Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Melody Campos....Long Island NY
i miss you!. u were really apart of the family. you have to come back! Melody
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Long Island NY....Marisol Cruz....September 2010
Stacy, thank you so much for working all day with so much love to prepare this dinner party to introduce Raw Foods to my friends and family! You truly are a special person and your food was a total success. I am so grateful to have met you. And the change you have brought into my life will forever bare fruits because maybe not today but I know my kids and family will soon see the change and one day they will follow. You truly have been a gift from God to me from the moment you emailed me "can I make you breakfast".
You are changing the world one family at a time.
THANK YOU! Forever grateful Marisol aka Sally!
You are changing the world one family at a time.
THANK YOU! Forever grateful Marisol aka Sally!
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Article by Joy Dupris
Do What Scares You The Most
Stacy Stowers is my friend and inspiration. She is also a traveling raw food chef who woke up one morning and said” I’m gonna do what scares me the most!” She sold her condo and most of her belongings, bought a Prius, and set out on a Raw Foods Rock Tour. She travels from state to state, family to family, person to person, for a week at a time, sharing the wisdom of a raw diet. Think super nanny but in the form of a petite blonde with a southern drawl and a small voice and a big heart – certainly making it easier to worm her way into homes all over the U.S.! “I don’t want to be a raw chef for the wealthy,” she stated recently and has set out to find families on welfare. Her belief is that everyone should have the knowledge of how to prepare healthy, mostly raw food and she wants to show you how.
Stacy starts by introducing her Happy Shake, loaded with spinach and actually, good! Perhaps it’s the raw chocolate powder that makes it palatable but everyone one in our company is chugging the Happy Shake around the office. “Green is glorious” she chirped at us each morning.
Next she starts with raw junk food. Dan from Odessa, Tx, insisted he couldn’t give up his donuts. ‘Dan’s Donut Holes’ were created and everyday he started with the Happy Shake and a Curry Coleslaw for lunch. Dan is off his blood pressure medication.
Dan's Lemon Coconut Donut Holes
1 cup almonds
1 1/2 cups pitted dates (Medjool, khadrawhi, or other semi-soft date)
Seeds of 1 vanilla bean
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
Zest of 1 lemon
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 cup dried shredded coconut
In your food processor, chop almonds into small pieces.
Add remaining ingredients and process some more until well mixed.
Roll into Donut Holes.
To serve, chill for a couple hours until firm.
Will keep for six days in the fridge.
Possibly the funnest part about a week with Stacy is getting your own recipe. My daughter wanted a twix bar and the two of them set about coming up with a raw version. The Banana Roadkill was quite a hit as well:
"Stacy's Banana Roadkill"
Plastic Wrap
2 Super Duper Ripe Bananas...the Super Duperest!
Raw Honey
Cinnamon
Raw Walnuts
Goji Berries....the GUTS!
Raw Cacao Nibs....Happy Stuff : )))
Take Plastic Wrap and lay it out on your flat surface....a large piece.
Lay your two peeled bananas down and fold Plastic Wrap over them.
Now flattenen them out like they just got run over by a big huge TRUCK! (remember kids to ALWAYS look both ways BEFORE crossing the ROAD)
Shape into a big flat cookie.
Open your Plastic Wrap and drizzle your Raw Honey all over the top.
Now sprinkle lots of Cinnamon. Throw on the Walnuts. Make sure there is a Walnut in every bite!
Toss on some GUTS....I mean Goji Berries.
At last, you are ready for the RAW CHOCOLATE NIBS...this resembles the 'gravel' that would be sqooshed into the Bananas as they were ran over by the truck....
Now FREEZE on a plate. Break apart and try to share. Sharing is good...but hard to do with "Stacy's Banana Road Kill".
Stacy feels she has the best job ever. She likens herself to a goji berry. “I’m an adaptogen. I go with the family’s program. However they do the dishes, laundry, what they want to eat, that’s what I do.”
Stacy’s love of people is apparent in her photos of her ‘families’, she posts on her facebook page.
When she was a child, her favorite show was a segment on a news series where a guy picked a place on the map, flew there, went to a phone booth, opened the phone book and picked a name and showed up at their home. It’s funny but there are some similarities to her childhood idea of a great job! Except she feels right at home as she as she walks through the door. “They aren’t strangers to me. I love people! Everyone has a story.” Stacy likes that people get real, fast. When you are working in the kitchen with food, it’s not about chit chat.
