Pea Salad

Today I went to the farmer’s market and got some peas. Fresh peas are wonderful to eat raw, but they have to be really really fresh, like eaten the same (or next day) they were harvested. That’s when they taste best, because like corn, when they are cut  they start converting their natural sugars to starch [...]

High on Raw

The past few days I have been making a lot of raw food. I got 3 new raw cookbooks, Living Raw Food by Sarma Melngailis, Everyday Raw and Entertaining in the Raw by  Matthew Kenney. All these books are amazing and extremely inspiring. As I was drooling over the pictures I decided to get my hands [...]

Chocolate Sandwich Creme Uncookies!

“When life gives you almond pulp…make cookies!”

Cookies : everyone loves them! As much as I like eating cookies, I don’t like making them. Call me crazy but making cookies is definitely not my forte, and I figured out why! It’s my fear of using fat and sugar! And everybody knows you can’t have a fat-free sugar-free [...]