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Spicy Sesame Noodles…  

Decadent.  Rich.  Creamy.  

Tantalizing yumminess that delivers freshness, zip and zing in each and every bite.  

 

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Spicy Sesame Noodles… Indulging never tasted & felt this good!

 

Something this fabulous couldn't possibly be fabulous for you… yet it is!  Indulge your tastebuds and your eyes with a gorgeous symphony of color and flavor.  

 

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Living Foods make us feel Alive!

 

I love to make Spicy Sesame Noodles for friends who always want the recipe 🙂  Serve it on white plates in pretty little stacks using a ring mold. 

 

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Packed with Antioxidants, Phytonutrients & Enzymes.

 

Make all your raw pasta dishes taste a whole lot better with perfect texture, by using my favorite tools:  a spiralizer (best for squash), a coconut noodler (great for squash, cucumber & coconut) and a julienne peeler (for carrots).

  

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Spicy Sesame Noodles are packed with Iron, Calcium and Protein

 

Enjoy this Living Foods rainbow of deliciousness & health!

 

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The vegetables we use are limited only by our imaginations!

 

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Carrots julienned using the julienne peeler.

 

Recipe for Spicy Sesame Noodles (2 large or 4 medium servings)

Ingredients:

Noodles

  • 2 large yellow zucchini (peel for more of a pasta feel- or leave peel on for added nutrition & color) or 2 large baby thai coconuts, or mixture of both
  • 1 small cucumber, peeled
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 red bell pepper
  • 2 scallions or a handful chives
  • small handful cilantro, coarsley chopped

Sauce

(This is a double recipe of sauce. Feel free to cut in in half.  Not having enough sauce for your noodles if your veg are larger than norm would be very sad. Simply store leftover in the fridge for soba noodles 2 days later.

  • 2/3 cup raw sesame butter (or cashew or almond butter)**
  • 4 Tbs low sodium tamari
  • 3 Tbs ume plum vinegar or rice wine vinegar
  • 2 -4 tsp garlic chile paste or my fav chili paste + 1 finely minced clove garlic
  • 1 tsp (or to taste) liquid stevia (or honey)
  • lime wedges
  • 1 -2 tsp sesame seeds for garnish (optional)

Method:

  1. Spiralize the yellow squash.  A coconut noodler is easiest for the cucumber- do not use the skin or seeds. A julienne peeler is best for the carrot.  Very thinly julienne cut the red bell pepper by hand.
  2. Add all the noodle ingredients (yellow squash thru cilantro) to a large mixing bowl.  Gently combine with clean hands  to incorporate.
  3. Combine the sauce ingredients together in a small bowl, whisking with the tines of a fork til smoothly integrated.
  4. Drizzle half (you can always add more later) the sauce over the noodles and toss gently to distribute. Add more to reach desired consistency if needed. Store extra in fridge for up to 2 days for use on more veggie noodles, soba noodles etc.
  5. Serve on white plates, to show off the colors, using a ring mold to make neat stacks.  
  6. Spritz each stack with a lime wedge.  If desired drizzle extra sauce over stacks & plate.  Garnish with sesame seeds or chopped cashews or almonds depending on the butter you used (optional).  Serve with chopsticks.  

**This recipe does not use peanut butter or peanuts because even raw, organic peanuts are highly allergenic, susceptible to molds, salmonella and toxins such as aflatoxin, which creates congestion in the liver, is associated with liver cancer and shown to stunt growth in children. As if this were not enough reason to avoid them, peanuts are also pro-inflammatory, pesticide laden and contain anti-nutrients known as lectins. I know, it's a food we associated with fond childhood memories, however I encourage you to do your own research on peanuts.

Have you ever eaten at a Raw Vegan restaurant?  Where did you go?

Do you have a Raw Vegan restaurant in your area? Which one?

 

Wishing you a fantastic weekend!

