Sunday, December 5, 2010

Kale Chips for Breakfast

This morning the D offered up curry kale chips (recipe from Delightfully Raw).  If you are a kale chip fan, you must try these!  The sauce is sweet and a just a tiny bit spicy.  I had to do some substituting as organic red peppers are nearly impossible to find this time of year.  I replaced the red pepper with extra carrots and some zucchini.  Scrumptious curry sauce made from veggies?  Hell yeah.


I also made the (imo, better than cooked) pasta sauce from Delightfully Raw.  It has been so much fun to uncook my way through that book! 



I couldn't find my mandolin to make pretty noodles (I must have given it away after shredding my fingers one too many times) so I peeled a few zukes for the noodles and topped the sauce with:   

Brazil Nut "Parmesan
2 cups Brazil nuts, soaked for a few hours
juice from 1/2 lemon
1/2 tsp (+?) salt
2 tbs nutritional yeast 
Blend* ingredients and then crumble onto dehydrator tray. Leave in the D at 105 overnight. 
*Food processing might be easier, I just didn't relish the idea of cleaning the f.p. afterwards. 

The parmesan added a nice tangy, salty, crunchy texture.  Of course, TH had to mention that it tasted nothing like the real thing, but whatever. 

A little post lunch dessert:



I used real vanilla beans in the cheesecake and I think it made a difference in flavor.   The outsides look like dried up worms, but inside there are thousands of tiny, aromatic seeds.  It's kind of a hassle to scrape out the seeds, but your fingers will smell great afterwards!

Question:  Has anyone ever blended the entire vanilla bean, pod and all, into a dessert?











2 comments:

  1. kt! this is lena in fairbanks. I love this blog! I've heard of a raw food diet and always thought it was a little bit crazy, but after perusing your posts, I want to try to make a lot of the foods you've featured. I wonder if you could (or have) posted about the cost of eating raw food, especially having to order all of it by mail.

    keep up the good work!

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  2. Well hello there, Lena! Thank you so much for your sweet post. I used to think the raw food diet was wacky as well, but I was strangely drawn to it. Once I started eating raw, I felt so energized, happy and light, that I couldn't imagine not eating mostly raw. (I know, I sound like a weirdo.) The expense of raw food is definitely something to consider. I feel lucky to be in a position that I can spend more than the average person on food. However, I know a raw food diet can be done inexpensively, by steering clear from the fancy supplements and dessert making ingredients. I try to keep costs down by buying in bulk and freezing what I won't be using right away. This is getting really long- maybe I will do a post on this topic in the future. Until then, I found the cool website "Raw on $10 a Day" at http://rawon10.blogspot.com/. What a great question! :) P.S. I was so sorry you couldn't come down for Thanksgiving!

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