Pasta Primavera- Raw and Rad!

I've been curious about including more raw foods in our diet, so after some research bought a great cookbook, The Simply Raw Kitchen. It's written by the Canadian author, Natasha Kyssa, who lives in Ottawa and runs her own restaurant there.
This is one of the recipes we tried tonight. Quite delicious, although it is different eating a dish raw that you would normally cook. It's all about opening to new experiences- and cuisine! I will attach the link below that gives an interview of the author, as well the recipe for this dish.

http://canadaam.ctvnews.ca/recipes/from-righteous-brownies-to-pasta-primavera-the-best-raw-recipes-1.1486452

Welcome to Soul Food

Welcome!

 I wanted to start my blog off with this poem by Zen Teacher Edward Espe Brown from his beautiful book Tassajara Cookbook. It speaks to me of the connectedness and fullness of life inside and outside each and every food that is provided for us to enjoy at our tables. Reminding me, time and time again, to be grateful for it all.

Who Knows What Thus Comes?

Picking up an onion,

What is it held in hand?

How many dusty miles

and blazing asphalt truckstops,

hidden in darkness, locked in steel?

How many cups of coffee and tired-eyed

waitresses greeted the driver?

How many minutes of country music

and rambling thoughts helped onion here?

How many days at home, in ground,

intimately connected, embedded,

nestled unseen, rapt in absorption,

knowing just what to do

with earth and water, sun and wind, 

to make them onion.

That everything thus comes

at once as onion, what

treasure is this dug up?

Who knows what hand holds?