100 Day Raw Food Challenge
Raw Lasagne! Bunny!
first off, you dont have to call it salad--
realistically though:
Make Lasagne, it's soooooooooooo worth it for when your wanting cooked food:
get creative-
make your noodles with strips from zuchini with a vegetabble peeler --
use a multiple ingredients for maximum "spoiling yourself"--
make several types of seed cheese and nut cheese--
and assorted "goodies":
*cheese powder : made from califlower with the blade in a food processor till it looks like parmesean cheese-- you could throw some Brewers yeast in the foodprocessor too to bring out a more thorough cheese taste-- Brewers Yeast is a brilliant "not raw" thing to make an exception on because its so nutrituous
*powder brocoli heads in the same fashion
*sliced marinated portabellos (shitakes too if you can afford them-Marinade: nama shoyu, garlic, olive oil, thyme that has been crushed with mortar and pistol and teaspoon of salt
*Basil leaves
*Oregano leaves
*marinate onion rings in braggs vinegar salt olive oil--
*marinate strips of Kale in Lemon Juice and herbs--
*dehydrate pieces of sweet pepper for a few hours just to sweat them a little( it changes their flavor)--
bags of baby spinach or field greens ( preferably the herb kind from Trader joes)--
Make Marinara:
preferably cherry tomatoes and or heirloom brandywine, "whatever" works as well, but what I listed has the most tomatoe-y taste... blend with sundried tomatoes soaked 2+ hours.you might have to use a little olive oil to get it to turn over in the blender-- call it good or add garlic and other italian herbs-- ( hey- do this in a food processor (w/blade) if your blender sucks)
In a casserole dish-
put a layer of zuchin strips (noodles) -- I didnt mention your going to need a lot of these: prolly 5 or 6 zucchini-
layer of cheese (s)
layer marinara
layer of "goodie"
repeat same as you would a cooked veggie lasagne
look for better cheese recipes than I have to offer because I make it simple... Juliano is the master of eleborate taste, in fact I recomend making his decadent recipes at least once a week if your just plain craving the decadence of F O O D L U S T
his book is RAW the uncookbook
my recipes are always whats on hand--
Raw food cheese is nut or seed pate basically--
soak sunflower seeds
pine nuts
macadamia nuts
lemon juice
rejuvalac
braggs vinegar
brewers yeast
you can also "not soak" your seeds, but youll need to powder them in a coffee grinder, or vita mix
dont soak macs or pine nuts
anyway, Im on a budget myself, everything in my universe revolves around sunflower seeds: their cheap, their nutritious - their a blank canvas with lots of nutrients. So if I actually have any other nuts or seeds I use them in small amounts.
approx values for seed cheese from my hands:
3 cups soaked sprouted 12- 24 hour sunflower seeds
1 cups pine nuts (expensive)
handfull macadamias (expensive)
enough rajuvalac so it all turns to cream in a food processor--( leave it out with a clean towel over it for 12- 24 hours and the mix actually ferments--
use lemon juice or vinegar if your skidish about fermented foods
BACK to finishing the Lasagne,
refriggerate it after you finish your layers a while for it to homenginize
2 hours at least
this can be stored in the fridge and even warmed up in the dehydrator 2 hours ahead by the slice -- will keep 2-3 days in refrigirator -- (dont worry about about your greens looking weepy either because they are better that way the cell wall is broke down)
run your dehydrator full temp for a half hour , then crank it down to 110--- longer the more decadent tasting
raw food can EASILY be as yummy as the cooked cr*p, in fact once you hit a recipe right it usually tastes better because more flavor
--- dont call it salad
realistically though:
Make Lasagne, it's soooooooooooo worth it for when your wanting cooked food:
get creative-
make your noodles with strips from zuchini with a vegetabble peeler --
use a multiple ingredients for maximum "spoiling yourself"--
make several types of seed cheese and nut cheese--
and assorted "goodies":
*cheese powder : made from califlower with the blade in a food processor till it looks like parmesean cheese-- you could throw some Brewers yeast in the foodprocessor too to bring out a more thorough cheese taste-- Brewers Yeast is a brilliant "not raw" thing to make an exception on because its so nutrituous
*powder brocoli heads in the same fashion
*sliced marinated portabellos (shitakes too if you can afford them-Marinade: nama shoyu, garlic, olive oil, thyme that has been crushed with mortar and pistol and teaspoon of salt
*Basil leaves
*Oregano leaves
*marinate onion rings in braggs vinegar salt olive oil--
*marinate strips of Kale in Lemon Juice and herbs--
*dehydrate pieces of sweet pepper for a few hours just to sweat them a little( it changes their flavor)--
bags of baby spinach or field greens ( preferably the herb kind from Trader joes)--
Make Marinara:
preferably cherry tomatoes and or heirloom brandywine, "whatever" works as well, but what I listed has the most tomatoe-y taste... blend with sundried tomatoes soaked 2+ hours.you might have to use a little olive oil to get it to turn over in the blender-- call it good or add garlic and other italian herbs-- ( hey- do this in a food processor (w/blade) if your blender sucks)
In a casserole dish-
put a layer of zuchin strips (noodles) -- I didnt mention your going to need a lot of these: prolly 5 or 6 zucchini-
layer of cheese (s)
layer marinara
layer of "goodie"
repeat same as you would a cooked veggie lasagne
look for better cheese recipes than I have to offer because I make it simple... Juliano is the master of eleborate taste, in fact I recomend making his decadent recipes at least once a week if your just plain craving the decadence of F O O D L U S T
his book is RAW the uncookbook
my recipes are always whats on hand--
Raw food cheese is nut or seed pate basically--
soak sunflower seeds
pine nuts
macadamia nuts
lemon juice
rejuvalac
braggs vinegar
brewers yeast
you can also "not soak" your seeds, but youll need to powder them in a coffee grinder, or vita mix
dont soak macs or pine nuts
anyway, Im on a budget myself, everything in my universe revolves around sunflower seeds: their cheap, their nutritious - their a blank canvas with lots of nutrients. So if I actually have any other nuts or seeds I use them in small amounts.
