Avocado "Fries" & Sprouted Amaranth Cracker Recipes

I love to make raw snacks. Healthy raw oils like those from seeds, nuts, avocados and olives are very important in a vegan diet, especially if you are endeavoring to eat more raw foods.

These are sprouted amaranth seeds. They are tiny and very hard to deal with and hard to photograph.

These are about 2 days old sprouts.


















Sprouted amaranth crackers
1/2 cup sprouted amaranth 1/2 cup flax seed
pinch of salt
1 tsp cumin
water as needed (not much)
In food processor until a thick smooth paste
Turn out and evenly spread on dehydrator sheet, score for the size crackers you want.
Dehydrate at 115F until stable on top (about 1 hour) then turn out on rack and continue to dry until they are as crisp as you want them.

I also made some avocado fries today.

Avocado "Fries"
Slice one avocado into strips
sprinkle with nutritional yeast on both sides.
Sprinkle w whatever other spices you want, a pinch of salt, cumin, black pepper, lemon, garlic, etc.
place on dehydrator rack and dry at 115F for approx 1 hour until you are able to handle them w/out them falling apart.

Red lettuce with avocado fries, sprouted amaranth crackers, turnip pickles and fermented cashew cream.

White Bean and Avocado Fajitas Vegan Lunch or Dinner Idea

Cooked white beans seasoned with olive oil and salt
Sliced ripe avocado
1 or 2 tortillas
Put one tortilla in a medium hot, dry skillet. Fill with beans and avocado on half of the tortilla. Fold the other half over and heat about 4 minutes on each side.

Shown with sauerkraut, lemon jalapeno pickles and cashew sour cream.

Today's Green Smoothie for late lunch

1 very ripe avocado
2 very ripe banana
1 tbs lemon juice
1 clove garlic
1 large handful of kale
2 tbs flax seeds
Fermented cashew milk. (usually i only put fruit and seeds in my smoothies but the jar was almost empty so I half filled it with water shook that up and poured it in the blender. Nothing goes to waste around here)

Sweet, creamy with a hint of garlic and a little tangy. This was surprisingly good.

RAW Dinner or Lunch Idea: Veges Au Gratin and Salsa Salad

Happy kitteh sleeping in the window















Chipmunk eating the seed the birds drop from the feeder











Salsa Salad
2 roma tomatoes
half a ripe avocado
2 or more tbs chopped onion
juice of one lemon
pinch of cane sugar
pinch of salt
big pinch of finely ground black pepper








And finally! Veges Au Gratin



Broccoli, cauliflower and carrot cut up in bite sized pieces and some curly kale, shredded.

Make some seed cheese subbing cashews for the seeds and adding 1/2 of a ripe avocado and enough water to make it sauce-y.





Pour cheese sauce over the veges in a shallow baking pan and dehydrate at 125F for 1 hour or more.

The shorter the time in the D, the crisper the veges will be. ooo, that rhymes :)

Serve with steamed quinoa or wrap in a collard leaf, that's what I did with mine.

What did you have for dinner?

Everything Bagel with Avocado

Simple lunch of everything bagel with one whole avocado sliced on top.

Raw Vegan Snack Ideas: Snacking Happens: Banana Date Mash Up Avocaco Sauerkraut Salad

I decided to post photos of my lovely raw vegan snacks today because I can only take so many photos of green smoothies...

Mid Morning Snack (Second Breakfast)

Banana Date Mash Up














2 ripe bananas
5 or so dates, chopped or whole 1/4 cup mostly raw granola (which is oats, sunflower seeds, chopped almonds, chopped dates and coconut oil, dehydrated overnight at 95f), all mashed up in a bowl.

Mid Afternoon Snack

Avocado & Sauerkraut Salad














1 half a ripe avocado sprinkled with vegan parm (1/4 cup almonds, 1/4 tsp salt, 1/4 cup nutritional yeast, 1/2 tsp cornstarch, optional, keeps it from clumping) and covered with about a 1/4 cup of raw sauerkraut. Eat with a spoon.

Raw Food Snacking Happens! Raw Banana Avocado Pudding

Whole food goodness and sweet, delicious raw food nutrition at it's simple best


















Banana Avocado Pudding
1 avocado
2 bananas
2 tsp lemon juice
Serves 2
Peel the bananas, cut the avo and remove the seed and scoop out the meat. Cut them both into pieces in a bowl mash them together with a fork.
if you like, add vanilla and nutmeg or cinnamon
The lemon juice prevents it from turning brown right away. If you are making this to eat immediately, you can leave out the lemon juice.

