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Day 28: My friend Caroline sent me this recipe from Food 52, which is based on one by Tal Ronnen. I LOVE it, and it was another great way to use my fingerlings. I was concerned the dressing might be too mustardy but it is delicious; just enough creaminess from the Miso and spike from […]

Day 29: I needed a side to eat all my leftovers, and an imaginative way to eat the cabbage from our winter CSA, before the new batch arrives, today!  The sauce is adapted from Vegetarian Times Low-Fat and Fast recipe for sesame noodles. Ingredients: For Sesame Dressing: 1 Tbs Sesame oil 1 Tbs Braggs Liquid […]

Day 27: Carrot Cake. I LOVE this! YES!  I declare I love raw carrot cake. The pear cashew cream on the top is particularly delicious.  This is from Raw Food by Erica Palmcrantz and Irmela Lilja. Ingredients: Crust: 4 carrots 1 apple, coursely grated 1/4 cup almonds, finely chopped (I used almond flour) 4 fresh […]

Day 26: I always forget how much I love quinoa. This is adapted from a Waitrose recipe, using yesterday’s left over slow-roasted beets. Ingredients: Handful of fresh salad greens Handful of leftover Slow-Roasted Beets Handful of leftover Italian Sweet Potatoes 1/2 cup quinoa Pinch of leftover Truffled Parmesan For the Dressing: 2 Tbs lemon juice […]

Day 25: This is a nice way to eat beets; they get really sweet – in their way. This is adapted from Kris Carr’s Crazy Sexy Kitchen recipe. Don’t do what I did, though, and leave the beetroots to cool down for too long – the skins seemed to stick back on, and they don’t […]

Day 24a: I can’t stop snacking on this. It is very rich, though, so I only pick at a little at a time. I made more pasta just so I could put this on the top. I halved the ingredients and it was plenty. I’ll put the full recipe below. Ingredients: 2 cups raw pine […]

Day 24:  The pasta sauce is adapted from Raw Food by Elrica Palmcrantz and Irmela Lilja . I added a whole bunch of basil rather than one sprig. I had never thought pesto could ever work without Parmesan cheese, but it totally does. Plus, if I used it on vegetables or some kind of vegetable […]

Day 23: I did not expect to make this today and I was pleasantly surprised by the dressing. It is from Gena Henshaw’s Choosing Raw website. Ingredients: For salad: Handful of baby organic spinach leaves 1 large parsnip, cut into fingers and roasted 1 large carrot, cut into fingers and roasted Handful of dried cranberries […]

Week 3, already! I cannot believe it! Time really does fly by in a New York minute. Well, I am noticeably slimmer, without intending to be. My husband keeps commenting on it, with varying degrees of politeness, and mostly focusing on the ‘bum area.’ I am grateful for the barometer but, sometimes, I wonder if […]

Day 22: Yes, this is a vegan dish! Noodles and gravy is what my friends Mary and Jeff would call this dish. They are both Italian-Americans. Me? I would call this pasta with neopolitan sauce, but in America, I’d be wrong. In Italy, and in England, they call the standard tomato sauce Neopolitan and the […]