Seaweed, Kiters and Wedding Bells.

Hellooooo everyone! Yesss it’s Friday! This week has totally flown by and I wish it would slow down, because I am one week down of my 3 week course

Thanks for your comments on what intimidates you at the gym! Nice to know that we are all normal eh?

Any plans for this weekend? For those of you that follow me on Twitter, you will know that I had been toying with a road trip or a flight to Vegas to visit my pal who is here for a month also, but it looked to be too expensive a journey for such a short time so I am kicking Oklahoma style this weekend and it’s quite nice here. Yoga tomorrow morning (it’s been a while) and then an extra class at 105 degrees on Plant Based Beauty which I am totally looking forward to. I have been researching more natural beauty treatments and products for sometime (coconut oil as a make up remover spring to mind) but it would be helpful to gain more conclusive info. Then maybe I can sample a cocktail or two off the menu as it’s the weekend right?

Today at school we made almond flour out of our dehydrated almond pulp from our almond milk yesterday.

This will be used for a recipe at a later time.

Then we had a lesson on seaweed.

And soaked some ready for later. I chose Arame (my fave), Kelp (only because I love kelp noodles) and some dulse.

Then we learnt how to make a sour cream base

And mixed our own add ins:

I chose a Tzatziki style of garlic and cucumber. There were variations like basil and garlic, cucumber & jalapeno and lime, and avocado with cumin. Great with crudites.

Back to the seaweed – we learnt about Irish Moss as an addition to recipes (great as a setting agent once blended with water to form a paste)

Then it was onto raw maki rolls.

Here’s a video on how to make raw sushi with Russell

And dessert was yesterday’s icecream

This was the highlight of my day…and we all shared our own creations. Mine was choc mint (the one on the far left) with a vanilla, blood orange & ginger, another chocolate and my favourite, the mint choc chip.

After a big clean out of our training kitchen, we were dismissed for the weekend. So with the sun shining and the blue sky beckoning (I hardly see the blue sky in Saudi – it is more like dust coloured!) I took off for a jog/walk around Lake Hefner. And look what I found! The Kiter Boy back home would be uber jealous!!

Then I may have had a cheeky wine spritzer to end my week at sunset. What an end to such a glorious week! And my excuse for the wine was to celebrate the impending nuptials of one of my best pals, Katie to her groom, Ben in 2 hours time (in Australia). I wish I could be in two places at once However Katie has promised me she will don her dress again for me on my return to Oz with a celebratory drink or 2 of course

See you all tomorrow