“Simple is the best” was what I was thinking when I returned to Tokyo after five weeks of holidays in Singapore and Sri Lanka.
While it was fairly easy to remain high raw in Singapore as I had access to a blender and fresh produce most times. But I had to go 80-90 per cent [...]
Since I went to Café Gratitude, I couldn’t not have bought their raw desserts book, Sweet Gratitude. The first recipe I tried was the Mint Chip Cheesecake.
I adjusted the recipe because I didn’t have a few ingredients but it turned out to be a rich minty chocolatey raw cake that the non-raw boyfriend enjoyed immensely.
Crust:
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Lucky me: I got to eat at not one, but two, very famous raw restaurants in the US. NYC’s Pure was fabulous, so I had pretty high expectations for Café Gratitude in San Francisco.
I knew that Café Gratitude was not fine dining but I heard pretty awesome reviews about their food.
The non-raw boyfriend actually [...]
“Is this the big one, babe?” the non-raw boyfriend teased. Despite all his bravado about how he cannot think without meat, he was the one who nudged me to try Pure Food & Wine.
I mean, I definitely wanted to go but none of my friends were keen because it was pricey or they just [...]
When I made this, I was in such a rush — I was lucky to have sundried tomato pesto pate and marinated vegetables sitting in the fridge when I made this.
Marinated vegetables recipe:
1 broccoli, florets only
1 tomato, diced
1/2 red capsicum, diced
1/4 large white onion
Juice of one lemon
Sea salt to taste
2 tbs extra virgin olive oil
Let [...]
It is incredible how the universe works her mysterious ways. Would you believe that the person who inspired me to go raw was actually at Quintessence at the same time as me?
I’d actually heard of the raw food diet two years ago but I read very dry articles on it and filed it into the [...]
