Rawsome Living Foods - Jim Maurice, Raw Food Chef on Salt Spring Island, BC

Rawsome Living Foods, Salt Spring Island, BC

“Our mission is to be inclusive, non-judgmental and welcoming; ready to engage
anyone interested in Living Food to strive for a more healthy lifestyle. The struggle
with health concerns can be daunting. Our goal is to convince anyone struggling with
health opportunities to be passionately patient with yourself.”

Rawsome Newsletter - January 2012

“To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.” William Londen

Happy New Year Dear Friends,

Once more I am reminded of how truly fortunate I am.

It seems that each January 1st, we make great efforts to change those things that we know are not beneficial for growth and good health. Some years we are more successful than others. Perhaps this is the year to look at your diet and decide what is taking you forward and what is keeping you from being the truly vibrant person you could be. Is this the year you will make the shift from traditional processed foods to vibrant living foods?

I am not a nutritionist or medical practitioner. I am chef and a raw foodist. I know from my own and the personal experience of many people, eating affects our health. We are what we eat. Other important keys are lots of pure water, sleep, rest, exercise, laughter, and love.

A thought from Rawsome Coaching:

Subscribe to the Rawsome Coaching Blog at: www.rawsomecoaching.ca or contact Chris at chrisgay@shaw.ca for coaching.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Do you find you are standing still? Are you looking for that one thing to propel you forward in life? Are you questioning if this is all there is?

The New Year is a perfect time to honour what’s calling to you from your heart. Rawsome Lifestyle Coaching has a number of coaching packages. The emphasis is on making a transition to a raw food lifestyle. However, there is so much more than just changing the foods you eat.

Most importantly Rawsome Lifestyle Coaching helps you acknowledge what is calling by first looking at your Wheel of Life. From there, you can explore what will move you forward towards a vision you can call your own.

To learn more and to sign up for my weekly blog go to www.rawsomecoaching.ca

Upcoming Workshops and Events to post on your calendar:

For more details visit our events page.

Coming in January – HURRY AND BOOK NOW!

Cleaning House Workshop – Sunday January 8, 2012 – 1-4:30 p.m.

Learn about sprouting, fermentation, dehydration techniques and the key to light and lively living. $55 + $6.60 (HST) = $61.60/person.

RESERVATION AND PAYMENT REQUIRED IN ADVANCE. Reserveyour space now by contacting rawsome@shaw.ca or by phoning 250-537-2048.

Rawsome Living Food Retreat Packages - An immersion course into a raw plant-based diet and lifestyle.

Experience a day and a half raw educational retreat with all meals included. You will learn about shopping, equipment, growing and juicing sprouts and wheatgrass, making crackers and appetizers, planning and making meals, sampling a daily raw routine and enjoying the natural environment of Salt Spring Island.

$350 (+ $42 HST) for one person OR $500 (+ $60 HST) for two people - One night accommodation and all meals and education included. For more information contact Jim or Chris at rawsome@shaw.ca or by phoning 250- 537-2048.

Special Celebrations in the Rawsome Kitchen

Looking to have a unique dinner for two, a party for 12, or an intimate brunch or dinner for 6? Rawsome Living Foods will cater a gourmet living foods meal for you. Contact Jim or Chris for more information at rawsome@shaw.ca or by phoning 250-537-2048.

Rawsome Kitchen Equipment

We still have a selection of raw food prep equipment to bring in the New Year: Vita-mixes, Excalibur dehydrators, and Lexen juicers. For more information contact Jim or Chris at rawsome@shaw.ca or by phoning 250- 537-2048.

Rawsome Kitchen Treats

Place orders for granola, crackers, bagels, cream cheese, cheesecakes, shortbread cookies, and raw-colates. For more information and price list contact Jim or Chris at rawsome@shaw.ca or by phoning 250-537-2048.

Rawsome Gift Certificates

Looking to treat someone with a Rawsome dinner for two, a workshop, or a Rawsome Retreat or Spa Package – you’ve come to the right place. For more information and price list contact Jim or Chris at rawsome@shaw.ca or by phoning 250-537-2048.

Coming in February and March –

Rawsome Living Foods will be taking a short break

We are looking forward to a visit to Thailand to sample Raw Thai cuisine and explore a few raw retreats/cleansing facilities. In March, Jim will be in Tokyo teaching Raw Food Preparation, desserts and pastries to raw food chefs and educators.

