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Marsala Sweet Potato Salad: a Raw Food Recipe

April 8, 2011

As we close in on the end of Me Amoeba’s raw food recipe campaign and I reflect on the 40-something recipe posts since January 4th, I couldn’t bring myself to bombard you with yet another curry dish–even though I love curry. Geez, ya think? I know, marsala is, technically, a curry. But it’s not the [...]

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Gordo Green Salad with Sesame Sumo Dressing

April 6, 2011

It doesn’t always pay to be a cheap ass when raw food is concerned (for a variety of reasons, but we’ll stick with one example for the purpose of this post). For months I blamed my reluctance toward buying tahini on uncertainty–were any of the commercial products still, indeed, raw. In actuality, however, I’d done [...]

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Not so “Sautéed” Green Beans and Carrots with Cumin

April 1, 2011

This is a perfect dish to serve your relatives who worry about what you, a raw foodist, will feed them. It’s balanced, flavorful, and has the texture of being lightly sautéed. Your guests may claim your greatest culinary mistake was in not sautéing the carrots and green beans long enough, never mind that you didn’t [...]

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Citrus Herbed Asparagus Salad

March 11, 2011

If by chance you weren’t yet ready for spring, this salad will get you in the mood–or thinking, at least, about sweeping the dust bunnies from your gardening clogs. Our local health food store has had an incredible supply of fresh asparagus the past couple of weeks, a clear indication spring is approaching. But the lone [...]

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[Raw] Pear Anise Cobbler – topped with Fig Crumble

March 9, 2011

This is the recipe that spawned the pear vinaigrette for the fancy-pants mixed green salad posted last week. I had no idea the pear-and-anise combo could be so versatile. In fact, the leftovers for this raw food recipe–if there are any–can be used in the forthcoming “Perfect Breakfast Parfait.” With so many uses you might [...]

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