Thursday, 28 July 2011

Transitioning and Replacing


When it comes to replacing our old comfort foods with new ones, there are a few factors that come into play. If you're craving something, its best to find out if you miss the Process of making a food like lasagna, if you miss the nutritional benefit of eating a carb loaded dish like spaghetti, or if you're missing oils that cheese seems to provide, or if you want to crunch on something like a potato chip.

I enjoy making raw spaghetti, because Sauce + Noodles = Awesome.

In a spiralizer or a peeler with ridges, cut up some zucchini or dig out some spaghetti squash.

To make the sauce, in a food processor, pulse some:
Olives,
Sundried Tomatoes,
Red Bell Peppers,
1 garlic clove
1 small tomato or a few grape tomatoes for liquid taste

and add black pepper and salt to taste

I sauteed some mushrooms and onions to put on top in this picture, because i like the taste of sauteed onions in spaghetti sauce and haven't figured a good way to replace the caramelized onion flavor.

2 comments:

  1. Nice! I like this one. I have recently started making pasta-free lasagna, which basically means it's a veggie bake. Of course, being baked, it's not raw, but it goes get one away from the mass carb consumption.

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  2. mmm! when papa was in town i made a raw lasagna and instead of pasta i used seaweed, like the nori you wrap sushi in. The crunch was satisfying and it went well with everything i put in it... but because it had sooo many ingredients it ended up being the most expensive lasagna in lasagna history. so i'm not posting it because i don't think raw food needs to be particularly expensive... but that was gourmet.

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