looking for simple ( few ingredients) salad dressings
but no oil ( nuts okay though)
no nama shoyu
no vinegar
no braggs amino
no balsamic

gimme your best, most savory, most illustrious, most.... most..... something or other

What about a green goddess type with avocado, green onions, sweet pepper, lemon juice, raw salt, a little water, a clove of garlic and maybe a cuke?

1 avocado
1 red bell pepper
1/2 to 1 clove garlic

blend in vitamix




1 mango
1 red bell pepper
herbs (cilantro, basil)

blend in vitamix




orange juice (1 cup)
sesame seeds (2 - 4 T.)
green onion

blend in vitamix

banana who are you?

<<What about a green goddess type with avocado, green onions, sweet pepper, lemon juice, raw salt, a little water, a clove of garlic and maybe a cuke>>

sounds good
never tried a cuke in a salad dressing
looking forward

utopian life

cool!
i wanna try the orange sesame seed green onion the most

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la_veronique Wrote:
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> looking for simple ( few ingredients) salad
> dressings
> but no oil ( nuts okay though)


Hi Veronique,

I'm curious why no oil? I've noticed in several comments that some rawfooders are not in favour of oil, apparently not even cold press olive oil.

Some many years ago when I was in Vancouver at a five-day vegan symposium, there was a doctor lecturing on the adverse issues surrounding trans fats. My wife thought I should speak with him because, in her opinion, I was consuming too much olive oil.

And so I did.

He asked how much I was consuming and, at that time, I was going through a liter a week. His comment was that I was likely doing myself a favour because olive oil has the reputation of keeping the internal organs quite supple.

That sounded good to me and so I continue to eat cold press olive oil though not quite in such quantity.

Should I rethink that? I'm curious why so many rawfooders are even against cold press olive oil.

I think some of us would prefer to avoid empty-calorie (vitamin and mineral devoid) isolated fats, proteins, carbohydrates, and eat whole foods and get fat in the form of fruits & vegetables (some more fatty than others like avocados, coconuts, and also nuts, seeds. cold -pressed or not, it's still a processed food.

"I think some of us would prefer to avoid empty-calorie (vitamin and mineral devoid) isolated fats, proteins, carbohydrates, and eat whole foods and get fat in the form of fruits & vegetables (some more fatty than others like avocados, coconuts, and also nuts, seeds. smiling smiley cold -pressed or not, it's still a processed food."

That's not true, olive oil has a decent amount of vitamin E and vitamin K and lots of phytochemicals.

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Don't know if I would use this as a salad dressing but I'm thinking of making a ginger tahini sauce for sea spaghetti.

hi raw4ever

imo there are equal amounts of "good" and "bad" news for olive oil
just like everything else

i love raw olives though ... hands down

jtprindl

bust out the ginger tahini recipe

i wanna know

maybe i'll use it on zucchini spaghetti

la_veronique Wrote:
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> jtprindl
>
> bust out the ginger tahini recipe
>
> i wanna know
>
> maybe i'll use it on zucchini spaghetti


I haven't tried out any recipes but all I was thinking of doing is using maybe 1/4 cup of sprouted tahini with a bit of raw ginger powder and pure curcumin. Maybe a 1/4 tsp. of each. I like to keep it simple Tahini tastes good to me by itself so I'm guessing this will give it a nice subtle gingery flavor.



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jtprindl

when u say pure curucmin do you mean you are going to grind the seeds?
sesame cumin and ginger sound good

i might try that with raw ginger though i dont know how to get raw cumin seeds

maybe i'll put a bit of lemon too

thanks all for the ideas
they are VERY welcome

hope this thread keeps running ( cross my fingers)

"when u say pure curucmin do you mean you are going to grind the seeds?
sesame cumin and ginger sound good"

I mean pure curcumin as in the extracted therapeutic compound from turmeric.

