Quick and easy winter salad. This salad is a combination of fresh arugula, thinly sliced fennel and grapefruit segments. Take one handful of arugula and one handful of sliced fennel. Mix well with a dressing made out of olive oil and Meyer lemons. Dress your salad with grapefruit segments and finish with fresh pepper. This [...]

Easy Winter Salad

Chef Ladan Raissi, our Kitchen and Academy Director designed and executed this delicious special. We started with an organic carrot soup with young Thai Yogurt and sprouted lentil crackers. The soup had also a light curry taste that was just right. The Second course was a Brazil Nut and Wheatberry Risotto with Fennel confit and Truffle [...]

Chef Ladan Raissi Special

Adaptation of an Italian classic. The cannelloni is made out of three distinct layers: ricotta, marinara and pesto. The ricotta is a Macademia nut-based cheese. Light and fluffy with a touch of white truffle oil. The marinara is sweet and full of sun dried tomato flavors. The pesto is robust and is made of walnuts, [...]

Cannelloni

Open-faced Portobello Burger… what a feast! Adaptation of an American classic makes this dish a favorite! The burger bun is made out of almond flour, zucchini and flax meal as well as different spices. The portobello cap is marinated and dehydrated for several hours to give it a chewey texture. The dish is served with [...]

Portobello Burger

Simple and fabulous! This dish is colorful, creamy, tasty and delicious. Butternut squash is used for the “lasagna” part. It is thinly sliced and assembled to form a structure for the Macademia Nut Ricotta and Chanterelle mushrooms layers. The dish is topped with a beautiful mushroom and some fresh marjoram leaves. Then the plate is [...]

Chanterelle Lasagna
Blue Corn Tostada in the RAW
Posted on Sep 22

Blue Corn Tostada in the RAW

Here it is… blue corn tostada in the raw. We used three main components to make this dish. The first component is the blue corn tostada made out of a mixture of -blue corn-, red bell pepper, zucchini, flax meal, avocado and lime juice with a little bit of agave. We...

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Raw Noodles?
Posted on Sep 21

Raw Noodles?

Raw noodles do exist! They are made out of kelp and have just 6 calories per serving! I loved it! It is filling and delicious! The noodles are not very flavorful by themselves but take on the flavor of the dressing or dish you mix the noodles with. In our...

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Sushi
Posted on Sep 21

Sushi

Sushi takes almost a lifetime to master. I thought it would be simpler but it is not quite that simple. First of all, everything needs to be ready to assemble. It is called “Mise en Place”. Which is a French culinary term meaning “Put in Place”. In our sushi dish...

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Fig Tarts
Posted on Sep 21

Fig Tarts

This fig tart was soooo good! An no, I did not eat both of them. I didn’t even eat one at once. It is quite filling as well. These tarts come in three components: The crust to which I added nutmeg and lime zest, a walnut cream an the fresh...

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Asian Flavors – Continued
Posted on Sep 21

Asian Flavors – Continued

How to make a simple delicious Asian meal? Compose your plate with a warm miso soup with scallion, dehydrated carrots, a seaweed salad and a little bit of the saurkraut made a few days ago… This simple meal is actually very filling. I could hardly finish my plate. It looks like...

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Day 7 – Asian Flavors
Posted on Sep 16

Day 7 – Asian Flavors

Today we are going to use the Almond-Chili Dressing and Mango chutney prepared the day before. We first learned to prep the whole dish before actually assembling it. So that’s what we did first: cut, julienne, dice, mix and gather. Then we took either a collard’s green or a swiss...

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Day 6 – Fermenting Food…
Posted on Sep 16

Day 6 – Fermenting Food…

Today was all about fermenting food. Fermenting food is very healthy since it is providing the body with natural beneficial bacteria to populate your digestive tract and help keeping you healthy. So we started with Sauerkraut. A mixture of cabbage, kohlrabi, celery, parsnips, carrots, beets, ginger and a pear. I skipped...

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Fifth Day of Culinary School
Posted on Sep 14

Fifth Day of Culinary School

The second week of raw culinary school has started. We first talked about sprouting and wheatgrass. I will talk a little more about these in another post. We prepared the crust Friday and dehydrated it over the week-end with marinated portobello mushrooms and tomatoes. We make an arugula and spinach salad...

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Day 4 @ 105degrees Academy
Posted on Sep 11

Day 4 @ 105degrees Academy

Today we talked about superfoods… In a nutshell superfoods are foods so concentrated in nutrients and so bio-available that you need just a little to get a whole bunch of nutrients in your body. We talked about cacao, maca, goji berries, bee pollen and spirulina to name a few. We...

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