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…
Lemon-Lavender Tea Biscuit
Sometimes you just want a light biscuit for a sweet snack. Reminiscent of the taste of Pez, I absolutely love this flavor combination. Lemon-lavender go together like PB&J, like “milk” and cookies, like Lucy & Ethel. I made this little biscuit because I like something sweet with my tea late at night. I drink more tea than most which gives me enough excuses to eat cookies before bed. With all the raw things I eat or drink, I refuse to give up my hot tea in winter. In summer I switch to a sun brewed tea. So there’s a trick to these biscuits. Raw cookies in general don’t have that…
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…
Persimmon Breakfast Parfait
It’s persimmon season. These delectable little fruits are among our favorites. I’m more partial to Fuyu (they are the shorter, firmer variety) but for cooking the Hachiya is better. No cooking here but I used both in this because, why not? When choosing persimmons you want the skin to be smooth and deep orange in color. The Fuyu will be firm, but it could be crunchy or softer inside. Either way, it is the sweeter variety and I love to add it to salads. The Hachiya are more of a heart shaped fruit, it should be softer to the touch and will be soft inside. They can be a bit…
Smokin’ Raw Chili Chill Chaser
I just finished eating this raw chili for lunch for the second day in a row. The first day I ate it at room temperature and all the spices and chile peppers gave me all the heat I needed. But today, after coming in from a very snowy day, I heated it up for an hour in the dehydrator. After it had spent the night in the fridge it needed the chill taken off as much as I did! This is not verboten. That’s what the dehydrator is for: making sure those enzymes stay intact and you still get to have something warm when it strikes your fancy. In the…
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…
Creamy Tomato Soup
It’s winter and let’s face it, the last thing someone would think of is a raw soup because that somehow puts ‘cold’ in your mind. Well, you can get around that by warming it in the dehydrator and while it won’t be piping hot, this is the next best thing for the raw purist. You can also use a thermometer and heat on low on the stovetop – just make sure you stop short of that magical 118 degree mark and you’re golden. Of course it helps that this creamy tomato soup recipe is pretty hardy; I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how much it will take the chill…
