RE: Simplifying our foods (WAS: Oil-Free Salad Dressings?)

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Annette [cloudriver] Monday, May 30, 2005 11:01 AM

[Raw Food] Oil-Free Salad Dressings?

Annette> In a message dated 5/30/2005 1:02:26 P.M. Central Standard Time,

cloudriver writes:

 

I'm embarking on Frederic's clean raw food program today. It's not so

very different from the way I've been eating except for the no nuts,

seeds, fats, dates, or oils. I'm wondering whether people have some

good ideas for salad dressings to use during this week. Even in the

Natural Hygiene recipe books, avocado is used in most of them. I know

Elchanan suggested to me that a mango whizzed up is good poured on

salad. I love Romaine and won't have a problem with it. I also have a

big bag of organic " Baby Greens " which still taste a bit too rural for

me to eat on their own.

 

Denise <we3deeves we3deeves Monday, May

30, 2005 11:12 AM Re: [Raw Food] Oil-Free Salad Dressings?

Denise> I'm planning on just fresh squeezed o.j. on my salad tonight - I'll

be

looking for other suggestions!

 

Valerie Mills Daly Monday, May 30, 2005 11:11 AM Re:

[Raw Food] Oil-Free Salad Dressings?

 

Hi, Annette, I will sometimes blend a little banana with berries, mango,

pineapple,etc. to use on my greens when I am not using nuts or avocado.

Makes it a little creamy and sweet.

 

Bob Farrell Monday, May 30, 2005 7:57 PM [Raw Food] Re:

Oil-Free Salad Dressings?

 

for oil and fat and nut free dressing, I suggest:

 

~5 parts tomato

~1 parts lemon/lime - all except the peel and the seeds

~1 part cucumber

 

water to make consistency you like your dressing -- if not " tangy " enough -

add more lemon/lime..

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Greetings Annette, Denise, Valerie, Bob, and all,

 

Denise, Valerie, and Bob you are definitely on the right track here. But

perhaps it's time for a little more sacrilege. (See my post yesterday about

birthdays and food.) Where in the Law of Nature is it written that salads

must be " dressed " ? Why not pursue the idea of whole foods a step farther?

 

Examples:

 

- Instead of squeezing that orange over the salad, peel the orange (remove

the rind), then cut up the flesh and sprinkle it into the salad.

 

- Instead of blending up some fruits, take ONE fruit (simplify) and cut that

fruit up into the salad. I find that many people do well to try strawberries

first (assuming they are good strawberries and fully ripe, little or no

" white " showing at the tops).

 

One of the disadvantages of relying upon salad dressings is, well, relying

upon them! By cutting up bits of whole fruit, you create more sensation of

variety for yourself -- you never which bites will or will not contain some

fruit. Also, you begin training yourself off salad dressing, which is one of

many steps we can take along the path of simplification.

 

One more example:

 

- Go heavy on cut up tomatoes, and cut them fairly small (diced or perhaps a

bit larger, for those with the culinary knowledge to understand " diced). The

" juice " in the tomatoes will moisten the entire salad, and you'll have a

nice little " drink " at the end.

 

Again, all whole foods, all require chewing, all signal the body more

clearly via the mouth than would their liquefied counterparts.

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

 

PS In Bob's recipe above, try adding a bit of sundried tomato to the brew!

 

 

 

 

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Hi, Elchanan, I know you are right, but so far, any attempts to eat my greens

undressed (except for celery) have been unpleasant so far. For some reason, most

lettuce greens stick to my teeth, and I need something besides a little juice

from the addition of fruit or tomatoes to make the chewing effective without

driving me up the wall. So this, at least for now, remains one of my

compromises. :-)

 

Peace, Valerie

 

 

 

" INFO @ Vibrant Life " <VLinfo wrote:

Denise, Valerie, and Bob you are definitely on the right track here. But

perhaps it's time for a little more sacrilege. (See my post yesterday about

birthdays and food.) Where in the Law of Nature is it written that salads

must be " dressed " ? Why not pursue the idea of whole foods a step farther?