Help! What could I possibly do with...

[Random Violin Guy]

Portabella Mushrooms
Cauliflower
Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes

OK, so I've got 1 (head?) of cauliflower, 2 portabellas with their stems still intact and all, 3 russet potatoes, and 2 sweet potatoes...

and I have no idea what to do with any of them, really. The only equipment I really use is a blender. I have a circular dehydrator that I'd rather not use for anything, but I do have it. I've gotta admit, I'm not a fan of portabellas or cauliflower, and I'm not even sure if the potatoes can somehow be eaten raw.

I suppose I should mention that I'm not asking for a recipe that would use all of these at once. That'd probably be pretty horrible. :p

I'm considering just giving it all away, so any good recipes/ideas are much appreciated.

Many thanks!

[rawzeit]

Cut sweet potato into "pasta" strips. Put in a bowl together with cauliflower heads (and stems cut into "croutons"). Make a sauce from the mushrooms, preferably with nuts, and pour on top. Yummie!

Don't know what to do with the other potatoes. Maybe make puppets. :)

[Random Violin Guy]

thanks rawzeit! I think I'm gonna give the potatoes away. I hear those can't be eaten raw. Maybe I should make a potato gun... :D

[neen273]

The first raw recipe that I liked was Alissa's marinated portobello mushrooms. The recipe is in her book - using jerky-marinade ingredients (probably not cool to reproduce the recipe here.) I reduce the oil from her recipe because I found the original product is too....well, oily. :D Marinate the sliced up mushroom caps for a few hours or overnight. Dehydrate until it resembles beef jerky. texture will be chewy.

Truly, truly yummy for current and former meat eaters. :)

I also read of someone using the mushroom caps as substitute burger buns...that's on my list to experiment with, so I can't tell you if it works or not.

[Random Violin Guy]

Thanks neen! I'm not too keen on the idea of meat substitutes, which I guess is why I haven't been too keen on portabellas yet. I'll probably try the bun-replacement idea, but I'm afraid I'll probably crash and burn with it, and make something truly awful. Not the best mindset to go into creating something new, don't you think? Any tried-and-true recipes for that would be much appreciated, cuz I'm definitely not confident about it on my own. Thanks!

[blacktulip]

here's a few ideas of what i would do:

( i wouldn't use the white potatoes at all)

pulse the sweet potatoes and cauliflower and mushrooms together in a food processor until it's RICE! maybe adding some herbs (dried or fresh) and celtic sea salt to make different flavors, spicy or sweet, adding nuts for pilaf type dishes. . . rolling in nori sheets for delicious sushi. . . or eating as is. mmmmm.

or making cauliflower and mushroom soup in a blender with herbs and spices. . .

or cauliflower "mashed potatoes" in a food processor with a mushroom "gravy" sauce poured over it. . .

or my favorite is just slices of raw sweet potato, eaten as chips. . . crunchy and sweet!

so many options. . .

[Random Violin Guy]

Mmm... I like the way you think. :) Grazie mille!

[GHOST27M]

In my new raw diet I found if you do not like it dont eat it!

I juice ALOT instead of eat becuase I cant just eat kale or beets or broccolli (my favorate SAD diet cooked veggie). but I will juicem all day.

you should enjoy the food or you will not stay raw.

[Naiad]

I'd marinate the mushrooms and make a raw fajita type deal that some people have posted about.

I'd also dehydrate some thin slices of the potato/sweet potato with some olive oil and salt.

For the cauliflower, pulse very fine to make rice for raw sushi. I do this often and it's great :)

[neen273]

Thanks neen! I'm not too keen on the idea of meat substitutes, which I guess is why I haven't been too keen on portabellas yet. I'll probably try the bun-replacement idea, but I'm afraid I'll probably crash and burn with it, and make something truly awful. Not the best mindset to go into creating something new, don't you think? Any tried-and-true recipes for that would be much appreciated, cuz I'm definitely not confident about it on my own. Thanks!

You're welcome, RVG! I know what you mean about the meat substitutes, tofu doesn't appeal to me very much at all...well, except for the heavily processed Morningstar products (they really nailed the corn dogs, but maybe that wasn't such a huge deal to mimic a hodgepodge of chicken lips and hog eyebrows), but I'm losing my desire for those things too. I've been a vegetarian for the last six months, vegan now, and doing major recipe experimentation for the last transition to raw.

I'm now eating some different fruits/vegetables (grape tomatoes are WOWEE) that I never did before. Portobellos were a wonderful discovery, particularly in this recipe. (I'll have to try out that bun recipe, I think the prep is somewhat similar to the jerky.) All this trying recipes and often failing (fermentation was challenging and a little scary - was halfway convinced I was going to poison myself) (wait, just remembered I actually did - DO NOT sprout black beans and consume them); and buying equipment has been quite expensive, but I have an awesome healthy slender body around here somewhere and I'm determined to find it. :D

My new repertoire so far includes raw V-8's, wheatberry sprouts, almond milk, mounds bars, ice cream, feta cheese, eggplant bacon, and dried tropical fruit mix (I added liquid smoke to a agave/lime juice marinade, need to try rum flavoring too). Made up an agave-based marinade for onions, I'm trying to replicate the flavor of the sweet onion sauce on my favorite Amy's cooked pizza....which actually contains agave as per the ingredients on the box. Working on raw cheesecake, raw desserts contain way too many nuts for my liking though, too heavy. But yet, pureeing bananas and blueberries together wasn't heavy enough. Will keep trying. Am starting to feel like a bit of a chef. Will really feel like one when I make raw bread work. =)

[neen273]

Forgot cranberry sauce, marinara sauce, and applesauce. :)

[Random Violin Guy]

I'm making sushi with the cauliflower as rice. Thanks for the suggestion. I can't believe I'm enjoying eating cauliflower! I might even have to buy it again for the next time I make sushi.

Sweet potato chips are next on the agenda.