I've been loving reading the recipes at sunny raw kitchen lately
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and tonight I made a beautiful supper for my family. Of course the kids ended up w nut butter and banana wraps etc instead but at least they both tried it first and my *sad* papa actually loved it and wants the recipe! Wonderful.

Here's what i made...

Marinated green beans (oil, lemon, tamari, garlic, dill)

Zucchini angel hair pasta (love that spiralizer!) with creamy alfredo sauce

After I shred the pasta I salt and oil it and let it sit to soften while making the rest of the recipe. Just before serving I rinse it in warm/hot water to heat it up a bit.

ALFREDO SAUCE

1/2 cup pine nuts, soaked 2 hours, rinsed, and drained
1/2 cup cashews, soaked 2 hours, rinsed, and drained
1/2 cup water
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 teaspoon agave nectar
2 teaspoon nutritional yeast
2 teaspoon light miso
1 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon Himalayan crystal salt, or salt to taste
Pinch of nutmeg
Pinch of white pepper
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-I ran out of pinenuts so I used what little I had left of them plus some almond flour I had in the fridge.
-I subbed maple syrup for the agave though I recommend a bit less than the recipe calls for, it was on the sweet side for me.
-I used black pepper, didn't have any white.

Put the pine nuts, cashews, water, lemon juice, and sweetner in a blender and blend until creamy. If the mixture is too thick for the blender, add a very small amount of water (by the teaspoon – just enough to blend). When the mixture is smooth and creamy, add the nutritional yeast, miso, onion powder, garlic powder, salt, nutmeg, and pepper and blend briefly to mix.

Garnish with optional Pine Nut Parmesan. Store any leftover sauce in a sealed glass jar in the refrigerator for up to one week.

PINE NUT PARMESAN

1/2 cup macadamias
1/2 cup cashews
2 Tbs pine nuts
1 Tbs lemon juice
1Tbs flax meal
1 clove crushed garlic
1Tbs nutritional yeast
1/2 tsp salt
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This recipe makes so much! You'll have tons left over in the fridge. I didn't have any mac nuts so I used a mixture of sesame and hemp seeds that I ground in a spice mill. In fact, that was enough of a tool for me for this recipe, I didn't need a food processor. Just ground the nuts and seeds individually, ground the flax, added it all together and mixed it up, adding the lemon juice last. It worked out just fine but here's what the recipe says to do.

First process macadamias and cashews until ground. Then add the pine nuts and process briefly. Follow with the rest of the ingredients and process until well mixed. You don’t want to overprocess the pine nuts as they release a lot of oil.

Toss the noodles with the sauce. Sprinkle with Pine Nut Parmesan and serve. This would have looked very pretty with red pepper cubes .


Served up with a lovely green salad. Perfect.





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/26/2009 11:38PM by coco.

Oh my that does look appetizing...

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coco

you are so awesome
you RAWCKK!!

just pointing out the obvious

YUM! gonna try it!

Oh my gracious, Coco! The recipes and pictures you've share are SO appetizing and beautiful and look so tasty. You really inspire me to try new things - thank you!!

Gee

thanks guys! i don't know what took me so long to give these recipes a go. i usually make such simple foods but wow, a delicious dish now and then sure works to spice things up and rekindle my interest in the kitchen. creativity that you can eat, yay!

is your dad interested in some of these things you are making?

...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist

YES! or so he says. he eats them all anyhow. they're really tasty though, a fine sub for whatever he might make. he's hungry later though.

very cool he probably needs to eat more to compensate for that *full* feeling on heavy cooked foods (gee doesnt that sound like a broken record

...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist

I could just gobble up those green beans! Im drooling!!!!

nomnomnomnom...!

oops... sorry, didnt know the pic would be that big, guess i need to resize it.

morgenjune Wrote:
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> oops... sorry, didnt know the pic would be that
> big, guess i need to resize it.
On the contrary, I think you need to make it larger.
Do you ever balance all that Fruit with Greens?....WY

I think it might have been bigger before WY, it would have resized in all her posts after she changed it.

Not always... I try to make dinner a veggie wrap with cucumber, sprouts, avocado, onion, hummus, and salsa. Is that bad? I've just been keeping it as simple as possible to make it work with what's going on in my life. Any sugestions? I'm glad you like my fruit salad! It was de-lish!!

nomnomnomnom...!

some people swear by all fruit, some by all greens. some do food combining and some ignore that. you gotta do what works for YOU! but if you have specific questions, if something happens, if you get a certain reaction, feel free to ask on the main forum and you will get a wealth of replies. there is lots of sharing and caring here. but sometimes you still gotta take things with a grain of sea salt, KWIM? do it your way, that's the only way that's going to be just right for you.

Thanks coco, it's so nice to have all this positive energy and support

nomnomnomnom...!