25. February 2012 · Comments Off · Categories: Cupcakes and Food · Tags: , , ,

Savory Dinner Raw Food Recipes

Let me guess.  You’re new to a low fat raw vegan diet and while you love being able to eat pounds and pounds of fruit everyday, you’re having trouble satisfying your savory tooth at the end of the day.

Well, here are all of my favorite savory raw recipes. And don’t worry, they are all low fat, salt, spice, and condiment free.

Hope you enjoy…

Ridiculously Delicious Raw Pasta

Ingredients:

2 medium-sized tomatoes
1 Ataulfo (yellow) mango*
Handful of fresh cilantro
2 zucchini or yellow squash, spiralized

*Ataulfo mangoes are much creamier than the more common Kent or Tommy-Atkins varieties (and much tastier, in my opinion).

Directions

Cut the tomatoes into quarters and place into a blender.  Peel and chop the mango into large pieces, close to the size of the tomato quarters.  Place the mango pieces in the blender.  Chop the cilantro and place in the blender.

Lightly pulse.

Don’t blend it too much or it will get bubbly and yucky.  Pour over the spiralized squash.

I especially like to eat this as a sauce over spiralized zucchini or yellow squash, but you could also use it as a dressing for any greens of your choice.  You could also just eat it on its own as a soup.

The mango-tomato-cilantro combo is just so delicious! :)

Salty Salt-Free Salsa

Ingredients:

24 ounces cherry or grape tomatoes (sweetest you can find)
16 ounces of celery (4-6 stalks)
8 ounces red bell pepper (1 pepper)
4 ounces sweet apple (Gala or Fuji, 1/2 apple)
1 handful cilantro
1 English cucumber, sliced diagonally*

*I prefer the English variety.  They are less watery than traditional cucumbers and have much more flavor.

Directions:

Cut half of the celery, red bell pepper, and all of the apple into medium-sized pieces.  You want each piece about the same size as the tomatoes.  Pulse half of the tomatoes and cilantro with the celery, pepper, and apple chunks.  You want a slightly chunky mixture, not a puree.

Dice the rest of the tomatoes, celery, bell pepper, & cilantro.  Stir blended portion with the diced portion and devour with cucumber slices or any veggie you like.

Not-So-Pretty Pistachio Dressing

Ingredients:

2 medium tomatoes
1 medium cucumber
1 oz pistachios
1 head romaine lettuce

Directions:

Coarsely chop tomatoes, half the cucumber, and pistachios and blend.  Spiralize the other half of the cucumber, chop the lettuce, and mix together with the dressing.  This is a very savory and hearty salad that I love to eat during the winter.

And you’ll know the reason for the name once you make the recipe.

;)

Go raw and be fit,

Swayze

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20. February 2012 · Comments Off · Categories: Cupcakes and Food · Tags: , , , ,

Food Recipes – What Do You Know About French Food Recipes?

Here is another text about food recipes and food habits in different nations. In my previous articles I was writing about Polish and German food recipes and eating habits. This time I would like to provide you some information about another European country and its cooking habits. This article will be about food recipes from France. Read this text to the end and I’m sure that it will provide you some additional information. Maybe you will get some new information that you didn’t know before.

There are three main dishes in France. First of them is breakfast that consist of French loaf or croissant with jam. The next breakfast ingredient is coffee or chocolate in which we can put the loaf. French people also like drinking orange juice during breakfasts. The next very important French dish is dinner (people are eating it about 2 o’clock P.M). There are many dishes during French dinner.

French people are eating appetizers, than there is main dish, cheese, dessert and coffee. Soups in France are not so important and people don’t eat them a lot. There are many restaurants in France and the most popular products are cheese and wine.

There are many opinions that French cooking is the best in the world. It influenced cooking in other countries very much (especially from the west Europe). People think that French cooking is connected with frog legs, slugs, French loaf, cheese and wine. But in fact French cooking isn’t uniform. There are many French regions that preffer different food recipes. There are two main kinds of cooking in France. First of them is “high cooking” (expensive, traditional dishes prepared by famous cooks). The second kind of cooking is “new cooking” (easy and cheap dishes that can be prepared in a short time).

The main rule in French cooking says that ingredients should be fresh and with high quality.

I think that these information provided in the article about food recipes above were interesting for you. I believe that reading this article was an interesting activity. I’m really doing my best and I’m trying to provide you a lot of interesting, important and helpful culinary information. Of course I’m going to write more articles in the future. Please wait with patience for my next texts about cooking (and other culinary topics) that are going to appear very soon. Thank you very much for your attention and for reading this article.