Showing posts with label Salsa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Salsa. Show all posts

Friday, January 22, 2010

Mild Sweet Corn Salsa Raw Vegan Side Dish

Corn Salsa

1/2 cup frozen corn
1 roma tomato
1/2 med yellow onion
juice of one lime about a 1/4 cup

Pulse tomato and onion separately in processor or chop fine.
Transfer to bowl.
Add corn and lime juice
Mix well and chill for one hour or more
Drain before serving.

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

A Boring Vegan Dinner Redeemed with Raw Vegan Banana Cream Pie for Dessert

The Spread
A nondescript celery soup, green salad, that is a glass of wine. Not mine, sadly. There in the corner you can see the not vegan mac n cheese for the boy. There is some sliced bread and a casserole and in the middle is a raw vegan banana cream pie!
















Casserole was leftover carrot soup poured between layers of potato with a thick layer of tomato on top covered with rye bread crumbs which is just my normal bread recipe with 1 cup of rye flour and one cup of whole wheat flour in place of the white flour the recipe calls for.









It was pretty good.





The bread was my regular bread recipe but I mixed it up in my new food processor. tax refund money well spent.















It came out fluffier some how. I guess over mixing made the air bubbles all tiny instead of large bubbles, I don't freaking know but this was the best bread I made ever. Same recipe, same pan, same oven, same cooking time. different mixer, different bread. Whew.
And the pie. The pie. The lovely, easy RAW pie. I wish there were some left but I don't even dare look, I'm sure it's gone, gone, gone. I had two pieces of six I guess I got my share. I might make individual banana pudding cups for dinner. I still have a few banan' left.















Here is my plate. I like taking a picture of my dinner every night. It's fun.














On the salad is kiwi and tomato salsa and sauerkraut. On the bread is Earth Balance.
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Saturday, April 4, 2009

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
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Raw Vegetable Stir Fry Dinner with Steamed Quinoa

Easy Raw "Stir Fry" Dinner Entree you make in the dehydrator!














mushrooms
carrots
zucchini
garlic
pinch salt
curry powder (or not. season to taste)
water to moisten
Stir it up and put it in the dehydrator in a lidded glass pan for the day Mine was in from 11am until 6pm at 115F. Perfect.
Stir it every 2-4 hours and if it starts to get too dry, add a touch more water. You don't want soup, but it should have a little gravy in the bottom, ya know?

I served it with quinoa















Here is a photo of the spread. I really, really need a dining room table. Two card tables pushed together so that one won't fall over isn't cutting it anymore.













Not that we don't have fabulous dinners on it every night... But I think my food (and the people who eat it) deserve more.
I served it with some big collard leaves for wrapping. I thought the guys would eschew leaves and opt for just eating the stir fry over quinoa, but they embraced the leaves and we ate raw wraps with quinoa INSIDE! I'm so proud of my omnis that I didn't take ONE SINGLE PHOTO of a wrap last night. Oh, well, they all look alike anyway.

I also made guacamole, salsa and seed cheese and threw together a plate of RAW NACHOS with flax seed chips.















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. Eat within a day or it will turn brown.

And the not raw part:

Potato leek soup.














6 sm Potatoes
one leek
1/8 tsp of salt
a couple of quarts of water.
That's it.
When I was letting the stove cook the potatoes and leeks I was thinking "I will put other seasonings in it before serving" but it had so much flavor. I was amazed.
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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.
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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.

Haiku Disclaimer

This works for me now
Find your own path and never
Take advice from fools

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

DO NOT BREED OR BUY WHILE SHELTER PETS DIE!