Vegetables

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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Zucchini Cannellonis with Marsala Mushrooms, Leeks, "Raw"cotta, & Tarragon Marinara

April 27, 2009
Zucchini Cannelloni

Layered zucchini slices make a perfect alternative to cannelloni pasta tubes. Tarragon marinara and leeks give this otherwise Italian style dish a French twist.

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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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Portobello Au Poivre & Creamy Lemon Herb "Noodles"

October 13, 2008

(raw vegan, gluten-free*) Au poivre (French for “with pepper”) is most commonly a beef application in which one or more types of peppercorns are crushed to create a flavorful, punchy crust.  As a lover of all things peppery or spicy, it’s also one of my favorite methods and one that I started longing for since [...]

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Beets & Sweet Potatoes? You'll Never Reach for Another Bag of Chips!

October 10, 2008

(vegan, gluten-free) These sweet potato and beet chips are nothing original, in fact, I got the idea from a recent episode of Giada de Laurentiis’ Everyday Italian where she fried the mandolined slices in extra virgin olive oil and then finished them with garlic-rosemary sea salt.  I was immediately attracted by the bright, deep, pink [...]

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Poblanos Stuffed with Mexican Confetti "Rice", Cilantro Crema, & Spicy Tomato-Chipotle Salsa Cruda

October 2, 2008

vegan, semi-raw, gluten-free Another recent craving for Mexican food got me experimenting again, and just like other similar dishes such as tacos and enchiladas, it works incredibly well with raw.  I believe it’s a combination of both the seasonings and the ingredients to which they are applied compliment each other famously.  Best of all, this [...]

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