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Raw Food Prep With Chef Asha Peri

Ms. Asha Peri giving her lecture

17 January 2014 Manila. A FREE Seminar by SOAP ( Spread Organic Agriculture in the Philippines) was held at Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) with a theme: REBOOT, RENEW WITH RAW FOOD, conducted by Ms. Asha Peri, a raw food chef of Dahon Kusina

The seminar is in collaboration with Agricultural Training Institute (ATI), Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR), Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Service (AMAS)  & Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Standards  (BAFS) of the Department of Agriculture (DAR). 

It was a very successful occasion, everyone is attentive and enthusiastic during the seminar.

The participants

I first encountered raw food way back when I was still in New York, but I didn't pay much attention because I was a student of macrobiotic diet and other healing modalities then, besides I have no plans of being a vegan because my body can't take it. A friend Fleta Errasquin, a cancer survivor of 15 years without a kiss of chemotherapy who embraced a holistic lifestyle re-introduced me to raw food diet and sprouting, she made a really delicious raw foods that I became interested again, not to mention raw and organic food that's keep her healthy (she took a course way back in the US, that time it's not available here), I am just glad that many are into this nowadays and there are now many raw food chefs sharing their passion for live foods. One of them is Chef Asha Peri of Dahon Kusina, let's take a look at some of her recipe..

Chef Asha and her staff

How to make a raw green smoothie

Coconut Vanilla Cream

Chia seeds soaked in water, used as toppings

Angel Hair Pasta

Rainbow Salad

The rainbow salad

More tips from chef Asha

I Noticed in the presentation of Ms. Asha Peri, she loves adding colorful herbs and very creative in food design, being lived in Bali, Indonesia for quite sometime, she learned the art of making food visually appealing.  She also teach participants how to adjust to the diet and how to counteract the downside reaction of the body.

Also she encourage to use our local fruits and vegetables because it is safer and has less toxins. To which I agree, in the principles of Locavore, buy local and grow your own food is good for the environment because it will lessen the carbon impact by transporting produce to different places and not to mention hasten spoilage time. In Macrobiotic principles, food that grows in our soil and temperature is the best food for us and what we really need. Not to mention that imported fruits are sprayed with chemical preservatives and most of them are GMOs. 

This is a diet worth trying and taking a look, cleansing and energizing, that's why it is also called live foods because the nutrients, enzymes, vitamins and minerals  are intact and bio-active.  

To know more about SOAP and its coming activities, seminars and updates: 

Facebook: Spread Organic Agriculture in the Phillipines (SOAP)

Contact: Ms. Sandra Celi

Profile: Healing Fleets

Fleets is a cancer survivor without a kiss of chemotherapy, she vowed to follow a lifestyle change of alternative and holistic path. I have known her as the co-founder of Healing Partners Foundation (HPFI), a cancer support group and member of the I Can Serve foundation (ICS) for breast cancers. An excellent ballroom dancer, Qi-kung practitioner, and the best gourmet raw food-living organic food maker (I would not say cook or chef for raw foods aren't meant to be cook) , can't get over her sandwiches which is so delicious and healthy made with fresh vegetable salad and almond nut paste with herbs, she makes her own organic soya milk too, also a good acupuncturist, amazing . She is an epitome of healthy, organic and natural living and I want to believe that her life is blowing in that direction, to help and inspire others and make alternative medicine and natural living a way of life.

Teacher by profession , a cancer warrior by avocation , a contractor by accident (a business left by her husband), nutrition advocate , AMP (Alternative Medicine Practitioner ) - an advocate of wellness , natural cures , and cancer prevention, Healing Partners co-founder, " Fleeting Boobs " Maker (a natural body -friendly breast prosthesis), seed sprouter, farmer , dance aficionado , holistic lifestyle counsellor.

Alumni Awardee for Wellness Advocacies ( Miriam College QC “ Triple A award ", St. Paul University, QC Bronze award, Ms. "K 2000", KMKP (Kapisanan ng may K (cancer) sa Pilipinas ) .

An Alumna of St . Francis Divine College Diploma course in Alternative Medicine. She is a hard-core when it comes to travels, organic, alternative medicine, raw foods, healthy living, family, spirituality, different kinds of healing modalities and dance, she is living life to the fullest. A great supporter of different support groups, organizations specially when it comes to travels, healing, spirituality, alternative medicine, modalities and so on, always dependable ("maasahan"). A familiar face on TV and magazines giving talks on her experience and advocacy: To fight the "Big C". This woman never stop learning, wether it is health issues or spirituality, she reads, study, learns, practices and always updated on the latest trends and issues on natural health and she still managed to live a balanced life with her family. So full of life and energy!

From Maryknoll/Miriam College Alumni website where she is an awardees:

Triple A' awardees are part of the MCA Museum, similar to her husband's in UP Library for topping the board in engineering.

Fleta is a breast cancer survivor who has turned this negative affliction into a very positive aspect of her life. She founded the non-profit organization, the Healing Partners Foundation, Inc. that has helped a lot of underprivileged cancer stricken patients particularly in the area of nutrition and education, promoting total well-being and a healthier way of life. She actively endorses unconventional and alternative cancer cures (that she herself practices) and has promoted its wide use in the country. She developed a prosthesis bra called “Fleeting Boobs” and has made it available to the poor breast cancer patients who has had mastectomy. To this day, Fleta does not tire in inspiring, comforting and motivating cancer patients and has continued to be a happy and healthy living example of how effective alternative cures to cancer can be.

Some of her award-winning healthy recipe:

Organic Raw salad: mung sprouts, diced yellow zucchini, shredded carrots, sliced red bell pepper, grapes, cubed pineapple, apple, dash of herbs (Mr. spike & Mrs. dash ) & splurged with ripe mango sauce ,served on a bed of lettuce ; Baked Patties : oatmeal , mashed tofu, mustard , brown egg, herb seasonings, with sweet sour sauce. Brown mixed with white organic white rice.

homemade lunch : mashed potatoes , red bell pepper , parsley.

 carabao cheese andAsparagus- tofu- shitake mushroom

Organic tomatoes stuffed with minced spinach ,goat cheese ,pine nuts, herbs

Ate fleets, as we call her is a travel bug, she both love traveling the world and local attractions, bring her to an organic farms or nature inspired places and she's the happiest creature on earth. We love to join her whenever time permits since she's a real good travel buddy, always prepared (laging handa) specially with appetizing and nutritious food that she always share, "walang gutom pag kasama sya" ( no hunger whenever she is around).

During the local tour of Antipolo

Pahiyas Festival tour

Symbios Healing Village