In one week, I have made beautiful KIM CHEE, gorgeous raviolis out of beets, layers of vegetable lasagna, pesto out of pistachios, Maple Maca Vanilla Pecan ice cream, hand rolls, sushi rolls, and the most amazing 
Chipotle Cheese Kale chips......ALL in the FIRST WEEK!!!
Chipotle Cheese Kale chips......ALL in the FIRST WEEK!!!I spend all day every day working with the most amazing ingredients- simple, whole foods from the earth......how could I not be in love or inspired?
Thus far, my experience has solidified what I know I know about food, preparing it, putting flavors together...but it has humbled me all over again in knife skills and the wonderfully
meditative aspect that comes when connecting with a task at hand...ONE task at hand...supreming an orange.... cutting 1/4 x 1/4 x 2.5 batonets, or 1/16 x 1/16 x 1/16 fine brunois....
I LOVE THIS SHIT......It is also lovely to know human beings can connect on so many levels and that food, for me, is indisputably one of my most favoritest of ways. I have met and share a classroom with 6 other fascinating individuals- all of whom on the first day I was like..."Who am I going to hang out with?" and in the course of one week, I would love to hang out with all of them. Beth, Tamara, Fran, Lia, Monica, and Sean. Chef Haylee is our resource and our guide through this fantastic journey and I want to know all that she knows! 
(I secretly want her job...but I think it would have to be on the east coast....). I am 5 days in and the most RAW I have ever been and my plan is to commit to being RAW for the time I am here. What is more amazing is that being here and being RAW, I realize I LOVE my beans, my bloomed brown rice and other favorite cooked foods and I will no doubt have them again- however, what has become abundantly clear is that my true commitment is to forever and ever, and from this day 
forward- EAT MORE RAW, more of the time, all of the time-and to share the wealth of health that comes from doing so- without hang ups, without guilt or expectations of what it is "suppose" to look like or what my percentage of RAW foods is.....For me RAW connects me to the planet and all of it's corners and creatures in a way and more than anything I have ever experienced, like an internal knowing that has been awakened- it connects me to the nourishment that is food, life, sustainability and sustenance.
Day one I was so excited about EVERYTHING that I put in my mouth...one of the first things we made was a macadamia nut ricotta cheese for our lasagna.... I couldn't help but bounce and bob around amidst all of my new comrades and out slipped a "FRICKEN YUM".....Sean quickly caught it and asked "why do you say FRICKEN?" I paused and sheepishly looked at him and I explained that there was just no other way to put it.
So my message? EAT MORE RAW.....My Mission?
Thus far, my experience has solidified what I know I know about food, preparing it, putting flavors together...but it has humbled me all over again in knife skills and the wonderfully
meditative aspect that comes when connecting with a task at hand...ONE task at hand...supreming an orange.... cutting 1/4 x 1/4 x 2.5 batonets, or 1/16 x 1/16 x 1/16 fine brunois....
I LOVE THIS SHIT......It is also lovely to know human beings can connect on so many levels and that food, for me, is indisputably one of my most favoritest of ways. I have met and share a classroom with 6 other fascinating individuals- all of whom on the first day I was like..."Who am I going to hang out with?" and in the course of one week, I would love to hang out with all of them. Beth, Tamara, Fran, Lia, Monica, and Sean. Chef Haylee is our resource and our guide through this fantastic journey and I want to know all that she knows! 
(I secretly want her job...but I think it would have to be on the east coast....). I am 5 days in and the most RAW I have ever been and my plan is to commit to being RAW for the time I am here. What is more amazing is that being here and being RAW, I realize I LOVE my beans, my bloomed brown rice and other favorite cooked foods and I will no doubt have them again- however, what has become abundantly clear is that my true commitment is to forever and ever, and from this day 
forward- EAT MORE RAW, more of the time, all of the time-and to share the wealth of health that comes from doing so- without hang ups, without guilt or expectations of what it is "suppose" to look like or what my percentage of RAW foods is.....For me RAW connects me to the planet and all of it's corners and creatures in a way and more than anything I have ever experienced, like an internal knowing that has been awakened- it connects me to the nourishment that is food, life, sustainability and sustenance.Day one I was so excited about EVERYTHING that I put in my mouth...one of the first things we made was a macadamia nut ricotta cheese for our lasagna.... I couldn't help but bounce and bob around amidst all of my new comrades and out slipped a "FRICKEN YUM".....Sean quickly caught it and asked "why do you say FRICKEN?" I paused and sheepishly looked at him and I explained that there was just no other way to put it.
So my message? EAT MORE RAW.....My Mission?
To eat more raw organic foods, to inspire my community, to be BADASS, to be kind to others and all living things, to take care of the Planet, to shop local, to empower every individual through inspired action- so that they can be a source of empowered inspiration, to lead the change, be the change and share the change, infusing my community and the Planet with HUMANITY. RAWK ON.
FRICKEN YUM, LOVE, Ellen
FRICKEN YUM, LOVE, Ellen
Absolutely LOVELY, Ellen...Cheers...xo
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