Articles in the Cook Naked Category

Naked Holiday Recipe: Grain-free Sweet Potato Pie

This holiday recipe is a little variation on the traditional pumpkin pie. For one, it’s made with sweet potatoes (well, officially they’re yams but many stores mistakenly label them as sweet potatoes and most of us think of them as such). For another, we’ve made this with a nut crust, rather than your typical pie crust. This solves the gluten problem and also makes the recipe a synch to make. It’s also got far less sugar than your average pie, and we’ve used maple syrup as our sweetener.
Give it a …

Written by Margaret Floyd on 22/11/11 am30 08:00 AM

 

October Unprocessed: Easy Formula For Unprocessed Salad Dressing

I’m so thrilled to be a contributor for the October Unprocessed challenge by food blogger, Andrew Wilder. Here’s a bit of my post:
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Imagine this: You sit down to lunch over a big heaping bowl of salad. Every color in the rainbow is represented, all your favorite goodies from sun-dried tomatoes, some artichoke hearts, maybe an olive or two. Tender greens, fresh herbs, juicy tomatoes. Maybe some leftover wild salmon from last night’s dinner.
Your mouth is watering as you tuck into your delicious, unprocessed lunch and you reach for the bottle …

Written by Margaret Floyd on 06/10/11 pm31 12:58 PM

 

The Skinny on Saturated Fat: Six Important Roles for this Maligned Nutrient

Let’s start with this: Saturated fat is good for you.
I know, I know, this isn’t what you’ve heard in the media or from many high profile health-types. The basic formula we’ve been taught is saturated fat = bad. This over-simplistic conclusion is based on the following logic: dietary consumption of saturated fat and the cholesterol that often comes with it leads to heart disease.
This argument is the essence of what’s called the Lipid Hypothesis, a theory proposed originally by Ancel Keys in the 1950s and eagerly adopted by nutritionists, the …

Written by Margaret Floyd on 22/09/11 am30 09:08 AM

 

Naked Wraps: Using collard greens for your burritos and wraps

Here’s one of the cooler food tricks I’ve learned from Chef James Barry: use a collard green leaf instead of a tortilla for your burritos, enchiladas, and wraps. This is a great solution for those of you who are gluten-sensitive, have a corn allergy, or are just wanting to reduce the amount of starchy carbs in your diet. And really, what’s more naked than a lightly steamed collard green leaf?
You can fill your wrap with just about anything. We’ve got a great recipe in the book Eat Naked, but …

Written by Margaret Floyd on 02/05/11 am31 11:14 AM

 

Easy Raw Cucumber Mint Soup

With spring upon us the days are getting longer, the sun is getting warmer, and it’s a natural and appropriate time to incorporate more raw foods into our diets.
To explore the delights of preparing and enjoying raw foods, a group of us health-minded bloggers decided to get creative in the kitchen and put together a month of raw recipes.
This soup is incredibly easy and fast. It’s ideal for a warm afternoon, with the cooling properties of the mint and cucumber. Delicious!
Makes 2 servings
Ingredients
2 medium-sized cucumbers, peeled and rough chopped (approximately …

Written by Margaret Floyd on 25/04/11 am30 06:00 AM

 

Knife Skillz: Avocados and Mangos

This video will teach you how to work with two of my favorite foods: the avocado and the mango. Both are delicious naked foods and can be used in so many things – from guacamole, salads, smoothies, salsas, desserts. The thing with both of them is that they can be a real pain in the butt if you don’t know how to cut them properly. Here’s a quick video to get you up to speed if you’re not already an aficionado.

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Written by Margaret Floyd on 04/04/11 am30 12:00 AM

 

Naked Superfoods: Kale Arame Salad

Superfoods are foods that pack a particular nutritional punch, either because they’re high in nutrients we typically don’t get enough of in our diets, or because they’re particularly nutritionally dense and confer some kind of health benefit. Today I want to introduce you to one of my favorite superfoods: sea vegetables.

Written by Margaret Floyd on 15/03/11 pm31 12:04 PM

 

Cook from your heart, not your head – Step 3

For many people, cooking is the number of minutes food gets heated in the microwave. Others judge themselves so harshly in the kitchen that they feel paralyzed and refuse to try something different. Well, if you’ve joined us for step one (getting in touch with your naked self – your body’s innate wisdom) and step two (shopping naked), hopefully you’re feeling courageous enough to take the third step: cooking naked.
Step Three: Cook Naked
First things first: take a breath. You’re back in your kitchen. You’ve got some lovely …

Written by Chef James on 07/03/11 am31 11:33 AM

 

Soak yer nuts. No, not those nuts, silly.

Soaked nuts? Sounds kinky.
I hate to disappoint, but this has nothing to do with your nether regions. This is about proper preparation of one of my favorite power-packed snack foods: nuts.
Soaking??
It might seem odd to soak your nuts, but here’s a little background:
All nuts have phytic acid, a potent enzyme inhibitor, in their skins. The role of this enzyme inhibitor is to prevent premature breakdown of the nut until it’s in appropriate conditions (e.g., moist, dark, soil – to grow another plant). If we don’t neutralize these enzyme inhibitors, they …

Written by Margaret Floyd on 03/03/11 am31 07:00 AM

 

Drink your salad: my favorite green smoothie recipe

Over the last few years, I have reluctantly become a smoothie girl. I’ve never liked them much, but that’s also because I was rather horrible at making them. Usually they were barely edible.
And then I got a VitaMix.
And if you have a VitaMix, you know there’s no longer any good excuse NOT to become a master of smoothies. I’m not one to bow to a gadget, but this blender changed my life. (Based on my informal research, this is a statement commonly uttered by VitaMix owners). Yes, it’s a spendy …

Written by Margaret Floyd on 23/02/11 am28 08:11 AM

 
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