The Live Green Smoothie Diet

And don’t miss checking out this recipe for a Mushroom “Caesar” Salad, one of the best recipes on this whole site, IMHO.

Yah, okay… so there’s no egg in this. And no parm. And no anchovy. And there’s tomato in it.

But believe me when I tell you, if you love Caesar Salads, you’ll love *this* salad. And you’ll understand why it’s a “Caesar” when you take your first bite. Exactly how the ingredients of raw almond butter, olive oil, garlic, tomato, and lemon juice combine to give a parmy, anchovy kinda hit, with a damn-near unctuously yummy dressing coating each crunch of romaine the same way that a good Caesar does… well, I don’t know and I don’t care.

All I know, this recipe is a keeper and a staple, the kind you’re gonna wanna make once a week, provided there’s raw almond butter in the house. This also makes an excellent salsa-type dip, and is wonderful as a filling for a salad sandwich. Will keep well overnight in the fridge.

Why Raw Almond Butter Is So Expensive

I did go and splurge nearly 18 bucks on a jar of raw almond butter. Just scandalous how expensive it is. But you can thank those who allowed the law to pass in California requiring all raw almonds to, actually, no longer be raw… they must now (for nearly a couple years, actually) be pasteurized in some manner, denaturing them, allegedly to protect the masses from lurking salmonella.

So, without stepping too high on my soap box…just remember that when we allow the gov to force the denaturing and pasteurization of our food in the name of “safety”, it’s A) denatured (ewww) and B) it’s Just That Expensive. Eighteen bucks for a little jar of something that grows abudantly all over the world. Cray-zee.

However… raw almond butter is several celestial dimensions above peanut butter, in my book. And it makes some of the best salad dressings. To wit, this one… still one of my favorite things on my entire website.

So… if you can manage to afford this precious stuff, GET SOME TODAY. I promise to add several more really wonderful recipes to the library here using the heavenly stuff.

And as for the fat content… no, this is NOT low-fat. But come on, into every diet a bit of good fat must fall, and this is the good stuff! Enjoy…

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