After a couple of months of trying new recipes, many of which were butter-based, I decided to get back to nutrition basics and delved into my raw food diet "cookbooks". I was quickly reminded that raw food recipes are for the birds. Literally. I would be surprised if any human or even any other mammal could eat this stuff. If you want to eat raw food, have an apple, make a salad. If you want to throw away food, get a raw food diet book.
I put these two recipes together because neither one is really worth making. I'd give the first, from The Raw Food Detox Diet by Natalia Rose a C+, because I at least found it tasty enough to eat, although, since I was basically eating half a raw onion and some raw garlic, it gave me terrible indigestion and "onion dreams" (not to mention two days of onion breath). The second, from Fresh: The Ultimate Live-Food Cookbook by Sergei and Valya Boutenko, was completely inedible and couldn't even be cooked or doctored in such a way that I could stand the taste of it.
Below I've put pictures of the ingredients. If you want a better salsa, buy some that comes in a jar or make the salsa in #17. Spicy Potato Wedges with Chilli Dip. If you want a better soup, eat LITERALLY ANY OTHER SOUP, EVEN ONE WITH SHEEP'S EYEBALLS IN IT!!!
The salsa ingredients (pictured with the bread I put the salsa on, which was the best part):
The "soup" ingredients:
(Just eat them like that instead. Get a paring knife and chop everything up, squeeze a bit of lemon juice on some of it. Don't put it all in the blender.)
The "soup" ingredients again, at the moment I ought to have rescued them from their doom:
I will never understand the raw foodists' predilection for destroying perfectly good food with food processors, blenders, juicers and dehydrators. MAKE A FRICKIN' SALAD INSTEAD!!
Too late:
The disgusting so-called "soup":
Never again! Now I must decide if I am going to donate the books to the library book sale, or toss them, pretty covers and all, in the recycling bin.
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