Archive: December, 2010

Happy Raw Year!

December 29th, 2010 · Marie-Claire · Ravishing Recipes, Ravishing Winter Recipes No comments - Tags: , , , ,

A small but oh so nice treat for your guests on New Year’s Eve are these olives and marinated vegetables. Easy, colorful and delicious. Even if your friends don’t like raw food, they won’t notice the difference and lick their thumbs and fingers.

Happy Raw Snacks

A home party doesn’t require that much work if you present daily snacks a bit different. A lovely snack are olives and colorful marinated vegetables. Some crackers left? Place them next to this tempting food with a few dip sauces and your friends can create their own snacks with what you are offering. Happy Raw Year!

Find some nice cocktail skewers, look for ‘something else’ and your olives will look fancy.

Party Olives

MARINATED VEGETABLES

TOOLS YOU NEED

  • A sharp knife
  • A cutting board
  • A bowl

INGREDIENTS

  • A red bell pepper
  • A yellow bell pepper
  • An orange bell pepper
  • 2 C cherry tomatoes
  • 4 spring onions
  • A bunch of parsley
  • Sea salt to taste
  • Black pepper to taste
  • Fresh herbs; a few sprigs of thyme, oregano, basil
  • Olive oil

THE MAKING OF…

  • Make small nice cubes of all your vegetables
  • Cut the cherry tomatoes in 4 parts
  • Mince all the herbs and spring onions
  • Mix everything in a bowl
  • Pour olive oil generously until the veggies are moist
  • Add some sea salt and pepper
  • Cover up and let sit for a half hour, but when you leave them soaking overnight, they will be heavenly soft
  • To have more effect, dehydrate them on a teflex sheet for two hours

Pure and delicious! Have a wonderful New Year!

Hugs and love,

Marie-Claire

Hot snack

Super(b) Smoothie

December 11th, 2010 · Marie-Claire · Alkaline Your Body, Chew, Chew, Chew!, Clean(s)ing, Colon Health, Jazz Up Your Health!, Ravishing Recipes, Ravishing Winter Recipes, Superfoods No comments - Tags: , , , , , , ,

The less I think about what to put in my morning smoothie, the better it gets! Of course you have to be lucky with the individual tastes of the vegetables and fruits you grab because they vary every day. But well, I was lucky and if you have sweet pears and bananas available nothing much can go wrong with this combination.

Slamming Smoothie

TOOLS YOU NEED

  • A blender
  • A sharp knife
  • A cutting board

INGREDIENTS

  • 4 small leaves of kale (or two large ones)
  • A frozen banana (you can take unfrozen too)
  • A sweet pear
  • Fill up your blender with spinach
  • A grab of parsley
  • A handful of Goji Berries (it adds sweetness and so many great nutrients!)
  • 1 tsp beepollen
  • 1 tsp Maca
  • 1 TBS coconut butter
  • Rejuvelac (see the recipe here; I added slices of lemon and mint to this batch)

THE MAKING OF…

  • Throw everything in your blender
  • Blend and chew that smooth smoothie! Cheers!

    Super Smoothie

Marinated Mushrooms

December 6th, 2010 · Marie-Claire · All About Raw Food, Ravishing Recipes, Ravishing Winter Recipes 20 comments - Tags: , , , ,

Raw?

Winter, snow, freezing wind… I am aching for warmth inside of my body. Sure, my green smoothies help but when dinner time is there, I want more. I bet you do too! I learned that when you cheat your ‘eye’ with the food you make, you feel warmer just by looking at your plate. Making or finishing off dishes with raw food that is looking as if it is cooked is a trick that works every time. How you can change that raw view into a softened, wilted look?

It is very simple. Marinate your vegetables. Slice them very small, cover them up with olive oil, add a spoon of hemp oil for great omega’s and… you know what? Let me put it down here in a simple, fast and delicious recipe for two persons. This is a lovely side dish which combines so well with nori rolls or on top of a pizza or pasta to get that cooked look or simply mixed with salad.

TOOLS YOU NEED

  • A sharp knife
  • A large bowl
  • A (wooden) spoon
  • A dehydrator or oven (optional)

Organic Mushrooms

INGREDIENTS

  • About a half pound of mushrooms to your choice
  • Enough olive oil to moist the mushrooms (be generous)
  • A TBS of hemp oil or sesame oil (optional)
  • A big bunch of finely chopped parsley
  • Whatever herbs that can enhance that wild taste of mushrooms; chive, rosemary, thyme, oregano… (optional)
  • Sea salt to taste
  • A tsp of kelp granules (optional but great if you have thyroid issues)
  • Juice of a half lemon
  • Some apple cider vinegar (optional if you added lemon juice but a nice touch)

Wild herbs to add

THE MAKING OF…

Sliced

  • Chop up the mushrooms into fine slices and throw them in a large bowl

Pour enough olive oil to cover up

  • Pour your oil generously over them so they can soak in it

Add your herbs and other ingredients

  • Add the herbs of your choice, the salt, the lemon and apple cider vinegar and enjoy the odors!

Mix well and let sit

  • Mix well with a spoon or your hands
  • Taste if it is to your taste and add what you want more in there
  • Set it away for about twenty minutes; the mushrooms will wilt and start looking cooked!
  • For maximum effect; put it on a tray with teflex sheet and warm it up for an hour in your dehydrator
  • Add some extra olive oil so they still stay moist while dehydrating

TIPS

  • You can easily make one pound  of these marinated mushrooms. They will be even better the next day!
  • You can add them with another recipe then and they will give another extra dimension
  • You can marinate whatever you like to look cooked; peppers, eggplant, zucchini, tomatoes …

Enjoy your uncooked, cooked looking dish!

Mixed with cherry tomatoes