Datenut dessert! Something sweet!

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hey bracken

the eggplant recipe patrol is going to come out and give you a ticket if u don't fess up to your recipe LOL

Which recipe would you like?

Looks lovely jan, matches this time of year like snow balls!!

the eggplant recipe is actural called:

Stuffed Eggplant Manicotti with Sun-Dried Tomato and Basil Marinara

by Renee Loux UnderKoffler in the book "Living Cuisine"

"In this dish, thinly sliced marinated eggplant is stuffed with rich macadamia nut ricotta and topped with savory sun-dried tomato and basil marinara. Serve warm for an authentic experience."

Eggplant Manicotti
1 eggplant
1 1/2 TBS sea salt
1/3 cup lemon juice
2 TBS olive oil
1 clove garlic, minced
pinch sea salt

Macadamia Nut Ricotta
1 cup macadamia nuts
1/2 cup whole raw cashews
1/4 cup pine nuts
1/3 cup lemon juice
2 TBS olive oil (Optional)
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tsp sea salt, or to taste

Sun-Dried Tomato and Basil Marinara
1 cup sun-dried tomatoes
6 roma tomatoes, or 4 large tomatoes
1 clove garlic
1/4 cup finely minced red onion
1 cup fresh basil leaves
1/2 cup fresh Italian parsley leaves
sprig oregano and rosemary, or dried Italian seasoning
2 TBS olive oil
1 TBS raw honey
1 tsp raw apple cider vinegar or lemon juice
1-2 tsp sea salt, or to taste
pinch cayenne pepper (optional)

To prepare the eggplant manicotti: Peel the eggplant. Slice thinly across the seeds. Toss the eggplant slices with sea salt. Marinate for 1 hour. The bitter juices will wick away from the eggplant. Gently squeeze the eggplant, and marinate the slices in lemon juice, olive oil, garlic and sea salt for 1-2 hours. Gently squeeze the slices to wick away excess marinade before rolling.

To make the macadamia nut ricotta: Soak 3/4 cup of the macadamia nuts and cashews together in 3 cups fresh water for 20 minutes. Drain and rinse. In food processor, chop remaining 1/4 cup of dry macadamia nuts and pine nuts into a fine meal. Set aside. Reserve a few tablespoons for garnish. Chop soaked macadamia nuts and cashews into a fine meal. Add lemon juice, olive oil, and garlic and blend until as smooth as possible. Add a few tablesppons of fresh water to aid in blending smooth. The ricotta should be fairly smooth and thick. Add the ground dry macadamia nuts and pine nuts, blend until well mixerd. Season with sea salt.

To stuff the manicotti: Spoon 2-4 tablespoons of ricotta onto each marinated slice of eggplant and roll into a manicotti-shaped roll (like a connoli). The manicotti can be served "fresh" like this or dehydrated for 2-4 hours at 108F to warm and set and t marry flavors and texture.

To make the sun-dried tomato and basil marinara: Soak the sun-dried tomatoes in 1 cup fresh water until soft (5-15minutes). Drain and rinse. Set aside. Cut the tops out of the tomatoes. Cut the tomatoes in halves and scoop out the seeds with a spoon. Dice the tomatoes. Set aside.

In food processor, finely chop garlic, red onion, and herbs. Add sun-dried tomatoes, olive oil, honey, and apple cider vinegar or lemon juice and cop in pulses. Do not blend until smooth; leave a touch of texture.

In a bowl, fold together sun-dried-tomato mixture with diced tomatoes. Season with sea salt and if desired, cayenne pepper. Spoon a generous amount of marinara over each serving of manicotti.

Garnish with reserved ground macadamia nuts and pine nuts.

**** I didn't follow exactly the rules here, but it came out great anyway!

Raw CARROT CAKE

1 up grated carrot
2 cups walnuts blended
1 cup rasins
1tsp vanilla extract
1tsp salt optional
one quater of water
1tsp ginger spice
1tsp grond ginger I used alspice in mine!

Blend carrots until pulp, add the blended walnuts, add the spices & salt continue to blend. Blend until you have a lumpy cake batter.
Remove mix process rasins,water, vanilla, add to cake batter, stir. Put into container & dehydrate for 24hrs or in open oven for 4 hrs.

ALMOND CREAM

1 cup of almonds soaked 3hrs
1 cup of stawberries
1tsp vanilla extract
1tsp cinnamon


I blended almonds in hand blender added stwberries, cinnamon, vanilla, added water as went along for desired consistancy. put in fridge for 1hour to thicken.
for the sweeter tooth you could add agave.

My favorite salad; Sunflower Broccoli Salad! mmmmm

nice one dee got to give that a go, yor broccoli salad looks lovel too!

I am definitely making you carrot cake! The ingredients is everything I love! Thanks bracken!

You are looking really well dee!

What I had today, made some lovely rissoles for tea, peas were not fresh frozen just left them to defrost ( feel really bad about that!)

I wish I could smell through the computer.

First you start off with rich blackberries

Then throw together in your blender strawberries orange juice & the beautuful blackberries

And wooooooooo
Tastes like heaven!


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hi jan is that a

1) sunset smoothie
2) raw jam "preserve"
3) raw cream cheesecake topping
4) all of the above

Made my first savoury pie..

looks alrite.. have to try again in the week see if I can get it to look nicer!!

Its nut base, filling with mushrooms, kale, then a greens and cashew cream filling sauce...

that is interesting looking rawdanceruk
looks like u are getting real creative

looks like.. green goo pie! lol taste good tho!!




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mmmm so tasy, I wish we had skills to prepare those kinds of meals, seems like a cool meditation too.

Thanks Jan & la Veronique , my little buddy is the numero uno nutrient in my life

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Green goo is good lol! looks lovely and creamy well done rawdancer!

Made Orange cacao brownies, raw chocs, sharon fruit pie.

Ju.. I want your chocolates!!

Here is my zuchini and carrot pasta..on a bed of baby kale with marinara sauce

om om (shame its going back in the fridge as I am not hungry!)

nooooo dont put it in the fridge!

just give it to ME!

i;ll eat it

YUMM!!

Here is my wee experiment.. RAW Tiffin tales

Here it is empty


Base

2nd Layer


3rd Layer...


OM OM!!

Choco Banana cake with cashew cream frosting (raw of course!!)







I havent got a piping bag..it all got very messy!!

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Here are pics of our Thanksgiving. I am wearing a gray shirt and Khale is beside me in a brown shirt. It was my best Thanksgiving ever!!!

WOW That all looks amazing!! (you and khale look raw-some too!!)

yummy!

Was it all from one recipe book or can you point in direction of some??

rawdanceruk--
Nice vegie combination! And your cake looks absolutely mouthwateringly delicious. I made a very similar one for a party for my 55th birthday a few years back and people went wild over it.

packd4fun & khale--
You guys are so cute! And that was an amazing array of gorgeous looking Thanksgiving food, too.

Now I'm hungry. Man, after seeing everybody's pics on thisi thread, I realize my raw diet by comparison is really 'bbb': basic, boring and blah! ;-p

Sharrhan:


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That is a link to the Mushroom quiche. I love the Sunny Raw kitchen. Khale made the cranberry sauce and our friend Audry made the stuffing and cake. I think Audry will be posting her recipes soon.

Thanks for the compliments. Wish you could have been there!!



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Rawdancer the cake looks yummy, run that recipe by me again!

Packd4fun amazing spread, could you through some recipes this way? cup cake looking treat looks lovely, you are a spruce looking family!

What I made yesterday! Carrot cake and pecan cream, Raw cacao Xmas Chocs!