SPICY/SAVORY COLLARD WRAP

- 1 collard leaf
- living cress
- living pea shoots
- shredded carrot
- 2 Tbsp sauerkraut

Dressing:

- 3 Tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 tsp chili powder
- sprinkle of cayenne to taste
- lemon juice to taste
- 1 drop Stevia

These are REALLY good!

Juice 1

- 1 collard leaf
- 2 stalks of celery
- 1/3 of a cucumber
- 1/4 lemon
- 3/4 large apple

Rating: 6/10

Juice 2

- 3 stalks of kale
- 2 stalks of celery
- 1/3 of a cucumber
- 1/2 lemon

Rating: 7/10

Entreé 1: Pasta and Marinara Sauce

- 1 spiralized zucchini
- 3 tomatoes
- 12 sundried tomatoes
- 3 dates
- 1 bunch chopped parsley
- 3 gloves garlic
- 1 Tbsp Braggs seasoning
- 1/2 Tbsp of Cayenne

Rating: 9/10

Entreé 2: Chocolate Chili

Mix in bowl:
- A copious amount of sprouts
- diced red peppers
- diced onions
- diced tomatoes
- 1/2 tp of Italian Seasoning
- 1/2 tb of cayenne
- 1/4 cup of chili powder
- 2 tp of cacao powder

Puree in blender:
- 4 cloves .garlic
- 3 dates
- 10 soaked sundried tomatoes + their water
- 1 tomato
- 1/8 cup olive oil

Mix together in bowl.
Additionally spice to taste.

Rating: 9/10

Soup 1: Thai Coconut Soup

Into a blender:
- 2 cups coconut milk
- 1/4 cup pineapple
- some loose coconut for texture

Blend and pour into a bowl.
Float mushrooms and additional pineapple in bowl. Sprinkle with cumin.

Rating: 10/10

Stuffed Zucchini with Marinated Bean Salad

Raw Garbanzo Dip

- Sprouted chick peas
- Olive oil
- Lemon juice
- Garlic
- Pizza seasoning
- Cumin
- Cayenne
- Celtic Sea Salt

Aztec Chipotle Dip

- Sprouted chick peas
- Olive oil
- Lemon
- Onion
- Garlic
- Raw cacao
- Chipotle pepper
- Celtic sea salt

Cilantro Pesto

- Cilantro
- Brazil nuts
- Pepetas (pumpkin seeds)
- Sunflower seeds
- Lemon juice
- Garlic
- Dulse
- Braggs

Given the success of the sweet potato fries, I decided to try to make regular potato chips. Somehow, though, the sweet potatoes receive a much better treatment in the dehydrator than regular potatoes which came out tacky, starchy, and nothing like chips. Perhaps it’s because I had never had sweet potato chips and therefore had no expectation that I was pleasantly surprised?

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Pizza crust with cheese and sauce

Finished

The above photos look delicious, but sadly the finished product was not quite so tantalizing. Raw food can be very quick, but it can also be the antithesis of Fast Food – in other words, akin to watching paint drying. Lesson learned: dehydrate longer than the recipe calls for. This causes a slight problem to find out that a pizza requires 10+ hours dehydrating in total and you only have 7-8 hours before your dinner guests arrive. Even at the 10 hour mark, the pizza crust was still on the mushy side, suggesting that we either had made it too thick, or the writer of the fantastic recipe book had a magic dehydrator.

In conclusion, I suspect we will prepare such fancy dishes a day ahead of time so that there will be time to further “cook” the end product should it end up retaining too much moisture.

“Raw”violi

Raw Chocolate “Timbits”