Cooking Class - Vegan Heart-Healthy Salads

Learn to prepare a variety of vegan, nutrient-dense salads to improve heart health from trained nutritionist Chef Kristin.

In this vegan cooking class, Chef Kristin will teach you how to prepare a number of salads intended to improve heart health and clean your system. She'll start the meal with vegan cashew raw kale chips, calling upon kale's concentration of anti-cancer compounds. The first salad, made from burdock and carrot, will clean your liver, blood, and lungs, and it provides a tangy-savory hit from pickled plum and rice vinegar. Next you'll learn to make a quinoa-beet salad, which Chef Kristin created to include each of the most potent heart healthy ingredients. A raw kale salad with avocado will increase calcium, fiber, beta carotene, lutein, and anti-cancer compounds. You'll finish with a delicious fresh fruit pie, harnessing the power of nature's candy for a sweet finish.

Throughout the meal, Chef Kristin will teach you about the nutritional aspects of each dish and ingredient, so you will leave not only with new recipes (and a full stomach!) under your belt but the building blocks for creating your own heart healthy salads.

• Minimum Guests 4
• Maximum Guests 6
• Meal Courses 5
• Event Duration 3 hours

I am a therapeutic chef -- I cook for people in order to coach them back to health. I am a Registered Nurse, a Certified Nutrition Consultant, and have a degree as a Certified Natural Chef from Bauman College. I studied macrobiotic nutrition and cooking as well as Chinese medicinal cooking. I create meals and diets using the most therapeutic ingredients to promote the idea of using "food as medicine" in order to reverse or prevent illnesses such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes.