Curry Noodles

This is not my recipe, but one that looks totally delicious and I really want to try it!
It is 100% raw and 100% vegan, but I'm sure it's bound to taste better than cooked food and I think it's just going to be like an amazing 'party in your mouth.'
This recipe was made by Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram who is popularly known as "FullyRaw Kristina" and well....it was from finding her online that I learnt about the raw vegan lifestyle, decided to detox by going raw vegan and changed my lifestyle (still vegetarian, but I eat 4-6 times a day with 1-3 of the meals being raw vegan and 3 being cooked (vegan or vegetarian)). She is such an awesome and happy person!

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"Here's what she says about this recipe:
If you like curry, you will LOVE this FullyRaw Curry Noodle recipe! It’s fresh in flavor, savor, richness, and nutrition! This delicious dish is so flavor-filled that it will have your tastebuds bursting with flavour!"

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Ingredients:
3-5 large zucchinis (we call them courgettes here in England)
3-4 small navel oranges
1-2 cups of orange/red cherry tomatoes
2 Tbps to half a cup of raw, unhulled sesame seeds
Fresh herbs of basil, sage, and rosemary
1 Tbps of tumeric
1 Tbps of curry powder
A pinch of cumin


Directions:

Spiralise your or Julienne peel your zucchinis to make the noodles.

Next, blend the rest of the ingredients together in a high speed blender (e.g a Vitamix) until completely smooth and creamy.

Pour the "sauce" the noodles and mix well. 

Bon appétit! :)

Veggie Burger

¡Hola!

So, I'm sure it's no surprise that I'm going to be putting up a recipe for veggie burgers and not regular meat burgers.
Now, this recipe is going to have things that it's easier for me to get my hands on here. However, I will put in brackets (parenthesis) popular alternatives to those ingredients.
D'accord! On y va!


Ingredients:

• Black eyed beans (black turtle beans)
• Rice (quinoa)
• Onions
• Peppers
• Mushrooms
• Bread (breadcrumbs)
• Spices/Seasonings/Herbs
• Salt
• Oil of choice
• Optional ingredients - eggs, sun dried tomatoes, a bit of a sauce like piri piri or BBQ sauce
• Burger bread/bun
• Lettuce
• Tomato slices
• Cheddar cheese
• Optional ingredients - slices of onion, a bit of a sauce like mayonnaise, piri piri or ketchup

Method:

• Soak the beans for about 30-1hr in warm water (or slightly hot to reduce soaking time) then leave them out on a paper towel or cloth to dry up to at least 90%.
• Cook the rice till it's nearly done (not fully done)
• Cut up the peppers and onions and run them through a food processor then put them into a frying pan with a bit of oil and cook them a bit to release their flavour.
• Cut the mushrooms into halves or quarters.
• Stick a couple of slices of bread in the oven till they are hardened and can break relatively easily. Then stick them in a food processor or blender to make the breadcrumbs).
• Toss the mushrooms into a food processor and turn it on (you could use the pulse) till they are almost all pasty then add in the beans and the rise and turn on the food processor again. Add the onion and pepper mix and repeat. Put in your desired amount of salt, spices, seasonings and herbs (and the optional ingredients if you choose to use them (the egg helps with making the mixture stay together)) and repeat then add the breadcrumbs a little at a time turning on the food processor each time breadcrumbs are added till you have a kinda pasty mixture.
• Shape the mixture into patties of your desired shape and size (using wet hands to shape the patties might prevent them from sticking to your fingers. You could also spoon out some patties onto a surface with flour on them and sprinkle some flour over the patties before picking them up and shaping with your hands)
• Heat some oil in a frying pan and place your patties in the pan leaving them to fry for a while before flipping over.
• Slice you burger bread/bun in half (horizontally) and if you choose to have a sauce, spread some on the inner side of the bottom half of the bun then place your patty over it then your cheddar cheese then the tomatoes, lettuce, onions, a bit of sauce again (if you choose to have it) and then the top half of the bun (in the order mentioned).

Bon appétit! :)

An Amazing and Healthy Wrap

I made wraps yesterday for my cousins and I and they tasted WAY better than I expected so I decided to tell you guys about it and give you my recipe.

So, the wraps were healthy and I know people that that word (healthy) makes them cringe. Guess which word in this almost makes them stop breathing: it's vegetarian too.

I'm vegetarian so it is expected that when I cook, there's a 99% chance that I'm going to make something vegetarian and a 95% chance I'm going to make something vegan.