All Love,

Juliane

 

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Sweet & Tangy Power Green Juice


I've begun my Raw journey!  

Several years ago I began experimenting as a vegetarian purely out of love for animals.  One need only adore a pet of their own for that to turn into compassion for all animals.  That's what happened for me.  I became unable to hold dually in my conscience, that it's ok to eat one animal so long as I never knew it personally/it came from XYZ species, while simultaneously loving another animal as a member of my family.

I hold no judgement against meat eaters as it's woven into the fabric of our conditioning.  We're raised eating, wearing & using animal products in more ways than we probably realize.  Even despite my own internal conflicts over the issue, I've waffled back and forth between vegetarian/flexetarian over the years, rationalizing, since my husband was a carnivore, preparing a couple of meat dishes a week, though I'd use only humanely raised/organic products religiously.

Recently, however, after reading several fascinating nutrition books, I learned the amazing benefits of a raw foods vegetarian diet.  What we've been conditioned to believe our bodies require nutritionally in order to thrive is quite upside down.  A vegetarian/raw foods diet has been linked to a whole host of benefits including greater energy, radiant skin, reduced risk of disease and better digestion.  Research and real life experiences have also shown that a person can prevent a body's healthy cells from turning into malignant cancererous cells by consuming mostly a vegetarian, raw food diet of whole, organic foods!  

When I shared what I'd learned with Jim, I was thrilled when he decided he too wanted transition to a vegetarian, mostly Raw Vegan food diet.  The timing was perfect!  After just 2 weeks of phasing ourselves into this new lifestyle, we're already feeling and seeing the results.  Jim, for example, is experiencing a much higher level of performance during his boxing workouts!

Uncooking, or eating Raw involves a lot of new techniques and some new tools- though the investment is negligible compared to health related expenses down the road.  We'd already been making a delicious green smoothie daily for the past year (yes, we love it that much!) in our Vitamix, so we were off to a fab start.  My 1st two equipment investments so far on our Raw journey are my spiralizer, for making vegetable pasta, and a Juicer.  Love them both!

Originally, I'd planned to share my Raw Vegan recipe for Pasta Alfredo today, but I've received so many requests for this Power Green Juice that I decided to share it first.  Again, this is NOT the same recipe as the green smoothie I've shared previously.  Juicing is very different from blending as it immediately delivers a degree of enzymes/nutrition/benefits we'd never actually be able to consume in even one day.  Jim and I noticed after our first Power Green Juice we experienced an awesome sustained rush of energy, not unlike what follows a cup of coffee, just without the jitters and subsequent crash.

Please enjoy Sweet & Tangy Power Green Juice.  I am thrilled about it, as until now, I've never been able to drink more than a few sips of green juice, from even the best juicing companies.  Sweet & Tangy Green Drink has a wonderful tang of ginger and lemon, sweetness from apples & zip from the fennel… and there's something about that fabulous sustained energy rush… it becomes addictive!  It's already one of our daily staples.

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 Sweet & Tangy Power Green Juice

Recipe for Sweet & Tangy Power Green Juice (Serves 2)

Ingredients:

  • 2 collard or kale leaves 
  • 3 romaine lettuce leaves
  • 2 handfuls parsley, about 1/2 bunch (or use spinach)
  • 1 cucumber
  • 1/2 fennel bulb (or 1/2 of top portion, ie. the fronds/stems. I get four batches out of 1 fennel this way.)
  • 3 stalks celery
  • 2 green apples, cored
  • 1 lemon, peeled (yellow skin removed)
  • 1 lime
  • 1 1/2" piece of fresh ginger root (I like a lot of ginger, you may want to try w/ a 1" piece first)
  • A couple squirts of Stevia to sweeten if necessary

Method:

  1. Juice and enjoy!

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Sweet & Tangy Power Green Juice

You may also enjoy: Until Next Time Nantucket Part I  or Grapefruit, Avocado & Kalamata Salad