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Thousand Island Crunchy Romaine Salad
Thousand Island Dressing was always one of my absolute favorites growing up. Maybe it’s because it was the one thing that elevated simple iceberg lettuce to the altered state of actual flavor. Because that’s what seemed to constitute a salad way back when: iceberg lettuce. Maybe it would have a few carrot shavings. Maybe a few tomatoes. But that was never a guarantee. The iceberg lettuce – that was a given. And, let’s face it… it’s basically water in leaf form. Yet somehow this rudimentary combination became somewhat of a comfort food to me. As a young woman I lived with my very old world Hungarian godmother when I first…
Kung Pao Coconut
Here’s what happens when you take an old Chinese restaurant classic and turn it raw vegan. These are the kind of experiments that seem almost fruitless at first; it just doesn’t seem possible. Even when they make vegan ‘chicken’ it doesn’t taste much like chicken to me at all. I feel like saying, “Just stop! Call it what it is and stop messing with people’s heads!” Theres no way cauliflower is ever going to taste like chicken. And why would we want it to? So this is Kung Pao Coconut. You might say tomato and I say toe-mah-to but none of us be calling this ”chicken. That said, my inspiration…
Orange Pomegranate Salad with Citrus Chia Dressing
Sometimes you just feel like something light, refreshing and easy. It’s been so hot lately that, even though I’m not usually a big mono-meal girl, it seems like I’ve been seduced to that side by the sheer availability and ease of all this great summer produce that’s not really around for the rest of the year. Suddenly I’ve found myself indulging in mega portions of peaches, whole watermelons and baskets of cherries – all at different times, of course – and calling that breakfast or lunch or dinner. In between I eat even more fruit. It’s been satisfying on so many levels but perhaps the biggest boon has been… nothing…
Sunchoke Salad With Apples and Kumquats
You know those strange little traditions that everyone has? Like “Fruit Salad Sundays!” or treating themselves to a coffee when they go to the bookstore? Well, my mother and I have a tradition like that. Every time we go to the grocery store, we try to find one fruit or vegetable that we have never tried. They are often in that “strange, exotic foods” section where rambutans, and gooseberries, and dragon fruit. To be fair, at this point in my life, I’ve tried most of the produce that pops up in that section. But the other day, I saw something that I had never tried. Never even thought about trying!…
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…
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…
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…
“Braised” Brussel Sprouts with Cranberry Vinegar
I know, I know, a lot of you are not fans of brussel sprouts. Well around here they are a popular side dish that are scoffed up in moments. Like with everything we make around here, most of our dishes come from cravings. While out shopping I saw the balsamic brussel sprouts sitting in the deli counter and I was hungry. I figured a little cheat wouldn’t hurt, but as I stood in line to order, I noticed how wilted they looked. The lone cranberry sitting on top was dark and barely recognizable. The food looked sad to me, even the color started to look a bit unappetizing and I…
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…
