Saturday, October 2, 2010

A dinner party that was Rawesome!


This week Faf and I went to our first ever fully raw-vegan dinner party, it was for one of our best friends birthday's. The idea of a raw dinner party seemed completely harmless, yet once we searched for recipes and actually realized the amount of work involved in "un-baking" the daunting prospect of dehydrating for 10 hours without a dehydrator soon crushed our dreams of raw donuts and pancakes and other delectables.

However, coming good on Lidia's request, we decided to "un-bake" our little butts of, so here are the fruits of our labour.

Lidia delighted our taste buds with her raw sprouted buckwheat quinoa bagels, eggplant "bacon", "caramelised" onion and a cashew and chive cream "cheese",

Faf made a delicious array of raw pate type dips, sun-dried tomato and walnut, pumpkin and pine-nut and one more? She accompanied these with crudites and some sprouted rye Essene bread. She also tried her hand at an "un-stirfry" which was an interesting mix of marinated mushrooms on a bed of parsnip "rice", this one will perhaps take some getting used to :)

Hannah made an amazing avocado, nut based cacao mouse that we ate more like a fondue, dipping some delicious ripe strawberries into.

Taryn's 2 varieties of raw ice cream were to die for, her coconut banana tasted like tropical heaven and her cacao avocado was so rich and creamy, and for a chick who doesn't like chocolate to go all gaga-eyed over this ice cream it must have been pretty darn good!

I made a strawberry and banana chia pie, with a date and almond crust, I had reservations on how this cake would set and slice, but it did both with ease and the taste was amazing.

All in all I'd say for our first raw experience it was a pretty good effort all around, the only problem is now we all want to invest in dehydrators to get a bit more fancy next time!

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