Here's the website I used for the sprouted chickpeas. It's better than anything I can provide. Her pictures are great. Of course, my setup was slightly different, but it all worked out the same way. I just used a fine-mesh strainer set over a bowl, and covered it with a loose … [Read more...] about Sprouted Chickpeas – My Second Sprouts
Raw Food Recipes
Emergency Carrot Cake Bombs for my Mom with Agave-Hazelnut Raw Cream Cheese
I forgot my mom can't eat cashews, so when I went out of my way to make her a carrot cake she could eat (no gluten, no sugar, no lactose), she couldn't eat it! Well, she could eat the cake, but not the cashew icing. So I used the same recipe as for the cashew-maple "raw" cream … [Read more...] about Emergency Carrot Cake Bombs for my Mom with Agave-Hazelnut Raw Cream Cheese
Best Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Carrot Cake with Maple-Cashew Cream Cheese
I made the cake perfectly so that no one would be able to tell it was gluten-free. Bonnie Stern's recipe was great, and the flour substitutions were undetectable. But the cream cheese is where it got interesting. I had heard from raw foodists that the best way to make raw "cream … [Read more...] about Best Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Carrot Cake with Maple-Cashew Cream Cheese
My First Sprouts!
Kind of like saying "my first tooth" (or "my first toof"), but more delicious. The tooth fairy only brings you a quarter. A quarter can't buy a good salad... But my sprouts! I really don't know what I'm doing when it comes to sprouting, but it in general, believe it or not, I … [Read more...] about My First Sprouts!
Indian Goes Raw: Peshawari Red Pepper Chutney
There aren't a whole lot of raw Indian dishes. Mostly you want to cook foods (except fruit) for a long, long time. Take spinach, for example. In India you cook the buh-jesus out of spinach until it absorbs all the spices you can throw at it. The only thing you really eat raw in … [Read more...] about Indian Goes Raw: Peshawari Red Pepper Chutney
The Raw Orange Chocolate Cheesecake my Friend Made
I didn't make this cake. My friend actually uses coconut butter to make this cake. It makes all the difference in the world. He doesn't cheat like I do. See the difference between his cake above and my cake below? Mostly I just wanted to post this picture since it's beautiful. He … [Read more...] about The Raw Orange Chocolate Cheesecake my Friend Made
Vegetarian Cabbage Rolls with Cauliflower
So I made a test batch of cabbage rolls for my friend's party and then another batch at his house. I used the same recipe except for a few spices, and all in all, both worked just fine. Since my friend and I eat partly raw I figured I'd do the raw substitute for rice and use … [Read more...] about Vegetarian Cabbage Rolls with Cauliflower
“Raw” Cranberry-Pecan Spread for the Montreal “Raw” Foodists Meetup
Montreal "Raw" Food Potluck, January 2011. If you think "raw" food sounds complicated, well, it is, but the recipes themselves are usually ridiculously simple - Take a bunch of roughly chopped (or not at all) ingredients and blend. It's the kitchen two-step. The tricky part is … [Read more...] about “Raw” Cranberry-Pecan Spread for the Montreal “Raw” Foodists Meetup
“Raw” Sundried Tomato Spread
I've kind of made this sundried tomato spread recipe before, but it's so simple that it easily got changed around a little for the 3rd Annual Volk/Watson Christmas Extravaganza (in the photo, it's the dip on the right): 1 cup macadamia nuts (soaked for 30 minutes to 1 hour and … [Read more...] about “Raw” Sundried Tomato Spread
“Raw” Basil Walnut Spread
The recipe for this basil-walnut spread (pictured in the middle of the three dips above) kind of came from here, but mostly it came from the inspiration of my mother's kitchen, which is happily filled with special vinegars from the "O" Farm, the organic farm in Newfoundland where … [Read more...] about “Raw” Basil Walnut Spread