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Karolina

Green Salad Dressing (HCLF)

Today we wanted to share with you a Salad Dressing recipe from our new book "Saucez Cru" that at the moment is available in French, but we will try to translate it into English as well. If you understand French, this book is available in a print and ebook form. You will find there more than 50 recipes that will completely transform your meals... No oil or vinegar is used but instead you will find only whole foods, lots of colour and taste! They are very low fat, but you can adjust all recipes to your liking, you can add some salt or completely omit it... This dressing collection can be useful for all raw enthusiasts, but also vegans, on a starch based diet, on Raw Till 4 or even on a standard diet. They will help you to add some vibrant and nutrient rich sauce to your daily meal plan.
I received my print copy just before Christmas and I can tell you that it's always a deep emotion to touch your book for the first time...

But let's come back to the recipe. This dressing it's a green sauce. It's raw, vegan, low fat and very nutrient dense. Spinach, parsley and some hemp seeds are at the centre of this recipe. Even if you can make this recipe completely fat free, I used some hemps seeds to add some more omega 3 and 6 and some good quality protein. I love hemps seeds from time to time in my salads. I find them very easy to digest and "lighter" than other nuts and seeds. I get my hemps seeds by 1 kg bags and keep them in the fridge, one bag can last for months...

Green Salad Dressing (HCLF Vegan)

INGREDIENTS:

• juice of 1 orange
• 1/2tsp French organic mustard (optional)
• 1/2 bunch of parsley
• 1 cup of spinach (packed) 
• small piece of sweat onion
• 1TBS of Hemp Seeds
• salt and pepper if you wish

Put everything into your blender (we recommend a Vitamix S30 that has convenient small containers) and blend well. Serve immediately over a raw salad or even rice, potatoes or steamed vegetables.

Viamix S30, we are testing it at the moment and will talk about it very soon!!!

 
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Have a very nice and green week!
Karolina and Abel

Our Christmas table...

Do you still think that vegan food is boring and not very feast-like?
Just have a look at our Raw Vegan Christmas table! We were just 2 (our Family is far away, so we shared the evening only via Skype).

We had a hot soup as a starter, I "infuse" some vegetable in hot water and serve it over some raw mushrooms, etc... We don't eat cooked vegetables from the broth, so it's just like a warming tea. It's really excellent.

 

Then we had agar-agar based vegetable jelly,

And a low fat agar-agar based cashew nut herb cheese:

We also enjoyed a cultured almond cheese and lots of salads and greens with low fat salad dressings:

After that dinner we were rather full and satisfied, but later in the evening we shared a new low fat chocolate tart (recipe soon!). It was divine!

 I hope you enjoyed this small peak into our raw vegan Christmas table...
And you? What did you have for Christmas? Please comment and share...

Excellent new year full of Joy and Health
Karolina and Abel

Christmas fruit salad...

I would love to share my favourite festive fruit salad recipe. It's a very pleasant marriage of textures, colours and tastes. It can be served as a main low fat meal (more for raw vegan enthusiast) or simply as a festive starter. I like to serve it in a nice glass decorated with parsley for nice dinner starter.

For this recipe you will need a secret ingredient that gives this special texture contrast: a bag of mung bean sprouts. I Absolutely love this product, that's very easy to serve, has a great taste and is a real nutritional bomb... I love to add it to my sweet or savoury salads, it's a real healthy fast food! You open a box and your meal is half-ready!

Crunchy and fresh mung bean sprouts pared with soft and delicate fruit create a very nice mouth feeling and a real texture surprise. I choose mangoes and pears for this salad but you can try some other fruit like papaya and bananas, oranges and mangoes, apples and bananas, etc...

Festive fruit salad

Tips: Sweetness and fragrance of fruit is a real key to achieve an excellence in this recipe!

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 large mangoes
• 2 large pears (or 4 small)
• 1 handful of dried cranberries
• 3 stalks of celery
• 1/2 box of mung bean sprouts
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon 
• 1/2 orange

Cut mangoes and pears into pieces. Cut celery stalks into small pieces. Squeeze the juice from a half of an orange. Put all ingredients into a salad bowl and mix well. Less marinate for a few minutes (you can make it in advance) and serve.

I hope you will enjoy this recipe!
Please comment if you tried it! What's your secret festive salad ingredient?

We wish you a very nice, unique and healthy Christmas!
Karolina and Abel

What we ate today... HCLF raw vegan

We invite you to join us for a one day of a raw vegan diet (if you are not already on that journey!). This is an example of a fully raw day from last week. I hope it will be some inspiration for you.

To start the day

It's excellent to drink a lot of water in the morning, to hydrate and flush out all toxins from your body. We usually take between 500ml to 1L of warm water in the morning with or without a few drops of lemon juice. I like to put my glass into my Pentaspere for at least 30 min. or a whole night before drinking it to re-energise the water to it's living structure. Pentasphere is an excellent healing tool that boost your cells to find their natural divine vibration, it's purifies the cells from all ancient negative memories and charges and guides us to reveal our all potential here on earth. Pentaspere is also called "the Door of Angels" (or for the Angels) and connects us directly with the higher frequencies and the harmonious whole of the Universe as well as our guides and personal Angels.

