Who doesn’t love a good tomato salsa? I sure do! It is so easy to make at home too! It’s very simple and by making it at home you can leave out the vinegar which you never find in a fresh made salsa at a high quality restaurant. Why? Because vinegar doesn’t belong in salsa! It is put into canned salsas as a preservative. Here is how you can make a mild to spicy raw tomato salsa:
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It has been a long time since I have had a soft pretzel with cheese. After our 30 day raw vegan challenge was over this was the first thing I wanted to attempt to make. Working without gluten can be difficult when trying to form shapes with dough but I think these gluten free vegan soft pretzels with cheese turned out great for my first attempt! Here is how I did it:
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Well, here we are winding down with 3 days left of our 30 day challenge. I feel like sharing another recipe I have made twice during the challenge: raw red pepper hummus. I originally made this recipe in Athens a few weeks ago but we loved it so much I made it again last week. We enjoyed it with raw carrot and raw zucchini sticks in Athens and with our raw flax seed crackers here in Patra. It is simple and easy to make provided you have a high powered blender like a Vitamix or Thermo-mix. If you do not you can soak the cashews in water overnight and try using a food processor for a slightly chunkier hummus. Continue reading Raw Red Pepper Hummus
We both love a good raw trail mix, especially as a snack to go! One of our favorite snacks to take with us to the beach last summer was trail mix and I am sure that will continue this summer as well. We decided to start mixing our own trail mixes and have come to love this particular mixture the best. It is very easy and simple to make.
One day, right before we began our 30 day raw vegan challenge, Athanasia made this amazing strawberry banana fruit salad. It instantly became my favorite fruit salad! It is very delicious and easy to make so we made it again last week to enjoy during our challenge. Today marks day 14 of our challenge. Two weeks behind us, two weeks to go. I am feeling very good and am enjoying this challenge quite a bit. I may even be interested in maintaining a 75% to 80% raw vegan diet after we are done at this point. I am looking forward to pizza again too, but I do not crave it anymore at this point. Anyway, here is how we made the fruit salad:
Here we are on day 5 of our 30 day raw vegan challenge! On the night before we started the challenge I prepared the mixture to make these raw vegan flax seed crackers and began dehydrating them in our convection oven at 35° Celsius (95° F). These can be made in a dehydrator or convection oven. I have had flax seed crackers before and love them! Athanasia did not like them at first but began to like them very much the second time she tried them. This recipe really turned out well.
The lightest, tastiest, easiest potato salad with vegan mayo I have ever had 🙂 Only 4 basic ingredients! How cool is that? A cool dish for those warm days that are coming up. Top it with red or green onions, pickles, raw peppers or capers. Even multi-eyed monsters love it, as you can see in the photo below:
This is a simple recipe for gluten free vegan eggplant bacon. The process of making it takes some time and patience but the ingredients are few and obviously much healthier than real bacon. Here is how we did it: Continue reading Eggplant Bacon
Jake: One day Athanasia was looking around the internet for vegan gluten free snacks and treats to have something she could bring with her for school. That is when she found these Organica Hazelnut Nougat & Dark Chocolate candy bars (click here to order in Europe). She read some reviews from other people who had tried them and said everybody loved them! So I ordered some for us to try and sure enough, we loved them too! Of course, it is always nice to have a quick snack that we do not have to make or prepare…
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These little balls of bread are very delicious. They go very well with our marinara sauce! Obviously these make a great Super Bowl snack as well. This gluten free vegan meatball bread idea came to existence by accident but ended up being so delicious that we had to share them. A few weeks ago, I was trying to create a gluten-free vegan meatball since most of the ways it’s done uses gluten. I ended up using too much flour and these little meatball breads emerged. Sometimes failures can be a success in the kitchen, rarely, but sometimes. Here is how I made them: Continue reading Gluten Free Vegan Meatball Bread
