Green Cabbage Steaks with Black Olive Tapenade
Lately I seem to be having a love affair with cabbage. I’ve already made these green cabbage steaks three times; twice before I ate them so fast I completely neglected taking pictures of them, never mind sharing any with anyone else. I don’t think Melissa actually believes that I made them at all because there’s never anything left when she comes ’round and no one else knows anything about them either. It’s like a covert operation. This time around I only had enough cabbage to make two steaks but I remembered to take pictures as evidence. I really am doing the work! Unfortunately, once again I ate both of those…
Savory Nori Seaweed Crackers
I hadn’t made these seaweed crackers in a long time and I’ll be damned if I can figure out why not. They were one of the foods that I was introduced to early on in my raw experiences and I remember liking them immediately. Now everyone here likes them too. No sooner were they out of the dehydrator and everyone got a first taste, they quickly ascended to ‘favorite’ status. And even though I made two trays of them, I’m already getting orders to make more. A success story if there ever was one. Melissa doesn’t like seaweed. Period. So she wouldn’t even try one to be polite. Her nephew…
Mom’s Vanilla Apricot Macaroons
My mother was really quite the cook but, hands down, baking was her favorite thing to do. It was also my dad’s favorite thing for her to do because he had quite the sweet tooth and she catered to it completely. Needless to say, my sister and I were not complaining much about it either. Our house was like a horn of plenty, always filled with multiple tins of home-baked goods and likely some more lining up in the oven. My mother literally lived for school bake sales. It was the one time she tooted her own horn because her concoctions were always the first to get sold. Inevitably she…
Apple Pear Cardamom Tart
What is it about winter nights by the fire that always gets me yearning for something comforting and warm like apple pie with cinnamon? And maybe a dollop of whipped cream? When I mentioned this at home one evening, everyone got really excited – as they generally do whenever I bring up the prospect of making something sweet. I only wish I’d get such an enthusiastic response to making a new salad! Instead of plain old apple pie, however, I remembered something I created years ago for an especially large Thanksgiving celebration: an Apple Pear Cardamom Tart. That tart lasted all of 5 minutes…I kid you not. Of course, that…
Coconut and Kelp Noodle Ramen
I’ve had a yen to make something like a raw ramen for a while now but I really wasn’t in the mood for any more zucchini noodles. Recently, a guest who was staying here for awhile left behind a package of kelp noodles and that was all the encouragement I needed. While this doesn’t quite mimic regular ramen, we all have to admit that when we think of ramen, we’re thinking of that packaged brick of noodles with the spice packet included. The thing many of us survived on in college. So I’m glad to say that this meal could not even be placed in the same category. But it…
Red Deviled Tomatoes
Deviled eggs were a perrenial favorite once upon a ‘not vegan’. I remember seeing them every time I went to any kind of event, whether it was a fancy grown-up function or a some parent/teacher get together at my kid’s school. But, in an effort to remove animal products from our picture, the deviled egg went to the wayside too. So, how do we get that deviled taste without the egg? How did we possibly come to deviled tomatoes? The answer to the whole conundrum came to me in a shape. The Roma tomato is kind of egg-shaped isn’t it? I actually do have to ask you this question since…
Intermittent Fasting: Fewer Hours Eating = Better Health
For me it all started at the onset of COVID. I had never really given much thought to intermittent fasting. Yes, I’ve done plenty a three day juice fast and felt all the better for it every time. But anyone will vouch for the fact that I like to eat. I like to eat a lot! So anything that involves not eating for prolonged periods of time will not be a big blip on my radar. In March, however, I lost my job in retail when it became one of the hardest hit businesses in the pandemic path. And suddenly I found myself at home all the time, as did…
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Tropical Rice Pancakes with Mango Habanero Sauce
I had a dream… And like most of my dreams it involved food. In this case, rice pancakes. As happens with a lot of our recipes, inspiration comes from the great beyond: the place where so much of our past went to rest. People, places, moments. It’s funny how so many of these memories have some specific food somehow attached to them so vividly. My Hungarian Tanti (that’s ‘Aunt’ to many of you) was somewhat of my guardian when I first moved to New York City at the onset of my twenties. She took ‘watching over me’ very seriously, I must tell you. Sometimes I wasn’t too happy about it…
Beet Ravioli with Pistachio Pesto and Citrus Sauce
This beet ravioli recipe has been playing a little tune in my head for awhile now. More than a month ago, I started fiddling with it but I was apparently lacking in the finesse required to get paper thin slices of beet without cutting the ends of my fingers off in the process. The combination of beet juice and my own blood created something that looked like a grisley crime scene and, at some point, I did think cordoning off the kitchen with yellow tape, might not be a bad idea. I certainly was afraid to go in there. As it was, I was standing there, my hand wrapped in…
You Can’t Catch Me, I’m the Gingerbread Man
It was universally agreed – and by universally, I strictly mean the universe that is our home – that we absolutely needed gingerbread this Christmas. At first the kids kind of balked at the idea of raw gingerbread but that didn’t last for long. I always remind them that they’ve never had a raw dessert that they didn’t like. I just knew that gingerbread would not be the exception. In fact, I was imagining eating the stuff right out of the bowl. Honestly, who knew if we would ever get to making cookies! The thing that kept us going was all that vibrant icing. Melissa went crazy making all kinds…