Breakfast

We looove green smoothies in the morning. Each of us has it's own recipe selection. I'm not a big fan of bananas (at least what's available here...) so my smoothies are quite versatile, Abel is more spinach and banana lover. Green Smoothies are full of nutrients and fibre, but also of good calories and protein. I share with you today my morning recipe of this week.

Green "Grapes and Raisins" smoothie

INGREDIENTS:

• I cup sweet purple grapes (here it's muscat variety)
• 4 fresh mozafati dates 
• 2 big handfuls of spinach
• 1 handful of parsley
• 1 Tsp of barley grass juice powder
• 1tsp Klamath Algea
• 1 1/2 cup water (or more if desired)

Put everything into your Vitamix blender and blend well. Serve.
You can add some bananas if you wish to make that smoothie more calorie dense.

Lunch

For lunch I had a plate of persimmons. I love persimmons, even if we don't have many varieties here. I like them very soft, almost liquid and mixed with parsley. Persimmons are a wonderful autumn - winter fruit rich in calories and vitamins. Abel took his second banana/spinach smoothie and some pears.

 

Snack

We like to have some fruit as a snack before dinner. It helps us to feel satisfied with vegetable based salad with some whole plant fat in it (sometimes without). Fruit adds some additional calories. I had 3 apples and some grapes and Abel 3 more bananas.

Diner

In the evening we had very large salads with fresh greens (curly endive and feuilles de chêne lettuce) served with broccoli-carrot-fresh herb "couscous" and a bit of our pear "mayonnaise" (the recipe is in our french ebook "Le Cru Festif"). It was just a haven! 

raw vegan "couscous"

Pear low fat "Mayonnaise" (we had a white version without spirulina)

What do you have for dinner? You prefer Raw or Cooked?

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Have a fruity day!

Karolina and Abel

Autumn raw vegan salad dressing (Low Fat)

I love good salad dressings that help eat large raw vegan evening plates with pleasure. For me the key for the satisfying evening meal is hidden in the sauce! You can eat the same vegetables every evening, but if you change the sauce, everything changes along with it. That's why I'm constantly looking for new flavours, new associations, new textures. We've just finished writing an ebook with low fat raw vegan dressings and I hope it will be available soon for you as well. But it's still a secret :)

Today I would like to share with you a very nice autumn recipe for a low fat raw vegan salad dressing. This sauce is excellent with all raw salads. At the moment I love it with spinach, grated carrots and kohlrabi, tomatoes and lot's of parsley! In that dressing I use swiss chard stalk instead of celery to salt it up a little bit. I found it even more pleasant than celery that is often too bitter and slightly pungent here...

Autumn raw vegan low fat salad dressing

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 yellow bell pepper
• 1 small tomato
• a small piece of mild red onion (or green onions)
• 1 large white stalk of swiss chard
• 1tbs of hemp seeds (you can add more or less if you wish)
• small piece of fresh ginger
• 1/4 tsp of old style french mustard (optional)
• fresh or dried dill to taste

Chop yellow bell pepper, tomato and swiss chard stalk into pieces. Simply add everything into your Vitamix blender and blend until silky smooth. Serve over your salad of choice.
You can need to add some water, but me, I do prefer this dressing on the thick side.
You can also play with different herbs and spices or if you don't follow 80/10/10 style, feel free to add some soy sauce, salt or even nutritional yeast. I think it will be very tasty like that too.
This dressing is also awesome with any type of steamed vegetables.

I hope you will enjoy this recipe, let me know if you tried it!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Karolina

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What we ate today (low fat raw vegan)

Every now and then we will share here "what we ate today" to give you an idea about raw vegan low fat living style in Europe. Of course it would be extremely nice to live in the tropics and that's our goal for the future, but now we are here and we will are hope to inspire you and assure you that staying raw in colder climates is still possible.

We started our day with our daily big green smoothie. Mine (smaller) was based on peaches and dates with "chénopode multicolore" (lamb's quarters variety that is bigger and tender than the wild one and that you can easily grow on your own till december frosts) from our garden and Abel had his classic banana/spinach smoothie. We add daily a scoop of barley grass juice powder to our morning smoothies to boost up the mineral content of our meals.

Peach/Lamb's quarters smoothie

For lunch we shared a big melon, then we shared 3 Pakistan mangoes. I completed my meal by a few ripe apricots and Abel had another green banana/spinach smoothie.

Kent and Pakistan Mangoes

Later in the afternoon I had a few white peaches as a snack. In the evening (we dinner very early about 6h30-7h) I had a big green salad from the garden with tomatoes, yellow squash and hemp seed/tomato sauce. Abel still wanted another banana/spinach smoothie and he had a similar salad later in the evening.

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Have a fruity day!
Karolina and Abel
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