Raw Salmon Wraps

This was MUCH more of a success than lunch. At least I'm not on a vegan raw diet. I still get to eat fish!!!

I got a giant slab of Salmon from Whole Foods the other day, and wanted to do more with it than just cutting it up and pouring soy sauce all over it (which would be delicious also).

SIDE NOTE: Soy sauce is not raw. Coconut Aminos, however, is. It's basically sap from the coconut tree. And it tastes surprisingly like soy sauce. Nature is WEIRD.

Nothing like good ol' laptop daylight to make things look more appetizing.

SO, I decided to put my kitchen tools to the test, and sliced up some strips of carrot & zucchini, laid a thin strip of salmon over the top, added red amaranth sprouts and green onion, then wrapped them up in a cozy thinly-sliced cucumber blanket.

I'll be back to 15 pounds
lighter in no time!...Maybe.

I gotta be honest. I had trouble mandolin-ing the cucumber. I don't know why...maybe the cucumber was too big? It really was huge. 

That was the reason I decided not to cut them like small pieces of maki sushi...I figured they would fall apart. So they became little wraps!

I prepared a yummy sauce for them --- coconut milk, grated ginger, coconut aminos, and sriracha. THAT was good. I might try the same thing on some kelp noodles and mushrooms or something next time I feel like "cooking" up an Asian meal.

All in all --- this is a raw meal I could get down for.

It looks pretty now, but dang did I make a mess eating it.

Of course, I had to raid the pantry for raw watermelon seeds and raw chocolate snack bites to satiate my still-remaining hunger, but hey, small steps.