Although in this video, Roberto and Chloe make homemade pasta, this wild mushroom – tomato sauce recipe is very good with store bought pasta. The sauce recipe is made with diced onions, garlic, several types of chopped mushrooms, red wine, chopped tomatoes, dried and fresh spices and herbs. He uses the liquid remaining after reconstituting dried porcini mushrooms to add a special rich flavor to his sauce. This is a delicious and healthy meal. You need to try it.
Roberto also teaches us a simple technique to activate the oils in dried oregano. This technique can be used with other dried spices.
Dr. Michael Greger, one of our Medical Experts, has several posts reporting on the anti-oxidant value and cancer prevention and anti-inflammatory characteristics of different mushrooms. He suggests they should be included as a regular ingredient in our diets. You can find links to his articles in this post.
Roberto Martin is the personal chef for Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi.
As a vegan chef, he discovered that the flavors that worked in his best non-vegan dishes worked in vegan dishes as well. He has learned how to make easy substitutions of animal-based products with plant-based protein to create easy-to-make, healthy, delicious and vegan food. Many of his favorite recipes are in his cookbook, Vegan Cooking for Carnivores.
You can learn more about him on his Facebook Page.
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Chloe’s website is ChefChloe.com. From the “About” section of her website –
“Chloe is a graduate of The Natural Gourmet Institute and the University of California, Berkeley. She has also completed Cornell University’s Plant-Based Nutrition program based on Dr. T. Colin Campbell’s The China Study.
Her professional work includes Millennium Restaurant, San Francisco; Counter Organic Vegetarian Bistro, New York City; and Herbivore Restaurant, Berkeley.”
Chloe is an award winning chef. She also won first place in Food Network’s Cupcake Wars where she was the first vegan chef to win a Food Network competition.
Her books are available on her website and Amazon.
You can follow her on Facebook.
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Cooking and sharing good food with friends is a wonderful way to enjoy each others company.
