our tuesday crew rendezvoused on saturday this week to celebrate our dear friend, christy, and her monumental birthday! in true raw tuesday spirit, we made a delicious feast, 100% raw, vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free, and delicious.
Now, christy has several diet limitations including cashews, corn, soy, wheat, peppers, onions, buckwheat, coconut oil, cacao, mushrooms, flax… so creating a menu took some careful consideration. we all agreed to a “soup, salad, sorbet” party… but let’s be honest, i couldn’t just keep it simple, so, instead I decided to make a slightly more complex dish… still beginning with an “S”, as not to break the trend :)
I knew Gary was making his famous (my favorite and christy’s too) “Gary Marsala Soup”, so i decided to play off of those flavors and make some Somosas. I started making them Friday night in order to get in the dehydration time, but after slightly messing up the first few wraps, i was glad i had enough time to make a second batch. hey, it’s always an experiment, right? In the end, they turned out well and the mango was just perfect to balance the Indian flavors. Recipe to come…
Gary made his soup.
Christy made a salad with a chia-based dressing.
I made somosas.
And what birthday would be complete without cake?
… or better yet, a plate full of desserts?
we had two variations of blondies (one with cashews, one without) topped with a Lucuma Caramel Sauce and a sprinkling of cacao nibs.
gary whipped up a last minute chocolate mousse, mostly just to show off to some new-to-raw guests we had ;)
and kaz made a deliciously refreshing fruit sorbet.
if there’s one thing you can count on, it’s raw desserts do not disappoint. good down to the very last drop.