This is what I use: [www.longevitywarehouse.com] - 98% curcumin.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/20/2014 12:42PM by jtprindl.

saw the link
so do they grind it at low temperatures or something?
or like in a coffee grinder?

could i grind cumin seeds myself?
i'm intrigued
i like cumin

so i made a dressing with

sesame seeds ( brown )
zucchini
red bell pepper
paprika
cayenne
cumin
lemon juice
ginger


it was alright

I'm not referring to cumin lol, it's curcumin, the medicinal compound from the Indian spice, turmeric. It's cold water extracted. Personally, I wouldn't even use a blender, I would just pour tahini in a small bowl, add ginger and curcumin, and stir until its mixed well.

i use blender
cuz i like ginger fresh
plus i use blender
because i make my own tahini
with the unhulled sesame seeds

maybe ill just keep it simple next time
maybe 3 ingredients

paprika and cayenne really gave it a kick

Thanks Utopian Life, jtprindl and La_veronique. I realize this thread isn't about the virtues, or lack thereof, of olive oil so I'll just say thanks but your responses answer my question.

I hadn't realized that there is a limited array of nutrients in olive oil though, as jtprindl points out, it isn't completely devoid of valuable nutrition but it is a fairly narrow band.

Good to know.

hey raw4ever

what is your fave dressing

Are salad dressings found wild in nature?

lol, just giving some raw food dogma thoughts.

I knew a guy who went to the raw vegan farmers market in Coconut Grove, bought a head of romaine or whatever just poured hemp nuts on it and ate it like that.

romaine n hemp go well together

salad dressings are indeed found in nature

fufifniliy Wrote:
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> Some friends were hoping their second child would
> be a girl, and they even had a name picked out.
> The ultrasound didn't reveal the baby's sex,
> though, and since the expectant father had orders
> from the Navy to ship out before the due date, he
> told his wife, "We'd better pick out a boy's name,
> just in case." But when it was time for him to
> report for duty, they still hadn't decided. At sea
> a few weeks later, he got notification that his
> son, Justin Kase, had been born.

How nice. Welcome to the Living and Raw Foods forum where, as you've found, anything goes.

Indeed a nice joke

I recently have been using just lemon juice on my butter lettuce and cucumber salad and it was so simple yet so satisfying.

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la_veronique Wrote:
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> saw the link
> so do they grind it at low temperatures or
> something?
> or like in a coffee grinder?
>
> could i grind cumin seeds myself?
> i'm intrigued
> i like cumin


Curcumin is the active ingredient in turmeric. So he wants an extract. However, the antioxidants in the color, the synergy of everything in turmeric root seems to be against that practice. Maybe therapeutically, I suppose, but you are looking for a salad dressing.

banana who Wrote:
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> la_veronique Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > saw the link
> > so do they grind it at low temperatures or
> > something?
> > or like in a coffee grinder?
> >
> > could i grind cumin seeds myself?
> > i'm intrigued
> > i like cumin
>
>
> Curcumin is the active ingredient in turmeric. So
> he wants an extract. However, the antioxidants in
> the color, the synergy of everything in turmeric
> root seems to be against that practice. Maybe
> therapeutically, I suppose, but you are looking
> for a salad dressing.


Curcumin by itself is responsible for a wide range of health benefits. I bet 1-2 teaspoons of pure curcumin would be more potent than 2 tablespoons of turmeric.



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ela

i love lemon juice too

Its so funny how we need recipes to make something. I still do too. Are we that out of touch with ourselves and our senses, we cannot imagine taste combos in our own mind?

There has to be a simple formula. Like for marinating its anything with fat and sour tastes, some salt tastes.

I love me a TAHINI DRESSING. I love it, for many many years now. I cannot quite ever get it right like the dressing I loved back in 2004 working at Glaser organics. Like their raw vegan salad dressing, amazing!

<<Its so funny how we need recipes to make something. I still do too. Are we that out of touch with ourselves and our senses, we cannot imagine taste combos in our own mind?>>

that's a neat trick
to imagine taste combos with our mind
wow...
if i had a mind like that
i could fly me to the moon...

It took me like 10 years to understand raw vegan recipes. I have never had that taste modality, for me I am all about visual sense. So yes It is hard.