LASSENS – NATURAL FOODS & VITAMINS
Chips, Salsa, and Guacamole — Big Game Food! There is just something about Mexican food. Ask me if I’m in the mood for Mexican, my answer will always be “Yes!” Love, love, love it. And where would Mexican food be without the avocado? Did you know that avocados are considered a nutrient dense food? […]
Oven Roasted Winter Vegetables Can you guess what the white vegetable is? It’s not a potato! Judging from the number of people who are surprised when I serve it…. most people have never tried celery root. I will admit that I’d never had it until my European in-laws made a soup for
Introducing… A couple of new things! Read More »
Want to Try Raw? Here’s an Idea! I’ve mentioned in a previous blog post about my Battle with the Beet when I featured the recipe for Love Beets All Brownies. Happily Beets won in the end. This recipe from our Demo Captain, Stephanie, was one of the prettiest that I’ve seen so far.
It’s Fantas… (Warning: Here comes an awful pun…) Today’s Food Demonstration in the Ventura store is Tangerine Kale Salad and let me tell you, it is FANTASI-KALE (whoop, there it is…)!!! Stephanie, our lovely Demo Captain, threw together an easy, fresh and delicious recipe primarily consisting of our Organic Local Produce.
Tangerine Kale Salad / My Battle to Resist Making Puns Read More »
A Delicious Raw Energy Snack! It’s just a regular day in the Lassen’s office. I’m sipping my cinnamon vanilla herb tea from The Republic of Tea and working on graphics for an upcoming Lassens Event (Did you know that FABIO, the long haired wonder himself, is coming to our Thousand Oaks (1/25) and Ventura (1/26) locations
Meet Stephanie / Raw Cashew Carob Cookie Balls Read More »
Oda Lassen’s Granola Written by Gayle As promised a week ago, here is a great granola recipe. I got this recipe from Oda Lassen herself, although I have modified it a bit–her tastes were for things a bit sweeter than mine! Start with some old-fashioned rolled oats I love these
Heathier and Happier! It’s hard to find a person in this world who doesn’t love (or at least like) mac & cheese. It is, I believe, the ultimate comfort food, right up there with chili and grilled cheese sandwiches. When I was a wee one my sister and I had mac-&-cheese-offs. Back then it was the big brand in
Fancy up your Mac & Cheese! Read More »
Yummy Dip! It might have been the curly ivory locks that sway carelessly from their chins as they perpetually chew their oats. It also might have been their reptilian-esque eyes from which a sideways slit of a pupil stares mysteriously like an ominous minus-sign… but for one reason or another, there was a rather long period where I had a complete
Goat Milk Blue Cheese & Green Onion Dip + Overcoming my inane fear of goats Read More »
Hello Summer! In case you missed it, let me be the first to warmly welcome you to SUMMER 2012! Frankly I don’t know how you could miss this summer sun. I can’t really see it right now from inside my office but I can feel it reaching down with those wiggly heat wave arms to
Peaches & Beaches / mini vegan peach cobblers Read More »
Happy Cinco de Mayo! You could assume that Mexican cuisine is one of my very favorite kinds of foods- and you’d be right! A menagerie of cheeses, sauces, fillings and spices to create flavor combinations that both excite the taste-buds while simultaneously comforting the soul, what’s not to love? Celebrating the Mexican army’s unlikely victory
Cinco de Mayo / Organic Mango Salsa! Read More »
This is a true story, and if I may add, also a love story. One morning I was flying over Antarctica with Morgan Freeman trying to snatch up miniature rainbow colored penguins in my giant hands, when suddenly – Dee-deetle-deee! Dee-deetle-Dee! (This is the sound of my accursed
The Organic Protein Shake of Dreams Read More »
We Love our Recipe Winners! The bats are flapping their leathery wings against the Autumn breeze which carries the distant howl of a werewolf. Meanwhile, in an ancient castle teetering menacingly on a jagged cliff, a congregation of witches, ghouls and beasts guzzle down potions from bubbling cauldrons and laboratory beakers and
Halloween Recipe Winner #2… Organic Pumpkin Cheesecake Squares Read More »