Raw Food Lunch

Had an amazing day today teaching Reiki II. Two lovely people who I am lucky enough to have come across in my life and who have remained friends. They did not know each other but I felt very much that they would sit well together on their journey with reiki. They are both very intelligent and completely scatty at the same time. But this entry is not about reiki it is about raw food! I prepared a raw food lunch for us using some recipies from a course that I went on way back in March.

I went up to Bristol on the 10th March to a course designed and run by a lovely lady called Saskia who has a fantastic website www.rawfreedom.co.uk.
First I made a raw stir fry using the following ingredients (I'm sorry that I am not that good on remembering quantities as I tend to always prepare and cook with what I feel is right at the time. This has the effect of never eating the same meal twice which is sometimes upsetting when it is so nice but it makes you appreciate it all the more knowing you will never remember exactly how you made it.)

- pak choi
- baby corn cut in long strips
- spring onion cut into long thin strips
- a couple of large mushrooms
- yellow pepper cut into thin strips
- mange tout, halved

I made a dressing based on Saskia's recipe using some fresh ginger, garlic, lime juice and zest, fresh corriander, hemp oil and tamari - all wizzed up in my little hand blender.

I made a separate salad using watercress, baby spinach leaves and red cabbage.

I then put some lovely butternut squash, courgette, carrot, and raw beetroot through the spiralizer to make a fantastic multi coloured 'spaghetti'. This was dressed with Saskia's recipe for a pesto:-

1 handful of pine nuts
4 tablespoons of olive oil
1 handful of fresh basil
1 clove of garlic (optional)
Water and salt to taste

Wow! It looked beautiful and tasted wonderful and seemed to be enjoyed by the guests!

Next I made some 'pate' using sunflower seeds that I had soaked overnight (about 2 handfuls), also:-

4 pieces of sundried tomato
1 spring onion (white part only)
juice of half a lime
1 handful of fresh corriander
4 tablespoons of water

Wizzed up in the little hand blender and then spread into halves of mini peppers.

The whole lunch was well received and seconds taken so either a) my friends are so so lovely that they wanted to make me feel good about my 'weird' raw food or b) they really did like it! I'm thinking a) as I would hope that both of these people would feel confident enough in knowing me to be able to gulp and say "yuk, sorry I can't eat that".

I am thinking of experimenting with some raw food deserts next although they are in no way 'slimming', using nuts, bananas, dates, avocado, raw chocolate, so I had better be careful not to like them too much.