Yesterday I made raw "bacon," lettuce and tomato sandwiches. They were delicious. I used avocado instead of the mayo. I'm sure you could make them with a raw mayonaisse as well, but the avocado was simple and tasted great.
I made the eggplant bacon on Saturday. I used a combination of Ani Phyo's and Alissa Cohen's recipes. I basically used Alissa's technique of using a vegetable peeler to get the thin bacon strips, and Ani's marinade.
This is what they looked like at the start of the dehydrating time:
And here's what the bacon looks like finished:
The bacon is not really all the amazing on it's own . I thought it was just extremely salty. That said, on the sandwich with the lettuce, tomato and avocado, the bacon doesn't taste as salty and has a very texture very similar ot bacon. It was delicious.
The wraps are zucchini wraps - I googled and found them online at this site:
http://www.choosingraw.com/desk-lunch-zucchini-wraps/
The wraps were really simple to make!! Mine look a little different than those posted on the website because I peeled the zucchini. They were actually pretty dry right out of the dehyrator. There seemed to be no middle ground, they either were sticky/wet or crispy. But today I had them for lunch and they were a lot more flexible and were actually usable as a "wrap." So my advice on these is to try to make them a day ahead if you can - the wraps may work out better.
I shared them with my coworker who is also raw. She gave them my best review yet. She emailed me after lunch and said: "The sandwich was delicious!!!! You are an amazing raw cook...seriously everything you have made has been much better than anything i have ordered from the so called Raw Food Chefs!!!"
Okay, I am bragging and blushing all at the same time. Because really, all I am doing is finding recipes online and making them. I think raw food preparation is really pretty easy once you have the equipment - it's just not something we were trained to do growing up so it's a bit of a foreign concept to put foods together and combine flavors in their raw state.
I was thinking about it when I was starting out on raw. I remember how when I was in seventh grade and took a home-economics class, the things they teach you how to cook are not healthy at all. I can't remember what all we cooked - except cookies! But I do know none of it was really all that healthy. Imagine if schools taught kids how to make healthy raw food ... now that would be amazing!
Changing topics a bit, last night I also decided to try this One Minute chocolate ice cream that was posted on Raw Food Talk. It is made of just frozen bananas and cacao. It was very simple to make in the Vita-Mix and has the consistency of soft-serve ice cream:
My review ... delicious!!
If you want to give it a try, you can find the recipe here:
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