Above: OLIVE-STUFFED PORTOBELLO MUSHROOMS (RAW)
I have been neglecting this blog while sending all kinds of results of my raw adventures to my Rawly Vegan blog on Wordpress - and I'm sorry. Perhaps I should publish some of the results here, but I'd now have to go back quite a way to catch up on that :( But you can click into the title of the photo above for its recipe if you like and of course I can offer you more and more raw recipes, if anyone's interested, in future. (Previous recipes are, as I say, on my Rawly Vegan blog.
The thing is, I hadn't expected to be keeping on with this rawfood lark. I thought that I'd like it for a while - as an excuse, perhaps, to eat lots and lots of lovely fresh fruit while it was in season, but that I'd quickly tire of eating raw instead of the delicious cooked meals I used to concoct each day. I do so like to cook! Well, I still 'cook' or, I should day, prepare food, and I am absolutely loving it. There are some great recipes out there, including some wonderful recipe books (I have only a handful), and I'm just not prepared to stop eating raw for a while yet!
Now I don't mean that I'm 100 per cent raw. We still choose to eat non-raw food for around 10 to 15 per cent of our daily calories on the occasional day, and my condiments, herbs and spices are not yet all raw. But the experiment, as I used to call it, has worked out find and for the time being, at least, I have no intention of going back to the way I used to eat - nor, I should add, has my husband, who delights in preparing some of our dishes himself (and this after his thinking, like myself, that it would be boring old salads all the time).
Some raw dishes are worth knowing about whether you're raw or not: Some raw soups are much better than their cooked counterparts if they even have cooked counterparts and can be served to anyone at any time that, say, a chilled soup would be appropriate. They're so very quick to make that it makes me wonder why I ever fussed with soup pots etc. And raw crackers? Fantastic. I have a (new) dehydrator, and if anyone has access to one raw Flax Crackers, Hummus Crackers, and Dulse Crackers are all easy to make and soooooo delicious. I keep a couple of containers full of them all the time now.
So prowl through my other blog, if you will, and see if there is anything there to tempt you. Not all the photos have recipes attached, but that's fairly easily remedied, since I'm developing my own variations on other people's recipes all the time now. Such fun!
And did I say how bright and alert and energized I feel since eating high raw? Fantastic pay off! Now that absolutely stunned me!
Okay, back again later with more - and some recipes. Cheers, everyone.
2 comments:
Love the sunflowers!
Another internet friend of mine went about 80-90% raw a few years ago and said he also felt more alert, had more energy, etc. I'm going to pop on over to your other blog.
Lovely to hear from you, Carrie :) My other blog is even more informal, but I do chatter on about what we're both eating.
A minor point: After eating raw for several weeks (with the occasional slice of bread, say two or three times a week), we tried one cooked course at a fave restaurant today since we had a 'reason' for going out. The food tasted great, if diffeent, BUT we were both hungry again almost immediately, and I've been feeling a bit 'off' for the last several hours, just as I used to after eating out and eating too much, although i this case I ate little. Somehow it has to be connected, and now I'm back to raw ;)
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