Showing posts with label Sauerkraut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sauerkraut. Show all posts

Monday, April 4, 2011

Spirulina Sprout Salad




Spirulina is pretty important for vegans. It is one of the only non-flesh source of vitamin B-12, a vitamin that is essential to the human body and if you become deficient side effects include irreversible nerve damage. Serious issue.


More nutritional info can be found here.


Easy way to get all that goodness into your cells? Salad dressing, duh! I found this video and followed his lead. Best part is that it makes your lips/teeth/face green...



Ingredients:
sprouts
1 carrot, grated
1/2 red pepper, julienned
1 green onion, chopped
1 c sauerkraut

juice of 1 lemon
1/4 c olive oil
1 t curry powder
1 T spirulina
pinch of salt

Directions:
Mix mix mix!

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Sweet Potato Ravioli Stacks


Boy do I love playing with my food. The colors of this far from traditional lasagna makes playing way too easy.

Based off of Rawxy's Ravioli Stacks who I currently have a blog crush on.

Sweet Potato Ravioli Stacks
Ingredients:
1/2 of a sweet potato
4-5 T Goaty Seed Cheese (recipe below)
4-5 T Spinach "Ricotta" Stuffing (recipe below)
1 T salt

Directions:
Slice the sweet potato as thin as possible with a mandolin or a sharp knife and steady hand.
Dissolve the salt in water and soak the sweet potato slices for 2 hours.
Rinse the salt off of soaked slices.
Layer the cheeses between the sweet potato slices.
Garnish* as you wish and enjoy!

*Try lemon zest, pesto mixed into olive oil, chopped olives, parsley leaves...


Goaty Seed Cheese
Raw vegan and based off of Melody's recipe.

Purple from using homemade red cabbage sauerkraut!

Ingredients:
1 c raw sunflower seeds, soaked for 4 hours
1 c sauerkraut (if you don't make it yourself, make sure it's unpasteurized)
2 T miso (make sure it's unpasteurized)
2 t Dijon mustard
1 t apple cider vinegar

Directions:
Blend all ingredients in a food processor until smooth.
Spoon into a bowl and cover with something breathable (cheesecloth, dish towel...).
Allow those lovely bacteria cultures to proliferate!
...AKA let it ferment on the counter overnight.

Spinach "Ricotta" Stuffing
Raw vegan and also from Rawxy

Ingredients:
1.5 c sunflower seeds, soaked
3-4 c packed spinach
1/2 c sun-dried tomatoes, soaked in warm water for at least 10 minutes
1 T kalamata olives
1 garlic clove, chopped
2 T nutritional yeast
1 T olive oil
2 T lemon juice
1 T dried Italian herbs
3/4-1 c water (enough to move in blender)
sea salt to taste

Directions:
Blend all the ingredients except the water and salt in a food processor or blender.
Slowly add in enough water to create a smooth and creamy texture.
Taste and add salt to your liking.
 
Oreo-style

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Sauerkraut Update


Remember how I made sauerkraut in December? Well after almost two months of fermentation, it's AMAZING.

 December 6, 2010

January 25, 2011

About 2 weeks into the process, I sampled it and it just tasted like overly salty cabbage and I was disappointed/let-down but just left it on my counter to do it's thang. I'm so happy that I did because it tastes exactly like sauerkraut should! Plus I made it myself (so gratifying) and it's not pasteurized so all that good bacteria is alive and flourishing and will soon be in my tummy.