Raw Itch

I'm not talking about the itch you get when you brush against some poison ivy you didn't see on that hike you took yesterday. Nor am I talking about sitting in the grass and those little natty bugs that always tend to find your legs....no no...I'm talking about the itch to get back to eating raw food. It happens to me every spring. I found that I tend to eat "seasonally". It makes sense to me, it seems to be in sync with Yah's Creation too, as things are naturally coming into their growing season. It isn't absolute, but there is definitely a pattern I have noticed in my eating/buying patterns. So, I've just learned to "run with it". :-)

So today as I was placing my bulk organic produce order, I starting thinking more raw. afterword. I went to the books shelves to pull out all my vegetarian and raw cookbooks. Then I went to my "favorites" under "raw" and started to revisit my links that I saved last spring.
I thought I would share them with you folks. I can share other recipes we like too if you are interested. (leave comments)

This year, I am going to get really familiar with raw crackers. I have seen lots of recipes for them, but have not experimented with them much. You use a dehydrator to make them. So you can expect to see some of those recipes appearing if I find some I like...along with other raw goodies. :-)

Here are some raw links i had...

http://goneraw.com/recipes
http://www.fromsadtoraw.com/RawRecipes.htm
http://www.healthfree.com/raw_food_recipes.html
http://www.rawglow.com/recipes.htm
http://www.rawsacramento.net/recipes.htm#not%20organized%20yet
http://www.learnrawfood.com/mybook.htm
http://www.living-foods.com/recipes/
http://www.welikeitraw.com/rawfood/2006/05/gabes_goodies_m.html

I have a few pet peeves with Raw Foodies. One of them, are the names they use sometimes. I hate when they call it something its not like, "breaded chicken fingers" when their is no bread or chicken in the recipe! Just call it what it is folks! :-) Another is when they insist on using "exotic" ingredients that you can only find if you live in San Fransico or NYC! Another is that they often give recipes that serve one or two people. As if the only people interested in raw food are senior citizens or urban artsy types who don't have families to feed. Wow...that sounded a little disgruntled, didn't it?! Maybe I need have a little more "quiet time today" :-) Or maybe I need to write a large family raw cookbook. :-)

Enjoy,