Yesterday, me and Kala prepared a gourmet raw food feast for 20 people..

The menu was:
Living Lasagna
Cabbage Salad
Marinated Eggplant
Hummus and Flax Crackers
Carrot Cake

It was fantastic! The food all came out amazingly delicious and I’m impressed with both of our gourmet cuisine skills. But it was all a LOT of work! In fact it took us pretty much the entire day. The big time use was of course the lasagna which had 6 different layers all prepared separately: tomato sauce, nut cheese, nut meat, pesto, marinated greens and sliced zucchini.

I remember how important dishes like this were when I first started on the raw trip (almost a year now!). They were a great transition food and you can see many of our recipes in the recipes category….now my diet is so much simpler….a large superfood smoothie in the morning (raw cacao, maca, bee pollen, mesquite, berries and much more!)..then snack through the day mostly on whole foods: apples, oranges, hemp seeds, olives, coconut butter…sometimes a salad…only very occasionally do we make fancy food….

I’m happy to be so satisfied on such a simple diet..it makes my life so much easier! Also I noticed just how nut-heavy our meal yesterday was. I cannot imagine eating that many nuts regularly again. I usually make hemp seed milk in the morning for my smoothie instead of almond milk…I find seeds much easier to digest..now I have nuts only occasionally and in smaller quantities.

But it was quite gratifying to make such an amazing feast that the all of the “cooked fooders” there were blown away by the quality of it..Some of them are going to come to our Body Temple event too. Yay!