raw food recipes?
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free skin care · Mon May 29, 2006 9:44 pm

Hello,

I have been eating some wonderful raw food concoctions lately, and wanted to share and possibly get somemore delicious recipes from all of you. I love eating for health and beauty, and I also love eating really indulgently horrible things too, but let's focus on the good stuff. Here are some recipes that are absolutely delicious and so incredibly good for you, it is unbelievable!

I think the key to delicious raw food is how you prepare it, i.e. how you cut everything up to vary textures and how you put things together to synergize flavors.

My #1 favorite:
kale-radish-jicama salad:
chopped kale
jicama cut into matchsticks
thinly sliced radish rounds (this works best if you have a mandoline contraption)
*toss in a bowl with olive oil, fresh lemon juice, and salt and pepper, all to taste.
THIS IS SO GOOD, YOU HAVE TO TRY IT TO BELIEVE IT! I first had it at whole foods rawbar and have been replicating it ever since; the fresh kale is full of good vitamins and bioflavonoids and the jicama has loads of vit c. i just made it for a friend who has never been able to stomach cooked kale and she had two helpings and begged me to take the rest home! (I let her.)

#2: zucchini-mint-lemon salad
raw zucchini slices, cut into rounds and then each round cut into quarters
mint chiffonade
*dress with olive oil, fresh lemon juice, salt and pepper

This one you have to wait for about 1/2 hours before you eat it, since the lemon juice 'cooks' the zucchini and makes it taste less raw. It keeps well but I would recommend leaving out the mint until you are ready to serve each time. This is a wonderful melding of flavors that I discovered while living in Paris last summer, since the farmers markets were full of mint and beautiful zucchini and zucchini flowers. You can also add some fresh ricotta if you like, and basil works, too.

Please share!

Best,
avalange

Tue May 30, 2006 1:31 am

What is kale and what is jicama? *goes off to google*

free skin care · Tue May 30, 2006 8:20 am

jicama is one of the most wonderful vegetables! My mother used to cut it up into little sticks and give me an entire bag of it to eat in my lunch as a snack. It is slightly sweet, very crunchy (when not overripe), and has a lot of water and fiber content.
It is used in a lot of South American and Mexican recipes, and it is sort of the forgotten vegetable in the supermarket... Sad

Kale is in general that vegetable that everyone says they hate the most... And indeed, it is very gross if it is not cooked perfectly and seasoned carefully. I don't think I've ever really enjoyed it until now. But who knew that chopping it up and serving it raw could solve that problem?

Hopefully some of you will try this and love it...

avalange

free skin care · Tue May 30, 2006 8:31 am

this is a very informative website, called "The world's healthiest foods":

http://www.whfoods.com/foodstoc.php

It makes me want to eat kale every day, at every meal!

best,
avalange

Tue May 30, 2006 9:56 pm

Wow, I don't think I've seen or eaten either of those! Kale doesn't sound too nice but jicama sounds interesting. I'll have to look for this in the fruit&veg shop next time and see if we actually have it here or not.

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