Raw/Vegan Workshop!
Things I learned at the Raw/Vegan Workshop:
- I could never eat 100% raw
- I like fennel
- I need a spiralizer
The class was sponsored by Ellwood Thompson, a local grocery store that specializes in organic and local products. Raw food is food that hasn’t been heated over 118 degrees, which supposedly means your body gets more nutrients. I’m skeptical, but I figure, it can’t be a bad thing. I love vegetables, anyway you prepare them 😉
The woman teaching the class showed us how to prepare two different recipes:
Raw Apple Fennel Salad
Raw Zucchini Pasta
Both were good, but the Apple Fennel salad was definitely my favorite. So, I’ll share the recipe with you, since I’m nice like that. 🙂
Apple Fennel Salad
Serves 4
- 2 granny smith apples
- 1 fennel bulb
- 1/4 cup fresh mint
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1/3 cup lime juice
- pinch of salt
Julienne your apple (aka chop it into little rectangles) and slice your fennel bulb thin. If you have a mandolin slicer, you could use that, but a knife works too. Toss the apples in the lime juice and add the fennel. (This keeps the apple from turning brown, and it tastes good!) Then mince your mint, and add that to the apple & fennel. Drizzle on the olive oil, and bam. You’ve got a raw vegan salad on your plate.
I thought the taste of this was really fresh. It wasn’t overwhelming, and I think it would be a great salad for a barbecue!
Have you ever tried a “raw” recipe?
In other news, my blogger swap package came from Eating Like a Horse and it must have cost her a fortune to send it because it was packed with goodies! But that package deserves a post of it’s own… so come back tomorrow 😉 (Thanks, Jemma, for organizing the swap!)
Happy Friday everyone! Any exciting plans? Some raw food recipes perhaps? 😉
<3 Liz
I love the idea of eating raw, but I’m way too fond of my warm foods on cold nights to ever go 100% raw. The apple and fennel salad looks really delicious, though. I may have to try it!
100% raw is way too hard for me but I like the idea of it. Fennel is amazing with its licorice-like flavor and that salad sounds and looks absolutely delicious 😀
What a cool workshop! Salad looks yummy!
Love my spiralzer, I use it all the time!
I realllllly want a spiralizer (or whatever the heck it’s called!:) too!!!! Yum, that salad looks awe-SOME!
That sounds like SUCH a neat workshop!!
I’ve never tried a raw recipe that wasn’t like salad or whatever. I’d like to sometime though!
Maybe I’m lazy, but raw just takes too much time and thought to prepare. Unlike buying organic which takes nothing but a decision an extra money, or going vegetarian and replacing meat with protein sources, going raw takes lots of time and research deciding meals and how to prepare them. I’m gonna stick to being lazy. I’m not against raw foods, I just don’t have and/or want to spend the time on them.
Haha yeah I don’t think I could do it. It would take a lot of preparation, plus it would be nearly impossible to ever eat out!
I realllly want a spiralizer too! There is no way I could eat 100% raw… but people who do have the BEST skin. LOL!
Eating raw food sounds interesting but i don’t think i can do it! I love hot food! lol… But yeah i think raw desserts sounds quite tasty. I think having at least one raw meal a day would be good and may be one day i’ll do it!