Best Blended Salad, Cashew Cheese, Raw Chips & Strawberry Julius

I love Mango season!   I get to make my favorite blended salad.

The peppers and snap peas are to place on the table for snacking!...along with the cucumber.  What's on your table?

Remember to have plenty of fresh fruits and veggies at hands reach for your family...and they will eat them.

Best Blended Salad

1 Ataulfo mango

(my favorite, but you could also use another variety)

3 small vine ripe tomatoes

mixed salad greens

2 swiss chard leaves

small handful of cilantro

1 1/2 c. celery

3/4 of a large cucumber

jalapeno peppers to taste

lemon juice

Blend to desired consistency

This made a full Vita-Mix container or about 2 quarts

and I topped mine with granulated dulse flakes

Blended soups and salads are easy to digest, filling and delicious.  You can make them any consistency you like...smooth for a soup or chunky so you have something to chew.  Leave out the fruit for a savory soup or salad...use whatever greens or salad fixin's you have on hand, change up your spices/seasonings, add avocado for a creamy soup or salad.or chop it into the bowl..be creative....if I think it might be too bitter I add jalapeno and it usually cuts right through it.

For the dressings I usually add the ingredients right into the blender...for instance...tahini, lemon juice and Bragg's Liquid Aminos is good....or for Italian...garlic, oregano, basil, dash of Olive oil or leave out the oil and use an avocado for the fat.  Sometimes I'll look at salad dressing labels of things I used to eat and create one of my own from their ingredients list that I modify.

This is just off of my front deck.  It is the only place that we have enough sun to grow anything..but we do not get much sun, so I cannot grow much, but I keep trying.  This year I am doing some greens...kale, chinese cabbage, romaine, arugula in the raised bed and some herbs in pots... I am snipping off cilantro for my salad.

My lunch!!! Boy was it yummy!!.mmmmmmmm

Cashew Cheese, Blended Salad, Raw Nacho Chips

Cashew Cheese

in the Vita-Mix

1 c. soaked and drained raw cashew

1-3 cloves of garlic

1-2 T. dried onions

lemon juice to blend

Himalyan Salt to taste

blend until smooth

I made this Cheese the other day and had not tasted it...Wowzer...it is so good...

I did not measure anything...you know what I mean??? I love the versatility of raw food un-cooking...!

This is a view out of my front door...lots of trees

Strawberry Julius

2- 2 1/2 c. water

big handful of CSA strawberries

lemon juice

Squirt of liquid Stevia

small handful of ice

Blend in high powered blender or Vita-Mix

Enjoy!

you can change this up by adding whatever fresh or frozen fruit you enjoy...

Healthier than Starbucks..Latte...Veggie Burgers and Nacho Chips

Better than Starbucks

Latte

1 1/2 c. raw almond milk

1/2 T. Dandy Blend

squirt of English Toffee stevia or vanilla cream, chocolate or hazelnut by Sweet Leaf

warm almond milk on the stove or in your Vita-Mix...keep it mostly raw by not exceeding 115 degrees

add other ingredients and blend for one minute (if warmed on stove) or until good and frothy

you can also blend in one date to thicken it a bit

Oh, the wonders of the Vita-Mix!  I use it 6-10 times a day.  It is definitely my most used raw food appliance.

Hemp Sun Burgers

from Ani Phyo's new book,

"Raw Food Essentials"

This is an essential book for seasoned or newbies to raw food...filled with basic recipes that you can personalize according to your tastes! This is one of my fav's!

Nacho Chips

one of my take-offs from Ani's Flax Chips

In Vita-Mix

2 c. of roma tomatoes

2-3 c. celery

12 oz of carrot juice

1 T. oregano

garlic

1 T. Mrs. Dash Extra Spicy

Blend until liquified

In a bowl mix together:

4 c. ground of golden flaxseeds

1 c. of nutritional yeast

Pour liquids over dry ingredients.  Mix until smooth and spread on teflex sheets and sprinkle with Himalyan salt ...then dehydrate on one side, flip, score and dry until crisp.

This filled 8 trays in my Excalibur Dehydrator.

another shot of my

Hemp Sun Burgers