Works as breakfast, snack, lunch, Sunday brunch buffet or even dessert!

Super quick to make, no equipment necessary.

Sauerkraut Salad

Mid afternoon snack.













Sauerkraut, avocado, red bell pepper and flax crackers.

I'm thinking of dinner. What to feed the omni's tonight and how long it can go on this way? I have to cook something and not eat it but still have it taste good. These lunkheads aren't going to change so I will have to. I'm certainly capable. Adapt or die, as they say.

Snacking Happens! Raw Living Vegan Nachos :: RAW Snack Ideas and Party Foods

My Recipe for Raw Vegan Nachos














Nachos. Short for Ignatius as far as I can see. Anyone know why they are called nachos? Aside from that joke about the little boy who stole the cheese from the cheese truck and they chased him yelling "that's NACHO CHEESE!!" (Not Yo Cheese, get it? I know, it isn't funny, but do you GET IT?).

Anyway, I posted this the other day and got a response from this guy requesting the recipe.

Here are all the individual recipes for the components of the RAW LIVING VEGAN NACHOS!

Raw Vegan Nachos
As far as I am concerned, this serves 1. Me. But there is always someone who wants to share so you might want to make extra.

Here we go...

Flax Seed Chips.
These are easy to make but you need a dehydrator and you should make them the day before to be sure they are crisp enough to be used as chips.

1/3 cup each whole flaxseed, sunflower seed, sesame seed, soaked over night and rinsed.
1/2 cup vegetable pulp from juicing or 1/2 cup vegetables such as carrots, onions, tomato or a combination
1 1/2 tbs nutritional yeast (optional. I like the cheesy flavor it lends to the crackers)
1/8 tsp salt
Mix well, smooth on a plastic sheet and dehydrate until crackers. There are more detailed instructions to be found by following the link above.

Sunflower Seed Cheese

Soak your seeds over night and rinse then mix in blender:

3 tbs olive oil
1 tsp salt
juice of one lemon, about 1/4 cup
1/3 cup sesame seed
2/3 cup sunflower (add 1/3 at a time)
water to blend
All ingredients in blender except 1/3 c sunflower seeds. Add enough water to keep it moving.
Could be made spicier with the addition of some cayenne or chili powder.
When it's pretty well blended, add the rest of the seeds and some more water. It will thicken as it sits, so make it sort of thin.

Salsa!

Apple/celery salsa is apple and celery in equal amounts (about half an apple and two small ribs celery), diced
one clove garlic, 2 tbs yellow onion and a tbs ginger, finely chopped,
2 roma tomatoes, diced
4 tbs lemon juice
1/4 tsp salt
Mix all ingredients well and let sit overnight or for at least one hour.

Here is another, more complex recipe that I call Mango Salsa! Ai yi yi!
Ingredients:
One very ripe mango
One roma tomato
Half red bell pepper
One small onion, finely chopped
Two cloves garlic, minced
One rib celery, finely chopped
One Tsp fresh ginger, finely chopped
Fresh Oregano leaves, chopped.
Juice of one lemon, about 1/4 cup

Chop all ingredients, mix together well and let set 1 hour or overnight

Last, but not least

Guacamole

1 med avocado
1/2 roma tomato
2 tbs lemon juice
1/8 tsp onion powder
mix well. sprinkle lemon juice over the top and store lidded.

If you need heat, and I know some of you must, here is a bonus recipe:
Raw Pickled Jalapeno Peppers!

4 Large jalapenos about 1 cup
1 1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp curry powder
pinch asofoetida

mix together in a clean dry jar and leave for 4-6 hours so the peppers can marinate in the spices. The salt will draw the water out and there will be liquid in the bottom of the jar.

Then add 3 tbs lemon juice
1 1/2 tbs apple cider vinegar

Leave jar with contents for a day then it is ready to eat. Shake the jar every couple hours to mix it up and make sure all the peppers are covered.

Ok, I hope this was helpful. Here is another photo of nachos that I made back in January

Vegan Benedict AND some Roundish Bread I baked this morning in my New Silicone Baking Pans

This morning for Sunday breakfast/brunch I decided to make this easy dish:
Vegan Benedict
















I got this recipe from the McDougall* quick and easy cookbook that I bought at Goodwill for $3.99. I love that store.
















