Lunch/Dinner without a dehydrator

[hll]

This is my first post.

Hi!

I've dabbled with Raw Foods for the last few years. We are downsizing and moving, so I sold the round crappy dehydrator that a relative gave me. I plan to get Alissa's once it is done. The one I had took forever, was loud, cumbersome and it takes up a huge amount of space. You have to take off all the trays to check and rotate everything. Plus, it's ugly:o

Now that I've apologized for getting rid of it.

I've been searching for posts, but haven't much luck. Just curious what your favorite meals are without the dehydrator?

I made an excellent salad recently with greens, lettuce, strawberries, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, red pepper, zucchini, green onion, mushrooms and I think that is it.

I'd love something pizza like that I can eat with a fork (had something like that once). Wraps? What about the ravioli things? Do I need to warm them to eat them?

Thanks...look forward to being here.

[jeannieh99]

This is my first post.

Hi!

Now that I've apologized for getting rid of it.

I've been searching for posts, but haven't much luck. Just curious what your favorite meals are without the dehydrator?

I made an excellent salad recently with greens, lettuce, strawberries, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, red pepper, zucchini, green onion, mushrooms and I think that is it.

Thanks...look forward to being here.

I don't have a dehydrator either. I just don't have the money to buy the excalibur, which seems to be the one of choice for most rawbes.

I thrive on variety. I like to do something different for lunch and dinner. Like for lunch I might make a salsa type salad, it might have avocado, tomatoes, cucumbers,onions, cilantro, garlic, a few slices of jalapeno chopped, lots of lime, evoo, salt, pepper, then I will pile it on to a bed of romain lettuce. mmmmm...good.

Then for dinner I might peel and chop kholrabi, radishes, celery, parsley, baby bok choy, carrots, pine nuts, sunflower seeds, this goes on a bed of chinese cabbage.I'll pour some fresh lemon juice and evoo. Yumm.

I like to get inventive and try different things. That's what makes raw so fun for me. I don't get bored.
Jeannie

[Rawkinlocs]

Oh there are tons of dehydrator-less recipes...even some of the ones that DO use a dehydrator can be eaten without being dehydrated. For example, nut burger recipes can be eaten rolled up in lettuce or other green leaves as pate; cookie recipes can be rolled into balls and then rolled in ground nuts or shredded coconut or just formed into cookie shapes (if they dough isn't stiff enough, add less of the wet ingredients or more dry); I always say that the main things that "need" to be dehydrated are those things that need to be dried for texture in order to be what the recipe says it is supposed to be i.e. crackers.

Now, if I were going to make a dehydrator-less pizza, I'd find a pie crust recipe and instead of using dates, I'd perhaps grind the nuts up fine (in a coffee grinder or Vitamix, etc.) and then put in a food processor with desired seasonings such as Italian seasoning, sea salt, etc. and then I'd process with olive oil a little at a time until it was to a consistency where I could press it down into a dish/pan (not too crumbly, but not too mushy either)...then top with favorite sauce (cheese optional - if you're making a nut-based crust, a nut cheese and a nut crust "may" be too much for you...you make that call) and then veggies of choice (which I, personally, would have marinated in a bit of olive oil and sea salt perhaps an hour or longer prior to starting the crust, sauce, etc. just so they soften up and become more "cooked-like".

Some other things to make are:

- again, pate's (nut, veggie or both)
- "pasta" and sauce (if you don't have a spiralizer, you can use the shredding disc on your food processor or simply use a veggie peeler to make thin strips like fettuccine)
- collard wraps
- rawvioli - does not have to be warmed...that's preferential
- tacos - ground walnuts seasoned with taco seasonings and put into a lettuce or collard, etc. leaf and topped with fresh salsa, guac, nut cheese, cashew sour cream, etc.

There's TONS of stuff right here on this forum, though.

[hll]

I do have a spiralizer because that thing is so much fun!!

Thanks for the ideas, those are great. I'll look for taco suggestions around the boards.

Yes, the pizza I had was a nut crust, with a red sauce and then fresh veggies. It was put on top a lovely bed of greens and it was so delish.

[dreamrawalwz]

what I did for a "pizza" was cut zucchini so they were little discs, but I guess you could cut it length-wise as well. I made my tomato sauce (any "spaghetti sacuce" recipie works) and then topped the little discs with green onion, olives, mushrooms, sprouts, or whatever you chose. I then put them in my dehydrator, but you don't have to. They're very good as is.

[Morn]

nori rolls and refried beans (made from sunflower seeds). Also I would try some soup recipes. Like the broccoli soup, pea soup, or corn soup. I also like rawvolutions taco meat made with walnuts like Rawkinlocs suggested.

[lafsalot]

A few others that come to mind are:
eggless egg salad
spanish rice with marinated mushrooms
mock tuna salad
a simple quacamole with raw veggies
pico de gallo
corn salad
Portabella steaks...
There are a ton more on the board - just use the search engine

Cathy