Long time, no talk

Greetings everyone, you all haven't heard from me recently, mostly because I've been on a real-life hiatus making dreams come true in the physical realm. So at any rate, I am still doing consultations, workshops and talks, if you would like to set one up you can contact me at:

foolindarain@gmail.com
1-828-273-6160

Thank you very much,
Much Loves to you all, and health and happiness

Xam Devesh

My Afternoon Salad May 17th

Today I ate a primarily raw, properly food-combined salad for lunch with

Local, organic Community-supported Swiss Chard and Spinach
Organic Millet and Lentils
Raw Organic Walnuts
Local, organic Community-supported chipotle goat chevre
Cayenne, rosemary, thyme, spirulina, salt
Raw Organic Coconut Oil and Coconut Aminos

And it was bomb-diggity. Nice and spicy, and had a lot of other flavors as well. The coconut aminos are delicious they're from a company called Coconut Secret. The local CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) veggies are so vibrant and delicious. I feel energized and properly strengthened rather than depressed and tired like I would off of "regular" food or even improperly combined foods.

Rawpple Pie - Raw Apple Pie

I love making desserts with raw foods because they're generally no more than 10 ingredients. I mean you can get fancy and get over 10 but to make something delicious, gourmet and pleasing to all the senses it only takes 5 or 6.

So my roommate graduated college today and I "cooked" her a rawpple pie for her graduation cookout. It took me about an hour of time total. I prepared the crust the day before and the filling the night before and put it together that night.


Crust: So simple
3C Dates and
1C walnuts

Process the dates first until they're JUST about to form balls in the processor. Then add the nuts. Spread coconut flakes, almond flour, I used flax seeds on the pie pan so that you can separate the crust from the pan.

The filling:
2 apples
1/4C walnuts
2tsp cinnamon
2tsp maca root
1Tbls Honey (or Agave, if you'd rather)

Process well until the consistency is desired - I did it on low for about 5 minutes, if that. Scoop the sides - but if you do it on low it should fall back in before you have to.

Slice 1 1/4 more apples and arrange like so:

Voila! Bon Apetit!

Raw McGuiver #1: Banana Walnut Carrot Cake with no dates

Roommate Victoria: "Xam, can you make some Xammin' goody if I provide you with the walnuts?"

Xam: "You got dates?"

Victoria: "no, I thought you did..."

Xam: "nope...but I can figure somethin' out."

Minutes later, a banana-walnut carrotcake is put into the freezer.

How did I accomplish this without dates you ask?

Well, it went a lil something like this:
1c Walnuts
1C sunflower seeds
grind them both and add them to a food processor.
Add half a banana, half a carrot cut pretty small, half a lemon's juice, 1/2 Tbsp. of cinnamon and about 2 Tbsp. of honey. Process that until it makes a sort of cake batter.

Add a handful o walnuts and process or hand mix them (and chop them).

Stick this in the freezer.

For the frosting?
The other half of that carrot? Shred it.
The other half of that lemon? Juice it and add it into a bowl with the carrot
1/2 Tbsp. of cinnamon, 1 tsp of nutmeg
1/2 Tbsp of carob powder
1/2 Tbsp of melted coconut oil

Take a half C of sunflower seeds and finely grind them and add them to the bowl.

Mix it all up, take the cake out of the freezer and add the frosting on top. Freeze for another 30 minutes and serve!

Voila, carrot cake McXuiver style

Xammin' Cranberry-Choco-Lemon Juice Bars 1/8/10

Hello everybodies! As per request, here is the recipe for the Xammin' Bars that I made tonight...


1 C Cashew
1C Dates pitted
half a lemon (in this case I used a Meyer's Lemon, yum!)
1/2 C dried cranberries (got these from my mom who dried them at 105 degrees in her excalibur, thanks Mom!)
1 Tbsp. Honey
1 tsp. Cinnamon
2Tbsp. Cacao powder
1 tsp. cacao nibs

Put dates in the food processor until they're finely chopped. Then add the cashews and other dry ingredients. Process until it makes a nice nutty consistency and add the honey and lemon juice to seal the deal!

Alternatively you can soak the cashews for 4 hours, then follow the same process and dehydrate them on each side for 2 hours. This will make them more digestible by removing the enzyme-inhibitors.

There you go, Lovelies!!!

Much Loves

Raw Falafel (Curry)

After many requests, here it is: the raw falafel recipe:

It's a simple flax, sunflower seed mixture, 1:1, ground up completely and put into a bowl; I used a cup and a half of each. Mix in your dry spices; in this case I used: 1 1/2 Tbsp turmeric root powder, 1 tsp. whole cumin seeds, 2 tsp. paprika, 1 Tbsp. red pepper flakes, 1 tsp cayenne powder, 2 tsp. dry terragon leaves and 2 tsp ground mustard seed. After mixing those together I began to add my wet ingredients: 2 Tbsp. respectively Bragg's or Tamari (or Nama Shoyu for purism) and cold-pressed olive-oil and finally 1/2 C of water to make a solid batter-like consistancy. I pattied it out into falafels and put it in the dehydrator for 3 hours. Flipped them for another 3 hours.

Finally I spread the hummus recipe from below on top of them with another side of the same hummus, red, green and gold salad and cucumber and carrots.

Serves 4-5 easily! I was able to make 6 falafels out of the above ingredients.

Much Loves, and enjoy!
Xam Devesh


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Raw Hummus Recipe (no zucchini!!!)

So here's the local favorite: Xam's raw hummus! It's all seed/nut based, check it out:

First you take 1 1/2C sunflower seeds and 1 1/2C cashews (1:1) and grind them up like so:

Then you throw them in the blender along with 2 Tbsp nama shoyu (or bragg's/tamari for the less expensive, non-raw version), 1 Tbsp Turmeric Root Powder, 1 tsp. Cayenne, 2 Tbsp. Nutritional Yeast (optional), 1 tsp. Terragon, 1 tsp cumin seeds, 1 clove garlic, 1 Tbsp. Cold-pressed Olive Oil, and about a cup and a half of water like so:

Add water until you achieve a smooth consistancy, be careful though - too much will make it more liquid than creamy. If you go overboard on the water, it's all right, it makes a fine salad dressing.

Your consistency should look like this when it's done:

And just to be cute and perfectionist like the Virgo Rising that I am, I put it in a little hummus container like this:

Enjoy with Carrots, Celery or on Kale wraps! Anything you can think of!



Much Loves everybody,
Xam Devesh