Salads

Fennel, Green Apple, & Pistachio Salad

March 11, 2011

This is a VERY addicting salad that will definitely get you into the spring season spirit. Until today, we in Central Florida have lately been spoiled with temperatures that are more like early summer than late February or early March! So this has been a wonderful light-weight but satisfying salad that I’ve been grazing off [...]

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Asparagus, Baby Vidalia, & Chervil Salad with Tarragon Vinaigrette

November 9, 2009

A raw vegan Provençal-inspired salad with asparagus, baby vidalia onions, chervil, yellow tomato, and tarragon vinaigrette.

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Florida Cucumber, Heirloom Tomato, & Red Onion Salad with Dill & Lemon Oil

June 25, 2009

A delicious summer salad featuring the freshest local cucumbers and heirloom tomatoes. Dill and lemon add extra brightness.

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Big Green Thai Crunch Salad with Coconut-Almond Curry Dressing

May 25, 2009

raw vegan, gluten-free* I don’t think I’ve met a single person who isn’t impressed with the exotic flavors of Thai cuisine. And what’s one of the easiest, most healthful ways to bring many of its flavor components together in a single bowl? A big, green, crisp, refreshing salad! If you’re really hungry, this recipe will [...]

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Beet & Artichoke Carpaccio with Horseradish Cream, Garlic Chips, Watercress, & Fig Balsamic

May 15, 2009

raw vegan, gluten-free This is easy to make and the pretty colors always bring out the “ooo’s and aah’s”. It’s a great alternative from the usual bowl of salad, and has even converted die-hard beet haters to succumb. It’s very helpful to use a mandoline to make the paper thin slices of beets, artichoke, onion, [...]

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Liquid Gold Dressing: An Old Favorite

May 4, 2009

All about the original Liquid Gold dressing, from the book “Becoming Vegan”, a unique tasty and highly nutritional dressing.

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"Roasted" Vegetable Stack with Tomato, Arugula, Purple Basil Hemp Pesto, & Macadamia Parmesan

November 11, 2008

(raw vegan) Last week, I finally got hold of some flawlessly fresh portobello mushroom caps – something that has seemed hard to come by around Orlando lately. And I wanted to have them marinated and dehydrated immediately! A friend who has recently become intrigued by raw food asked me, “Dehydrated mushrooms? Where is the pleasure [...]

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Soup & Salad: Feel-Good Raw Vegetable Soup à la Jean-Georges

October 29, 2008

(raw vegan, gluten-free) So this is one of my most favorite, simple pleasures I took away from the Gourmet Institute a couple weekends ago that I haven’t quit talking about. Besides the fact that it’s healthy and raw, I think what impresses me most is that when world-renowned chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten demonstrated how to make [...]

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