July 9, 2008
· Filed under Vegan Recipes · Tagged celebrity chefs, eric lechasseur, healthy recipes, madonna, sting, tobey maguire, vegan cooking classes, vegan dessert, vegan macrobiotic cooking
Delicious, easy to make, vegan, and healthy sweetness because there’s no added sugar, only strawberries, brown rice syrup and apple juice.
Ingredients:
20 ounces (about 3 cups) fresh or frozen organic strawberries
12 ounces soft silken tofu
1 tablespoon tahini
1/2 cup brown rice syrup
3 1/2 tablespoons agar flakes
1/2 cup organic apple juice
Pinch of salt
Directions:
1. Puree the strawberries in a blender.
2. Add the tofu, tahini and rice syrup. Blend until very smooth. Set aside.
3. In a small saucepan combine the juice and agar flakes and bring to a simmer, stirring until the agar is dissolved (usually about 5 minutes).
4. Pour the apple juice / agar mixture into the blender with the other ingredients and blend again for a few more minutes.
5. Pour the mixture into either parfait glasses or dessert bowls and refrigerate until firm, about 2 hours. You can also pour the mixture into a larger bowl or baking dish and refrigerate, then scoop out portions as desired.
This dessert was adapted from the wonderful healthy desserts book “Love, Eric” by master pastry chef Eric Lechasseur, where he uses the mousse in a luscious Strawberry Mousse Cake. Eric has created meals for Madonna, Sting, Tobey Maguire and other health-conscious stars. He and his wife, macrobiotic teacher and counselor Sanae Suzuki, will be presenting cooking classes at The Power of Natural Healing Conference 2008. Come and learn their culinary secrets for delicious and healthy cooking.
July 7, 2008
· Filed under Vegan Recipes · Tagged food, healthy recipes, holistic health, life, natural living, vegan soup, vegetarian cooking
This vegan soup is so sweet and rich, it’s like a dessert.
Ingredients (serves 4)
3 cups water (or optional “dashi” broth – see below)
1 cup diced onion
1 cup diced celery
Kernels sliced from 5 large ears of corn
Pinch of salt
2 teaspoons white miso
Green part of 1 scallion, sliced thin, for garnish
Directions:
1. In a saucepan, combine 1/4 cup of the water or dashi broth with the onion, celery and pinch of salt. Cook over high heat for a few minutes, stirring, until the onions are translucent.
2. Add the rest of the water or dashi broth and corn, cover, and simmer for 15 minutes on low heat.
3. Remove half the soup and blend in blender until smooth
4. Pour blended soup back into pot and bring back to low simmer.
5. Dilute white miso with some soup until thin liquid then mix into soup in pot.
6. Simmer for 2 minutes.
7. Ladle into serving bowls and garnish with scallion.
Optional Dashi Broth
1. This broth not only gives a richer flavor to the soup, it provides an abundance of healthy minerals, trace minerals and other nutrients found only in sea vegetables.
2. Put 3 1/2 cups of water and a 4 inch strip of dried kombu sea vegetable into a pot. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer, covered for 20 minutes.
3. After the broth is made you can slice the kombu fine and use in any other dish.
Enjoy!
July 7, 2008
· Filed under Vegan Recipes · Tagged healthy drinks, healthy recipes, holistic health, kukicha iced tea, macrobiotics, organic, vegan, vegetarian
Everyone likes a sweet cool drink in the summertime, but commercial drinks are usually loaded with refined or concentrated sweeteners that can have detrimental effects on health.
Kukicha tea is a great substitute for regular tea, because it contains only 1/10 the amount of caffeine found in green tea, and is the most alkalizing compared to other teas. Made from the roasted stems and twigs of the same bush that produces regular tea, it is picked when the caffeine is lowest and the calcium is highest. The health benefits plus its rich “dark” flavor has made it a favorite among health-conscious people. You can either buy it ground fine in convenient tea bags, or brew your own from the whole twigs, which is a very economical way to enjoy this beverage.
Ingredients – makes four 8 oz servings
2 cups of kukicha tea, pre-chilled
2 cups of cold organic, unfiltered apple juice (or other fruit juice of your preference)
Directions:
Mix together and serve, either by itself or with any of the options below.
Options:
Instead of apple juice use any other kind of organic juice or nectar
A squeeze of organic lemon or other citrus fruit
A mint leaf for each cup
Lemon zest
Enjoy!
