Day 23

Today I want to share with you one of my favorite things... My green juice recipe! This juice is full of nutrients and tastes great too! For those of you who own a juicer (and for those of you who don't, I recommend the Breville 800 - it's worth every penny!), juice the following ingredients:

- 2 celery stalks
- 5 large kale leaves
- 1 apple (I recommend Fuji)
- 1" of fresh ginger
- 1 whole lemon, peeled

Juice and enjoy this green sweet treat:

I also tried another recipe today from Ani's Raw Food Desserts: Oatmeal Raisin Cookies!

These are made from raw oats, dates, raisins, and cinnamon with a pecan on top! They took seconds to make and less than that to eat. Super yummy!

Bon Apetit!

Day Fifteen

Yay for 15 days on the raw diet!

I took a slight break from rawsomeness this weekend while on a whitewater rafting trip on the Main Salmon. Thankfully, Mountain River Outfitters rocked my cazbah and made vegan meals for me... I was super thankful for them catering to my high maintenance diet!

Today I am back in the game and since I am super stocked full of kale, herbs, lettuce, and spinach from my dad's organic garden, I took a break from Ani's Uncookbooks and freestyled tonight's menu. Here's what I made:

• I started with chopping a whole bunch of dinosaur kale
• Added shredded carrot
• Chopped onion
• Chopped chives
• Food processed fresh basil and sage (from Dad's garden... Love you Dad!)
• Sesame seeds
• Sesame oil (not raw, but adds great flavor)
• Rice Vinegar
• Mirin (sweet rice seasoning)
• Avocado
  

I munched on all this between two pieces of raw celery-flax-sunflower bread from one of Ani's books along with some ketchup (not raw) and dijon mustard. I paired it with a glass of carrot, apple, celery, beet, ginger, kale, and lemon juice and my tummy did a happy dance tonight!

Cha cha cha!

Day Eleven

Day Eleven marks the celebration of the "Grilled Cheese and Tomato Sandwich." One might think that being raw would not include such wonderous things as a grilled cheese sandwich. Ani Phyo says think again, my friends.

During my weekend adventures, I snagged a copy of Ani's latest and greatest uncookbook... Ani's Raw Food Essentials. Flip to page 189, and you will discover "Grilled Cheese and Tomato."

This fabuous meal is actually composed of two of Ani's recipes to make one superfabulous dish.

You start with Zucchini Bread (I cheated and made her sunflower bread on page 24)... Made from celery, flax seeds, and sunflower seeds - all food processsed and then dehydrated to make bread.

Then you make "Cheeze Sauce..." from page 103. This was so yummy I brought it to the office for show and taste. It received excellent reviews from my favorite open minded office peeps. It's made from blended cashews, garlic, sea salt, and lemon juice.

Combine the two dishes above with a sliced tomato and voila:

This dish is super quick and so scrumptious, I took a bite before I remembered to take a pic of my creation! The best part is the cheeze sauce, which is thick, tasty, and seriously tastes like melted cheese. Seriously.

Bon Apetit!