sarahfae: (meee)
We went camping with our wonderful friends over the holiday weekend.
It was our first trip camping with both dogs, and only our third time sleeping in D's amazing Wildernest tent camper since he bought his truck. Gosh, I love that thing --- it seriously feels like we're luxury camping whenever we go. Laying in the camper's bed, smelling the river and campfire, the puppies snuggled underneath our sleeping bag, my thoughts always wander:
"I could stay here forever. What fun it would be to live as a gypsy for a year...of course out of choice --- and with this awesome set-up."
Camping in general is probably one of my most favorite things that comes with summer, along with the sunshine.

In spite of my absense on the food/recipe posting front I have been eating wonderfully and somehow managing to stay very balanced with eating raw food. However I can't deny that this summers busy pattern (along with the no camera thing) has me completely tied up in so many other things, so creating new foods has been put on the back burner until it quiets down a bit...this of course excludes random crappy cell phone pics of quick food that I whip up for dinner, like last nights for instance.

Cell phone food pix, and puppies! )
sarahfae: (meee)


Stuffed Marinaded Eggplant bites w/ Savory Almond Cheeze


Flat bread with Savory Almond Cheeze, Avocado, topped w/ Flax Cheeze powder

Read more... )
sarahfae: (no make-up)

A splendidly long weekend was had, and now it's Tuesday.
I love it when Tuesday feels like Monday, but it's not Monday. 

I'll go into the details of my wonderful weekend later today in another post, too many happy details to recall at this moment....
Besides, I really just want to post some pictures of food, and Elmer too.



I hope you don't mind food and puppy pics int eh same post! )
sarahfae: (no make-up)

I am seriously SO excited about the meal I had for dinner tonight. There's a bit of a story that goes along with it...so here it is.

Once upon a time Sarahfae was in her kitchen, thinking as she always does...about food, and creating something yummy to eat (and share with her online friends).
She remembered suddenly the two cucumbers in her refrigerator, and how much she enjoys eating them for lunches. So she pulled them out from their respective "crisper drawer", and began peeling off the skin with her newly aquired Titan Peeler. After the skins were removed her thoughts went to how much more enjoyable the cucumbers would be in a meal if they were spiral cut like pasta. So she did just that.

Hollowed out the insides with a mellon baller...


And as she removed the seeds from the cucumber she thought to herself:
"I can't throw away these seeds, they're totally edible, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with them"

So she set the seeds aside, and finished spiral-cutting her cucumber...


After the cucumber was properly spiral-cut, she packed it up in a container and placed it in the fridge - where it would wait for her until the following days lunch.

Meanwhile back at the kitchen counter, Sarahfae decided to get reacquainted with the cucumber seeds she had previously removed with a mellon baller. She poured a little bit of her favorite vinaigrette dressing over the balls of seeds, and set them in the fridge to marinate while she prepared the rest of her dinner.

Four leaves of Nappa Cabbage, and one Mango later, a dinner plate was almost ready.

Sporadically (as Sarah's thoughts often are when she's in the kitchen) her mind turned to raw nut cheeze powders and how yummy they are: 
"I think I'll whip up a few different kinds so I can have a little bit more variety in my work lunches." 

She grabbed up her pretty red coffee grinder (the BEST tool to have if you want to grind up your nuts and seeds!), and made three different types of raw cheese powder --- each one with a distinct flavor, and all equally very tastey!

Clockwise from top:

Flax-cheeze (tastes JUST like a ground up cheeze-it):
1/2 c Flaxseed Meal
1 tsp Onion Powder
1 tsp Paprika
3 tsp Nut.yeast
1 tsp dehydrated Red Bell Pepper (can substitute with an extra dash of paprika and a dash of raw cane sugar)
- dash of sea salt
Place all of the above ingredients into coffee grinder and grind evenly.

Pumpkin Parm-cheeze:
1 c Raw Pumpkin Seeds
2-3 tsp Nut.yeast
- sea salt to taste
Place all of the above ingredients into coffee grinder and grind evenly

Sunflower Parm-cheeze:
1 c Raw Sunflower Seeds
2-3 tsp Nut.yeast
-pinch of Raw Cane Sugar (optional)
- sea salt to taste
Place all of the above ingredients into coffee grinder and grind evenly


After Sarahfae had her three raw cheeze powders made she placed them in the refridgerator (for optimum long-lasting freshness!), and that's when she noticed a lonely Avocado...staring up at her...begging to be a part of her dinner.
Without hesitation she grabbed the Avocado and began slicing, removing the large seed and cold bumpy black skin. Placing the sliced Avocado in a shallow bowl, she reached for the Sunflower parm-cheeze and generously poured the raw cheeze powder on top of the Avocado, covering it completely.

It was then, at that very moment "Parm-Cheeze Encrusted Avocado" was born...
...and it went on to become the star of her dinner plate, the Mango of course becoming the perfect lovely co-star.

One more pic with the entire cast... )



The rest was raw food history...in my belly.

The End.

sarahfae: (Default)

I have a bunch of pictures from the weekend (Saturday) adventures, but for now I want to post the dinner (along with recipe) that I ate this evening.

First off, I have to confess that I've been obsessing about this meal all day...my never ending craving for comfort food has pretty much been ruling what I make in the kitchen as of late. I really LOVE taking traditional non-vegan foods and translating them into vegan, and raw. Tonight's dinner was just that.
I wanted pasta with an alfredo sauce...so that is exactly what I made.

I've seen recipes for raw primavera style sauces before, but none of them had the right ingredients, or were too complicated with lots of strange components that you'd have to scale the side of an Appalachian mountain to find. This is my version of Fettuccine Alfredo---rawfood style:

First you make your pasta. For this I just spiral-cut a big zucchini, finely diced up some bell pepper and onion (sundried tomato would be good with this too), and put it aside in a bowl...

This-a-way for the finished product... )

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