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    Question Raw foods vs. culinary delights - Let's share recipes?

    I really enjoy cooking and food and all the fatty, creamy, salty goodness that comes along with being a foodie. However, I used to eat a lot cleaner and experienced tons more energy, zero cellulite, glowing skin, perfect hair, etc. This brings me to my main point: I'm considering a raw foods diet, but I refuse to go exclusively raw or to give up my more decadent pursuits.

    Can anyone on here relate? I'm thinking 60% raw, 30% balls-out home cooking, 10% junk/restaurants (being realistic). Combining the first two would be ideal, which brings me to my tertiary point: does anyone have any good recipes to share? Either vegan/raw, or culinary yummies, or both?

    I guess this is like the "What Did You Eat Today?" thread but more specifically for the ultra-clean dieters and for the home chefs.

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    Default Re: Raw foods vs. culinary delights - Let's share recipes?

    Hey Swagz -- I know you checked out Kim's site for the raw food stuff. I'm not 100% raw but I feel really good when I stick to the green smoothie/energy soup for breakfast and then at the very least follow the food combining rules throughout the day.

    My version of the green smoothie is often watermelon, greens (romaine, spinach, whatever), half an avocado, and mint leaves. Sometimes instead of the watermelon I'll do honeydew or canteloupe and sometimes I add cacao powder, cinnamon, cloves when I am in a dessert mood. Instead of avocado you can sprout sunflower seeds overnight and add those.

    Lately for home-cooking I've been really into grilled pineapple and onions in various incarnations. Last week I put pineapple, onions, tomato, sundried tomato, basil, goat cheese, and olives into portobello mushrooms and cooked them for at hour at 400 and they were incredible.

    I also really love making vegan saag over kelp noodles for a quick, filling meal. Heat up coconut oil in a pan on low, add tumeric, cumin, coriander, cayenne. Heat the spices, add a bunch of spinach, cover and heat on low. Add 1 tomato, half an onion, garlic. Cover and heat for a few more minutes. Dump everything into a food processor and pulse. Serve over raw kelp noodles. You're getting the nutrition/easy digestion of the spinach, healthy fats from coco oil, and zero cal gluten free kelp noodles keep you full without weighing you down.

    Sorry if I post too much in these food threads, I'm just really into food and nutrition. ^_^ Would love to hear other recipes or about any eating habits that are working for people.

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    Default Re: Raw foods vs. culinary delights - Let's share recipes?

    THANK YOU! Those recipes all look delicious. I just looked up kelp noodles and I wish they sold them at a place a little closer. Thanks also for not taking me too seriously when I said I want to eat more raw stuff; salads, smoothies, etc are great, but I love a healthy cooked dish anyway.

    I made a yummy Thai recipe the other night that you might like...! The recipe called for rice noodles but I used soba instead. You de-stem about 1/2 bunch of cilantro, 1/2 bunch basil, and 1/2 bunch mint and toss it in a food processor with 1 can coconut milk, lime juice, lemongrass, ginger, salt to taste, and 2-5 seeded Thai chilis. Then you cook/sautee veggies and tofu (separately, your choice to fry the tofu or not). I used baby corn, green beans, brocolli florets, and mushrooms, and added some garlic though the recipe doesn't call for it. Heat the curry to a simmer then add the veggies until warmed through. Serve over noodles of choice with tons of lime juice!

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