“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 It came out great, but wasn’t right for the recipe I originally made it for.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…
