Posts Tagged ‘recipes’
It’s Christmas eve and everything is prepared and now I am just escaping for a little hour or so tea break to post my favorite holiday recipe. This dish is made mostly with fresh produce, nuts, seeds and marinated mushrooms to give a great texture and make it moist and savory herbs and spices to give it a wonderful flavor. This really brings back the Christmas memories with the stuffing seasonings, which were always a big part of the meal. Mom and I have made this nut loaf a few years together, and a few years separately, but it’s been a really popular recipe with us and one that makes a raw meal feel very Christmasy. I love it best served with my favorite cranberry sauce recipe and a big salad. Make an extra special salad with chopped walnuts, seasoned seeds, pomegranate seeds and currants or your favorite special ingredients.
Tomorrow is Christmas eve and we are busy getting ready for it around here. Christmas is mom’s favorite holiday and time of year. She used to start shopping for it in January and every year our tree was the best tree ever! She was always the happiest person around. That’s mom’s nature anyway and I am really blessed that she has this wonderful positive nature. This year, like last, it is harder for her to get ready for Christmas in the same way she used to. Her stroke left her with not being able to drive and even just going out and buying things is a challenge, but she is doing it as well as she can. She has an inner strength that is rare, and I wonder if I could even rise to the challenge as she has with this one. So we are doing our best to make the season bright over here and I have found that it’s really the little things that make all the difference. || Read more
This biscotti is delicious and very festive and pretty with all of the flecks of red from the cranberries and gojis and bits of green and brown from the pumpkin seeds, hazelnuts and chocolate. It is just very lightly sweetened with maple sugar. If you are a chocolate lover and wanted to get very festive after they are dehydrated you could dip one end into some melted chocolate and sprinkle with almond pieces. I love the idea of doing this but I never have as I love the taste of them as they are just plain and they always get eaten before I get around to trying this. || Read more
This raw version of corn chips makes one of my favorite snack foods super nutritious and something you can feel good about eating. No more guilty junk foods. Eat delicious snacks that you can feel great about! These chips are dehydrated until they are crispy. The process of drying at lower temperatures enables the chips to retain the ingredients original nutrition and high level of enzymes. The corn chips are made from sprouted buckwheat, flax seeds and organic corn and are lightly spiced and salted with a hand harvested mineral rich salt. || Read more
Ok, I am going to blast a post off with lots of cold weather pictures and then that’s it for me.. it’s all tropical rain forests and beaches in my mind for the next month! Maybe if I post enough cold weather pics I’ll come to grips with – the fact that I live in Canada – and that it is winter. sigh. I love our country but I seriously don’t think that many people really want to be here in the middle of the winter. I guess it’s because of family that we stay ..but really I don’t think humans were designed for these extreme cold temperatures. This is crazy. Well, grab your parka and bundle up.. we’re diving in. But right after this post, or maybe right after Christmas, that’s it – I’m hitting the hot tub, defrosting and hibernating to a cozy retreat in my mind where the sand is toasty and the sun is beaming down on me in a bikini. || Read more
I love jicama fries! They are a little different than french fries in their texture but they are delicious and totally satisfy that salty, crunchy, fried craving you may get every once in awhile. As long as you realize that it is not an exact substitute and to expect a bit of a different texture, then you may find yourself craving these after trying them the first time instead. They are super healthy if you are comparing them to anything deep fried, but are they the healthiest thing on the raw foods menu.. maybe not. Nothing beats greens imho, but that being said.. if you can stop at just one plateful, and combine them with other healthy foods, then these fries totally rock!! || Read more
I have been thinking lately about my plans for this website. One of my goals is to get up my favorite recipes that can sustain anyone on a 100% raw lifestyle or can up the health quotient of any diet. I have a collection of these favorite recipes that I make and eat regularly. Most are my own recipes but sometimes I come across a delicious super healthy dish and love it when I can share that also. Anson made this soup at one of Fatma’s pot lucks a couple years ago. This soup is really delicious and I’m happy that he loves to share too! || Read more