And as for what scares her the most? It was staying where she was, stagnant. My friend Jolene Hardy has a spin on an Anais Nin quote that I think sums up Stacy’s feelings – And the day came that the pain, to remain the same, was great than the risk to grow.
Stacy Stowers is my friend and inspiration. She is also a traveling raw food chef who woke up one morning and said” I’m gonna do what scares me the most!” She sold her condo and most of her belongings, bought a Prius, and set out on a Raw Foods Rock Tour. She travels from state to state, family to family, person to person, for a week at a time, sharing the wisdom of a raw diet. Think super nanny but in the form of a petite blonde with a southern drawl and a small voice and a big heart – certainly making it easier to worm her way into homes all over the U.S.! “I don’t want to be a raw chef for the wealthy,” she stated recently and has set out to find families on welfare. Her belief is that everyone should have the knowledge of how to prepare healthy, mostly raw food and she wants to show you how.
Stacy starts by introducing her Happy Shake, loaded with spinach and actually, good! Perhaps it’s the raw chocolate powder that makes it palatable but everyone one in our company is chugging the Happy Shake around the office. “Green is glorious” she chirped at us each morning.
Next she starts with raw junk food. Dan from Odessa, Tx, insisted he couldn’t give up his donuts. ‘Dan’s Donut Holes’ were created and everyday he started with the Happy Shake and a Curry Coleslaw for lunch. Dan is off his blood pressure medication.
Dan's Lemon Coconut Donut Holes
1 cup almonds
1 1/2 cups pitted dates (Medjool, khadrawhi, or other semi-soft date)
Seeds of 1 vanilla bean
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
Zest of 1 lemon
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 cup dried shredded coconut
In your food processor, chop almonds into small pieces.
Add remaining ingredients and process some more until well mixed.
Roll into Donut Holes.
To serve, chill for a couple hours until firm.
Will keep for six days in the fridge.
Possibly the funnest part about a week with Stacy is getting your own recipe. My daughter wanted a twix bar and the two of them set about coming up with a raw version. The Banana Roadkill was quite a hit as well:
"Stacy's Banana Roadkill"
Plastic Wrap
2 Super Duper Ripe Bananas...the Super Duperest!
Raw Honey
Cinnamon
Raw Walnuts
Goji Berries....the GUTS!
Raw Cacao Nibs....Happy Stuff : )))
Take Plastic Wrap and lay it out on your flat surface....a large piece.
Lay your two peeled bananas down and fold Plastic Wrap over them.
Now flattenen them out like they just got run over by a big huge TRUCK! (remember kids to ALWAYS look both ways BEFORE crossing the ROAD)
Shape into a big flat cookie.
Open your Plastic Wrap and drizzle your Raw Honey all over the top.
Now sprinkle lots of Cinnamon. Throw on the Walnuts. Make sure there is a Walnut in every bite!
Toss on some GUTS....I mean Goji Berries.
At last, you are ready for the RAW CHOCOLATE NIBS...this resembles the 'gravel' that would be sqooshed into the Bananas as they were ran over by the truck....
Now FREEZE on a plate. Break apart and try to share. Sharing is good...but hard to do with "Stacy's Banana Road Kill".
Stacy feels she has the best job ever. She likens herself to a goji berry. “I’m an adaptogen. I go with the family’s program. However they do the dishes, laundry, what they want to eat, that’s what I do.”
Stacy’s love of people is apparent in her photos of her ‘families’, she posts on her facebook page.
When she was a child, her favorite show was a segment on a news series where a guy picked a place on the map, flew there, went to a phone booth, opened the phone book and picked a name and showed up at their home. It’s funny but there are some similarities to her childhood idea of a great job! Except she feels right at home as she as she walks through the door. “They aren’t strangers to me. I love people! Everyone has a story.” Stacy likes that people get real, fast. When you are working in the kitchen with food, it’s not about chit chat.
And as for what scares her the most? It was staying where she was, stagnant. My friend Jolene Hardy has a spin on an Anais Nin quote that I think sums up Stacy’s feelings – And the day came that the pain, to remain the same, was great than the risk to grow.
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