Naked

Just around the corner from our office headquarters I happened upon a restaurant serving fresh, vegetarian salads, sandwiches, and juices. Great variety of offerings for those in Paris looking for whole grains, veggies and fruit for lunch. And the interior is unique for Paris, spacious and light colored wood. If you are on Champs-Elysées or around Saint-Philippe-du-Roule, I recommend you stop by.


Naked
40 Rue de Colisée
75008 Paris

I had a salad with fresh herbs topped with sunflower and pumpkin seeds, and pineapple for dessert.

Une gousse de vanille bourbon

My search for raw vanilla extract lead me to a package of 2 vanilla pods. They are organic, from La Patelière, and I bought them at Auchan. A most amazing discovery! I grated a bit of the pod into the almond cream last night, and the deliciously sweet heavenly aroma is still floating in my kitchen. These are absolutely divine. If you have never prepared food with vanilla in its raw form, I highly recommend it. The package directions state you can also dunk the pod in the food you are preparing and the aroma will mix with the ingredients. Quel bonheur!

Day 2

To rid myself of any white sugar temptation, I brought the lovely organic madeleines I had at home to work today and distributed them around the office. Hope the free sugar does not result in any bad kharma. They were organic, bio as we say here in France.


Day 2 of the 30 Day Raw Extravaganza went off without a hitch. Banana and Kusmi tea for breakfast, asparagus with mock salmon paté and a red cabbage-mesclun-pignoli salad for lunch. Pear for a mid-afternoon snack.


Dinner was delicious - zucchini angel hair pasta with marinara sauce. The two pictures on the left are the zucchini angel hair pre-sauce, and with the deliciously chunky sauce.

Dessert was strawberries with almond cream. Yum!

Off to upload Episode 3 commentary to Facebook - Gossip Girl Commentary: XOXO by T & S If you watch Gossip Girl, check out the group!

À demain!

Day 1

Today was a great kick-start to the 30 day challenge/feast. As I was working from home, it was a bit easier too as my kitchen is stocked with fresh fruits and veggies, sprouted quinoa, fresh herbs, and soaked nuts and seeds.

Before breakfast I hydrated with water touched with a drop of food-grade Hydrogen Peroxide. Yes, it's healthy (diluted!), and it adds free radicals to your blood which is a good thing! Adding extra oxygen helps stabilize all those free bad radicals in your body. And you will notice the change, such as clear eyes and skin. A touch of oxygen is especially great for urban dwellers like moi-même.

Breakfast was a green juice: 2 turnips, 1 cucumber, 3 carrots, 1 tomato, knob of garlic. I always fill a shot glass with the fresh juice and mix it with spirulina. I call it the Good Morning! blue green energy shot.

Mid-morning snack of banana.

Lunch was a maki roll of mock salmon paté wrapped in nori, and a pear-strawberry-mesclun salad. I had the mock salmon paté already prepared, so it took 5 minutes to whip up. Recipe for the paté is from Jennifer Cornbleet's book: Raw Food Made Easy for 1 or 2 People Great book! Simple, easy recipes that don't require a dehydrator or fancy (expensive) ingredients.

Mid-afternoon snack of avocado boat (1/2 an avocado) overspilling with tomato-cilantro-redeyechili salsa. Yea, it was spicy. And a handful of dates to satiate my sweet tooth.

Dinner is going to be zucchini soup; also a recipe from the above lauded book. Deelish!

See you on Day 2, and until then, be sure to do something to celebrate your health.

Prologue

Hi! Today is Day 1 of my embarkment upon the 30-Day Raw Challenge. Errr, let's cross out Challenge, and replace it with... Feast! Yes, the 30-Day Raw Feast! Why look at the next 30 days as a challenge?

Rawfoodtalk.com is a great discussion board for all interested in a vegan raw lifestyle, and I would not be able to undertake this journey without the support of this site, so thank you Alissa Cohen!

Now that props have been given, onto the good stuff. I will be recording my raw food journey here, so happy that you want to follow along. Feel free to join me on the raw journey!