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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Raw Vegan Pizza

I love raw vegan pizza.

Dinner tonight was Perfect Pizza Crust topped with chopped heirloom tomatoes, mushrooms, green olives onion and topped with raw cashew cheese that I froze and grated.

Here is the crust in the dehydrator. That is enough for 2 personal pizzas or four slices.

I put some of the cheese on a cracker and put in in the toaster oven to see if it would melt.

It did not.

Layer the ingredients. I like to put a thick layer of tomatoes on first and build up from there.

A little shredded cashew cheese and tomatoes

Mushrooms on top of that.

And keep loading it from there. I put green olives, onions and a bunch more cheese then cut it in half and we each had a slice!

Here is the cheese before freezing

Here is some of the cheese after freezing and grating

Just a basic cheese, nuts, nutritional yeast, salt and lemon juice in the food processor until a very smooth paste (this was like play-dough) then roll it up in a piece of wax paper and freeze until hard. Grate and sprinkle quick cuz when it melts it's play-doh again.

Anyway, that is how easy it is to make raw pizza. I hope you try it soon and I hope you take photos and share them!

Monday, November 16, 2009

Raw Vegan Sausage :: Almond Pecan Pepperoni

The man says it's too sweet but I like it on pizza or chunked up in salad. Lots of flavor, lots of fat. It's awesome.

Soak and then dry about a half cup each of almonds and pecans.

Place nuts in Food Processor with:

8 dates
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black peppercorns
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
1/4 cup dehydrated onion slices
1/4 cup dried black mushrooms
4 or five sundried tomatoes

Process with S-blade until you have a sticky mass. There should still be chunks of nuts visible in the sticky mass. Transfer sticky mass to wax paper, roll it into desired sausage size, wrap and freeze.

To use it, unwrap frozen roll and using a sharp knife slice off what you need.

Re-wrap and freeze the remainder for weeks.

Soak and then dry nuts if desired. You can make this recipe without soaking if you don't care about that.

Please feel free to adjust the salt, spices and flavors to your taste.

I have also made this with walnuts only but it's VERY greasy that way.

It works great on cooked pizza, too! It bakes and broils very nicely.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

What to do with all those Tomatoes? Make Tomato Mushroom Salad!

1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
1 cup mushrooms, sliced
2 tbs olive oil
1 tbs lemon juice
1/4 tsp onion powder
Salt to taste

Stir and chill

Ketchup or Catsup Raw Vegan Condiment or What to do with all those cherry tomatoes?

What to do with all those cherry tomatoes?

Make Raw Ketchup!

1 cup cherry tomatoes
1 tsp lemon juice or apple cider vinegar
1 leaf of lettuce
1/4 tsp onion powder
1/4 tsp organic cane sugar
1/2 tsp sea salt

This is an instant ketchup, no fermenting required.
Put all the ingredients in the blender and whiz until smooth.
Ready to use! Serve on burgers, salad, fries or where ever you want a tangy zingy sauce
Store in the refrigerator a week or longer. If it goes bad, you will know.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Raw Vegan Dinner Ideas :: Pizza! Perfect Raw Pizza Crust Recipe

I made this for dinner.

It's all raw but the olives.

Close up

This was the perfect pizza crust. It was firm yet pliable and didn't get soggy under the toppings. Success.

Perfect Raw Pizza Crust Recipe
Three ripe tomatoes
1/4 cup whole flax seeds
1 tbs sesame seed
3 tsp dry oregano
1/2 tsp of salt

All in food processor with S-blade until puree
Pour on sheets and spread them around in the shape you want.
Dehydrate one hour at 145F
When firm on top flip out on to the rack and continue drying at 115F until hard and leathery but not crisp.

My plate with red lettuce and sauerkraut and a dollop of seed cheese

Close up of my slice.

It was pliable enough to fold and didn't fall apart or get soggy at all.

The man's plate.

He likes those jalapenos!

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Raw Vegan Pizza By The Slice

Raw flax seed crust smeared with sunflower seed cheese, vegan sausage (leave the sausage off if you want it really raw), apple/celery salsa* and vegan "parm"** sprinkled over the top.

I put the avocado on the side and ate it like fries, yum yum yum. Best lunch EVAH!!

I wanted to let the world know that this blue funnel:

Is my new favorite kitchen utensil. It is a canning funnel and it makes any jar into a wide mouth jar so it is SOOO easy to get ingredients in.

