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Spinach Dip with Rye Bread
I’m a snacker and I come from a whole line of snackers. When Marie and I go out shopping or wherever, we are more apt to snack or get a selection of appetizers than to eat a full meal. So when I saw the spinach dip in the grocery store on our last foray into town, I reached for it. Then I read the label and reminded myself that it contains dairy and back on the shelf it went. I am not a big consumer of spinach dip. As an Italian I’ve always prefered my spinach in garlic and oil and heaped on some delicious Italian bread and sprinkled with…
Baingan Bharta
Some vegetables are tricky to eat raw. Heating and cooking changes their texture and sometimes, you need a little heat to enhance the flavors. The dehydrator is perfect for helping spices to marinate and soften vegetables without stripping them of the nutrients that are too often cooked out of food. Take eggplant for instance. Not something most people consider good for a raw meal, but we have already proven that it’s perfect given a little time in the dehydrator with our Eggplant Carpaccio Caprese and our Babaganoush Dip . Craving Bharta, I figured I’d give it a whirl. Back in Los Angeles there is a fantastic restaurant called Akbar. Best…
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Blueberry Lemon Pie
Sometimes you walk into a market and your eyes spot something so beautiful, so enticing, you know you have to have them. Baskets of gigantic blueberries were staring back at me and I knew this was my opportunity to make my favorite, blueberry lemon pie. How these huge, luscious blueberries survived my snacking long enough to make it into this pie is the real mystery here. This is a take on my friend Gretchen’s mother’s blueberry pie recipe. Cooked, the challenge as always is…will the fruit be soft enough to be called a pie. It’s easy to just throw fruit into a crust, which you most certainly can do, but…
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Pear Sauce with Black Currents
Back in the 1980’s I had a boyfriend who introduced me Michio Kushi’s Macrobiotics book. At first I followed the recipes religiously, layering my food, only eating “in season” fruits and vegetables. I was pretty religious about this for a couple of years. One of my favorites was the pear sauce and I continued to make it through the years. It’s cooked, and honestly, usually overcooked, so I didn’t think of it to add here right away. Since we started this site we’ve done many experiments using the dehydrator to soften foods and enhance the flavors of a dish. Sometimes it takes a few tries but not this time. Perfect…
Vegetable Spring Rolls
Marie and I have been on a kick to find the perfect pot stickers and spring rolls. We have been perusing restaurants here in Santa Fe, including ones that specialize in dim sum. None of the spring rolls and pot stickers we found were raw of course, but there were tons that are vegan or at the very least, vegetarian. Some were delicious, and this is no slight to any of them, but I personally like the flavor of these much, much better. Obviously the texture of rice paper is a far cry from a wonton wrapper. These are not a handheld goodie; knife and fork it. Now if you…
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Watermelon Sushi Rolls
As some of you may know we have a couple of watermelon recipes here on the site. Dehydrated, watermelon takes on a completely different texture. Somewhat reminiscent of raw tuna, it lends itself to the perfect substitute for raw fish. I made sashimi Watermelon Sashimi & Forbidden Rice and regularly make poke bowls, but this is the first time I attempted to make sushi rolls. I’m not going to lie, this is not the easiest thing to do. Not that making sushi rolls are hard; they aren’t. The difficulty lies in using the raw Forbidden Rice and keeping it in the nori wrapper. Unlike sushi rice, which is sticky (glutinous),…
Pineapple Salad with Jerk Plantain Chips
We eat a lot of salads around here and I love fruit dressing. So it seemed like a good idea to try and make a dressing using pineapple. The acid content isn’t as high as lemon, lime or vinegar, making it a super light alternative for people looking for something a bit milder. This is a simple recipe, but you will need to soak the rice from 24-48 hours. If you use forbidden rice, it will not sprout but will open up and soften. If you use purple rice, it will sprout but won’t get soft. As a matter of fact, no other rice will get soft the way Forbidden…
4 LAYER BIRTHDAY CAKE
Sometimes you want to make something special but hold on to a recipe for just that right moment. Well, no excuse is better than a birthday to make a cake. Introducing Eden’s birthday cake. Sure, it’s not really a cake per se, but it’s as healthy as it gets, naturally sweet and once decorated, rises to the occasion. Chock full of fruity goodness, this birthday cake will please kids and adults alike. That said, I will do it differently next time. I think certain fruits would work better than the ones I chose. While aesthetically gorgeous, pitaya (dragon fruit) is pretty damn bland. The swirls you see were not just…
Spring Mix Strawberry Salad with Almond Pecan Brittle
It’s hard not to love this strawberry salad; it is a thing of beauty, with the beautiful play of red strawberries on the green salad and the luscious dressing glazing it all in pink. Not to mention the crunchy spiced brittle:! Everything combines so perfectly to create a truly sumptuous creation. It doesn’t seem enough to just call it a salad. It’s more like a poem on a plate. In any ase it has the distnction of being one of my all time favorite meals! Theres no component of this salad that wouldn’t steal the show all on its own but it’s the rosy dressing that really puts my sense…
Cherry Chocolate Crisp Raw Bread
If first impressions are everything, I wouldn’t have given myself a chance in hell of embracing raw food once I’d been introduced to raw bread. Needless to say, once upon a time I really thought all raw bread was like the earth of the ancient world: flat. And it was the kind of flat you couldn’t fix because – on top of everything else – it was virtually tasteless and gummy too. If there was a taste, it was underscored with the slight bitterness of flax which I’ve always thought tasted like Burpee seeds gone bad. Raw bread and I were far from a match made in heaven. I am…
