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…
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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),…
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…
