Raw pink sauce with herbs - Salsa rosa crudista alle erbe

English
This is the recipe for a light pink sauce. You can smother your veggie or fruit spaghetti with it or you can use it as a salad dressing or just for dipping.

Ingredients:
8 to 10 cherry tomatoes (or similarly juicy and small)
3 big portabello mushrooms
2 teaspoons of tahini
1/2 scallion
About an inch of ginger (peeled)
1 tablespoon of dry yeast
5 or 6 basil leaves
2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
Oregano to taste
Optional: a teaspoon of umeboshi or a pinch of salt

Mix al of the ingredients in a blender until you have a soft and creamy sauce. You can add a few basil leaves on the top of it before serving.

Italiano
Ecco la ricetta di una salsa rosa leggera alle erbe. Si può usare per condire gli spaghetti di frutta o verdura oppure per l'insalata o semplicemente per pucciare.

Ingredienti:
8-10 pomodorini
3 champignon grandi
2 cucchiaini di salsa tahini
1/2 cipollotto
Circa un cm o due di zenzero pelato
1 cucchiaio di lievito alimentare secco
5 o 6 foglie di basilico
2 cucchiai di olio EVO
Origano a piacere
Opzionale: un cucchiaino di umeboshi o un pizzico di sale

Unite tutti gli ingredienti in un frullatore o robot da cucina fino a ottenere una salsa cremosa. È possibile aggiungere qualche foglia di basilico per presentare la salsa.

Anise sprouts and pizza

Today I spent a very relaxed day and I made pizza. It wasn't 100 percent raw because I'm still waiting for a food dehydrator I bought online so I did something acceptable for my standards which was a very thin pizza with whole wheat flour, cooked for a few minutes at 120ºC. After the base was ready I put a layer of raw tomato sauce and over that sliced eggplant, mushrooms, peppers, olives and herbs all raw and fresh. The result was this:

I found it better than ordinary pizza but my taste has changed dramatically in the last few months so I can only suggest you try it for yourself, I can post the whole recipe upon request. Then I went to visit my grandparents and when I got back home I saw that the anise seeds are finally sprouting after 3 days. I went there to throw them out because I thought they would be rancid and with great surprise and pleasure I noticed the first sprouts so I gave them water to encourage growth. I hope they taste good but here is how they look in the jar: