For more on the fruit sushi recipe, click here.

I recently stumbled upon an ultra-cool website: gliving.tv. It’s all about living a green life, and includes smart, eco-friendly fashion choices, sustainable home upgrades (composting toilets, anyone?), green cars, green (and not so green) celebrities, music reviews, hard news stories and more.

I’m most interested in the Green Chefs section, which features recipes and videos for a variety of organic and healthy fare, most of which is both raw and vegetarian. I watched videos (iTunes also has podcasts) for making raw fruit sushi, raw Jamaican jerk kabobs, and organic chocolate martinis. There are also recipes from a handful of guest chefs, including notable raw foodists Matt Amsden and Sarma Melngailis, as well as gliving regular Vanessa Sherwood.

I was goofing around on Facebook tonight, and I stumbled across a profile eerily similar to my own, for a girl named Nicole. We live in the same city, our birthdays are 3 days apart, we have the same unusual book listed in our favorites, we have similar political leanings, we’re both pro-Macintosh and anti-global warming, and she is in the same career field as my husband (for now, although he’s going back to school for GIS).

She also had a link to her etsy store, where she creates the coolest frickin’ thing ever: personality penguins. There’s yoga penguin, raw food penguin, pirate penguin, vegetarian penguin…it’s like she’s custom made them all for me! I don’t want to come off as a crazy stalker; I just think it’s weird how many random things we have in common. Maybe we’ll run into each other in Atlanta some day.

I got my juicer at Bed Bath and Beyond.

When it comes to food, I’m prone to giving up things: meat, soda, dairy, cooking…About six months to a year ago, I also gave up juice. For one thing, it’s generally pasteurized, which is a no-no in raw food land. For another, it’s pretty high in sugar, and I prefer to just eat fruit so I can get the tasty juice and the filling fiber.

But when I started my raw food journey last summer, my first purchase was a juicer. It allows me to make fresh, healthy, raw juice whenever I want to. It still lacks fiber, so I don’t overindulge, but sometimes fresh juice is a refreshing alternative to water. Right now, I’m fighting off the flu, so I made myself some juice today that was delicious. Here’s my recipe:

2 or 3 organic apples (I used Ambrosia and Red Delicious)
2 organic navel oranges (I had one regular and one blood orange)
1 organic lime
A handful of organic pineapple chunks
A chunk of fresh ginger, or a pile of freshly grated ginger

I ran the whole thing through my Breville juice fountain, and poured it over crushed ice. I’m hoping the vitamin C and the ginger will combat my cold, and that the fluids will keep me hydrated as I lie here sweating!

My favorite website, Go Fug Yourself, now has a book. Filled with celebrities. In hilarious outfits. Go forth and buy!

Since Lindsay is into green smoothies (I’m waiting to make them until I get my new Vita Mix blender!) and I’m into Sarma Melngailis, I thought I’d share Sarma’s green smoothie recipe.

Sarma is a vegan raw foodist. She is also president of OneLuckyDuck, which sells raw ingredients and supplements, and owner of Pure Food and Wine, one of New York’s premier raw food restaurants. She co-authored the book, Raw Food Real World, which is beautiful and filled with fascinating recipes (I can’t wait for my new ice cream maker to arrive so I can make her raw vanilla ice cream.)

Sarma is a guest blogger at the raw foods blog We Like It Raw (which is a really interesting blog–check it out!), and her most recent post includes her recipe for green smoothies.

Sarma’s Giant Thick Green Shake Recipe

This is what I put in my Vitamix. I generally consume at least this much each day. There are endless variations, and you can add all sorts of supplements if you want, or not. I get a little carried away sometimes on that end, but you can leave them all out. By the way, notice they’re called “supplements” and not “substitutes”… I don’t think one should feel okay about eating green powder instead of fresh greens, but if you’re just supplementing, why not? I like sweetness so I throw in stevia and vanilla. You could use agave, or toss in a mango, or a ripe banana. Oh, the fun.

Ingredients

1 grapefruit, peel cut away
2 lemons, peel cut away
2 limes, peel cut away
2 cucumbers, peeled n chopped
1 splash aloe vera juice
2 tablespoons thawed E-3 Live or powdered crystal manna
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons liquid stevia, or 4 to 5 packets powder stevia
A squirt of green tea extract
1 heaping tablespoon green powder
A wee pinch of Himalayan crystal salt
Now, stop here and blend the above to get your liquid base going… then add the following in batches, blending as you go, stuffing in as much green leafy goodness until you can fit no more.
1 bunch of parsley or cilantro, or both, stems and all
1 big handful sunflower sprouts if you can get them
1 bunch or more of kale, swiss chard, rainbow chard, collards, spinach, watercress or any combination of dark greens (dinosaur kale is my favorite).
Pineapple is also great as a fruit base.

Store whatever you don’t consume right away in a tightly sealed glass mason jar.