sweet potato/peanut dip

Ingredients:

1 large sweet potato

1/2 cup raw peanuts

1/4 tsp cinnamon (optional)

pinch nutmeg (optional)

Bake the sweet potato (350 F for 1 hour 15 minutes). Let it cool a bit, peel the skin (I eat it and it is good!). Boil the peanuts for an hour. Combine peanuts, water it cooked in, sweet potato, and seasoning in blender until smooth. That's it! It is really good. I had this with raw veggies for lunch today. yum!

kale with peanut/sweet potato/bean sauce

Ingredients:

1-2 bunch kale

1 bunch baby bok choy (optional)

1/2 onion, coarsely chopped

1/2 large sweet potato

1/4 cup raw peanuts

1-2 cups beans

Bake the sweet potato (1 hour, 350 F), cover the cut half with foil. Boil the peanuts for an hour. Cook the kale and onion (few minutes in the pressure cooker, or 10-20 minutes steamed). Blend the peanuts and sweet potato with cooking water (from the kale). Combine everything. It's like a kale stew. It's very yummy.

Feb. 2 food

Brekky: cabbage, apple & raisins. without the curry and onion. here's a picture before cooking.

I cooked it for a couple of minutes in the pressure cooker. I think I'm more in the mood for the raw version, easy cabbage salad these days. That's surprising because it's winter.

Lunch was kale with peanut/sweet potato/bean sauce. It was soooo goood. Housemate enjoyed it too.

Dinner was my usual spinach salad with spinach, a bag of frozen mixed berries, a couple Tbsp of seeds, and blueberry vinegar. finished off with some carrots.

Five Major Poisons found in Animal Foods

This is an interesting article from Dr. McDougall's latest newsletter. The standard American diet is poisonous!

Jana Banana's Carrot Cupcakes with Cinnamon Raisin Icing

This looks good for a treat (from Jana's blog). I used to love carrot cake. Maybe I'll try this for one of my nutritarian potlucks sometime, or any gathering of friends.

yesterday and today

I'm having fun with my nutritarian meals these days. On Saturday, I did a lot of food prep for the week, so now my meals are quick and easy.

Yesterday, I wasn't hungry for brekky, and so had my blended salad and spinach salad at lunch along with some fruit (star fruit, kiwi, a few apple pieces). That was filling and then I got home late for dinner so didn't want to prepare much, and just had a bowl of raw stuff: red bell pepper, carrot sticks, baby bok choy, broccoli and cauliflower. I poured some blueberry vinegar on it. It was good and I enjoyed taking 30 minutes to eat it while conversing with house-mate and house-guest as they ate their weird Standard American food (have you noticed that it's mostly shades of brown in color?). So that ended up being an all-raw day, by accident.

Today, I had brekky at the co-op with a friend, after my exercise class. I brought my blended salad (thawed from the freezer), and bought a small apple and a small box of strawberries to eat with it. Lunch was really good. yummmmm. I made kale with sweet potato sauce, with variations: only 1/2 large sweet potato was baked, no pom. juice, and just a few raw walnuts (about 1/2 oz). I cooked kale and onion in the pressure cooker. Then blended the potato, walnuts, and cooking liquid. It didn't blend vary well because of the small amounts but that's okay. I combined that with my weekend beans and mixed it all up with the kale and onion. so yummmmy! I should have taken a picture but I just wanted to eat it. Dinner will be some sort of quick salad. I forgot to get spinach at the co-op, so I'll just use a baby bok choy and arugula, and dump some frozen berries, seeds, and vinegar on it, like the spinach salad. and I'll eat my raw carrots because I love raw carrots. I finish off most meals with carrot sticks.

chocolate mousse or blueberry pudding

Okay, there is a recipe for chocolate mousse in the Fuhrman website that has sweet potato, blueberries, and cocoa powder. Well, I can't handle chocolate, even cocoa powder (I get all hyper), so I tried it without. Here is what I did.

Ingredients:

1 medium sweet potato

1 cup frozen blueberries, let them thaw some (in microwave or bowl sitting out)

1/2 oz raw walnuts

1 Tbsp date syrup (optional)

1 Tbsp cocoa powder (optional, I tried it without)

Bake the sweet potato, about 1 hour at 350 F. Let it cool a bit, take the peel off (I ate it, it was good), then blend everything. It looks like pudding:

It was almost too sweet, probably due to the date syrup. I like sweet potatoes so much by themselves I don't see the point of combining them with the other stuff. I bet with cocoa powder, it does make a fine chocolate pudding or mousse so I recommend trying this if you are in the mood for chocolate.