Pineapple Mounds Bar Dessert
Cravings, they’re either going to keep me very happy or be the death of me. I know I said I would never make another chocolate candy again, but here I am. While in the supermarket checkout I glanced over and there, tempting me with it’s coconut goodness was a Mounds Bar. I picked it up, contemplating my memory of it’s chocolate coconut melange on my taste buds and then made the fatal mistake of reading the ingredients. I put it down and ran back and grabbed what I needed to make my own. The choice to put pineapple in the Mounds Bars were purely out of having too much pineapple…
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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…
Herbed Raw Asparagus and Artichoke Rice Pilaf
For a long time now, I’ve been wanting to do some experimentation with asparagus. Recipes using raw asparagus just aren’t seen very often and I guess I wanted to know:”Why not?” I’ve often eaten the tips off my aparagus raw and always thought they tasted good so there had to be some reason why we don’t see them all over the place in the raw world. If cauliflower can make the cut, why not those poor, ultra nutritious raw asparagus? Inquiring minds want to know. Well, to be sure, I looked it up and raw asparagus are perfectly fine to eat. I knew it! The only thing they have against…
Asian Slaw with Forbidden Rice
Besides trying to competely recreate old favorite dishes from a sheer sense of craving and nostalgia, one of my favorite pasttimes is rifling through vegan and vegetarian recipe books and finding recipes worthy of a raw redux. That’s essentially how this Asian slaw came to be. I love to just start going through the ingredients in any given recipe and subbing one ingredient for another in my head. Sometimes I just plain talk to myself. it’s spooky for everyone else. I’ll be sitting on the couch muttering as if incanting some strange spell, periodically running to the kitchen to check on whether or not certain things are in the refrigerator…
Strawberry Pizza with Candied Basil
Okay, so it’s not really a pizza, but it’s delicious. Marie had wanted to make a strawberry pizza and we threw around some ideas. Part of me wanted to make a strawberry sauce but then what do you put on top that’s raw, vegan and appetizing looking. Because to take a quote from one of the very quotable kids here: “why is everything so beige?”. He’s not wrong. One of our goals on this site is to make things that entice you. Food that you want to eat. To encourage people to eat better by visually kicking those food endorphins in first, then dazzle you with flavor. Let’s face it,…
Thai Chili Crunch
Snacking is a major pastime around here. So when I get a chance to make one of my favorite things and adapt it to a raw recipe, I jump at the chance. I’ve been making a version of this Thai Chili Crunch for years. Usually prepped on the stove and placed in the oven to caramelize, it seemed like something I could easily make with the dehydrator. Yes, it’s reminiscent of the high end snacks available in the grocery store, but my version packs a little more kick while preserving the flavor and benefits of raw cashews. Amusingly, or maybe not so much for me, I’m suffering from severe allergies…
