This is SO easy, and SO good. Its light, and doesn't have alot of sugar and oil like most recipes do. My mom sent me a similar recipe, I looked at it, but I kinda just winged this one cause I never really have the patience to actually follow recipes exactly...and it turned out great.

~Ingredients~
3 cups rolled oats
1 orange
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 cup shredded coconut
1 cup sunflower seed
1/2 cup flaxseeds
1/4 cup oil (I use coconut)
1/4 cup raw sugar
4 tablespoons raw honey

Heat oven to 350.
Mix all the ingredients together really well so all the oats are covered. Juice the orange and mix it in also, you can add zest if you want.
Put the soon to be granola in a pan spread out so its no more the 2 inches thick.
Put in the oven and stir every couple minutes. It will start to smell really good if its getting too cooked, and then really bad if its burning. I left mine in for about 20 minutes, but if you like it a little cruchier you can leave it in longer.
I only have a toaster oven so I made it in about 3 batches.
When it was done my husband added it to a bowl of apples, banana, grapefruit, oranges and kiwi, and topped it with raw cacao beans, raisins, and a little more coconut.
Simple. Delightful. Love breakfast.

This is ridiculously raw, good and easy. Just make sure you give yourself a couple hours to soak the seeds and set the crust.

Crust:
Soaked sunflower seeds (about 1 cup)
Soaked pecans (about 2 cup)
Raisins (start with a handful if the crumbles dont stick together add more.)

I used a 9 inch glass pie pan. You can use whatever you want. You can kinda tell how much to make according to the size pan your using.

Soak the sunflower seeds for a few hours. Put the seeds and raisins in a food processor and get them as finely chopped as you can. The mixture will be thick and kinda ball up a bit. Pat it into the bottom and sides of the pan, and put it in the freezer to harden for a couple hours.

Filling:
2 avocados
(More or less depending on how big they are)

2 limes juiced

about 1 cup coconut milk

1/2 cup agave

(taste and add more if you want)

1 ripe banana

~Directions~
Blend this until creamy and smooth.
Spoon it into the pie pan and use a spatula to get it smooth.

Let it set in the freezer before serving so it can get firm and hold up when you go to cut it. Make sure not to try and take this anywhere.... it gets mushy if you dont serve right away. I did this today, and called it key lime pudding...

I sprinkled mine with coconut and decorated it macadamia nuts, raisins and flowers out of the garden. You however, can be creative! Its your live pie man!

♥ Takoda ♥ 

Yesterday was a windy day. A very windy day. I live on top of a hill and I was literally wondering if my house would stay put. So being such a blustery day I decided we needed some comfort food. I made this up to suffice... needless to say... it was fabulous (and easy) so I must post.
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Ingredients:
1 Butternut Squash (cut and cubed)
2 heads of broccoli (cut into smallish pieces)
1 bunch of spinach
1 red onion
2 or 3 large cloves of garlic (crushed)
1 carrot
1 can of coconut milk
1/4 cup sunflower oil (or whatever)
1/2 cup nutritional yeast
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons pepper
(more to taste if needed)
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~Combine all ingredients in a large bowl and mix well~
Pour into a glass baking pan and sprinkle a little nutritional yeast on top.
Bake at 375 for about 30-40 min.

Serve with pasta or rice.
♥
Blessings! 
Takoda

This morning I made nut mylk for the first time because I finally got a nutmylk bag. I drank most of it before I took a picture, I couldn't help myself. Let me tell you.... home and handmade nut mylk is a thousand times better than what you buy at the store. PLUS its alive and doesn'thave preservatives! How wonderful! Oh my. I made a combination of walnuts, almonds, pumpkin seeds and a couple brazil nuts all soaked over night in purified water (not tap!). All you have to do is rinse the nuts from the water they were in and ad new water to blend, double the amount of nuts... (ie. 1 cup nuts, 2 cups pure water) and strain into a glass with a nut mylk bag... most health food stores have them if youdon't already have one. I sweetened mine with a little raw local honey (I'd rather use honey then agave, but you of course can use agave ;) ) and some vanilla extract. 
Here is a really helpful video on how to make nut mylk if you don't know how.