Thanks again to Goodwill for that.

Footnotes:
*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 onion and a tbs ginger, finely chopped,
2 roma tomatoes, diced
4 tbs lemon juice, 1/4 tsp salt
mix all in a jar, let rest for an hour and EAT!
** Vegan Parm Sprinkle:
3/4 cup almonds
1 cup nutritional yeast
1/4 tsp salt
blend until powder, store in a jar in the fridge.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Another Pulp Recipe! Vegan Vege Quick Bread, Raw Vegan Pizza and Marinating Tempeh

Using my regular soda bread recipe, but instead of almond milk and vinegar, I used the pulp from juicing this morning. It was celery, zucchini, kale, ginger, garlic and onion. The dough was a bit dry, so I added a little more water.

The raw:

Un-hulled sesame seeds (an excellent source of calcium, unlike dairy) sprinkled on top

And the cooked:

It was very moist. Like zucchini bread, but not sweet. Savory. I don't know if it would make a good sandwich, but hot with earth balance, it was a tasty treat. It would be very complementary with chili, along side a giant green salad, or toasted for a high fiber breakfast.

Today's lunch was a sauerkraut and sweet pepper mini pizza

Flax seed crust, smeared with seed cheese and piled high with home made sauerkraut and chopped sweet peppers

Tonight I am making tempeh cutlets for dinner. Here they are marinating with some zucchini slices.

The marinade is just ACV, water, garlic powder, a couple of drops of Tulsi tea and some horseradish powder. I had a horseradish root and it dried up. I tried to chop it in my mini blender and it CRACKED the little plastic carafe! Thankfully, the thing came with a bunch of them. I have read a couple of recipes but none of them really moved me, so I decided to fake it. I will let you know how it comes out.

Cheers!

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Sunday Brunch Vegan Gluten Free Veggie PIZZA Flax and Sesame Crust

Flax seed crust smeared with sunflower sesame seed cheese. Then layered roma tomato slices, avocado slices, red bell pepper slices. Drizzle some thinned seed cheese on top and drizzle some marinara over the whole thing. sprinkle crushed, dried oregano on top.

It's ready to eat as is for a raw meal or you could dehydrate it for an hour or so.
If you don't care if it's raw you could put it in the toaster oven for about 5 minutes or until you can smell the seeds toasting.

Serve with a big green salad

Red leaf lettuce, green onions, tomato, red bell pepper, cucumber and the rest of the avo

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Sick Day Lunches

Mine

Peanut butter on celery, carrot cauli curry salad, vege wraps and brussel sprouts*, dipped in olive oil, seasoned and dehydrated until slightly crisp on the edges. Heaven.

The Boy's

Oriental flavor ramen with an eighth of a tsp of the seasoning packet and a tsp of nutritional yeast, grapes and some off brand ritz-type crackers.

shh, it's ALL vegan!

He had apple sauce for breakfast. Water with lemon and grapes for a snack and the above photographed lunch.

His first day without animal products. I'm not gonna say anything, shh! o_0

*The idea for the sprouts came from Raising Alex and it's really simple and good.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Portobello Mushroom Crust RAW VEGAN PIZZA

PIZZA!!

Acquire some large portobello mushroom caps. Remove the stems and put them aside.

Then you fill the mushroom caps with whatever raw pizza toppings you like. I have made these with fake meat, also and they were not raw but very good anyway.

On these I used walnut oatmeal nut meat, tomato slices, avocado slices and two kinds of sunflower seed cheese. The second kind of cheese is just plain seed cheese with the mushroom stems blended in it.

Dehydrate at 105F. I put them in at 11 am and we ate them about 6pm.

The Philosophy of Animal Rights by Tom Regan

The other animals humans eat, use in science, hunt, trap, and exploit in a variety of ways, have a life of their own that is of importance to them apart from their utility to us. They are not only in the world, they are aware of it. What happens to them matters to them. Each has a life that fares better or worse for the one whose life it is.

That life includes a variety of biological, individual, and social needs. The satisfaction of these needs is a source of pleasure, their frustration or abuse, a source of pain. In these fundamental ways, the nonhuman animals in labs and on farms, for example, are the same as human beings. And so it is that the ethics of our dealings with them, and with one another, must acknowledge the same fundamental moral principles.

