Rawfood event

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The whole family went to Arto to cook for 20 people. Actually I talked, instructed and made a small show.  Riitta and Jenni took pictures and videos.   I made two kinds of  Nori roles and one kind of Beet balls . The sauce was blended with sesame seeds, soy sauce and lemon.  For dessert we had both Brownie and Stollen.  The Stollen was a request of Arto. He wanted something x-mas like for dessert and Stollen is one of my favorites.  The original has a lot of butter and sugar in it but this was made of all natural stuff and without the oven. Try it out and comment on how succesful it was!

Stollen:

Almonds and dates are processed in a foodprocessor into a sticky mass.  By hand you add raisins, dried cranberries, dried strawberries and incaberries.  Form a loaf of it and put in the fridge for an hour.  Now it's easy to cut into thin slices. Bon appetit!

Martti gets instructions of how to form the Stollen

Arto and jis guests like the taste of the rawfood.  They were all surprised that something healthy can be so tasty!

I enjoed the opportunity to promote healthy and good food.  It seems like there I have an inner preacher or then I just enjoy entertain people.

 

Yammy!!

Nori roles

The filling of the other Nori role

Is this a bloody steak or were does the colour come from?

First we made the food and then we grabbed in

Pasta sauce

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Sometimes you don't have energy more than cooking pasta and serving it with some kind of sauce. This sauce goes well with pasta, rice or anything else.  It's full of red colour and taste.  In addition it contains protein from the cashews which will keep the hunger away for a while.  Its important to find out how much sellery and onion you need to add according to your taste.  The sundried tomates gives a depth to the taste.  Today I had to blend the sauce with our little hand blender because our Vita-Mix is used at the BrainGym at the Kaapelitehdas.  In spite of the less powerful tool the sauce was good. It just proved my theory that a good handblender is better than a less powerful blender of traditional design. 

Pasta sauce for three:

3 red belly peppers
3 sun dried tomatoes
1/4 red onion
1/2stalk of sellery
3 rkl olive oil
1/2 lemon, juiced
salt
2 dl cashew nuts

Blend everything except the onion and sellery and check the taste with any herb you prefer.  Chop the onion and sellery as fine as possible and add to the sauce.Serve with pasta.
Bon appetit!

Bloody Mary drink

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The Coway juicers strong side is juicing soft stuff.  Check out the different juicers! I tried to make a non alcoholic drink full of vitality but with a nice sting.  The natural choice was bloody Mary because it's already so close to the goal.  Tha salt was substituted by a sellery stalk.  Just as much as needed to get a very slight touch of the taste. A small touch of lemon could (perhaps) substitute the booze. The role of pepper anf the Tabasco was played by fresh chili.  Be careful with this!  What was a nice sting to me was a total fire in Riitta's mouth.  It took a lot of water before she could talk to me again.

Bloody Mary:

Tomatoes
a stalk of sellery
lemon
fresh chili

Juice everything and check the taste.  Juice more of any ingredient you feel is lacking.
Bon appetit!

Cranberry chutney

Ingredients

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Chutney is basicly a combination of hot, sweet and sour. You can make it from anything.  Indian mango chutney is a well known example. Usually chutney is cooked with vinegar and a lot of sugar. It's not the only option!
When I started to build this chutney I balanced apple with red onion. You chop them very well.  Add the hot chili and ginger. Th sweetness you get from dates and the sourness from lemon juice.  It's important to chop everything as fine as your knife skills permit.  Add the cranberries and crush them lightly. Add salt to get the flavours going and get a little roundness from olive oil.

Serve it with anything you wish.
Bon appetit!


Today I was at the Kaapelitehdas again together with Riitta and Jenni. Come and check out our smoothies! We will be there for a couple of more days.

The whole family

Snacks

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A snack should be easily made and easily transported.  What do you think about the falaffels in the picture?  Are these easy to carry with you? You bet they are, and it took only 10 minutes to make snacks for the whole family.  The ingredients were seeds and veggies, simply food. And no crisps or cookies needed!

Snacks for four:
4 carrots
2 dl pumpkin seeds
2 rkl ground flaxseeds
1 clove of garlic
1 tsp salt
2 tbl olive oil
1 tbl lemon juice
Grind the seeds and the garlic in a blender.  Chop the carrots in a foodprocessor. Add the ground seeds, salt, lemon juice and olive oil on the carrots and process until a sticky mass.  Form the mass as you please and put the falaffels in a small box, one for each.
Bon appetit!

Rye bread

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I have been juicing a lot of lingonberries.  As a result there is a lot lingonberry pulp left over. The pulp is really dry, it's just pure lingonberry fibers. In the fridge I found a lot of sprouted  rye.  Obviously the only sane thing to do was to make a bread out of it all!  The bread is easily digestible and has a lot of nutrients left because the rye has been sprouted and the bread has been dried instead of heated in the oven.

Red ryebread:
1 part sprouted rye
1 part pulp from lingonberries or cranberries
1 dl ground flaxseed per liter of rye
(keeps the structure together)
4 tbl olivoil per liter rye
salt according to taste

Spread the thick porridge in an even layer

Put everything in a foodprocessor and run it untill it sticks together like a thick porridge.  There still has to be whole grains left.  Spread it evenly a couple of millimeters thick layer on a teflex sheet. Dry it in 41 degrees for about 4 hours.  Flip it.  If it still sticks to the teflex keep on drying untill you can take of the sheet. After flipping it keep drying it untill you are happy with the degree of moisture in the bread.
Bon appetit!

Green smoothie

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Next week we will make smoothies at Reidar Wasenius' Brain Gym at the Kaapelitehdas.  One of the smoothies is revealed right here.  It is so green that it borders to a political statement.  But it's just a smoothie.  Cucumberjuice is strongly alcalising, broccoli cures the whole world, spiruliina is the number one of detox and pumpkin seeds should be on every 50+ male diet. Avocado contains the best fat ever, you cannot live without it






Green smoothie:

Juice:
1 apple
1 big cucumber
1stalk sellery
piece of broccoli
half a lemon
Blend this juice with a handful of pumpkin seeds, half an avocado and a teespoon of spirulina.
Bon appetit!