Reservations Required – rawsome@shaw.ca or 250-537-2048

FOR SALE:

Our close friend and colleague – Brenda Hinton – Raw Food Chef and Instructor at Living Lights Institute, is currently selling these wonderful nut milk bags. If you are interested in purchasing your own, please go to her link. Rawsome Living Foods will be getting some in stock in the near future. But for now, please support this very worthwhile cause and in the process get access to some ‘skookum’ nut milk bags from Bali. Thanks Brenda for all you do! http://nutmilkbag.rawsomecreations.com/more-than-a-nut-milk-bag.php

Transition Tips:

Going Raw

“Raw” simply means uncooked, or unheated. Raw food is food that is unprocessed, unrefined, and untreated with heat. Technically, "living food" is a better description than "raw", mainly because raw suggests food grown wild in nature, whereas "living food" suggests food that is still enzymatically active - and that's what the "living food" diet is about - eating foods that are alive, where the enzymes, along with vitamins and phytochemicals are retained in abundance by not cooking the food.

Living Food Facts:

Plant Based. A diet of whole ripe raw organic fruits and vegetables, sprouted nuts, seeds, and grains will increase your chance of achieving optimum health.
One of the most important keys to good health is good digestion.
The human body requires enzymes to digest food. Nature has provided every food with exactly the perfect mix of enzymes to "digest" or break it down completely. For example, when fruits ripen, the enzymes change starches into simple sugars, which is why unripe fruit isn’t as sweet.
Sprouted nuts, seeds, and grains are living foods. When we soak nuts and seeds we break down the enzyme inhibitors to activate the enzymes, improve digestion and increase our ability to assimilate nutrients.
Whole raw foods are rich in phytonutrients and micronutrients that give foods their colour. Research suggests that phytonutrients can help reduce your risk of heart disease, strokes, certain cancers, and type II diabetes, slow the aging process, and preserve eyesight and brain function.
Organically grown living foods provide the highest quality of usable nutrition. They naturally support digestive and immune system functions, and allow the body to be more alkaline - another key factor in building good health.
The Standard American Diet (SAD) of meat, bread, dairy, processed and cooked foods, caffeine, and alcohol creates an acid state in the body and can lead to a variety of health concerns. The human body requires a predominately alkaline state to absorb nutrients and oxygen efficiently and to have the ability to expel toxins.

Simple Steps to Adding Raw Foods to Your Diet:

If you can put most or all of these steps into practise, you will be amazed at the difference.

Start the day with 16 oz of pure water. And drink lots of pure water between meals.
Try to start each day with a green or fresh fruit smoothie for breakfast instead of your usual toast, cereal or coffee. Eat or drink as much as you want of the raw stuff but keep it clean. What you eat first sets you up for the day - so make sure you step out on high-energy revitalising foods.
Begin lunches and dinners with a salad, perhaps including an avocado. Alternatively, have a raw soup as a starter. If you can make at least half of your plate consist of fresh living foods, such as, salads, nuts, seeds, sprouted seeds, sprouted beans you'll be doing really well and you will start to feel the difference within a matter of days.
Make sure that the raw foods you choose are mostly dark leafy green vegetables and fruits, as these are the most nutritious and the highest in water content. Handfuls of nuts just don't work the same - they're very dense and fatty, but in small amounts are very good for you.
For snacks, eat raw vegetable sticks, and/or green juices.

Recipe of the month:

Cilantro Miso Soup

Cilantro Miso Soup

Cilantro has properties to aid in removal of heavy metals; i.e., mercury

1 bunch of cilantro
3 cloves of garlic (garlic is a natural antibiotic)
1/8 or more cayenne pepper
3 tablespoons of chickpea miso (miso is full of friendly organisms for healthy digestion)
3 cups of warmed water--preferably filtered water

Put all above ingredients in Vitamix (or good kitchen blender) and blend. If you want the soup to be a bit warmer, let it blend for up to 3 minutes or so.

Garnish with:

Coconut, flaked or shredded
Red pepper flakes
Saffron
1 tablespoon of coconut oil (antiviral, fungal and bacterial)
Chopped green onion
Red pepper and tomatoes

Doctor Gabriel Cousins explains the “whys of soups” in his book, Conscious Eating:
"Soups play an interesting and important role in our live-food cuisine. In the Conscious Eating Kitchen, soups are usually the entrée for the evening meal. This is important because the digestive powers decrease in the evening. Blended foods make a wonderful light meal which is easier to digest.”

