Me First! Me First!

Sunday night I had the great pleasure of meeting some new raw friends. I ended up at Au Lac again for some solitude and healing food. After I had a chance to eat and read the latest edition of LAYoga I ran into Victor, a fellow I had met before. He invited me back to his table where I one new friend I met at the birthday was and two new friends. As the group grew and we changed tables I has the opportunity to share stories with Chef BeLive. Brian Lucas aka Chef BeLive shared with us that he had a new e-book that he would send to us, he talked about his gourmet raw food and the fabulous dishes he makes, he also shared Ormus with everyone. What a treat! Another treat was Ito bringing out some bomb pizzas and chocolate late in the evening. Seriously, I am always blown away and feel so taken care of. That night I left hearing so many stories and meeting some really down to earth people. So yesterday I emailed BeLive to get my hands on the e-book and his recipe for mock refried beans. I was so excited when he replied with my copy and told me I was the first to receive it! I know I will be making the refried beans for tacos with Kaj and also the chicken nuggets, but the book is loaded with various decadent recipes that are perfect for my gourmet taste buds right now. I have notice that I go through simple and gourmet phases and why not give into some raw decadence. For all of you out there that share my cravings please check out BeLive's website. He is also on GI2MR. It's people like him, who have the raw celebrity connections, also Hollywood celebrity connections but are so down to Earth and open to sharing that really make the raw food movement grow. I feel blessed to be around such awesome people lately!

Being that I was first to get Brian's book I want to be first to pass on this cool info I got from The Raw Diva's! I love how this goes right along with Shazzie's Make Raw Food Mainstream idea. Why not make a raw holiday. We always dread Holiday's. The times when we face old eating habits and notions of celebrating with food. We prepare ourselves to deal with the family's questions and think of the best, but least stressful raw dishes to share. Well now it's our time to celebrate. So please check out The Raw Diva's. I know I will be joining them for International Green Smoothie Day and for the Green Smoothie Challenge. I will definitely blog on it more later. But for now, just wanted to share with you lovely people.