Thai Coconut Soup
This is the soup I’ve been wanting to make. Ridiculously quick and easy, this soup will warm you up on a cold day. I made this Thai Coconut Soup in the dehydrator, but as Marie informed me, you can heat it on the stove as long as you check the temperature while heating to keep it raw. This is one of my favorite soups and I have to apologize for the photo, it sucks. But it shouldn’t be a reflection on the delicious flavor of this soup. I was hungry and too impatient to keep taking photos when all I wanted to do was eat. I warned Marie that I…
Rainbow Cookies
Three times a charm! I can’t say getting these delicious confections perfectly raw and vegan was easy. While getting the flavor profiles of the rainbow cookies was pretty simple. Finding the right thickness and getting the color right was a bit of a challenge. Italian Pignoli Cookies cookies are my dad’s favorite, rainbow cookies are my mom’s. So of course I had to make them. The layers of flavor from each bite are nothing short of heaven. I’m really patting myself on the back for nailing this recipe. I definitely took the hard road when it came to coloring. I grated beets, ground fresh turmeric and added chlorophyll. Don’t do…
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Indian Poppadoms with Mango and Mint Chutneys
The idea at first was Indian nan but I didn’t make a big enough batch of this stuff to make more than one big circle of nan bread. Then Melissa suggested doing poppadoms instead… Now, I know you’re thinking: what the hell is a poppadom? Granted, it seems nan and dosas get all the publicity and the poor poppadoms are kind of hiding their light under a bushel basket. It’s not a exactly a ‘household name’. A poppadom (also called papadum, papad or papar) is a thin and crispy round Indian flatbread. It is kind of like a dosa but not quite as paper thin and crumbly. And it’s round and can…
Italian Pignoli Cookies
Pignoli cookies are my dad’s favorite. Not one holiday has passed without these light traditional almond flavored delights in our home. As a family we have all stood in line several times a year to purchase these cookies from our favorite Italian bakery. Sometimes you’re not so lucky. After waiting hours, you can get to the head of the line and find out they’ve been wiped out. So when I figured out how to make these without baking I was thrilled and I can’t wait to share this recipe with my family this upcoming holiday season. The other advantage of making these from scratch is that instead of costing a…
Blood Orange Cordials
I want to start by saying these are one of the most delicious candies I’ve ever had. The tartness of blood orange oozes from the sweet almond marzipan, covered in a deep, dark chocolate shell. I think this is my new favorite raw-vegan dessert, but…I will never make these damn things again! Okay, that’s not fair, I will make them again. What I won’t do again is give a damn what they look like. Trying to make raw chocolate stick to something is an exercise in insanity. Your choice is either a loose chocolate sauce that will never set, or a seized ball that can only be described as a…
Teriyaki Coconut Bowl
I love teriyaki! So when the craving hit, I opened the fridge and started brainstorming. I had a young coconut, some veggies and rice noodles. My idea hinged on the texture of the coconut meat. It needs to be firm, but still soft, but not too soft (like spoon meat), that you can’t slice it. This coconut was perfect so a recipe was born. I marinated the coconut in a sweet and spicy teriyaki sauce. I could have left it like that, just sitting in the marinade. Instead I put it in the dehydrator to make the texture firmer and to get that marinade deep into the coconut meat. My…
Not Your Mothers Pop Tarts
I was hardly ever allowed to have pop tarts as a girl. That was the one food arena where, all of a sudden, my mother drew the line. And it’s not because of all the icing and sprinkles on what was supposed to be a breakfast treat. Because she was all about coffee cake and strudel and cinnamon buns – as long as she made them. And she was. literally, baking round the clock. Homemade was healthiest as far as she was concerned. Even if it was filled with sugar, you couldn’t convince her otherwise. I was a ‘growing girl’ in desperate need of ‘sustenance’ and it was her mission…
Lime Corn Chips
With all the corn being harvested all over the place around now, it seemed like the perfect time to make corn chips. Frankly, it’s hard to make enough of them. Raw corn chips, done right, taste so much more ‘corny’ than the kind you might have once bought at the grocery store that, no matter how natural they may have been, always seemed to have a bunch of other ingredients filling in where corn is supposed to be. Frito-lay just isn’t even in the same arena as these. And just think of all the decadent snacks that can evolve out of just a handful of chips. Soak and sprout some…
Tempura Battered “BLT”
There is a restaurant down the road apiece that makes a delicious fried green tomato BLT. But since we aren’t cooking, eating anything fried and maintaining a vegan diet, the original is out. Well let me introduce you to our version. As a kid I would have a BLT all the time. My mom considered them a healthy lunch. It’s funny to think that now, but back then if something had a vegetable in it, it was good for you. Even if those vegetables consisted of iceberg lettuce and a tomato (I know, I know). I love tomatoes. I think it’s my favorite vegetable (fruit) and I put them in…
Portobello Corn Tamales with Cacao Mole Sauce
Years ago when I ran a real Bed and Breakfast – and not a bunch of Airbnbs where nary a breakfast has been served by yours truly – I used to make a lot of tamales. Making tamales in bulk was like a party at my house with my daughter, my best friend and Alma – who was the woman who kept everything tidy around here for many years – in attendance. Maybe not enough people to constitute a party. But add some refreshments and some music and things could get pretty lively around the masa! Especially with Alma. She was not the person to ask, “How’s it going?” Because…