At its deepest level, human ethics is based on the independent value of the individual: The moral worth of any one human being is not to be measured by how useful that person is in advancing the interest of other human beings. To treat human beings in ways that do not honor their independent value is to violate that most basic of human rights: the right of each person to be treated with respect.

The philosophy of animal rights demands only that logic be respected. For any argument that plausibly explains the independent value of human beings implies that other animals have this same value, and have it equally. And any argument that plausibly explains the right of humans to be treated with respect, also implies that these other animals have this same right, and have it equally, too.

It is true, therefore, that women do not exist to serve men, blacks to serve whites, the poor to serve the rich, or the weak to serve the strong. The philosophy of animal rights not only accepts these truths, it insists upon and justifies them.

But this philosophy goes further. By insisting upon and justifying the independent value and rights of other animals, it gives scientifically informed and morally impartial reasons for denying that these animals exist to serve us.

Once this truth is acknowledged, it is easy to understand why the philosophy of animal rights is uncompromising in its response to each and every injustice other animals are made to suffer.

It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands in the case of animals used in science, for example, but empty cages: not "traditional" animal agriculture, but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh of dead animals; not "more humane" hunting and trapping, but the total eradication of these barbarous practices.

For when an injustice is absolute, one must oppose it absolutely. It was not "reformed" slavery that justice demanded, not "reformed" child labor, not "reformed" subjugation of women. In each of these cases, abolition was the only moral answer. Merely to reform injustice is to prolong injustice.

The philosophy of animal rights demands this same answer - abolition - in response to the unjust exploitation of other animals. It is not the details of unjust exploitation that must be changed. It is the unjust exploitation itself that must be ended, whether on the farm, in the lab, or among the wild, for example. The philosophy of animal rights asks for nothing more, but neither will it be satisfied with anything less.

Insprirational Vegan Quotes

1. Animals that live in the wild kill other animals in order to eat. If I also lived in the wild would it still be inhumane to kill an animal to eat?? What about if I raised chickens in my backyard and cultivated their eggs for my breakfast omelet, is this inhumane?
A: Because animal flesh and products are not needed for human nutrition killing and eating them is inhumane in any circumstances. No kind of slavery is humane no matter how well the slave is treated. You can't respect someone and then exploit her for her eggs/milk/honey.

2. Do animal rights moralists take into consideration the domestication of animals i.e. history of farming, farming as the back bone to the establishment of the first civilizations. There’s not much literature about the reasons animals have become a central part of human life?
A: History is no excuse to continue to exploit non humans. Animals are not needed for human nutrition. That is a myth perpetuated by industries which make money exploiting non human animals.

3. Is domestication against animals rights? If so, does that make having a dog or cat or horse inhumane?
A: At this time there are a lot of domesticated animals that need tending. Most domesticated animals are just that. They would not exist as we know them if not for domestication. Breeding animals for pets or for food is unnecessary and inhumane. Adopt animals, have them spayed or neutered. Give them a comfortable home where they can live out their lives without being exploited. With time the numbers of "non-food" and "food" animals will go down and eventually there will be no more domesticated food animals or pets.

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice. ~Gary L. Francione

Merely by ceasing to eat meat
Merely by practicing restraint
We have the power to end a painful industry

We do not have to bear arms to end this evil
We do not have to contribute money
We do not have to sit in jail or go to
meetings or demonstrations or
engage in acts of civil disobedience
Most often, the act of repairing the world,
of healing mortal wounds,
is left to heroes and tzaddikim (holy people)
Saints and people of unusual discipline
But here is an action every mortal can
perform--surely it is not too difficult! ~Roberta Kalechofsky of Jews for Animal Rights

The ten commandments of Mother Earth

1. Thou shall love and honor the Earth for it blesses thy life and governs thy survival.
2. Thou shall keep each day sacred to the Earth and celebrate the turning of its seasons.
3. Thou shall not hold thyself above other living things nor drive them to extinction.
4. Thou shall give thanks for thy food, to the creatures and plants that nourish thee.
5. Thou shall educate thy offspring for multitudes of people are a blessing unto the Earth when we live in harmony.
6. Thou shall not kill, nor waste Earth's riches upon weapons of war.
7. Thou shall not pursue profit at the Earth's expense but strive to restore its damaged majesty.
8. Thou shall not hide from thyself or others the consequences of thy actions upon the Earth.
9. Thou shall not steal from future generations by impoverishing or poisoning the Earth.
10. Thou shall consume material goods in moderation so all may share the Earth's bounty. ~Ernest Callenbach

