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Spinach Dip with Rye Bread
I’m a snacker and I come from a whole line of snackers. When Marie and I go out shopping or wherever, we are more apt to snack or get a selection of appetizers than to eat a full meal. So when I saw the spinach dip in the grocery store on our last foray into town, I reached for it. Then I read the label and reminded myself that it contains dairy and back on the shelf it went. I am not a big consumer of spinach dip. As an Italian I’ve always prefered my spinach in garlic and oil and heaped on some delicious Italian bread and sprinkled with…
Baingan Bharta
Some vegetables are tricky to eat raw. Heating and cooking changes their texture and sometimes, you need a little heat to enhance the flavors. The dehydrator is perfect for helping spices to marinate and soften vegetables without stripping them of the nutrients that are too often cooked out of food. Take eggplant for instance. Not something most people consider good for a raw meal, but we have already proven that it’s perfect given a little time in the dehydrator with our Eggplant Carpaccio Caprese and our Babaganoush Dip . Craving Bharta, I figured I’d give it a whirl. Back in Los Angeles there is a fantastic restaurant called Akbar. Best…
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Blueberry Lemon Pie
Sometimes you walk into a market and your eyes spot something so beautiful, so enticing, you know you have to have them. Baskets of gigantic blueberries were staring back at me and I knew this was my opportunity to make my favorite, blueberry lemon pie. How these huge, luscious blueberries survived my snacking long enough to make it into this pie is the real mystery here. This is a take on my friend Gretchen’s mother’s blueberry pie recipe. Cooked, the challenge as always is…will the fruit be soft enough to be called a pie. It’s easy to just throw fruit into a crust, which you most certainly can do, but…
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Pear Sauce with Black Currents
Back in the 1980’s I had a boyfriend who introduced me Michio Kushi’s Macrobiotics book. At first I followed the recipes religiously, layering my food, only eating “in season” fruits and vegetables. I was pretty religious about this for a couple of years. One of my favorites was the pear sauce and I continued to make it through the years. It’s cooked, and honestly, usually overcooked, so I didn’t think of it to add here right away. Since we started this site we’ve done many experiments using the dehydrator to soften foods and enhance the flavors of a dish. Sometimes it takes a few tries but not this time. Perfect…
Vegetable Spring Rolls
Marie and I have been on a kick to find the perfect pot stickers and spring rolls. We have been perusing restaurants here in Santa Fe, including ones that specialize in dim sum. None of the spring rolls and pot stickers we found were raw of course, but there were tons that are vegan or at the very least, vegetarian. Some were delicious, and this is no slight to any of them, but I personally like the flavor of these much, much better. Obviously the texture of rice paper is a far cry from a wonton wrapper. These are not a handheld goodie; knife and fork it. Now if you…
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…
The Best Ever Live Cookies AKA Nut Snacks
Talk about a blast from the past. I haven’t made these in so long! But once upon a time they were a constant in my raw repertoire – as well as in my own kids lunchboxes! These live cookies were part of their baptism into the world of raw food which, at that time, was a very scary world for them. They were incessantly afraid that my embrace of the raw diet was going to mean Big Changes for them; that somehow I was about to morph into something that they woudn’t be able to identify as their mother. My son, Chance, so much as came out and told me…
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…
Prune Hamantaschen
A day late and a dollar short as they say. My intention was to make prune hamantaschen in time for Purim but I didn’t have prunes in the house. That wasn’t the only reason why they weren’t ready. I had wanted them to have a closer consistency to the real thing and the dehydrator wasn’t cooperating. I like my new dehydrator. Marie and her family got it for me for Christmas. The problem is I got so used to having Marie’s professional one in the house that I get frustrated; my home dehydrator takes a lot more time. I hadn’t allotted for that difference and depending on which dehydrator you…
Savory Nori Seaweed Crackers
I hadn’t made these seaweed crackers in a long time and I’ll be damned if I can figure out why not. They were one of the foods that I was introduced to early on in my raw experiences and I remember liking them immediately. Now everyone here likes them too. No sooner were they out of the dehydrator and everyone got a first taste, they quickly ascended to ‘favorite’ status. And even though I made two trays of them, I’m already getting orders to make more. A success story if there ever was one. Melissa doesn’t like seaweed. Period. So she wouldn’t even try one to be polite. Her nephew…
