Plantain Hash with Sweet Gravy

GRAVY

Juiced org. grapes, about 4 oz.
1 mango, without seed or peel
1/3 pint of blackberry
few slices of serrano, optional
5 leaves of mint

Put all ingredients in blender and blend until smooth.

HASH

Slice up plantains thinly and on the diagonal.

Pour gravy over hash.  Enjoy!

Blackberry "Vinaigrette" over Baby Spinach Salad

Dressing

1/2 pint blackberries
1 small mango (I used Ataulfo)
2 small oranges, squeezed (I used Valencia)
5 basil leaves
few chopped slices of serrano, optional (I'm addicted!)

Put everything but the serrano in blender (I have Montell Williams HealthMaster) and blend until smooth.  Taste and see if it needs anything, like more basil.

Salad

Baby Spinach
10 grape tomatoes, halved lengthwise
5 white button mushrooms (preferably organic), well washed and cut into pieces

Pour Dressing over Salad and add serrano if desired.  Very flavorful...!

No-Fat Raw Horseradish BBQ Sauce with Mushroom Meat & Plantain Slices

BBQ SAUCE

1 mamey sapote, scooped out
1 mango, peeled and chopped
1/2 tsp. thyme
1 garlic clove, sliced
few slices of sweet onion (to taste) - optional
8 grape tomatoes
1/4 inch ginger, grated
1/4 inch horseradish, grated (start slow and keep tasting)
few squeezes of lemon
handful of washed cilantro leaves
slice of serrano (optional - if want some heat)

Place all ingredients in cuisinart and blend into creamy.*

PUT OVER:
Ripe red plantains, sliced at an angle
Button Mushrooms, preferably organic, well washed, sliced

Very meaty and satisfying!

* Sauce actually tastes much better with just 4 hours of being in the fridge because the bold flavors all melded together.

Grape, Banana and Date Smoothie

About 30 red seedless grapes (sorry just a rough estimate)
2 bananas
2 dates

Blend in high speed blender.  I blended at highest speed for about 20 seconds.  I like to find a few chunks.  Makes it interesting.  Some like it completely smooth.  Blend according to your tastes.  

Cream of Plantain Pineapple Soup

One russet potato, juiced, throw out juice and keep starchy bit found under juice in the glass
3 spears pineapple
1 plantain

Use the starch from the juiced potato (found at bottom of glass- quite thick).  Puree in cuisinart the pineapple, plantain and starch.  Thick creamy soup.  Very filling:) 

Fruity Rooty Herby "Bread"

1 med. eggplant, juiced, save pulp, toss or drink juice, remove hard cellulose bits
1 med. russet potato, juiced, save pulp, toss juice (save starchy bit on bottom of juice for another recipe)
1/2 med. sweet onion
1 garlic clove
1 tbsp. rosemary

Put onion, rosemary, and garlic into cuisinart.  Blend until in little pieces.  Add eggplant and potato pulp (pick through eggplant pulp and remove hard cellulose bits).  Blend until mixed well.

Spread on flat plate thinly.  Put in clean mesh white laundry bag and close top.  Hang on clothesline outside on sunny day - lower humidity is better.  Takes about 17 hrs. of sun.  Will need to put in fridge overnight and start process again the next day.

Eggplant is a fruit; potato is a root; onion and garlic and rosemary are herbs...hence the name of the bread:)

Still fairly soft but I love it!  You can of course dehydrate.  My body treats dehydrated food as dead food...just like it does with cooked.  The power of the sun is quite something.  Chacun a son gout!  

Kelp Noodles with Spicy Micro Greens/Mushroom/Tomato Dressing

1/2 package of raw kelp noodles

Dressing

1 lime squeezed
1/4 inch serrano, no seeds
6 or 7 white button mushroom
1/2 ripe med. sized tomato
handful of micro greens (mine were from Trader Joes)
pinch of dried oregano (freshly dried on my kitchen counter - just takes a few days)

Put the dressing ingredients in a cuisinart and blend until slight chunky.  Chop the other 1/2 of tomato and put on top of noodles.  Add dressing and stir.