Day 52 of Raw - Calzone!

Did you think you'd be able to eat Italian on the Raw Food Eating Plan?

Of course you can! We made this fabulous Calzone during our recent Chef Instructor's class.

In this picture you can see us filling the bottom "crust" with layers - "mozarella cheese", spinach dip and marinated veggies.

Do you see the top of the Calzone in the bottom edge of the picture? It went on top of the bottom layer and filling. We had a huge "pizza pie"! The recipe for this crust can also be used to make burger buns. It's made from sprouted buckwheat, flax seeds, olive oil, carrot, garlic, curry, rosemary, thyme and celtic salt. It "bakes" up fluffy and light in the dehydrator and looks just like bread when it's done.

Once you have both bottom and top dough layers "baked", you can then make your "mozzarella chese" very simply by using macadamia nuts, cashews, Braggs, lemon juic and water. You will really be amazed at how this tastes like cheese!

To spice things up even more you can make a spinach dip layer to put on top of the cheese layer. The spinach dip is made from spinach - of course, avacado, lemon juice and Herbamare sesaoning salt (can be found at Whole Foods). It's all mixed up in the blender to a yummy dip consistancy.

The Calzone filling is made from marinated veggies. The veggies marinate while you "bake" your calzone dough. We used broccoli, yellow bell peppers, carrots, olive oil and sea salt. You can use lots of different kinds of veggies - whatever you like, really.

Don't be intimidated in trying new recipes, even if they have a few extra steps to them like this Calzone recipe. Just take it one step at a time - it's really very easy! This recipe takes a longer period of time to make but it's not like you are having to baby sit it or anything. Once you make your dough and put it in the dehydrator you pretty much set it and forget it. Add your fillings, put the two layers together with your filling in between, put it all back in the dehydrator and set it and forget it again. In the end we had a beautiful, delicious dish that was huge and fed us several meals with fresh greens in a salad. A nice little hint - you can rewarm your Calzone - or any dishes you'd like to eat warm - by putting them back in the dehydrator for a while to warm up. Yummy! And the best part? This is healthy food!!!! No Guilt, just good!