It’s A New Day
What a great relief, on both accounts.
It feels so good to be “kitchening” again after such a long hiatus. Setting up a new homestead, settling into the rhythm of a new job, adjusting to life in a new town, and stabilizing all these changes took awhile to sort out, but the dust has settled and I’m ready to pick up where I left off!
Where that was: hitting the dehydration recipe phase of my “Daily Recipe” program, which I will be ending around Labor Day. All subscribers will retain access to the recipes through that weekend. And between now and then it’s going to be very heavy on the Dehydro Recipes, as that is the one group of recipes I haven’t touched upon.
Dehydrated Raw Recipes
Me, personally… I need crunchy, bready, savory cracker & sandwich-bread raw substitutes in order to stay extremely high raw. I need chips to eat my Chopped Salads with, and wraps or flatbreads for my Salad Sammiches, and normally I use organic corn tortilla chips and toasted Ezekiel bread to fill the bill.
As I just loathe the taste of flax seed, which is what most raw crackers & breads utilize to get everything to stick together (because of its gelatinous nature when moistened, flax seed has been called the “egg” of the raw world), I’ve been at a disadvantage as far as what to use for chips & flatbreads. So…I’m going to be experimenting with other methods to bind raw ingredients into chips & flatbreads. Chia seeds will factor in heavily, as they have an even higher “binding” quality but a milder flavor. I’ll also experiment with using some high-pectin, high-soluble-fiber fruits as binders. For example, Persimmon has been on my mind as potentially being a great Dehydro ingredient. And berries as well. We’ll see. I anticipate some interesting surprises to emerge as they did in previous recipe-creating waves.
For example, the versatile nature of Zucchini! That was a revelation. And not surprisingly, my first two Dehydro recipes both include Zucchini as a main ingredient! Also, the Miraculously Meaty combo of Mushrooms and Almond Butter…that’s one of my fave discoveries, ever. Wow. A combo even a steak-eater can appreciate. I suspect they are going to find their way into more than one Dehydro recipe
Not all these Dehydro recipes will be crackers and chips and flatbreads. I’m going to focus on crunchy raw snacks as well — a whole range of Kale Chips, Sweet Potato Crunchies, Raw Granola, Dehydro Fruit Crunches, and lordy knows what all else. Thus far with the recipes, it has felt like pioneering a new food culture, learning how to use and think about simple ingredients differently. And the intention to stick primarily with Utterly Pedestrian ingredients remains. Simple foods one can make without any fanfare, and enjoy on a daily basis. Food For Real People, not the Fussy-N-Fab that you’d order in a raw restaurant.
My new Smoked Chipotle Kale Chips...yum!
The Live Green Smoothie Challenge
If you’re new to the LGS Challenge, click on the link at the top of my site to read about it. It’s an approach to using Live Green Smoothies to help radically “jack up the raw” in your diet to help faciliate a radical improvement in your health, energy, and well-being, and to help with weight loss. It was a critical factor in how I transformed my physique back in 2005 from a size 18/20 to a 6 in just 7 months, without “dieting” or any kind of fat/carb/portion monitoring. (Read My Story for those details, or just check out my Before & After pics.) And be sure to use my EZ Browze Recipe Library link to scan the photos & recipe titles for recipes you might like to try, yourself!
At this juncture, I’m endeavoring to bring my own weight back down to where it was — I put on some unwanted weight this past year, where frequently I was just logistically very challenged to include significant amounts of live foods in my diet. Generally speaking, in the last couple years where my dancing has been very much on hiatus, my physique took a toll and I’m soooooo ready to reclaim it! 
So if you’re in a similar boat, or just wanting some company while you “jack up the raw” for your own reasons, please check in daily here. I may be posting around 4 recipes a week, but I plan on blog posting daily to the site on other subjects. And I’d love your comments, feedback, and participation in the discussion.
A Kale & Red Grape LGS with "Moringa" protein/chlorophyll powder. POWERFUL.
