Low Fat Raw Gourmet: Crêpes

Merry Christmas, all; hope you had a great time opening gifts and hanging out with your wonderful family!

My family is full of cooks and food connoisseurs, so we like to do different cuisines for holiday meals. This year, the theme is French food.

Not eager to be left out, I decided I would take part in this French cuisine theme myself! I plan upon having a creamy, nut free, salt free, raw red pepper bisque (it's delicious); I'll definitely post that recipe in the near future!

For dessert, I shall be enjoying crêpes...yum!

This has got to be the easiest crêpe recipe ever. Its also super duper yummy & 100% fruit! It does use a dehydrator, but its still a great once-in-a-while treat, methinks.

Ingredients:
—3 bananas
—¾ avocado
—8 - 12 halawy dates (or 4 - 6 soft medjools)
—¾c water
—½c berries, +a few more for the filling

There is three parts to the recipe: the crêpe, the creamy filling, and a berry coulis to drizzle on top.

For the crêpe:
Blend bananas together in blender. Spread into two circles on a dehydrator sheet (you may want to spread a teeny bit of coconut oil down first, so they dont stick). Dehydrate until pliable, but not sticky (I just dehydrated mine overnight).

For the cream filling:
Blend dates (pitted), avocado, and water (don't add it all right away) in blender until smooth and creamy.

For the coulis:
Blend berries of your choice into a sauce (I used strawberries).

Assembly: (wait until your ready to eat or almost ready! If you assemble agead of time, the banana crêpe may absorb water from filling and turn back to mush.)
Spread half the cream on one side of each crêpe. Sprinkle some whole berries on top (I used raspberries). Roll up the crêpes, and drizzle the coulis on top. Now you're done, enjoy!

LFRV Mango-Strawberry Pie!

Yumm! You can use less nuts for lower fat...still delicious. Also, try adding some romaine lettuce in with the filling; makes it more savory, and still super duper yummy. (Though the color's a little less savory like this. Haha)

Two Overt Fat Free Recipes

Banana Icecream

Pretty much the simplest recipe in the raw food cook book. Just so happens that makes it one of the easiest, as well.

For the basic recipe, you just freeze some bananas overnight, then teke them out, let them thaw a little, then blend them up in a blender.

For this recipe, I used:

• 8 bananas, frozen, blended
• 3oz fresh strawberries, sliced
• 3oz dates, pitted and sliced

I was only able to eat like half of this... But it was pretty good.

Delicious Cucumber Noodles!

• 1 cucumber sliced lengthwise with a veggie peeler to make wide noodles,
• one tomato, diced
• juice of half a lime,
• a handful of cilantro,
• and a few scallions!

I had this dish this past weekend, and it was wonderful! So simple, and refreshing!

It was also really, really pretty! This photo doesnt come anywhere near doing it justice.

Something else very exciting that happened this weekend:

We discovered this little tomato growing on one of my tomato plants - which we got to finally take outside this weekend! I am so excited for summer! ≧◡≦