Rose Hips and Blood Orange Super Cookies
In the mood for a cookie but don’t want to cheat on your diet? Well don’t pass up this incredibly healthy and delicious high fiber, antioxidant goodie. I drink rose hips and hibiscus tea all winter, usually mixing my own recipe with dried orange peels. And when I feel even an inkling of a cold, I drink this elixir every 2 hours as hot as I can stand it. For me it works every time. While winter begs for high vitamin C, please be cautious as it can interact with medications. Too much vitamin C can affect the kidneys, hormones and blood thinners. The benefits in fighting inflammation and boosting…
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…
Stuffed Poblano Peppers with Avocado Whip
Keeping with our winter warming trend, I decided to make a more hearty dinner using poblano peppers. Okay, normally this recipe would have just about everything we wouldn’t post on this site. But that shouldn’t stop us from adapting any meal to fit our raw-vegan sensibilities. I chose the poblano peppers because it’s heat index is mild to medium once warmed in the dehydrator. With a flavor more reminiscent of a jalapeno, I thought it would make the perfect pepper for anyone trying to make this at home. Don’t fret if you don’t like any spice, this recipe with work with bell peppers too. And for those of you who…
Mexican Chocolate Thumb Cookies
Chilly days in Northern New Mexico calls for some warming desserts. Since this is a raw site, heat is sometimes sought out in other ways. I’m a big fan of Mexican chocolate. Generally I would make a hot cocoa, well, almost hot, but I have to admit it gets a little annoying trying to keep the temp exactly right. Marie made these yummy coconut-y thumb cookies at Christmas time, they were simple but not quite the…holy cow we need to make these again. I made Mexican chocolate cookies around that time too, but they were a little flat and needed a bigger kick. So I decided to make them again…
Rollatini with “Smokey” Red Pepper Sauce
My zucchini plants are still going strong. It’s exciting because we are well past the season and it’s pretty damn cold here in northern New Mexico. Even in our sunroom, the temp gets chilly at night. I was expecting maybe one or two more tiny zucchinis, but to my surprise, a mutant began to grow and rollatini was born. Weeks into it’s growth I knew it was going to be a whopper, but I was not prepared for the final outcome. Considering we got that nifty new mandolin, I started planning and got these amazing thin, wide sheets of perfect zucchini. I contemplated making lasagna, but Marie and I agreed…
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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…
Ginger Ume Dried String Beans
As a kid a friend of my family owned a Chinese restaurant. We would go at the end of the night after everyone had left and eat with the owners and staff. It was always a feast and one of my favorite things on the menu was the dried string beans. One of my Christmas presents from Marie and her family was my own dehydrator. I had absconded with hers when I moved to the farm and it parked itself in the kitchen and never left. I did dehydrate a little pineapple first, but this is the first recipe in the new dehydrator and I’m super happy with the results.…
Crispy “Funion” Rings
Best laid plans. I attempted to make onion rings, which was a great idea, but in order to get the batter crispy, the onion got crispy with it. This is another case where the original idea failed and the delicious Funion Rings were created. Well over a month ago Marie ordered a mandolin. She had a specific recipe in mind (coming soon), but I decided to test it first. Where do I begin? This thing is fabulous! Totally worth waiting for. I am not ashamed to admit that I have zero knife skills and I hate cutting onions. The mandolin was exactly what I needed. In the time it took…
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Cool Mint Oreo Cookies
Nothing says winter like peppermint, and nothing pairs better with mint than chocolate, so the cool mint oreo cookies were born. Originally I was going to make a raw-vegan minty hot cocoa, but raw and piping hot are kind of an oxymoron. In raw food prep it’s spice that gives heat and that just wasn’t going to cut it for hot chocolate. Being cookie season around here, I tried to think of how to combine the two flavors and still make it visually interesting. As you can see from the photo, the cookies look fantastic, but the taste…minty perfection! You’ll find this recipe relatively simple. My struggle doesn’t have to…
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…
