we're full). And sometimes we eat a combination of these many fruits and veggies. Try Chris Kendall's latest treat -

blend about a cup of pineapple chunks with juice from 5 oranges. It's soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good!