Today I am reviewing a recipe for raw corn tortillas that calls for delicious raw just-cut-from-the-cob sweet corn. As I mention at the very bottom, my quibble with this recipe is the inclusion of the bell peppers – making it too astringent for me. I will be remaking this soon, without bell pepper (but perhaps a hint of the cayenne I saved from last year’s garden).
I have been experimenting with the dehydrator and blending, mostly modestly sweet to savory things. Today’s raw food recipe is more about the sweet. These date heavy cookies should not be eaten every day unless you are trying to gain weight.
I have been working with our new dehydrator to create several types of crackers and fruit leathers. The goal is to understand what the drying process does to various foods and to test some of the recipes one finds on the web. Everything I will ever make will be 100% nut free. We have a zero tolerance policy on nuts of any kind. Note that coconuts are not tree nuts and do not present tree nut allergens so I like to use coconut flesh, milk, butter, and juice!
I am teaching myself how to make uncooked foods with a bit of texture that can be a boon to a raw food diet. The following recipe uses a dehydrator but you could use a low temp oven instead (unless you live in the humid south like New Orleans where mold grows just about anywhere).
Ever since I have not been spending every moment either driving to or from work or at work, I have been able to spend some time at home reconnecting with the family in ways I have not been able to do in the whole of this past year. There is some qualitative difference for us between 2 and 3 kids that made me feel wildly out of balance with respect to making work and life mesh. Now that I have been able to decompress a bit and even tho the stress doesn’t end due to continued unemployment, I have been able to concentrate on something that was simply beyond my capacity before – our day to day food.