Now for the banana buckwheat porridge. You need to have some buckwheat sprouted and ready (its really easy to sprout buckwheat, click here to learn how). If you don't have any around no worries, just leave them out... you don't really notice them much anyways I just add them because they're so great for you!

Ingredients (serves 1):
1 banana
1/2 green apple (or red whatever)
1 kiwi
1/2 cup sprouted buckwheat groats
1 or 2 handfuls of raisins or dried cranberries
1/2 cup shredded coconut
1 handful of chopped nuts or seeds
cinnamon to taste
1 or 2 tablespoons freshly ground flax (optional)

**I store whole golden flaxseeds in a jar in the freezer and grind them in a coffee grinder when I'm ready to use them, it keeps them from going rancid, and is the most affordable and benificial way to eat flaxseeds. :)

Directions:
Mash the banana well in a bowl with however much cinnamon you prefer. Chop the kiwi and apple finely. Mix in the rest of the ingredients.

Simple.

You can pour a little nut mylk on top and it will be even creamier.

♥
Happy day!
Takoda

Thank you Karen!  Yummy and easy and oh so good for the soul.

This morning I made nut mylk for the first time because I finally got a nut mylk bag. I drank most of it before I took a picture, I couldn't help myself.

Let me tell you.... home and handmade nut mylk is a thousand times better than what you buy at the store. PLUS its alive and doesn't have preservatives! How wonderful! Oh my.

I made a combination of walnuts, almonds, pumpkin seeds and a couple brazil nuts all soaked over night in purified water (not tap!). All you have to do is rinse the nuts from the water they were in and add new water to blend, double the amount of nuts... (ie. 1 cup nuts, 2 cups pure water) and strain into a glass with a nut mylk bag... most health food stores have them if you don't already have one.

I sweetened mine with a little raw local honey (I'd rather use honey then agave, but you of course can use agave ;) ) and some vanilla extract. Here is a really helpful video on how to make nut mylk if you don't know how.

Now for the banana buckwheat porridge. You need to have some buckwheat sprouted and ready (its really easy to sprout buckwheat, click here to learn how).

If you don't have any around no worries, just leave them out... you don't really notice them much anyways I just add them because they're so great for you!

Ingredients (serves 1):
1 banana
1/2 green apple (or red whatever)
1 kiwi
1/2 cup sprouted buckwheat groats
1 or 2 handfuls of raisins or dried cranberries
1/2 cup shredded coconut
1 handful of chopped nuts or seeds
cinnamon to taste
1 or 2 tablespoons freshly ground flax (optional)**I store whole golden flaxseeds in a jar in the freezer and grind them in a coffee grinder when I'm ready to use them, it keeps them from going rancid, and is the most affordable and beneficial way to eat flaxseeds. :)

Directions:Mash the banana well in a bowl with however much cinnamon you prefer. Chop the kiwi and apple finely. Mix in the rest of the ingredients.Simple.

You can pour a little nut mylk on top and it will be even creamier.

♥ Takoda Rain

This is by far the best green smoothie I, or anyone in my family has ever had! Its the favorite around here and my son just loves it! Getting greens into your children shouldn't be a chore for you or for your children. Who knew getting your greens could taste so good! Try it out for yourself and you be the judge!

Jess' Rockin' Green Smoothie


Ingredients:
Spinach
Bananas
Frozen mango
Frozen Pineapple
Fresh Orange Juice
Fresh Apple juice


Im not really one for measuring, but I use my Jack Lalane juice to juice about 4 cups of orange and apple juice, sometimes Ill throw in a cucumber to make the juice go a longer way too! If you do not have a juicer or want to omit some of the sugar, just add water instead of the juice. I do not like pasteurized juices from the store, so I won't recommend using the boxed crap. The nutrients are pretty much all gone in those juices.... I would rather just spend the 10 mins and make the juice fresh!

I have a vitamix which is awesome! High speed blenders are where it is at if you drink smoothies everyday! Expensive, yes! But worth the investment in my opinion. 

I fill the vitamix with about 4 cups of spinach packed! So it loosely fills up my blender, add the juice or water, add in about 2 cups of the frozen fruit and one or two bananas. Depends on how banana-y you want it! Makes about 3-4 servings...in our house its more like 3!And there you have it! A simple, delicious way to get your greens in! Try it out on your kids today and I can guarantee you that they will love it!