Grand Finale for the level II student’s final dinner. This strawberry shortcake was elaborated by Chef Alissa. The cake was spongious and full of flavours. The vanilla cream perfect an the sliced strawberries decorated the shortcake beautifully. It was the right size, right amount and needless to say that the leftover… well they did not [...]

Strawberry Shortcake Delight!

This dish is a celebration of the Spring Season! This Pasta Primavera composed of zucchini “spaghetti”, julienned red and yellow bell peppers, quartered cherry tomatoes and marinated broccoli florets. The sauce is a herb cashew “Alfredo Cheese” sauce. The dish is then sprinkled with aged fermented Macadamia cheese. The dish is quick to make and [...]

Pasta Primavera

Romaine Lettuce with herb Macadamia cheese. This dish was developed by Chef Helen Castillo for our student’s last dinner. Chef Helen picked the first course. She developed this delicious and light salad composed of Romaine Lettuce, delicately massaged with a light citrus vinaigrette. The leaves were piled on top of each other and finished with [...]

Simply Delicious!

This is the grand finale of the 4 course meal prepared by Chef Russell James at 105Degrees. This dessert, named Strawberry Fields Forever to keep with the theme, is a Balsamic Strawberry Tart with Sour Cream and Cacao Mint Crème Angaise. The dessert was crunchy and sweet with just a light dusting of cacao to [...]

Strawberry Fields Forever

This third course was the showcase dish of the supper. This high tower was composed of red bell pepper, portobello cap mushrooms and layers of avocado salsa. Garnished with thin slices of asparagus. There is only one word to describe this dish: Delicious! The dish was pleasantly presented on a large square plate, with peppercorn [...]

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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Day 3 – Coconut Fight
Posted on Sep 10

Day 3 – Coconut Fight

Today started early. Fox News came to do a segment about 105degrees. It was… 5:45am! Well you can’t really choose when you shoot live TV I guess. Here is a picture of some of us at the Academy with anchor Lauren Richardson: It was very interesting to see live TV...

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