Dalia's Salad

I eat this salad almost everyday of my life and I love it so much that it seems like I could not stop eating it one day...Jaja it's just a feeling.

Based of mixed greens with herbs such as italian parsley, cilantro, dill, basil, chives. The I start layering it with different veggies and fruits. My favorites: pickling or japanese cucumbers, sprouts, red onions, cherrie or heirloom tomatoes, sunflower or daikon sprouts, my favorite pitted black olives from Adams Ranch, avocado, dulse and currants. When available I also use some edible flowers. For dressing I use a freshly made Italian Vinagrette....

The best dish ever

The Mediterranean Platter

From top clockwise:

Morrocan Style Arugula and Carrots Salad

Cream and Vegetables Sunny Salad

Sesame and Zuchinni Hummus

Matter of Flax Greek Crackers

Romaine Lettuce as a wrap

Good Day to all of you!!!

For me a nice meal is a balance between ingredients' quality, nutrients, flavors, aesthetics and love. We all eat because we need to feed ourselves but at the same time as human beings we expect to satisfied our palate and respect the culture of eating as a social and family event. This past weekend I had the great opportunity to run the food program for a retreat in beautiful Cape Cod, MA led by Alejandro Junger, M.D. author of "Clean" and Maureen Dodd a yoga teacher and healer from Charym . We were in high end beach resort with beautiful landscape and housing. All meals in the program were 100% vegan raw. Participants seated in nicely set tables and food was served by an hotel waiter the same way any other meal is served when one goes to a upscale restaurant. Food was beautifully plated and most of the meals included two dishes. The only difference was the food was 100% animal free, mostly organic, uncooked and made with lots of love. All participants were able to receive the energy of the food and the experience was amazing for all of us.

Still many people would hesitate to pay high prices for this type of food but willing to do it to eat a lobster. It reminds me a story a fisherman in the British Virgin Islands told me about the fact that lobsters during the time of slavery was food for slaves and white people would not eat them because they were dirty creatures. It is interesting how things change!!! LOL