Raw pomegranate, walnut and tomato soup; green peppers with raw pepita, walnut and mango pate.
2 good sized tomatoes.
2/3 cup pomegranate juice.
1/3 cup walnuts.
1 tablespoon evoo.
1 teaspoon garlic.
1 tablespoon red onion.
Sea salt and black pepper to taste.
Minced basil and red onion for garnish.
Core the tomatoes and puree the ingredients.
1/2 cup walnuts.
1/2 cup pepitas.
1 peeled and diced mango (yellow will be riper and sweeter, while green will be sharper).
1/3 cup red onion.
1 teaspoon of garlic.
1/3 - 1/2 nutritional yeast (add more to absorb liquid from the mango if you need to).
sea salt and black pepper to taste.
Puree ingredients.
Let the puree chillax in the fridge for a couple of hours or overnight if you can.
Slice one large green pepper to remove seeds and pith.
Spoon pate onto the slices.
Labels: green pepper, mango, pepitas, pomegranate, raw, soup, tomato, vegan, vegan pate, walnut
"So, the soup's not cooked?"
That was the question one of my co-workers asked me when I told her about my dinner plans. I have to give her a full report tomorrow!
Before I left work today I printed out a list of a few different raw soup recipes - the ones not requiring avocado since there was no chance in heck of finding a decently ripe one - and I took my list to the NFS to see what I could get. The decision was made to create my own based on the recipes I'd read, and this is what I used:
4 roma tomatoes
3 baby cucumbers
a good handful of curly parsley
1/2 inch of ginger
1/2 yellow onion
1/2 beet
2 kale leaves
1 carrot
sunflower sprouts
a few squirts of Bragg
a squirt of lemon juice
water for consistency
I blended all the chopped ingredients except for the water and sprouts in my food processor, adding the water just to thin the soup out. In the large mug I placed some sunflower sprouts, the soup, then more sprouts. I had originally hoped to add some garlic but I was out and I thought the soup might be bland and tasteless. I was wrong! It had a very nice flavour and chunky texture. The garlic would be great for next time, but I'm so pleased with how this turned out. It made a whole lot, and I'm glad because I'm still kinda hungry.
Labels: raw, raw vegetable soup
I am woman, feed me raw!
Hey hey, I made two salads from
the website Mishka suggested. I didn't use the exact ingredients. The only challenge was assembling the ingredients, produce is wilty this time of year. Neither of these have much protein in them but I could have changed that by adding nuts.
The
Zucchini Zalad ingredients:
I didn't eat the little space bunny, she just wanted to have her picture taken!
Then I made
T.C.'s Super Salad. The leaf lettuce was the only green that looked okay when I went food shopping, so that's what I went with. The combination of the grapefruit juice and the avocado made up for having no dressing.
Labels: avocado, cabbage, celery, garlic, grapefruit, lemon, lettuce, raw, red pepper, zucchini
UNcookalong + a cute little button
Hey gang! I ordered a button from
MoonArts, it's so cute! I didn't make any design requests at all, and look at what she came up with, a pot of hearts. Nothin' but love in our kitchens! You can save this little box and make a link to here on your own blog.
So we're doing raw this week? From
the website Mishka mentioned, I started with the
Energizing Smoothie. Dropped mango, pineapple and strawberries in blender and whirred:
I forgot the banana and ice cubes. It turned out thick, more of a pulpie than a smoothie (nod to Vincent), so I slurped it with a spoon:
Labels: mango, pineapple, raw, smoothies, strawberries
Raw, raw, raw!
It's not Friday, so I'm either late for a suggestion this week or early for a suggestion next week.
First, I was wondering what people's thoughts were on the timing of our recipes. Sometimes a recipe a week seems daunting and we end up missing a week or a recipe doesn't get tried out. So what do you think about a recipe every 2 weeks? Discuss!
And now for the suggestion. I thought it might be fun to try something raw. There is a
great website filled with a lot of recipes and not all require appliances like juicers or dehydrators. This time around, why don't we go through the list of recipes and try the one that appeals to each of us?
Labels: raw