“The content found on these pages are the experiences of one individual
and are not to be construed as a substitute for professional medical advice.”

“There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.”- Ruth Stout

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet.
I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.” - Groucho Marx

“It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.” -Vernon Howard

“I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.” ~Darren Aronofsky

“Learning is finding out what you already know.
Doing is demonstrating that you know it.
Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you.
You are all learners, doers, teachers “. - Richard Bach

Strawberry Cheesecake from the Rawsome Kitchen Takeout

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. –Buddha

The circumstances of our lives have as much power as we choose to give them. - David McNally

Haiku 俳句
spring has come now
the frogs emerge from the pond
calling in the night

春到来
池の蛙は
夜に鳴き

There are two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy.
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
Dalai Lama

Kumi at 6 months

I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. - Dalai Lama

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.”- Buddha

It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change.
If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine.
Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

- Vernon Howar

"Those who think they have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness."
Edward Stanley (1826-1893) from The Conduct of Life

Those who think they have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness."  
Edward Stanley (1826-1893) from The Conduct of Life

Raw Sauerkraut

“If at first you don't succeed, Try, try again; Then your courage should appear;
For, if you will persevere, You will conquer; never fear; Try, try again.” -McGuffey's Second Reader

“A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent,
is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.” ~Hazrat Inayat Khan~

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet. - Rebecca H. Davis

Download the printable version of the April 2010 Newsletter here.

Poutine
karlamassini.blogspot.com

La vérité n'existe pas. Et si elle existait, elle serait fausse.”

Download the printable version of the March 2010 Newsletter here.

http://ecotime.blogspot.com

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."
Brian O'Driscoll, Irish Rugby Coach

Download the printable version of the February 2010 Newsletter here.

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them.
Hold them in your mind until they become second nature. - Les Brown

Download the printable version of the January 2010 Newsletter here.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan

Download the printable version of the December 2009 Newsletter here.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Download the printable version of the November 2009 Newsletter here.

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting
and autumn a mosaic of them all. ~ Stanley Horowitz

Download the printable version of the October 2009 Newsletter here.

"The way we farm now is destructive of the soil, the environment and us.”
- Doug Gurian-Sherman, Senior Scientist - Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Download the printable version of the September 2009 Newsletter here.

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth
as much as the evolution of a vegetarian diet." - Albert Einstein

Download the printable version of the August 2009 Newsletter here.

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” -Lao Tzu

Download the printable version of the July 2009 Newsletter here.

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” - Confucius

Contents:

July Workshops

Kitchen Tips - Raw Food Conversion Chart

Vitamix Affiliate Program

Recipe of the month - Granola

Download the printable version of the June 2009 Newsletter here.

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.”
- Helen Keller

Contents:

Raw food for purchase

Brunch on Salt Spring workshop

Products/Kitchen Aids

Benefits and Side Effects of a Raw Food Diet

Vitamix Blenders

Kitchen Tips

Recipe of the month -Orange Cranberry Cookies

Download the printable version of the May 2009 Newsletter here.

Contents:

Raw in Japan

Photo links to Japan

Vitamix Affliate Program

Kitchen Tips - Types of Kitchen Knives

Workshops

Recipe of the Month - Vegetable Teriyaki

Download the printable version of the April Newsletter here.

Contents:

How to do Hanami

Our plans for April

April Workshops and Demos

Research/News

Overview of Raw Food Preparation Methods

Recipe of the Month #1 - Indian Vegetable Curry

Recipe of the Month #2 - Hot Chocolate Brownies

Download the printable version of the March Newsletter here.

Contents:

Our Trip to Japan

March Workshops

Juice Fasting

Research/Links of Interest

Recipe of the Month - Chocolate Mousse

Download the printable version of the February Newsletter here.

Strawberry Shortcake - Raw Food Recipe

Contents:

Making the move to Raw - Setting up your kitchen

Culinary News - Sprouts are alive!

February Workshops

Recipe of the Month - Malini’s Pesto Pizza

Download the printable version of the January 2009 Newsletter here.

Contents:

Going Raw

Living Food Facts

Simple Steps to Adding Raw Foods to Your Diet

Research/Links of Interest

Recipe of the Month - Cilantro Miso Soup

Download the printable version of the December newsletter here.

Contents:

Website launch

Going Raw in a Cold Climate

Research/Links of Interest

Recipe of the Month - Chili San Carne

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