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Rawfood Central Class Schedule |
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2010 Winter Class Schedule
All of the classes given with Rawfood Central include: - instruction handouts - recipes - ingredients for the class - hands on practice - flavor balancing experiences - proper handling and instruction with kitchen tools and machines - take home your creations to share what you've made!
Beginning Series I
a. Introduction to Raw Foods: Discuss the healing benefits and science of organic, vegan, alkaline, living foods: vital energy, weight loss, reduction of inflammation (arthritis, allergies, injuries...). Visit a well-stocked kitchen; examine tools and machines selected for effective and efficient creation of this radiant cuisine. Participate in Almond Milk Chai demonstration, share a snack and set personal learning objectives. b. Soaking & Sprouting: View sprouted seeds and nuts at various stages of growth: soaking, germinating, sprouted. Understand the necessity and benefits of releasing the life force of protein, nutrient fuel, and flavor dense foods for use in salads, pates, crackers & breads, green drinks. Design your kitchen space to be an efficient indoor garden for inexpensive yet hugely powerful ingredients. Eat sprout snacks and join in discussion of your particular needs and interests.
c. Introduction to Detoxing: Come learn the eye opening benefits of healing & detoxifying cleanses. Numerous optional methods presented will surely inspire action.
Culinary Skills Series II
a. Breakfast & Smoothies: Overview of alkaline food and super foods. Multiple demonstrations of recipes: oat groat porridge, energetically satisfying green drinks, creamy and luscious fruit smoothies. More recipes than demonstrations. Sample all the foods to share a delicious meal together with other students. Evaluate the experience, form support groups for changing eating habits. b. Salads & Dressing: Empowerment! The Coup de Gras of classes. The heart of the Living/ Rawfoods diet: Salads. Experiment with multiple tools and machines to make meal preparation beautiful, fun, and delicious. Practice many recipes: Caesar Salad, Creamy Spicy Thai, Herb Tabouli, coconut mayo, and Kathryn's famous Massaged Kale Salad. Various options (nearly infinite) for original salad dressings that make your personal taste buds cheer in ecstasy! Change your view of "Just a salad, please" FOREVER! Bring your take home containers for the ample family "leftovers"!
c. Warming Soups & Pates: Think you’ll miss Warm Food? Fear you won't get enough protein or you'll still be hungry on a vegan living foods diet. Not-Necessarily-So! Open yourself to hear the opposite. Good fats. Healthy, nutrient dense fats are satisfying and filling. A little goes a long way with crackers or salad. Put them on romaine and have a “handwich”. Various ingredients reviewed, multiple recipe demos: Mock Tuna, Pecan Pate, Sun dried Tomato Pate, Pesto, and others. Enjoy a feast afterward with enough to take home to convert new “raw food enthusiasts” at home.
d. Desserts: Hardly needs description. Learn to make healthier amazing alkaline desserts: Vegan, no wheat or cane sugar. Yes, transitional nut fats are satisfying. Oh yeh! Blue Ribbon Pumpkin Pie, Fruit Cheesecakes, Cobblers, Cacao Mousse, Apple Pie and Ice Cream (in season) and other treats selected by participants. You can have you cake and eat it too!!!
Specialty Classes Series IIIa. Dehydrating Foods: What fun! You like to work with your hands? You love the smell of things baking in the oven? Do it raw! Learn to use an Excalibur Dehydrator. We have several. Hands on practice making: Flax Crackers, Granola, Rye Bread, Almond Bread, Cacao or Cinnamon Biscotti: two half days for the full experience of seeing the full drying process and harvesting techniques. Short class suggests picking up of food products at your next class. Dehydrators may be available for purchase.
b. Pizza and Pastas: Delicious and Satisfying! Brought the house down at our October Potluck! Make crusts, pesto, marinara, spicy pizza sauce, and nut cheese for large and mini pizzas. Use the Spiroli to make vegetable pastas. Feast together and take some home to share.ur-own-health! Reward yourself for your remarkable transformation into a sustainable Conscious Eater.
c. Intro to Raw Chocolate: Oh my, so Gooood! Raw Cacao nibs and/or powder, cacao and coconut butters. Creamy, luscious texture delicately flavored with: orange/ raisin, ginger, nuts, fruit, mint, cayenne... Infinite variations as well as shapes and molds for beautiful confections. Watch for special offers for large group "collaboratories" to make chocolates together. d. Fermentation
e. Detoxing: Come learn the eye
opening benefits of healing & detoxifying cleanses. Numerous
optional methods presented will surely inspire action.
Please contact us if you are ready and interested in one or more of these classes! New dates will be shared here or in RFC Newsletter.
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