Balls to the wall!!!!

I've been trying the raw vegan food thing for a week now, except I made up my own parameters: only 1 cooked meal a day. Needless to say, I fucked that up pretty quickly, but my intentions were pure.

Anyway, on my quest to be a food purist, I turned to "Living Raw Food" by Sarma Melngallis. She owns Pure Food and Wine in NYC and oneluckyduck.com (a fabulous vegan website full of expensive as shit vegan stuff...) Why, why must healthy shit be expensive? I can get doritos on sale for 3.99.  I get a 4 oz. bag of dehydrated raw flaxseed rosemary crackers for 14.00.

Anyway,  I made an entirely raw dinner that wasn't salad. I went balls to the wall bitches and made some zuccini "pasta." It wasn't pasta, I can't believe she even called it pasta in the book. I even broke out my shittastic plastic dehydrator.  Even more amazing, I forget to get some of the shit in the recipe and it still came out good.

Anyway, it was tomatoes (called for yellow heirloom, so I got red romas--makes sense, right?). I omitted the celery (eh, who needs it).  So, I made the Roma Tomato and lemon basil sauce with shallots, garlic, lemon juice, sea salt, evoo (that's what cool chefs call it), and basil.

Then I made the zucchini pasta. It was seriously just zucchini, red bell pepper (should have had a yellow pepper too, but I omitted that. Wanna know why? Because I didn't feel like spending any more money at the grocery store on some meal that was probably going to make me puke. )

But puke I did not.

However, ot trusting the zucchini raw, I threw the zucchini mix in the dehydrator for about an hour to "cook"  at 115 degrees.

Then I ate it the zucchini pasta with the sauce-- and it was more than edible, it was actually quite good. Even my husband ate some and said we should made a bigger batch. In my head, I'm like fuck, I don't want to do this again, takes too long and it's pricey. (Sigh...) But it's my goal to make him a psycho vegan, so his wish is my command.