Wheatgrass has well over a hundred vitamins, minerals, amino acids, antioxidants, essential fatty acids, and enzymes when juiced properly.  It is one of a few super amazing completely natural foods that fully supports the body.  Many don't enjoy the taste of it, as it does taste quite a bit like grass, which it is.  Here's our favorite recipe for a sparkling wheatgrass juice cocktail that delivers the greatness of wheatgrass while turning it into a energizing and refreshing beverage.  

This recipe comes from our book, I am Grateful (the recipes of Cafe Gratitude)

This cheese is our number one requested recipe!

I so highly recommend the wondrous book by David Wolfe: The Sunfood Diet Success System.  This book is an awesome resource for the science behind, the power behind and the results from living foods.  David has a great way of bridging together the hard science and the easy-to-digest explanation of raw foods.  

In The Sunfood Diet Success System, David Wolfe puts together a masterpiece of introductory lessons in raw foods and their impact, on the importance of healthy enzymes and the impact of eating mutated foods (allergies, chronic pain and even terminal illnesses).  Not only does he have the know-how in the impactful way that raw foods impact the body, but David also lays out plans for how to transition successfully or experiment with raw foods, how to plan cleanses for yourself, weekly menus and full recipes.  Below I bring you a few of his recipes for rapid results.  These work sort of like teasers to introduce impactful eating for some of our everyday health challenges.  Try some of these out the next time you might otherwise reach for an over the counter drug.

Just in the time for the heat to roll in, I bring you this luscious recipe for lemon meringue pie.  This crust is by far one of my top favorite things from Cafe Gratitude!  This pie isn't on the menu right now, but we might see it return in a new reincarnation of the concept.  Meanwhile, as you sit on your balcony or porch, or lounge at the park, you can relish this magical pie through this recipe!

This recipe is in our I am Grateful recipe book along with savory treats, entrées and other desserts as well as in our Sweet Gratitude with all desserts!

At culinary school the 2nd class in the curriculum was "food science".  The wonders of this worldly culinary creation (emulsions) can be explained down to straight science without the usual northern california slang & no Frenchy fancy words.

Every cook's gotta know their emulsions. From Harold Mcgee's On Food & Cooking, the bible of foodies, an emulsion is defined as "Such a mixture of two incompatible liquids, with droplets of one liquid dispersed in a continuous phase of the other. The term comes from the Latin word for 'milk', which is just such a mixture"

You are Thankful!