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…
Cherry Chocolate Chia Pudding
What could be better than chocolate for breakfast? Offhand, I really can’t think of anything. Especially if it’s a breakfast as power-packed as this cherry chocolate chia pudding. Cacao and chia: its like having two super heroes come to work for you! As fall makes its inevitable drop upon us, I’ve been getting this incredible urge to substitute my normally high-fruit first meal of the day for something a little more hefty. I’ve made many a chia pudding before but this time it was a little different because I felt genuinely inspired. Not to mention the fact that I was really craving chocolate. It was actually verging on lust. The…
Broccoli Salad with Creamy Dressing
A couple of months ago a friend brought a broccoli salad from Costco to a little get together. I remember having it a couple of years back and a similar one from Whole Foods. The problem…both contain bacon and the dressing is dairy. Well, once I perfected the coconut bacon, putting this delicious salad together was a breeze. I make enormous batches of coconut bacon and keep it handy. It enhances just about everything and I throw it into practically everything or just snack on it to satiate savory cravings. Throwing all the ingredients together is quick and easy and you can prepare the dressing in advance. This is a…
Wild Rice and Oat Raw Porridge
Those who live in exotic and tropical locales have it made when it comes to adopting a raw diet. It’s a lot easier when fresh fruit is virtually dripping from trees and the markets are overflowing with all manner of produce. We ‘peons’ of colder climes have never even seen some of that stuff. Ask a New Mexican what a rambutan or durian is and you’ll get a blank face staring back at you. Never heard of it. Consequently, it’s in places like this, where cold creeps in and settles like an unwelcome guest, that we need to get creative. We are beckoned from beyond the fruit bowl. And that’s…
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…
