Raw Food & Fitness-Day 39Today we wanted to share an essential piece of raw food kitchen equipment and a recipe. First the kitchen equipment: On Day-21 we told you that we only used 3 pieces of kitchen equipment on a regular basis. They were: 1- A bamboo cutting board 2- A sharp kitchen knife 3- A BlendTec Blender Well, there is one more thing that we use that we somehow overlooked. We didn't even realize we overlooked it until our old one broke the other day. Kirsten and I try to eat at least 1 head of lettuce each per day. On most days we eat 2 or more heads of lettuce each per day. We are trying to include as many greens as we can into our raw food menu. Our ritual is to rinse the lettuce (or other type of greens like chard, spinach, kale or collards), and then put it in the Salad Spinner Today we got a brand new, fancy, green Zyliss Easy Spin 4-6 Serving Salad Spinner Here is what it looks like:
In an effort to recycle the old one we will use the inner portion of the old spinner as a colander and the bowl as, well, a bowl. Now here is the recipe I promised:Avocado, Tomato, Red Bell Pepper, Cilantro, Celery Dip This stuff is great for spreading on lettuce leaves or for dipping with celery or carrots. The celery in this recipe gives it a slightly salty flavor. We don't add any type of salt to our food so the celery is a nice addition. Ingredients: 1 Avocado 1 Bell Pepper-washed and the seeds removed 2 Tomatoes-washed and quartered 1 Bunch of cilantro-washed and chopped 1-2 Stalks of Celery-washed and finely chopped. (If you chop up the celery into extremely small pieces you won't get cerlery strings in your dip.) Preperation: Put everything into a food processor and process until smooth. Alternately you could use your knife to chop everything up real small and mash it all together. The most important thing...sit down, take a deep breath and enjoy! Be Vegan, Be Vibrant!
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to dry it off. Yesterday our old Zyliss salad spinner, that we have had for over 6 years, finally broke. 