approx values for seed cheese from my hands:
3 cups soaked sprouted 12- 24 hour sunflower seeds
1 cups pine nuts (expensive)
handfull macadamias (expensive)
enough rajuvalac so it all turns to cream in a food processor--( leave it out with a clean towel over it for 12- 24 hours and the mix actually ferments--
use lemon juice or vinegar if your skidish about fermented foods
BACK to finishing the Lasagne,
refriggerate it after you finish your layers a while for it to homenginize
2 hours at least
this can be stored in the fridge and even warmed up in the dehydrator 2 hours ahead by the slice -- will keep 2-3 days in refrigirator -- (dont worry about about your greens looking weepy either because they are better that way the cell wall is broke down)
run your dehydrator full temp for a half hour , then crank it down to 110--- longer the more decadent tasting
raw food can EASILY be as yummy as the cooked cr*p, in fact once you hit a recipe right it usually tastes better because more flavor
--- dont call it salad
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Permalink Reply by Cina on -
Yum.
I'm in the process of soaking sunflower seeds to make this Lasagne from goneraw.com: http://goneraw.com/recipes/132
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Permalink Reply by Suze on -
Don't call it salad!!!!! I have to laugh -- My mother took me to Cafe Gratitude (a famous raw food restaurant in the SF bay area) whilst I was visiting her, She ordered the Lasagna and coudln't finish it. At the end of the meal the wait staff asked her if she would like to take it home and she exclaimed "Oh yes, I love salad"! Seriously! Obviously she doesn't get it, as she offered to take me to dinner just recently and I reminded her yet again that I only eat raw food and she responded like a pouting child, stating "but that's only salad". A pointless discussion followed in which it became evident that she doesn't believe raw food is real food. If only she could open her mind to all the delicious choices there are out here.
Keepin it real,
Suze
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Permalink Reply by (((((((kEyTh))))))) on -
I refuse to live as if "their" (cooked food people) right and Im wrong...
so thusly thinking, why would I model my food after them--
Suze said:I have tp laugh -- My mother took me to Cafe Gratitude (a famous raw food restaurant in the SF bay area) whilst I was visiting her, She ordered the Lasagna and coudln't finish it. At the end of the meal the wait staff asked her if she would like to take it home and she exclaimed "Oh yes, I love salad"! Seriously! Obviously she doesn't get it, as she offered to take me to dinner just recently and I reminded her yet again that I only eat raw food and she responded like a pouting child, stating "but that's only salad". A pointless discussion followed in which it became evident that she doesn't believe raw food is real food. If only she could open her mind to all the delicious choices there are out here.
Keepin it real,
Suze
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Permalink Reply by Bunny Berry on -
Mmm, lasagna! Here is picture of my first raw lasagna. I made it just a couple of weekends ago. Just dabbled with what I had in the kitchen, and oh yes, keyth is right. SO satisfying!
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Permalink Reply by HippieMom on -
Lol Lol about what your mom said : it's only salad!! I have the same situation with family , they do not consider raw food FOOD , How can you explain that IS actually the REAL FOOD , ( and not the one they are eating )..??? I made the Bunny portobello steaks with yummy salad for dinner last night and mu husband ate with me , at the end of the dinner he said : Now what we have for dinner??? aaaaaaaaa..
x.
Suze said:Don't call it salad!!!!! I have to laugh -- My mother took me to Cafe Gratitude (a famous raw food restaurant in the SF bay area) whilst I was visiting her, She ordered the Lasagna and coudln't finish it. At the end of the meal the wait staff asked her if she would like to take it home and she exclaimed "Oh yes, I love salad"! Seriously! Obviously she doesn't get it, as she offered to take me to dinner just recently and I reminded her yet again that I only eat raw food and she responded like a pouting child, stating "but that's only salad". A pointless discussion followed in which it became evident that she doesn't believe raw food is real food. If only she could open her mind to all the delicious choices there are out here.
Keepin it real,
Suze
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