Vegan Dinner Plate & First Dehydrator Challenge Post - "Project ONION"

TOMORROW the Link Party will be up for the BRAND NEW Dehydrator Challenge that Opal is hosting!  YAY!  I'm posting a day early but will LINK UP once it's LIVE, too!  I hope you will join us!  It's going to be a weekly link up to encourage those people who have dehydrators to get them out and USE them!  If you do NOT have a dehydrator you can still participate - just use your oven at a lower temperature setting!

Before I get to my Project ONION post for the dehydrator challenge this week I thought I would share my dinner plate with you last night.  It's was a FAST MEAL with few ingredients.  I did white rice with mushrooms.  The mushrooms I buy are fresh or frozen.  I will no longer purchase the canned variety since reading an article about how there can be up to 38 (un)identified bacteria in the can.  YES...some bacterias are 'good for you' but these are said to be 38 of the BAD variety...anyhow..I won't buy canned mushrooms...only fresh and frozen.  The ones pictured here are frozen that I did on my stove top with water.  With the added water it made a bit of a mushroom broth of sorts so I mixed that in with the white rice.  I saved about 1/4 C of the mushrooms to use for the dehydrator recipe.  I just let them thaw.  Then you will see I have some Triscuits as well as some corn.  This corn was also from frozen and I added some Wildtree Dill for a little extra flavor.  I didn't take a photo but for a snack last night I had a vegan Amaranth Quinoa Waffle that I topped with cherries.

Now...on to the Dehydrator FUN!  I made up the 'batter' for this creation and used it TWO ways!  First...I did some "pull apart crisps" or "veggie crunch" I guess you could call it.  Here's what I used to make this 'batter'...

2 C Sprouted Chickpeas
1/4-1/4 C Mushrooms
1 ONION
1/4 C Raw Sunflower Seeds
3 T Hemp Seeds
1 Small Zuke
2 T Minced Garlic
2 T Sun Dried Tomatoes, Minced
2 Grape Tomatoes
2 T Tahini

The 2nd photo - using the same 'batter' I scooped out into 'patties' or 'pucks'. 

I haven't taste tested the patties yet but at least one of them will be a part of my dinner this evening.  I did try a little bit of the Veggie Crunch and it was YUMMY.

They were in my Excalibur for about 13 or 14 hours at about 115.  I flipped both about 2 hours in.  I was able to accomplish a few things by doing this recipe!  One...I used up my mini zuke and tomatoes that were sitting around for a bit - that I HAD to hurry up and use, Two...I USED ONION in this recipe that was part of the challenge this week, and Three...I have 2 different foods I can munch on for the next few (or more) days!

SUBMIT Your Raw Food/Dehydrated Creations on this week's Dehydrator Challenge!

Man & Mac Dressing - Vegan & Rawish!

Over the weekend I made this dressing.  It's Vegan and Raw-ish.  The only non-raw ingredient - the nuts...and here's why...

A while back I bought a back of Onion & Garlic flavored Macadamia Nuts.  I thought I would LOVE them but didn't really.  I didn't want to waste them so I thought I would use them in this dressing.  I'm very glad I did because it turned out AWESOME!

Here's what I did...

1/2 C Mac Nuts
4 Mandarin Oranges
3 Mini Yellow Peppers
Garlic Powder, Turmeric Powder, Ginger Powder to taste.

That's it!  How easy is that!?  VERY Flavorful!  LOVED IT!  Must try this again!  I have another foodie post that I will be sharing soon...it wasn't as successful as this one but I think it has potential.  I didn't want to post it in the same post because it's similar in color - but completely different!

What's the last Dressing you made at home?