I changed it slightly.














VEGAN Hollandaise Sauce

1/4 cup peanuts. The peanuts I used were soaked then dehydrated.
1 cup water
blend the peanuts and water until smooth pour into a saucepan and add
2 tbs lemon juice
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp nutritional yeast
1/8 tsp salt
1/4 tsp curry powder
1/4 tsp paprika
1 tbs cornstarch mixed with 2 tbs cold water
Mix it all together with a whisk and heat slowly, stirring constantly until thickened. About 5 minutes on med heat.

The sandwiches

Toast six slices of bread
Plate the bread, two slices per plate and put a thick slice of tomato and avocado on each slice of toast.
Pour the hot hollandaise sauce on top of the sandwiches and serve immediately.















Serves three.

Fabulous Sunday brunch style breakfast. Wow. I mean, really, really good. The hollandaise was very convincing.

Those McDougalls are aces in my book. But they use honey. But I can get around that. I love cook books and this one is a real keeper. *


I baked a loaf of bread.














I made a double batch cuz I was gonna put it in two pans. But it fit in one pan. My mistake. Or not. It looks good, actually.














Next time I will split the dough and see how it works.




Footnotes:

* I guess I should link that to Amazon somehow so if you buy it through my site I will get paid but I'm not sure how. You can click through the green cloud type thing to get to Amazon and I will get paid that way. Cheers.

Vegan Cruelty-free Tuna Melt Sandwich :: Juicing Pulp Recipe

Oh, look! An entry that isn't about cats!
















I was making a nutmeat mixture to stuff in acorn squash for dinner and accidentally made a vegan tuna-type salad mix.

I used vege juice pulp (celery, cucumber, parsley, kale, bell pepper, tomato and lemon). I put that in the food processor with walnuts, oats, a 1/4 tsp of salt, 1/4 tsp sage, four black figs, one sm yellow onion, one lrg clove of garlic and some almond milk to get it mixed and chopped them with the S blade until very fine.

When I tasted it, I thought, wow! This kinda tastes like tuna salad and would be very good raw as a sandwich filling.

For lunch I smeared it on some of the bread that I made with pulp, layered some seed cheese on top and popped it in the toaster oven. Holy Nutmeat, Batman! I just had a tuna melt!
















The cats wouldn't eat it :)

I then cut an acorn squash in half and removed the seeds. I rubbed about a TBS of evoo on the inside of the squash and put about a TBS of seed cheese in the hole. I put a layer of the "tuna salad" in the bottom of the pan, set the two squash halves on top of that, filled the squash and covered the top. I wish I would have gotten a photo. Sorry :(

I baked the whole thing at 350F for two hours, then took the lid off and let it brown. I served it with a huge salad, red lettuce, avocado, carrot sticks, tomato, cucumber, sunflower seeds, and flax crackers on the side. mmmmmm.....

Giant Avocado! Get the Knife, Quick! And some pepper!

While shopping yesterday we came across these.















The one on the left is a normal Hass avo. The one on the right is obviously some freak of nature, but there were a bunch like it so I guess I just don't get out much re: avocados.


Cut in half. We were wondering if it would have a regular sized pit or a huge one.
Holy crap, that is friggin huge!
















"But how does it taste," you ask?
ZB tastes it for YOU!!












hmm. Tastes like avocado only bigger.

"What do we do with it?"
Salad-o-tize TM it!














Avo, napa cabbage, quinoa, sauerkraut, some pulp from juicing ginger and garlic (oh my, bod! delicious!), flax crackers and a sprinkle of Raw Parma. I am starting to like that raw parma stuff. I can't wait until i run out, I am going to make my own.

There is still like over 3/4 left. I made avo fries once. in the dehydrator. I wonder if I could make avo "steaks"?

Today's Raw Lunch is Brought to You By: Avocado and Sauerkraut

1 ripe avocado
half a large carrot cut in 2" sticks
5 flax crackers
a heaping helping of raw sauerkraut
Sprinkling of Parma Raw Cayenne flavor

The parma raw is not something I would buy. The jar was left by Mil when she moved out. However, when it's all gone, I am going to make my own. Walnuts, nutritional yeast, salt and cayenne. Yum.