Loser’s Disease
Thank you everyone for your lovely and positive comments regarding my new layout. I hope you continue to enjoy it. I cannot stop checking it out, it’s so pretty.
For those of you that don’t already know, I have a day job. One that requires me to live out of a suitcase now and then, and also requires me to be supremely organised – something that is my purpose in this life to master. I never get any better at packing (one of my favourite bloggers, Gillian, has a great video here that helps me out when I get analysis paralysis during packing time) and I rarely enjoy the experience, dragging it out for as long as I can…..
Over the years I have lost countless belongings, being left in hotel rooms, in crew transport and pretty much all over the world. I have tried to learn from it and aim to become more organised with each trip but 8 years of being a flight attendant and it seems to have gotten worse. This trip, it appears I have lost not mine, but my boyfriend’s beautiful camera, my iPhone case, and my ability to hold onto things it seems. I have a feeling the camera may just be on the plane when I get back on it tomorrow (fingers crossed), if not it will be a very expensive month for me 
I lost my very own point and shoot camera a few weeks back, but with all my moving I am hoping it is just stuck under a pile of dirty washing or somewhere between houses and hopefully will show up!
Do you have any tricks for keeping everything under control, particularly when you travel? I have pretty much mastered the art of being ‘raw on the road‘ and remaining on track diet wise whilst away, but I just cannot for the life of me stop losing stuff on the road!!
In other news, my pal, raw partner in crime and fellow flight attendant, Becci, who moved from Saudi onto greener pastures to Milan recently, has started up a blog of her experiences of being a raw foodie in Italy – the best food place on earth!!! Well one of them. I love that Italians believe in the Slow Food Movement (which is everything opposite to FAST FOOD) and I enjoyed eating my way around Italy myself in August last year.
Anyway check out Becci’s bloggy here if you want to see how a Raw Foodie copes in Milan. Tell her I say hi. But don’t go just yet 
Here is a recipe from the archives. In honour of Becci’s new blog, I’d thought I’d share with you the raw birthday cake she made for me last year (when she was still thinking eating raw was a little strange – but she was such a good friend she borrowed my dehydrator whilst I was away on a work trip to create her own raw cake!) Isn’t she a darling?
Becci’s Raw Vegan Birthday Cake
Bottom Layer
4 peeled bananas
2 cups of dates soaked for 20mins
1 cup of walnuts soaked overnight, rinsed
2 cups of carob powder
1/2 cup of water
Puree all in a high speed blender. Place in a circular cake tin. Dehydrate in dehydrator on 110′ until dry (approx 6 hours) on one side then turn over and dehydrate on 110′ until totally dry (approx 4 hours)
Cream Layer
2 cups of macadmia nuts (soaked overnight)
1 cup of brazil nuts
1 cup of water
Juice of 2 lemons
150g of dried apricots
2 tablespoons of raw honey (or enough to taste sweet)
Puree all in a high speed blender until creamy
Top Layer
1 banana peeled
3 avocados pitted and peeled
1 cup of dates, soaked for 20 mins
2 cups of carob powder/ 1 cup of carob syrup
1 cup of brazil nuts
2 cups of raw cacao powder
handful of almonds
Puree all in a high speed blender then place in the the cake tin on it’s own. Once again dehydrate in dehydrator on 110′ for approx 6 hours on one side then 3 on the other.
Frosting/Icing
3 avocados
1 cup of dates
1 cup of carob syrup
1 cup of raw cacao powder
Blend until combined. Spread on top of completed cake. YUM
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That cake looks yummy and your blog looks amazing! Great job with the new layout.
Oooh I loved that cake! And your new layout is so pretty Robyn, I love the mellow colors.
The cake looks fabulous! I love that you combine the raw cacao and the raw carob in your recipe! Brilliant! One is high in calcium and the other is naturally high in magnesium. I bet I could eat only a sliver before id be full! Mmm mm!
THANK YOU for telling your followers about my blog! What a lovely post.. and THANK YOU for showing me RAW, you do a fantastic job on here, a great inspiration. I'm so blessed to have such a great friend.. I miss living around the corner from you and going over to yours for some RAW tasting. I LOVE YOU babe… you're awesome! xoxoxox
Oh yeah, that is an oldie but a goodie eh.
Thanks Kilee
oh I remember you getting to sample that cake (at yoga!)
It was definitely very filling (and delicious!) Becci, come back NOW!
I miss yoooooo
I love the new blog layout! It's so clean and lovely. I recently renovated my blog too. I know what you mean about not being able to stop checking it out
Thanks for sharing Becci's blog. I love reading the adventures of all you international raw girls!
I'm a terrible over-packer. I mostly take road trips and my trunk is usually packed full of shoes. I have a hard time leaving shoes behind. Weird, I know.
I try to write a list of everything I brought and keep it tucked into my suitcase. I also try to minimize the things I bring as much as possible – although I bet you're probably better a this than I am. I always lose stuff too, but having a list I check before I'm out the door seems to help.
I pretty much live out of my suitcase, never really unpacking, when traveling. Dirty clothes go in a bag and back into the suitcase, loose items go back when I'm not using them. It helps that there's less of a re-pack scramble when leaving.
The cake looks amazing, I need an excuse to try it!
Wow!! When I get a dehydrator I am trying this for sure!
um wow. your blog is a work of ART!
i cannot even tell you robyn how extremely impressed i am. holy crap you outdid yourself, or treskele or whoever helped you. amazing!!!!!!!
and the cake.
oh this is glorious too!
xo
That cake looks amazing!!!!! I could take a bite right now!
This birthday cakes looks to die for, thanks for sharing. Isn’t nice having a partner in crime?? Thanks for sharing Becci’s blog we will check it out!
Oh my… what a delish looking cake!!!