Posts Tagged ‘recipes’
Our celriac, leek and kale soup recipe this week features the cool and unusually ugly looking vegetable celriac and also leeks, which mom & I picked up at the market yesterday morning. Celriac is amazing in soups. It does not have a strong taste It is fairly mild and tastes somewhat like celery, but not as nearly as assertive, celriac is much more mellow. After you peel all the knobby parts off of it the inside has a texture much like a rutabaga or turnip and I think it is quite a nice change from that or potatoes in vegetable soup recipes. This soup also has kale as I am on a bit of a kale kick and trying to eat as much of it as I can. It is quite an ecclectic spice mixture and I knew I was pushing it a little with my combination but I, and others, think it turned out to be quite fantastic.
This fruit cobbler recipe is a raw foods version made with tropical fruit and a wonderful change from the more traditional fruit cobbler recipes. I love it made with tropical fruits. But I am a serious tropical fruit lover know I will have to move to the tropics one day, at least for the winters! 😉 The topping has nuts and coconut that go really well with the mango, pineapple and papaya, but even so this recipe would work great to make a delicious peach cobbler recipe or a berry or apple cobbler recipe as well. Just substitute fruit and you can lower the coconut and add a little more walnuts and almonds. I love playing with recipes but even so I have made this one exactly as is a few times, and this tropical fruit cobbler recipe has been really successful at a few various gatherings. || Read more
This broccoli quinoa salad is one I created this afternoon. My mom is going to a pot luck tomorrow morning with a small group of painters and friends. I had just made a pot of quinoa, not knowing what I was going to do with it and I had an abundance of broccoli. That is sometimes how awesome recipes are born, and a few bowls later, I would say this is an awesome recipe. Oh and yes, 2013 really has been declared the International Year of Quinoa. So because of this and mainly due to the fact that it has a very high nutritional and protein content, let’s celebrate quinoa! As I love raw foods so much, I am very selective about which cooked foods I eat. Quinoa is one of them, and this quinoa salad recipe is delicious. Come see how it is made! || Read more
This healthy breakfast recipe is one that helped me make it through the cold Canadian winters raw. The oatmeal is softened with apples and this easy recipe is packed with superfoods. This favorite raw food recipe is made with oat groats. Rolled oats are steamed open and so not raw, so to make oatmeal as a raw recipe, we use oat groats. I use steel cut oat groats that have been cut into smaller pieces and so are easier to soften. The texture is great. It is soft, not quite as soft as oatmeal, but still very satisfying and I like to add chopped nuts and some dried fruit which also adds to the texture, as well as taste. || Read more
This delicious chocolate bar recipe was created as what I thought of yesterday as a failed chocolate bark experiement. But now, since today I can’t stop eating it I am realizing that this is sometimes how awesome creations are born. And so my chocolate bark just had a little transformation into an amazingly delicious new fruit and nut filled chocolate bar. How things can turn around sometimes, or sometimes just a new perspective is needed! || Read more
This raw vegan chili recipe really rocks. It is one of my favorite meals and yes, chili can be made vegan, not to mention raw, just as successfully in my opinion as the classic cooked version. Its a matter of the right spices, getting a delicious flavor down as well as a nice thick hearty texture and consistency. And this recipe succeeds on both counts and is one of my very favorite raw meals. This has been a favorite for several years, and I feel it has been perfected to my liking and now can go down side by side with my grandmothers favorite cooked recipe for it, which is also delicious. But this one does have a huge advantage and that lies in its nutrition. The fresh vegetables all keeping their natural enzymes and nutrients intact can’t be beat to make us feel great and glow. This recipe represents the best of all worlds. If you are into raw foods, or a great chili lover too, you have to check this one out! || Read more
This hemp protein bar recipe is my new favorite. I combined all of my favorite bar ideas: using lots of seeds in the recipe, using chia seeds to bind the fillings, favorite combinations and put it all together into what I think is my new masterpiece. It is not a simple bar recipe in that it has a lot of ingredients. But once you get those together, making them is easy and I will show you exactly how in the photo description below. This bar has a high protein content with Hemp and Brazil nuts, which are 2 of my favorite protein sources. Quinoa is also high protein and it is the puffed bag of quinoa, shown below, that also inspired this recipe. It is, however, the only ingredient that is not raw, and so if you want a 100% raw recipe, you can leave it out or substitute the quinoa with more seeds and/or coconut flakes. || Read more
