An 8-Course Raw Vegan Degustation Menu

Right now I feel like the luckiest girl alive! As I sat at work beginning this post munching on my delicious kale, tomato, buckwheat, dulse and mung bean salad, I read that I've been nominated for the One Lovely Blog Award at http://rawlivingandlearning.blogspot.com/ !! Wow!

Now in the darkness of the evening at home, I've made myself slightly ill having eaten too much chocolate ganache tart and lime chantilly left over from the weekend, I sit here only skimming the surface of the excitement within me that has come about from one of the best weekends ever!


I spent the weekend helping my girl Maya out, and assisting Omid Jaffari on his Sydney Botanical Cuisine Tour -

"Botanical Cuisine is a simplified approach to life and food that is focused on all things artistic and heirloom, where organic, seasonal produce is enough to please the eyes and the palate"

We had set up in quite the idylic setting really - harbour views from an absolutely stunning home in Cremorne. We set up white table cloths. Sparkling waters with lime wedges. And individual roses on each place setting - yes I did stop to smell them this time :)

Saturday morning we were busy little bees getting ready for an 8-course raw vegan degustation menu complete with recipes, hints and tips, tricks of the trade, questions, tastings, chatter and more. With a full house of 24 guests we began and over 4 hours worked our way through...

- Vanilla Sky Smoothie
- Raspberry soup infused with lemon thyme and vanilla, with strawberry gelato
- Shaved daikon radish marinated in orange blossom honey and cinnamon with shiitake mushrooms, curly sprouts and lavandula
- Pea, mint and dill soup
- Coconut, ginger and lime sorbet
- Eggplant and macadamia tart with olive tapenade and sunblushed tomato
- Chocolate ganache tart with lime chantilly
- Lemon granita infused with lemon honey, drizzled with cinnamon syrup



Shaved daikon radish marinated in orange blossom honey and cinnamon with shiitake mushrooms, curly sprouts and lavandula

Happy hungry ladies before their Pea, mint and dill soup

A mighty rich Chocolate ganache tart ... was served with lime chantilly (life saver - so deliciously rich)

Lemon granita infused with lemon honey, drizzled with cinnamon syrup. Perfect afternoon refresher and palate cleanser after the yummy choccie

Eggplant and macadamia tart with olive tapenade and sunblushed tomato

Maya, Oliver and I were running around making sure everything ran smoothly - which I am very pleased to say it all did. Everyone that came along enjoyed themselves and the company had, ate lots, asked plenty of questions, learnt new techniques and recipes, enjoyed a lazy Saturday afternoon by the pool, and went away with a little more inspiration for their kitchen fun at home.

I was buzzing with energy when we finished up for the day! I couldn't keep it in! I drove home in the afternoon sun, windows down, music up loud, and went for a solid bush run when I got there. I felt amazing!!

Cleaned up the system with a big kale salad, then chilled out with some Star Wars :)

Before we woke up to do it all again on Sunday - only better.

Sunday was DESSERT DAY!

So stay tuned...