Making Love in the Kitchen

Hey lovers,

Dropping in a quickie from sunny California to remind you of two fantasticalicious offers we have going on today only!

For some reason, there is more spots available then there should be in my most importantly fun, delicious and awesomely inspiring Raw Food Power Workshop coming up this Sunday morning. I will literally be fresh off the plane from California where I have been spending the week at the top of the top raw food and herbal medicine conference and exploring all the local organic goodness of this fair state. In short- I am inspired and you will be too. Spring is here, time to get fresh!!!

Also- we had a little blip in our coupon code yesterday and it wasn’t working. So that is all fixed up now too.

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I had a jolly ‘ole lover of a time travelling the isel of St. Lucia and can’t wait to show off some of my pics to you tomorrow. But the one thing I missed most was my kitchen. I missed having access to my clean, organized, pink kitchen and all the familiar tastes that go along with it. I was chomping at the bit, as they say, to get back into it and get cooking.

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Now aren’t these just gorgeous!?!?! Like really glowingly beautiful in all their vibrant redness. I was so excited about this baking adventure for many reasons. I was going to use fresh grated beets in the batter, I was going to use millet in a muffin for the first time. I had some fresh cranberries in there and I was so psyched that I was going to have the most amazingly unique valentine’s day recipe ever.

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Up until recently, I wouldn’t have had an answer for you either. Barley salad? Who on earth eats pearl barley other than my grandmother? She actually never really made it into a salad. She usually added it to her vegetable soups and I stopped eating those after she inadvertently poisoned me with MSG.

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If you are ever going to indulge in sweet treats, best time is of course during the holidays when you are either so stressed out that you NEED it, or you are having so much fun that you are kind enough to yourself to enjoy it guilt free.

Here are my top five favourite dessert creations.

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Vegan’s treat nutritional yeast like it’s the dehydrated cheese in a mac and cheese box. It’s not, but it does make great, creamy, cheese-like sauces. For a long, long time (think 30 of my 31 years), I stayed far away from it. 27 of those years were spent in ignorance that this food existed, two of those years were spent avoiding it because it was odd, one was spent avoiding it because I have read of contraindications between inflammatory bowel disease and nutritional yeast. Then I gave in, tried it, loved it, and now know just what it is.

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I had so much fun in California with the family. I love going to yoga there where, even after four years of regular practice, I feel like a beginner. I get pushed to my limits in so many ways. Sean Corne aptly asked all of us at the end of her class “To be brave enough to dive in and realize what love really is” and Annie Carpenter, who “suggested we get comfy as we easily tuck our shoulders in behind our knees”. Yes, think about that one. Nothing like a great dose of humbling to get you out of your ego, on to your mat and practicing the patience and presence that is the gift of yoga.

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The Jewish New Year is coming. While I would love to be cooking up a feast for the all the families I be celebrating with, instead I will be bringing in this new year while doing my best to keep calm, cool and collected as I prep for next weekend’s Veg Food Fair.

Now if I did have time to cook, these are some of the goodies I might just be cooking up. Without further ado- my Rosh Hashana Recipe Round Up.

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By Guest Blogger Yafa Sakkejha
I made dinner for my housemates last night – who aren’t raw vegans – and they adored the recipes, inspired from the French countryside. I looked through Julia Child’s classic French cookbook and modified recipes – for example, by using healthy raw fats instead of butter (i.e. macadamia nuts), and eliminating the heating process. Et voila.

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The sun was shining. A little Spring warmth was in the air so I rode my bike over to my favoruite produce market and what did I see calling my name from out in front of the store? A big sign that read “Organic Strawberries. 2 boxes for $5″. I collected a few other things [...]

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Am I going to too far with the whole ‘Making Love In The Kitchen’ themed posts? You should see the creepy search terms people put into google that land them on my site. I can only imagine how disappointed someone must be when they type in “grandma making love videos” and come upon silly me [...]

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When this photo (not the one above) appeared with a post I had written for The Appetizer, I sent my an email to my editor inquiring about the photo and what the little green bits were (in my nutrition naivete, I thought they were peas). I was informed that in the tradition of Christmas Fruitcake, [...]

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I was on the phone with my friend Vanessa, yesterday as I was pulling a fresh batch of cookies from the oven. She asked if I had a new and improved cookie recipe. Of course I do.  I love cookies and so over the last couple of years, my cookie recipe has evolved. I have [...]

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I baked bread! Real, traditional sourdough bread. From scratch! It was a week long journey that had its highs and lows. There was the horrendous stench of fermentation, a small infestation of fruit flies, the peculiar bubbling and frothing, moving the bowl from the window sill to the counter depending on the weather… But after [...]

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Welcome to my shiny new blog. For those of you coming over from The Healthy Cookie, I hope you didn’t miss me too much over the Summer, but rest assured, I am back. For those of you who are new to me and what I do, allow me to explain. I have, what I consider, [...]

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