The Complete Book of Raw Food: Quick & Easy, Over 100 Healthy Recipes Review

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(More customer reviews)Every dietician notes that the typical modern American fast-food, microwave frozen food oriented diet is woefully insufficient when it comes to the consumption of fruits and vegetables. That's why nutrition and health consultant Mary Rydman draws upon her more than twenty years of professional and personal experience and expertise to compile and publish "Raw Food Quick & Easy: Over 100 Healthy Recipes Including Smoothies, Seasonal Salads, Dressings, Pates, Soups, Hearty Creations, Snacks, and Desserts". Each recipe is specifically designed for time-pressured kitchen cooks who, while not being able to spend extended time in the preparation of their family meals, nonetheless want to serve family and friends with healthy, palate pleasing, appetite satisfying fare. More than just a collection of recipes showcasing the culinary accomplishments to be gleaned from fruits and veggies, "Raw Foods Quick & Easy" also provides practical and useful information on soaking, sprouting, dehydrating, and storing raw foods, key tools and ingredients when dealing with raw foods in the kitchen, and even 'user friendly' advice on increasing vital nutrients through what we eat. Of special note is the chapter devoted to 'Food and Emotions'. Featuring recipes ranging from Cauliflower Cream Curry; Vegetable Crackers; and Sesame Fudge Cookies; to Angel Pudding; Tomato Olive Soup; and Buckwheat Crunchies, "Raw Foods Quick & Easy" is a welcome and highly recommended addition to vegetarian, family, and community library cookbook collections.

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Quick Meals Shouldn't Compromise on Taste or Your HealthThe phrase "fast food" has come to mean tasteless fried meals from a drive-thru, but the truth is that food can be made quickly and still be both nourishing and delicious.Raw Food Quick & Easy shortens the task of raw-food dining with straightforward, filling, and tasty recipes.Pairing creativity with simple ingredients, author and chef Mary Rydman cuts down on preparation time without sacrificing flavor and satisfaction.Rydman explains, "I do not like to spend hours and hours in the kitchen," thus Raw Food Quick & Easy.Raw Food Quick & Easy includes over 100 new raw food recipes that are accessible to novices and still interesting to experts, such as smoothies and other breakfast foods, seasonal salads, dressings, pates, soups, hearty creations, snacks, and desserts.Also included are easy ways to boost your nutrition intake; soaking, sprouting, and storing tips; helpful dehydrating ideas; raw kitchen tools suggestions; and a discussion of the common misconceptions of raw food.These straighforward, delicious, and wholesome recipes are perfect for anyone who wants to eat better and fresher. Reinvent fast food, and make your own "happy meal" with Raw Food Quick & Easy.

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Ani's Raw Food Essentials: Recipes and Techniques for Mastering the Art of Live Food Review

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(More customer reviews)I have been over 10 years raw and over 10 years macrobiotic before that. During this time I have viewed countless cook books. Ani's Raw Food Essentials is one of the best. By design, it's an impressive book. It has a beautiful layout along with the strength and feel of a high quality text book. It provides detailed instruction for basic raw food staples (salads, soups, smoothies, cereal, wraps, sandwiches, and rolls), comfort food favorites (pizzas, pasta, cheezes, scrambles, pancakes, pies, cakes, cookies, and ice kream), and innovative creations that will leave you and your friend's heads shaking in amazement (tortilla soup with jalapeno-lime kream, Korean dumplings, vanilla and lemon Kream crepes, and scones!!). Whether you are a beginner or advanced student, you will find that it does all these things, and it does them all very, very well. A couple distinguishing factors make her book stand out from all the rest. First, instead of limiting itself to a series of recipes, it provides the theory and concepts behind each of them to a far greater extent than I've seen before. Whether it's the basics of salad dressings, cheezes, soups, pizzas, smoothies, wraps, or deserts, Ani provides detailed instruction that will give you the power to develop your own creations. Second, she incorporates a broader range of ingredients and by doing so lessens the reliance upon high fat seeds and nuts that some people may be concerned about with raw food. You will learn how to utilize fruits, veggies and sprouted grains in places where you may have previously used seeds or nuts. By way of example, her mock tuna salad is made with carrots instead of sunflower seeds, and her onion ring batter is made with a buckwheat base. Of course seeds and nuts are still used in good proportion throughout as they provide essential oils and protein, but you will be pleasantly surprised to learn how to utilize more fruits, veggies and grains in your courses. Finally, there is a most charming 2 page chapter on how to incorporate raw food for our canine friends. In the beginning pages, Ani discusses how this is her version of "Raw Foods 2.0." She is being modest. Her book reaches the next level beyond that.

