My Journey in the Raw: From soup to smoothie…

Shortly after I started this raw food journey, I noticed that everything was cold. I’d make spaghetti sauce and it was cold. Salad… cold. Bread… warmish if it was fresh. I really craved a nice warm bowl of soup. I actually came down with a little cold at one time and I would have given Andrew’s left leg for a bowl of warm soup. There is something very comforting in it. I looked up recipes online. They all said to warm soup in the Excalibur Dehydrator. Yeah right… I don’t have an Excalibur Dehydrator… They are pretty cool, but very expensive. If you get a big one, you can take all the trays out and stick big bowls of food in it to warm. Once again, stuck with cold soup.
One day, I went over to Beate’s house. She said she was making a warm soup and I was welcome to join them. I JUMPED on that chance!!!! She changed my raw food life right then. She used a technique so simple and logical to warm the soup. Why hadn’t I run across this on any web sites? OMG!!! I feel so silly for not figuring this out on my own. Ready for it?....
Use warm water in the recipe….. Let’s say it together…. DUH!!
I felt so stupid. I had heard that if you put hot liquid in a blender the top blows off… OK, I had seen it happen. I was always leery about putting anything warm in a blender. The top of her blender did not pop off. She used warm water. You can use warm water. Still, stick your hand over the top to hold it on, just in case.
So, how do you make this delectable delight?
Recipe for green soup… (I got this recipe from Beate Epp, as you might have guessed)
You soak about 1c of cashews. Throw them in the blender. Stuff a bunch of spinach in the blender. Till you get to almost the top of it. Put in some salt, some spices (maybe jalapeño) , and half an avocado if you have it. Add warm water until you reach almost the top of the spinach. Blend it on liquefy until it is a beautiful warm green smooth soup. Pour it in a bowl over some marinated veggies or just some mushrooms. Garnish with more spice.

Enjoy your soup…mmmm. A friend of mine told me once that it looked like the Grinch threw up in a bowl. OK… I’ll give her that. But, it tastes soooo good. It’s also very good for you. You get a concentrated about of leafy green nutrition.
That’s a lot of soup to eat though… What happens when you have more soup that you can eat? That’s when you get creative.
After you’re done your soup, store it in the fridge in a glass container. I use canning jars for this purpose.