Here I sit, flaked out on the sofa, gradually digesting the delicious food I ate at Russell James’s one day raw dinner party course in Brighton today. Check out the photos on the left! And Russell’s website 🙂
We had a great green salad with two different dressings for lunch (my favourite was the one with pear & mint) while we were learning to make three different and delicious courses designed to impress any cautious non-raw fooders you might be entertaining.
The starter was a tomato & caramelised ontion tart on a balsamic crust with tahini sauce. This was delicious and we picked up ideas for all sorts of other fillings which I’m sure would also impress.
The main course was a rich courgette lasagne with nut cheese, walnut meat, tomato sauce, green pesto, fresh tomato and spinach. Wow. I ate mine because it was just so good. I think either of the two savoury dishes would have made a good main course with perhaps a salad or some melon as a starter – or perhaps some canapes …
Dessert, as always with raw food, was to die for: a vanilla chocolate torte with ginger cream and strawberry sauce. This was really fabulous. If you’ve read any of my other entries you will definitely already know that I have a serious chocolate issue. Yummm. So good!
And of course it was also good to spend the day with like minded raw people 🙂 As well as Russell and Fiona (who assisted him and washed millions of dishes!), I met Amy and France from Switzerland and Karen, Vicky & Becky from the UK. And that’s not to mention Maggie from Earthship Brighton, the eco venue where we learned all of this fabulous stuff.
Namaste 🙂
Beautiful! YUMMYUMMYUMMY! I can’t wait until I get to do stuff like this!
I AM SOOOOOOOO JEALOUS!! How fab is that?! The food LOOKS amazing I imagine it’s even better to EAT! And you got to rub elbows with the great Russell James. Very cool. 🙂
I.am.so.JEALOUS you got to meet and taste Russell James’s food. But very happy for you too! 😀
I know!!! Russell is a very nice man as well as a talented raw chef so we had a lovely day 🙂
Looks good. When is Russel going to have a restaurant? There is a new place in London and from what I see, Russel’s stuff looks much better than what they are doing. Love top see him open a place of his own. Although some raw chefs make stuff look really good when in fact many times it’s not, like NYC’s Pure Food and Wine, or Roxxan’s when they were around. I don’t think that is the case with Russel. I do tend to like a lasagna to look and taste like a traditional lasagna though like < HREF="http://www.rawchefdan.com/Pic library/entrees/Lasagna" REL="nofollow">mine<> Never the less, Keep up the good work
I agree with yardsnacker; I'm jealous, too. I want some.