Nori Wraps, cheap, easy and tasty! Wraps are my favorite go to food when I’m in a hurry. They also travel well making them perfect for packing in a lunch or picnic:) When making your own use whole untoasted nori sheets, pile on a ton of sprouts and whatever veggies you have on hand. Top this off by adding your favorite salad dressing. Tightly roll your wrap by hand using a little water to seal the edges. Cut diagonally and serve. Presto, you’ve got a tasty and easy meal that you can make in under 10 minutes.

I’m really into this Creamy Garlic Dressing right now, I got the recipe from GoneRaw.com. Everyone who’s tried it raves about how good it is. I love to troll Gone Raw’s website for the five star recipes, this is how I found my new favorite dressing. Surfing this site is a perfect way to add diversity to your raw cuisine!

This particular nori wrap has mung bean, radish and broccoli sprouts, sliced red and purple peppers, diced avocado and is drizzled with Creamy Garlic Dressing.

Creamy Garlic Dressing

1/4 Cup fresh lemon juice

1/8 Cup Brags Liquid Aminos

8 Cloves of garlic peeled

1 3″ piece of ginger

3/4-1Cup of olive oil

Place all the ingredients in a Vitamixer and blend until the dressing has emulsified, turning a pale yellow color with a creamy consistency.

♥ Lesley Anne ♥

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Ani Phyo deserves a high five for her Black and Blueberry cobbler recipe. She posted a great video clip on her blog that illustrates how easy it is to make this yummy dessert. Ani’s video came at a great time because I recently stumbled across a Blackberry patch and the berries are delicious. Ani’s cobbler was the perfect way to use those berries.

Deborah Fabricant is the author of a book called ‘Stacks: The Art of Vertical Food’. She also sells a line of kitchen tools for making your own stacking treats, this is what I used for the cobbler. If you don’t have the proper tools for making a stack, a tin can with both ends removed works just as well. Center the can on your serving plate and place 2-3Tbs of crust in the bottom, packing it firmly. Now add the berry filling and another layer of crust, again be sure to firmly pack the crust. To remove your cobbler from the can, use the bottom of a drinking glass and gently push down on the cobbler while you lift up on your can. Be sure to go slowly as the crust is sticky from the dates and will tear easily.

I added a few additions to Ani’s recipe, lemon zest for tartness and coconut oil to stiffen the crust so it would work as a stacking dessert. This is an excellent recipie to impress dinner guests, it’s easy to make, it looks awesome and tastes great.

A Black and Blue Stack With a Twist

Crust

~3/4 Cup Pecans

~1/4 Cup Pitted Dates

~ 1 Vanilla bean (only use the inner scrapings of the pod) or 2TBS of Vanilla Extract

~2 Tbs Coconut oil

~1/2 Tsp Sea Salt

Filling

1 Cup Blackberries

1 Cup Blueberries

1/4 Cup of Agave Nectar

1/2 Tsp Lemon Zest

Garnish

~2 Tbs Lemon zest

~1/8 Tsp Nutmeg

~1/8 Tsp Cloves

~1tsp Agave Nectar

~ Fresh Mint

Combine the lemon zest, nutmeg, cloves and agave in a small bowl and mix until the zest is fully coated. Place a dime sized pinch of the zest on top of your cobbler and garnish with mint.

This is one of the wild Blackberries that ended up as dessert;)

♥ Lesley Anne ♥

Not that long ago I got pulled over for making an improper right hand turn. I was confident that if I explained myself the officer wouldn’t give me a ticket. This approach didn’t work at all! I’ve never, ever gotten a ticket in all the years I’ve been driving. In the past I’ve been able to bat my lashes and get out if it. Not this time, so off I went to the Bronx traffic court, fought the ticket and lost. The silver lining in my disappointing day was that I’d spotted an impressive fruit truck and knew no matter what the verdict there was tasty fruit waiting for me in the end. It was my own version of a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I wouldn’t argue with a pot of gold either;)

The entire time I was sitting in the court room the fruit truck was calling me. I could hear the coconuts taunting me like the addict I am, “Lesley, we are tasty and fresh, come take us home!” Yes, I have a coconut problem and I’m dealing with it:)

If you look closely you’ll notice three different types of mangoes, they were delish. Wouldn’t it be cool if fruit trucks were as common as a coke machines and this was considered fast food? If only I were Queen.

These were the biggest papayas I’d ever seen, they were the size of new born babies, just huge!

Coconuts on ice? Anything like Disney on Ice? No? Way off? I thought for sure there would be a connection here.

Ahh, a nice sharp machete in the Bronx, how comforting.

Ooh, the machete works nicely, much better than my kitchen knife. You should see me open a coconut, it looks as if I’m practicing for a horror film. I can already hear the slogan, “The Coconut Butcher, coming to a theater near you.”

I got sited for not just one ticket that fateful day but two and will fight the other one just the same. If I loose again, se la vie, there is always my love affair with the fruit truck:)

Ron Shnaper has the right idea when it comes to function and design, this plant loving student at Holon Institute of Technology in Israel has made a dish drainer thats ideal for those who lack a green thumb.

Rons design capitalizes on water drain off to grow fresh herbs, without watering them the old fashioned way. Talk about a handy symbiotic relationship. I love designs that serve more than one purpose don’t you?

For those of us who live without a dishwasher you know how ugly and gross some dish drainers can be. Ron’s design is like having a dual functioning piece of modern art in your kitchen. I get a kick out of the cartoonish looking tree/herb separators! Life should be fun and so should your dish drainer! Thats my new motto.

As a raw foodie having fresh herbs in your kitchen will add some spice to your cuisine. As much as I like this design I wish the herb section was bigger. If I had fresh herbs in  my kitchen, this is tasty recipe I would make. It’s courtesy of  Gone Raw. It sounds delicious!

Take a peek at these Flicker photos for more designs from Ron and other H.I.T students. This towel and dryer is another Ron Schnaper design, I think he has a love hate relationship with drying dishes:)

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