My journey begins ....

I had been talking about raw food for a few years, followed the raw food gurus, became a member of a raw food meet-up and bought all of the equipment and read all the books. So why wasn't I fully committed to living a raw food lifestyle? The answer: I didn't have the tools - the tools to plan my menus and the tools to prepare exciting, creative dishes that would inspire me and get friends interested.

In July this year, I sold my house and put all of my belongings in storage. I had been consciously focussed on getting to America for some time and decided to bite the bullet and go. First to Hippocrates in Florida to attend the 'Life Change Program' which literally changed the way I thought about food and health. Detoxing off coffee and stress and after three wonderful weeks, I was ready to start my raw food training.

My journey begins ...

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Tenth Day @ 105 Degrees

Today we continued our week by making a sprouted sesame wrap.  We soaked and sprouted the sesame seeds first.  They were then combined with zucchini, capsicum, tomato, basil cayenne pepper, nutritional yeast and flax meal.
















Sprouted sesame wrap dehydrated

The shitake mushrooms were tossed in olive oil, salt and pepper and nama shoyu, and they dehydrated.




















Marinated shitake mushrooms

We then washed irish moss which was packaged dry.   This will later be blended up to make a paste for adding to recipes.





















Cleaning and soaking irish moss

















Irish moss


For lunch we assembled the sprouted sesame wraps.  First a smoked red pepper tahini sauce was made with tahini, lemon juice, smoked salt, capsicum and cayenne.
















Sprouted sesame wrap and ingredients

Then the rest of the ingredients were built up.  Baby spinach, enoki mushrooms, julienned carrot, beetroot and cucumber, avocado and sprouts.
















The sprouted sesame wrap ready to be rolled

















Sprouted sesame wrap, shitake, avocado, sprouts, smoked red pepper tahini



2 comments:

  1. do they have like a GIGANTIC dehydrator in order to dehydrate student food and a whole cafe worth of food too?

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  2. We have about 10 stainless steel dehydrators in the academy and the restaurant also has their own. I'm a bit dehydrated out now! Although, I liked the granola (which we don't have in Oz)

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