I recently had an affair with raw food. This type of food may not be everyone's favorite, but has become a rising trend in recent times, especially in Ubud.
Raw foodies believe that eating raw foods regularly is the best way to maintain health. Unlike food containing animal products, raw food leaves no side effects that may harm the long-term organization, and thought can enhance the detoxification process in the body, especially if it is combined with nutritious juice.
My food history this time landed me in a new raw food restaurant in Ubud, Living Food Lab, located just a few meters from the famous Monkey Forest. This is actually their second output; the first, which also has the same name, has been serving nutritious cuisines to school students in green school for about a year and a half.
When I step on the second floor, I'm attracted to an open space cozy restaurant, beautifully made from bamboo with a view to rolling the rice fields on the other side of the building. Some staff busy working at the bar to greet me with their warmest smile and a glass of watermelon limeade refresh me on this very hot day. I immediately fell in love with this chic restaurant offers a relaxing atmosphere, and of course, delicious healthy cuisine.
The company began with Avara Yaron selling raw foods at warung Green School. Yaron was a head of raw food for the past five years and started a living-food restaurant company in the States, just before she moved permanently to Bali there about three years.
The idea of bringing it to a higher level happened when Yaron met his co-founder, Steve Munroe, a former UN employee who fell in love with Ubud. Munroe's interest in raw foods began after surviving the consumption of foods miserable for years when he was sent to conflict zones around the world.
When Green School and has agreed to work with them, Living Food Lab was born.
"We were very happy of the green school community, and about the idea of basically get kids to eat healthy foods and educational experience for them," said Munroe.
Living Food Lab sources as eighty percent of their ingredients locally, supported by local suppliers who work with local farmers. one of their suppliers is east Bali cashews, allowing cashew farmers educates them how to treat their cashews locally, where before they sent it to India and Vietnam for treatment.
supporters of the lifestyle of raw food believe that vegetables can lose his important nutrition when cooking or heating. and with no animal products or ingredients that should undergo cooking / heating process a handful of creativity is absolute in the manufacture of raw foods, particularly to replace these ingredients.
Living Food Lab has many creative ideas for delicious raw food, healthy. One example is the pizza. I'm quite surprised when a pizza plate is served on my table. Instead of getting the baked dough slices with sauces based on tomatoes, melted mozzarella cheese and various toppings, I sample two beautiful gluten free crusts made from sunflower seeds and streams, topped with choice of nuts and paté 'pesto dressing or dried tomatoes.
I have to admit, I like the taste. Combining salsa tomatoes and basil sprinkled on top of the pizza gives a fresh feeling that blend well with the soft texture of the cashew nut paté and tasty dressing - I almost forget it believed. Not only delicious, it also cools and please my stomach.
To boost the energy of their customers in the morning - adults and children - Salon Food Lab offers granola bars. choice of different filling such as cashew nuts, sesame seeds, goji berries, flax seeds, cocoa beans, sunflower seeds, almonds, oats, dates, mixed with liquids, such as cashew milk for vegans or cow milk and yogurt, really perfect to feed his day.
For lunch, the granola bar is replaced by mixed green lettuce, with 12 different fillings, such as a variety of grains or vegetables, and five different bandages, which are changed regularly, for only Rp. 35,000. Wrap Mango is another favorite, combining paté mango, baby romaine, zucchini and other vegetables, sprinkled with sesame garlic dressing.
Select raw chocolates - nibble most favorite of children - are available to choose the perfect desserts, as well as raw cakes, like raw apple cake or a delicious cake strawberry cheesecake, the taste too that delicious baked cakes. Another temptation is the protein bar. This full bar of good proteins of different nuts, answers the question of where the first gourmets get their protein; soft and fluffy, perfect for an afternoon healthy snack.
Raw foods can be a new thing, but why not try to go on this healthy temptation, unique, but delicious to your diet? While this may not give you a flavor kick like a succulent steak or fat patty in a cheeseburger, raw food is delicious only when it comes to flavor, very interesting to try, and gives nothing, but to your body.
Living Food Lab
Green School, Abiansemal, Bali, Indonesia
88x Jalan Monkey Forest, Ubud
www.livingfoodlab.com