Archive for May, 2011

Healthy Raw Food Sweet and Sour Coleslaw Recipe

The Raw Foodist’s Sweet & Sour Slaw: Coleslaw with Explosive Flavor

Contrary to popular belief, a diet of raw foods does not have to be bland, or boring. Once we remove the highly processed, salty, and overly sweetened foods found in the standard American diet we find that our taste buds perk up and introduce us to a spectrum of flavors previously undetected. The following raw food recipe for Sweet & Sour Slaw was created to celebrate a complexity of flavors as bright and uplifting to the mouth as it is to the eye.

Sweet & Sour Slaw

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Great Recipe Ideas For A Dinner Party

In case you are getting a dinner party, you might be wondering about starter recipes. You probably already have all the primary course in mind and, whether that is likely to be beef, chicken, some thing Chinese, fondue or something else, exactly how do you pick which starter recipe to make? Actually it is not that hard to discover something delicious.

Having a dinner party, all the thought of a starter is to whet all the appetites of your guests. You don\’t wish to fill them up simply because that would spoilt their appetite for their primary course but you wish to give them some thing tasty, appealing and the proper amount of food to whet their appetite and make them need a lot more, without filling them up too much.

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Raw Vegan Recipes: Dill Potato Crisps – Easy and Delicious Homemade Potato Chips!

Since a raw food diet requires that nothing be prepared at a temperature higher than approximately 46 °C (115 °F), the only way you can prepare certain raw vegan recipes is with special kitchen appliances. Depending what recipe you are following, you may need a food dehydrator, a food processor, a good blender, a juicer, and/or a spiral slicer to achieve some of the ‘special effects’ that make many raw food recipes possible.

Some of the most popular raw vegetable creations that can be made with these kitchen appliances are vegetable ‘pasta’ noodles, crackers and crusts, puddings, and sauces, or even dill potato crisps like the recipe below. Following a complex raw food recipe may require putting food through multiple processes in order to create a texture that mimics cooked food. However, the rewards can be considered well worth it, allowing raw food purists today to enjoy a vastly greater number of interesting and satisfying meals than raw enthusiasts from times past. Such a restrictive diet could easily get boring for some people without the modern innovations that come from advanced kitchen appliances. Discover for yourself which one works best.

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