Posts from — March 2010

I love seaweed! I eat it, every single day. I sprinkle it on salads, put it in blended soups, snack on it, and sometimes makes nutritious mineral broths with it. I used to joke that I was part mermaid because I love seaweed and swimming in the ocean so much:) For me, seaweed is an ultimate wild superfood full of minerals including iodine, calcuim, and iron and it’s naturally salty flavor is a great substitute for table salt. What stumps me is why more people don’t eat it more often.

This post is meant to encourage you to add seaweed into your diet and if you are excited about trying seaweed I recommend my sea vegetable recipe ebooklet, with some of my favorite raw seaweed recipes.

If you’ve ever heard me speak at a raw food event you know that I love seaweed from Ocean Harvest, a local California company off the Mendocino coast. My favorite seaweed from them is silky sea palm!

Today I’m going to share with you two simple raw food seaweed recipes!

Here is a video of me making a simple seaweed recipe contributed by my friends Simon and Coco. They call it Nori Baku.

Click here if you can’t see the video above.

Nori Baku

1 ounce whole laver seaweed
3 cherry tomatoes, or 2 slices of tomato, or the juice of 1/2 lemon

Process the ingredients in a food processor with the S blade for about 10 minutes until they turn into small fluffy pieces, that can be eaten as a snack or sprinkled on recipes. Enjoy!

Simply Wakame Salad

EJ James from www.wholisticmama.com was gracious enough to contribute this simple seaweed recipe

Gomasio  (makes 1/2 cup)

1/2 cup raw unhulled brown sesame seeds
2 tsp himalayan or celtic salt

Combine seeds and salt. Grind in a coffee grinder  or a high speed blender  (Vita Mix or Blend Tec ) until finely ground. Store in a shaker jar.

Wakame Salad (makes 2 cups)

2 cups wakame seaweed *, soaked and drained
1 tsp lemon juice or umeboshi plum vinegar
1 tsp red pepper flakes, optional
½ cup gomasio

*Soak the wakame in pure water. Rinse and drain very well.  The other ingredients meld together much better when the wakame is empty of the water, though not in the ‘dried state’ it started off in before you soaked it.

Toss the lemon juice or umeboshi plum vinegar and wakame together. Add the gomasio and fully coat all the wakame. Add red pepper flakes if desired. Serve.

Hope you enjoyed these two recipes and for more seaweed recipes be sure to check out the my sea vegetable recipe ebooklet.

♥,
C

Announcing the winner of the *Raw Glow Blog Free Nylon Sprout Bag Giveaway*

Iceblueyes

please e-mail me your shipping address at glowingraw-info@yahoo.com.

Thank you for all who entered I appreciated your answers they were all inspiring!

Here is a short video of how to make crispy raw sweet potato chips:

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Raw Dehydrated Sweet Potato Chips Recipe

1 large sweet potato
Few sprinkles of sea salt
Drizzle of olive oil

 Slice the sweet potato thinly with the adjustable ceramic mandoline on the thin setting (0.5 mm) using the handguard, and put the slices into a large bowl. Drizzle the sweet potato slices with olive oil and sprinkle with sea salt until well covered. Dehydrate the chips in the dehydrator on at least 115 degrees for 24 hrs or until crispy. Makes about 2 dehydrator trays of chips. They start to get soggy soon after they are taken out of the dehydrator, so put them in an air tight container and consume them within a few days.

•  If the chips are not crispy perhaps you did not use sufficient olive oil or perhaps you did not dehydrate the chips long enough.
• Please do not try to make raw potato chips.  Potatoes are part of the nightshade family and have natural toxins when consumned raw.

 Click here for more info on the adjustable ceramic mandoline slicer

 Click here for more info about dehydrator sheets

Thanks to Carol Bundock for this recipe

 Happy Creating!

♥,
C

Here’s a short video of me making a yummy green juice without a juicer. Juicing without a juicer is easy! If you don’t own a juicer you can still make delicious juices as long as you have a powerful blender such as a Vitamix and a trusty sprout bag.

 My body has been craving juices lately, perhaps it’s wanting to cleanse to get ready for  Spring. I also was inspired by Daniel Vitalis’ talk at Monday Night Live about eating dandelion greens.  Enjoy!

 Click here if you can’t see the video above 

 Click here for more info about juicing with  nylon sprout bags

*Raw Glow Blog Free Nylon Sprout Bag Giveaway*

Raw Glow is giving away one 12 by 12 sturdy nylon sprout bag as shown in the video. To enter all you have to do is answer this question in the comments section and I will choose a winner from the comments entered. The contest ends Mar. 10^th, 2010.

•  Question: What are some of the things you do in your everyday life to stay healthy? (Doesn’t just have to be limited to food)

Look forward to the answers!

Love,
C