Zucchini Hummus: Full Power
Zucchini is often thought of as a vegetable but, in actuality, it qualifies as a fruit: the ripened ovary of a flowering plant, complete with seeds (there’s a bit of trivia for you)! Zucchini is antioxidant rich and is 95% water – so it’s one of those raw foods that ranks high when it comes to keeping your body hydrated and ‘flushed’! This, in combination with Vitamin C and riboflavin, makes this fruit an excellent aid in the production of collagen, promoting healthier, younger looking skin – something we all want no matter how old we are! You can put zucchini slices on your eyes to prevent puffiness too! It’s…
Jicama and Hemp Seed Tabouleh
I had a craving for tabbouleh but all the recipes I kept coming across use cauliflower as the main ingredient. It’s like once they figured out that cauliflower made a great raw rice they started using it for everything! Cauliflower is great and all but I believe in mixing things up a little bit. Besides I’ve got some die-hard anti-cauliflower vigilantes around here who are just not having it! If I’m ‘un-cooking’ for the masses I need to get crafty. So I used jicama instead. You do have to chop it with a little more effort than the average cauliflower head, but it rices up real nice and everyone loves…
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Happiness is a Loaded Smoothie
Raw Vegan Replacement Therapy… A Smoothie? My first tentative dip into the raw vegan pool was through the process of substitution. A raw green smoothie displaced my usual breakfast – typically something that I would grab off the Bed and Breakfast table after my guests were done eating. I was literally like a dog waiting for scraps. A piece of frittata?! A heel of cinnamon toast!? Give it to me! Now! Hell, I was a one-woman’ ravaging horde – the poster child for the Importance of Eating a Good Breakfast! Leaving my house so early in the morning to prepare food for other people, I would hardly have time to…
