It’s the seventh episode of Ligia’s Kitchen, presenting a raw zacusca recipe.
Zacusca is a traditional spread in Romania, made from eggplant, red bell peppers and onions. Wikipedia has a nice entry explaining it in detail. It’s quite tasty.
The traditional recipe involves a lot of cooking and some frying, which not only takes time, but also makes the spread fairly greasy and not so healthy. Ligia’s come up with a way to make it raw, delicious, and very healthy. Bon appetit!
As I looked through my posts this morning, I realized that I’d forgotten to blog the third episode of Ligia’s Kitchen, which we released around Christmas time. It’s a delicious raw mint chocolate cake which takes about 15 minutes to make.
We published the fifth episode of my wife’s cooking show, Ligia’s Kitchen, yesterday evening. This week’s recipe is simple and delicious — Ligia will teach you how to make “Raffaello”-like sweets from two ingredients: dates and coconut flakes.
As usual, English subtitles are available, so make sure to click on YouTube’s CC button if you can’t see them.
Ligia and I attended a talk given by Dr. Brian Clement of the Hippocrates Health Institute — the foremost center of natural and complementary health care in the world. The event took place at the Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton, FL, on March 22, 2010, and the talk was on aging, and what we can do to stop it. It may sound like the stuff of fairy tales, but the advice given is common sense, and it works. Dr. Clement himself is almost 70 years old, though he doesn’t look it.
In a nutshell, we must change our nutrition to include a large proportion of raw vegan foods, particularly sprouts and vegetable juices. I invite you to watch the entire video, which is about 45 minutes long. It’s quite interesting, and the Q&A section at the end also provides actionable and important advice.
Sorry about the somewhat unsteady video. I recorded this handheld. And the focus is a bit off for the first 1:30 minutes, but it does get better after that, so hang in there!
I’d also like to thank the folks at YouTube for allowing me to post the entire video without cutting it up into smaller parts. This summer, they raised the limit to 15 minutes for each video, then did away with it completely a few weeks ago, which meant I could upload the entire 45-minute video, in 720p HD, at over 3GB in size, without any problems. Thank you YouTube!
The 4th episode of my lovely wife’s cooking show, Ligia’s Kitchen, is out today. This week’s recipe is raw vegan rice milk with walnuts and cinnamon — a traditional raw vegan recipe adapted for our tastes.
As with all our video shows, there are English subtitles available by clicking on YouTube’s CC (Closed Captioning) button — and we’re filming in HD, so you can see all the little details. Enjoy!
Raoul Pop 