Phuket - Raw Foods

 

About Raw Foods / Living Cuisine: 

This dish was part of a 6 course-Raw Foods menu. Raw Foods preparation, also known as "Living Cuisine".  The maximum cooking temperature is 42 degrees Centigrade which is said to preserve enzymes and vitamins, as well as a higher contents of nutrients and minerals. 

It was relly great to taste and try to guess what vegetables were used in the preparation of those 6 dishes. 

Some sauces were made of mango, passion fruit, sweet basil, lemon grass, yellow bell pepper sauce, etc.  Unfortunately I took only 2 photos (and they are not great!). 

Really need to go another time!

 

I did not write down the menu (I should have) and although today I cannot remember the exact names of the 6 dishes I will try to list down what I recall:

1. Vegetable & Fruit Bread / Pudding (cooked at 42 degrees C for about 8 hours) 
2. Canelloni (thin slice of cucumber rolled up with feta cheese, black olives and fruit sauces)
3. Mixed Greens Salad (with yellow bell pepper salad dressing) - 1st photo of this post
4. Vegetables with passion fruit sauce - 2nd photo of this post
5. Coconut Flavoured Ravioli
6. Mango Ice-Cream (on a pesto flavoured pastry).  

Phuket

We just experienced an interesting holiday in a luxurious spa on Naka Yai island (Phuket-Thailand). We never thought we would have this kind of wet weather for 4 days! I must admit that I was very scared by the strong wind and heavy rain during the 1st night of our stay. When we woke up the following day the restaurant entrance was flooded and the spa reception was inundated by water as high as 1 meter. Water pumps run all day long and staff worked hard to clean up the mess. We later learnt that on some other islands tourists had to be evacuated and in the province of Krabi residents and tourists had been very badly affected by the flooding and landslides. We were quite fortunate that none of the villas had been flooded and nobody was hurt. What a scary night! The remaining of our stay was better but it was still rainy and the visibility was low. It was only on our 4th and last day that we have been able to see the island on the other side.




View from our villa (through the window pane)



Resort-grown vegetables