"This is what passes for "food" in America today: A collection of nutritionally-obliterated, hormonally-enhanced, chemically-adulterated shapes of refined whatever, all hyped up to make them seem like real food when in fact they're just agricultural byproducts devoid of any real nutrition." ~Mike Adams

"I like not eating animals. Animals are our friends and we shouldn't eat them. Animals need us to take care of them and save them. My mom cooks us vegetables and pretend hamburgers and hotdogs and chicken nuggets and they are healthy for you and taste good! I told all my friends 'you should NOT eat animals!' I hit my friend Levi because he was eating a ham sandwich and wouldn't stop. Then mom said that Levi is an animal too and we have to be nice to all animals even if they eat other animals. I said sorry to Levi, but I wish he would not eat animals anymore. I also like not eating animals because my mom says it helps the earth, like recycling." ~Jacob, 6 yrs old

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.~Anthony Robbins

It only takes a spark ~Daniel Andreas San Diego

Some people are still going to want to eat meat. We do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet. ~David Stroud (of the American Meat Institute)

For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts ;
even one thing befall them: as the one dies, so dies the other. They have all one breath; so that a man has no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knows that the spirit of man goes upward, and the spirit of the beast goes downward to the earth? ~Ecclesiastes iii., 19, 20, 21.

There is no such thing as cruelty free slaughter or humane killing.
No slave is happy no matter what the owner tells you.
Go Vegan NOW!
Do it for the cows that have their babies taken away again and again for milk production.
Do it for the chickens who are de-beaked for egg production.
Do it for the pigs who have to nurse their babies on concrete floors.
Do it for the millions of humans who don't know any better.
Do it for the planet.
Do it for your health.

Do it because there is NO SUCH THING as humane slaughter.~ Judith Barnes

Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.
~Theodor Adorno

If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.
~Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), author (1885-1962)

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
~Anne Frank

If "rights" exist at all— and both feeling and usage indubitably prove that they do exist —they cannot be consistency awarded to men and denied to animals, since the same sense of justice and compassion apply in both cases.
~Henry Salt, 1892

You ask people why they have deer heads on the wall. They always say, Because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother's attractive, but I have photographs of her.
~Ellen DeGeneres

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
~Leo Tolstoy

Raw foods create living bodies, and cooked foods create dying bodies
~Sabrina Aird, Grass Root co-owner

You say it’s my personal choice, it’s not a personal choice when you’re ruining my planet and you’re eating my friends
~ Dave Warwak

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites, or women created for men.
~ Alice Walker

Thou Shalt Not Kill
~ The Christian Bible

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy; if the world were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I wake up each morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. This makes it very hard to plan the day.
~E. B. White

Don’t want to ruin the oceans? Go vegan.
Don’t like the environmental problems of the soy industry? Go vegan.
Don’t like monoculture? Go vegan.
Don’t like the environmental problems of the petroleum industry? Go vegan.
Don’t like greenhouse gas emission? Go vegan.
Don’t like animal exploitation and cruelty? Go vegan.
Want environmental sustainability? Go vegan.
Want to feed the hungry? Go vegan.
Want to save water? Go vegan.
Want to cut air and water pollution? Go vegan.
Want to slow global warming? Go vegan.
Want to reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, obesity, and cancer? Go vegan.
There is no absolutely single personal change that the average person can make that has a better impact on the environment than going vegan.
~Dan Cudahy

Honey is not vegan. It is an animal product, it came from the inside of an animal that produced it, not for you to sweeten your tea, but for a baby bee to live and grow on. Using honey or products made with beeswax are not on the vegan menu.

What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

~Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived.

How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?

It is certainly not lions and wolves that we eat out of self-defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter harmless,tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us, creatures that, I swear, Nature appears to have produced for the sake of their beauty and grace.

But nothing abashed us, not the flower-like like tinting of the flesh, not the persuasiveness of the harmonious voice, not the cleanliness of their habits or the unusual intelligence that may be found in the poor wretches.

No, for the sake of a little flesh we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they are entitled by birth and being.~Plutarch

I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil.~Charles Mayo (founder of the Mayo Clinic)

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.~Leonardo Da Vinci

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