Raw Plantain & aubergine supper

Don't get me wrong. I don't eat raw food all the time, but I try to have it more often than not. I've been doing well with it recently and I just love this meal I made, here's what I did, remember its all raw which means NO COOKING, only WASHING your veg:

Plantain. Aubergines. Spinach. Broccoli. Cauliflower. Carrots. Mange Tout. Asparagus. Carrot.

Slice plantain and aubergines into a bowl. Mix olive oil, garlic, basil, bouillon, sea salt and any other herbs you may be partial to. You can 'blitz' them in a food processor to make life easier. Pour over the plantain and aubergines and leave to soak in while you prepare the rest. 

Break apart your broccoli and cauliflower into bite sized pieces. Slice mushrooms. Use potato peeler to get carrot ribbons & arrange these all on a plate with spinach leaves, mange tout and asparagus.

Use your food processor or blender to blitz the following salsa:

A carrot. A handful of basil. A couple of garlic cloves. A tomato. 2 teaspoons of bouillon. 2 teaspoons of deactivated yeast (this is a healthy flavouring but can be omitted if you don't have it to hand). A teaspoon of apple cider vinegar. 4-6 table spoons extra virgin olive oil. A dash of cayenne pepper if you fancy.

Place your plantain and aubergines on the plate and the salsa. 

ENJOY!

Comfort food

The summer seemed to collapse yesterday so I fancied something hot and a bit stodgy for supper so I went for wholemeal spelt flour spaghetti mixed with a basil based salsa. Served as you can see with my ever faithful avocado, baby corn and some cucumber. I love cucumber but strangely I've been having it in my juice recently and not with my meals. 

Anyway, the salsa; half a fat carrot, hand full of basil, large handful of baby spinach, sprig of oregano, sprinkle of all purpose seasoning and mixed dried herbs. Generous portion of nutritional yeast flakes, a garlic clove and lots of extra virgin olive oil. Blitz in my blitzer* then thrown in with the spelt spaghetti. 

Quick and delish!

*soon I'll do a post showing all my lovely kitchen equipment, stuff that's more important to me and my kitchen than my cooker! For real!!

Fast Food For Lunch

I like fast food, it has to be said! Time is of the essence. This lunch took me about 5 minutes to get to the table.

I sliced some raw plantain & mushrooms. Used the potato peeler on a raw carrot. Sliced an avocado (& sprinkled Himalayan pink sea salt on it), cut some basil and chives. Took baby sweet corn, mange tout and asparagus out of the packaging (washed them of course). I poured extra virgin olive oil, salt, black pepper over everything. 

Don't think this was all I had for lunch - I went back for seconds! Enjoyed it in the garden with a glass of home made fruit juice.

I'm certain this was faster than going to a fast food shop or even some microwave meals, and so healthy. Cheap too. I would estimate that this meal cost about £2.00