Adventures in Raw Food

Oh man oh man, this raw butternut squash recipe is so easy and so good! And if you’re lucky enough to live near a store that sells prepackaged cubed organic butternut squash, you have it made! We discovered it at Whole Foods. But you can of course use a whole raw butternut squash as well.

Wondering what to do with leftover carrot pulp from making carrot juice? Try these wonderful raw macaroons made with carrot pulp and coconut!

This is my recipe for easy broccoli raisin salad, and kids (and grownups) love it! And it’s so easy, you’ll find yourself and your family eating brocolli more than you thought possible with this brocolli raisin salad!

This butternut squash and mango soup is a riff on Juliano’s orginal recipe. It is delicious, easy and fast to make, and surprisingly creamy!

This combination of raw juice - apple, chard and kiwi - sounds as it might be ok - maybe even tolerable - but in fact it is delicious, and loaded with good nutrition!

This green smoothie recipe is easy, easy, easy, and mild!

This raw cereal recipe is incredibly easy to make, and such a great way to start the day! And it’s yummy, too!

It’s one of the latest fads - portabella mushrooms for sandwiches. Portabella mushrooms are delicious, and a great source of vegetarian protein. But how do you do portabella mushrooms raw?

We had these raw food crepes for dessert last night, and wow they were good! And there is something about eating this kind of dessert where the fruit still tastes like it is supposed to, rather than having been cooked into some sort of goo, that is just wonderful.

If you have a Vita-Mix and are short on time - or just dipping your toe in the water of juicing - then those bagged, prewashed organic baby carrots are just the thing!

This is a really simple, and amazingly tasty and refreshing side dish. You can use all of the summer squash for these, but I like to make them with just the necks, and use the rest of the summer squash for Annie’s Stuffed Summer Squash.

It turns out that if you slice a summer squash in half, length-wise, and cut off the crook neck (reserve the neck to make yummy, refreshing marinated squash rounds!), you can scoop out the seed section, and have perfect little “boat” to fill with stuffing and let cure in your dehydrator!

I created this recipe for Thai Spring Coconut Noodles with Spicy Peanut Sauce for dinner tonight, and it was great! It’s tasty tasty, and very satisfying!

This simple, gorgeous sorbet really takes only 5 minutes, and that’s including clean up! And it goes fabulously under Deep Dark Delicious Raw Chocolate Sauce (which also takes less than five minues to make!)! A complete dessert in only ten minutes!

This delicious raw chocolate sauce is a riff on a recipe from Shazzie and David Wolfe’s incredible book, Naked Chocolate. This is as true a dark chocolate sauce as you could want. It’s delicious over 5-Minute Raspberry Sorbet!

This recipe for raw spicy peanut sauce (also known as raw Dan Dan sauce) is amazing, and very forgiving!

I really wanted to experiment with making raw peanut butter from raw peanuts. So when they had raw peanuts in the bulk section at Whole Foods, I jumped on them.

This is a recipe for raw food mashed “potatoes”, only it’s really raw food mashed cauliflower. While it doesn’t taste exactly like mashed potatoes, it’s a decent approximation, and very tasty on it’s own!

This raw food drink is delicious, and sweet, and yummy, and so good for you! And it’s a great way to use raw cacao nibs!

This drink, made from raw cacao nibs and oranges, is so incredibly delicious!

This is a recipe for raw mole sauce which I created when one day I was wondering what I might do with my new bag of raw cacao nibs (ohmygosh, they are divine), and I suddenly had a hankering for mole!

Tonight for dinner we had angel hair zucchini with macadamia-cashew cream and cherry tomatoes. It was delicious!!

This dressing is so delicious on a salad or veggies! In fact, it’s so good that I can eat a big bowl of nothing but lettuce with this dressing and love it! And it’s so easy to make!

This light, tropical mousse makes a great side or garnish to a main course, or a wonderful dessert.

With all of the great nutrition, taste, and versatility packed into one young coconut, they are a bargain at the $2.00 to $3.00 they cost. But opening them is nearly as difficult as opening a more mature coconut, and because they are so wonderful, you will want to do that much more frequently than you probably open mature coconuts. But it doesn’t have to be difficult. Here’s how to open a young coconut.

Warning: this is not raw food. But it is my disgustingly healthful homemade bread machine bread mix. And if you are going to have bread, it’s a good bread to have.

The raw food garlic almonds smell so good while they are in the dehydrator, and taste great!

Nearly all recipes I have seen for raw crackers and flatbreads call for dividing the dough onto two or more Teflex sheets, and spreading the dough out to the edges of the sheet, using either your hands or a spatula of some sort. Now, I have discovered three things which make the process of spreading raw cracker or flatbread dough onto a Teflex sheet a snap.

This is one of our favourite raw food recipes using the dehydrator. These mushrooms are delicious, and truly taste as if they’d been sauteed, only somehow better!

We absolutely love these raw corn tortillas, and they are among the easiest of raw food recipes to make!