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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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...

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...