Okay! So here are the ingredients:

• Cut and frozen bell peppers (red, green, yellow and orange)
• Sunflower Oil
• Frozen plum tomatoes
• Frozen onions
• Eggs
• Salt
• Wraps (bought from ASDA)
• Peri-peri sauce

Here's how this delicious wrap was made (oh! and I made this for 5 people):

• I got out as much of the peppers, onions and tomatoes as I thought was needed and put the rest back in the freezer (you shouldn't let them defrost if you're not going to use them immediately)
• In a sauce pan, I heated up about a tablespoon of sunflower oil then tossed the onions in and sprinkled some salt on them. I let them cook for a while before adding the tomatoes and stirring.
• After about 2 minutes, I added the peppers, stirred it and left it to cook stirring occasionally.
• I broke 11 eggs and beat them till they were fluffy, added a pinch of salt and beat them again.
• In a large frying pan, I heated a little of sunflower oil then moved the pan around to make sure the oil got everywhere I thought the eggs would then I poured in the eggs.
• As the eggs were heating up and the sides starting to solidify, I used the frying spatula to move those solidifying parts to the middle for a while (the liquid part of the eggs will run to where the solidifying parts were over from).
• After doing that for a bit, I let the egg be and fry then I turned it over so the other side could fry. Once done, the eggs where cut up into much smaller bits and then put in a large bowl.
• Still stirring the contents of the sauce pan occasionally, I added a bit more of the sunflower oil (because the water content from the frozen veggies had reduced till it was practically all gone). 
• I stirred the contents up a bit more and let them cook then took the sauce pan off the heat once I thought the veggies were done.
• The wraps were heated in the grill part of an oven (they had been kept in the freezer to preserve them between when they were bought (in October) and now).
• Once the wraps were warm enough, they were placed on individual plate and one 1/3 of each wrap, the veggies where put in a vertical line then then the eggs put on on top of them. A few drops of peri-peri sauce was added then the wraps were rolled into a perfect cylinder with the veggies and eggs (with the peri-peri sauce on them, of course) in the middle of it. One end was folded up and that was it!

This wrap filled me up quickly (and 3 of the wraps filled up one of my cousins :) ). We all loved it and it was great that it was healthy.

Let me know if you try it out some time, okay?

Ciao,

~Sammy

Introduction

Hello,

My name is Samantha, I am a natural hair blogger and founder of ♥ ❤ ❥ ❣ ❦ ❧SammyWithTheBigHair♥ ❤ ❥❣ ❦ ❧, a teen activist, an outreach specialist for TeenActivist.Org, Singer/Song-writer.... and now, a food blogger.

I was initially going to just wait and start a food channel on YouTube, but like, now, at 00:41, an idea popped into my head, why not just start a food blog? So, that's what I'm doing.

I cannot guarantee how often I'll upload things on here, but I will upload something every now and then and you can send me recipes to review so I can have something to upload if I don't upload in a while.

Okay! So, I'm not really an eater, but I cook from time to time. I don't eat many foods (I sorta have an eating disorder called SED. Here's something I wrote on how it is for me, because you won't find exactly how the SED is for me online). I won't bother putting up a list of the things I don't eat on here because that'll be extensive (by the way, I'm only allergic to one thing).

My cooking is mainly Asian, European and African inspired. I usually embrace my two cultures when cooking (English and Nigerian). Sometimes, I cook something rather European and spice it up with some hot pepper to make it kinda African (by the way, I don't find peppers or chillies hot for some reason), other times, I cook something European and add an Asian twist to it and maybe do the pepper thing to make it a bit African. Sometimes, I just make something African in a unique way.

I read cookbooks, but I don't follow the book. I tweak things a lot aaaaaand, basically, I just flip through cookbooks and look at ingredients to find some ingredient I don't mind cooking with. Once I find the ingredient, I start thinking up things to cook and then I make them.

Another thing, I'm vegetarian. I say I've been vegetarian for 6 years, but the thing is, I started off as a vegetarian then a pollo-pescetarian then a pollotarian (not eating the flesh, though) then fully a vegetarian again. Some people call that pollovegetarian, but as long as meat it was part of a living, breathing, heart pumping, blood flowing, moving creature, I don't consider it a vegetarian diet. The thing is, I fight for animal rights (cruelty), yeah, but that's not my reason for being vegetarian. I actually just hate the taste of meats. That's it. By the way, I'm lacto-ovo-vegetarian.

I'm Christian, I believe that Jesus really lived, He really died on the cross for my sins and that He really rose again on the third day. Jesus is my Redeemer, Saviour and Friend. I am a non-denominational Christian, but I go to Pentecostal churches. I'm non-denominational by choice because I don't want to base my faith on what a sect or denomination tells me to. I want to read the Bible and find the truth for myself.

Okay! So, there are going to be few recipes with meats, but there will be some up. The ones uploaded will usually be with seafood, by the way. I don't taste food while I'm cooking if it contains meats. I just hope the food turns out good and it does (thank God!). I don't touch raw meats, by the way, that's why. I made crunchy spiced calamari fillets two days ago and I used prongs to hold the calamari fillets during every process till the calamari was done being cooked. I don't go to the butchers/meats sections in supermarkets because I can't watch raw meat being cut and the smell of blood....gaah...I can't stand blood.

Anyways, so that's it!
Remember, send me recipes, reviews, whatever!

~Samantha