Boosting Immunity: 7 Steps to Superwoman
Ever since the onset of the COVID19 pandemic, many people have become hyperconscious about their health. It’s hard not to be when everyone’s walking around in masks and maintaining a 6 foot distance from everyone else. The whole world’s starting to look like some sci-fi movie. So what does boosting immunity look like in corona virus times? Not much different than any other time, honestly. Except you get to look like a bandit, if you’re into it, and nobody will bat an eye. Because boosting immunity isn’t just something we should be doing because a pandemic comes knocking on our collective door, but something we’re actively doing all the time.…
Yellow Tomato Raw Ketchup
Sweet and tangy yellow tomato raw ketchup.
Blood Orange & Black Cherry Couscous
Summer fruits and light and fluffy couscous makes for a delicious salad.
“Bacon” Wrapped Stuffed Dates
Many moons ago when Marie’s kids were younger, they came to visit me in California. We went for tapas and they served this absolutely delicious dish of sausage stuffed dates wrapped in bacon. Now that we are keeping mainly raw and vegan we thought this morsel was out of our lives forever. Silly us, all we had to do is wait for Marie to make her raw mushroom sausage and viola! When I was experimenting and made the coconut bacon I also experimented with rice paper. It came out great, but wasn’t right for the recipe I originally made it for. The coconut wasn’t right for these stuffed dates because…
Mushroom Sausage with Marinated Peppers
Sometimes a recipe is born of nostalgia. Certainly, this Mushroom Sausage is no exception. This goes all the way back to memories of The Feast of San Gennaro, a week-long festival held in New York’s Little Italy every year. Melissa and I went all the time when we lived there. Now, like every festival or fair, there weren’t exactly many things offered that anyone could consider healthy, but let’s bypass that for the moment… What there was, was a lot of noise, a lot of color and a lot of sausages. At least one vendor on every stretch of the crowded city blocks was selling some kind of sausage, usually…
Tomatillo Salsa with Hatch Chiles
Here in New Mexico, the surest sign that fall is approaching is the arrival of fresh hatch green chiles. All of a sudden it seems that every grocery store parking lot has its own little fenced in area where chiles are being roasted by the pound. The aroma is pungent and, if you get too close, you’re bound to start coughing. But this is the smell of autumn. Not to mention it’s a staple year-round in this neck of the woods; green chile is in everything! So we decided to join the bandwagon and add it -unroasted – into our raw Tomatillo salsa! Tomatillos are traditionally roasted so this tomatillo…
Pickles 3 Ways
Pickling fruits and vegetables is a super simple and delicious must try recipe.
Corn Fritters with Hatch Green Chile
If at first you don’t succeed; try, try again. Boy, were we ever trying with these. I was so determined to make corn fritters that I was driving everyone nuts with the whole project. I don’t know why it became such a mission for me, except for the fact that I just plain love corn. There are many cultures that look down on corn as something only fit for animals and others that use it as a base for everything. We fall into the second category, much to our detriment. Because you can’t find very much out there in the processed food world that our culture reigns over, that doesn’t…
Fennel Lemon Spring Rolls
I don’t know about you but when summer comes, I lose all desire for heavy food. Being new to the raw food diet, I have found myself eating the same portion sizes and still being hungry after. This is common. So my challenge has been to make myself meals that are filling, but don’t leave me feeling like I swallowed a hunk of granite. I love eating spring rolls in the summer and always have, but lately, without fish, they just haven’t been as filling. Until now! I filled these gorgeous raw spring rolls with fennel and carrot and micro-greens. Mixed with the sauce, just two of these rolls had…
Dates and Ume Vinegar Sauce
I can hardly consider myself any sort of expert in food experimentation, or even a novice in it. But every once in a blue moon I am struck so powerfully by my own food genius, that it’s like lightning! That being said, this particular occasion was awfully strange. You see, it all started with a thought, “I want salt… and dates! Yep, salty dates sound good right now.” I mean honestly, where did that come from? The thought crossed my mind and I immediately started thinking back to the last time I had my period. You know, just to make sure! Of course, then my rational self kicked in to…