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Chef Ani Phyo is back with Ani's Raw Food Essentials, full of everything you need to know to master the art of live food. Phyo shows you how to whip up simple, fresh recipes using what you've already got in your kitchen while also offering tips on dehyrating and more sophisticated techniques. Looking for innovative meals that are healthy and delicious? Phyo offers everything from classic comfort foods like nachos and burgers to Reuben sandwiches and bacon, along with more gourmet dishes like risotto, angel hair pasta, and her "you-won't-believe-they're-raw" desserts.Ani's Raw Food Essentials once again proves that you don't have to sacrifice taste to reap the benefits of raw foods, all while living a greener lifestyle. Recipes include: Broccoli and Cheeze Quiche, Kalamata Olive Crostini, Cashew "Tofu" in Miso Broth, Grilled Cheeze and Tomato Sandwiches, Cheeze Enchilada with Ranchero and Mole Sauce, Pad Thai, Pesto Pizza, and many more.

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Kristen Suzanne's ULTIMATE Raw Vegan Hemp Recipes: Fast & Easy Raw Food Hemp Recipes for Delicious Soups, Salads, Dressings, Bread, Crackers, Butter, Spreads, Dips, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner & Desserts Review

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(More customer reviews)I haven't been creative with my use of hemp seeds and hemp oil, so I was very excited to get Kristen's Hemp book. Up until now I've mainly used them in salad dressings and smoothies, so I was really excited to try some other things. I really love the Spicy Sweet Fitness Noodles! The Savory Protein Stuffed Mushrooms are soooo good. And the desserts are scrumptuous! I totally love the Superfood Hemp Cookies, too. Actually, all of the recipes I've made from Kristen's books have turned out fabulously! Of course the shakes and dressings are great and I especially love the cheezes and spreads. Another great book from Kristen and one I definitely use alot!

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Kristen Suzanne's EASY Raw Vegan Soups: Delicious & Easy Raw Food Recipes for Hearty, Satisfying, Flavorful Soups Review

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(More customer reviews)The recipes in this book are really good, and if that were the only criterion, I'd give this book 5 stars. I have really liked everything I've made. I don't mind that there are no pictures, either.
However, there is more to putting out a good recipe book than tasty recipes. Organization is important in order to produce a book that is easy to use. There is NO list of recipes in the table of contents, and NO index of recipe titles or of ingredients. This means you have to page through the entire recipe section to find 'Guacamole soup' or 'Summertime Corn Bisque'. There is simply no way to find recipes other than flipping through the book--the recipes aren't even in alphabetical order by title within the recipe section, either. There appears to be no discernible organization of these recipes within the book. The lack of an ingredients index means that you can't look up an ingredient and find all the recipes that contain that ingredient. These are *major* organizational flaws in a recipe book.
There also isn't clear delineation between recipes. That is, the recipes run together, rather than each recipe beginning at the top of a separate page. This bugs me, but not nearly as much as no index.
I have two of Kristen's books, and each one has the same first chapter, which is redundant. The other book also lacks an index or list of recipes in the table of contents.
If Kristen ever revises this book and the others in the series, I strongly advise the addition of an index, or at the very least a listing of the title of each recipe in the table of contents. The latter suggestion would not add to the cost of producing the books and would make them far easier to use than they are now.

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