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FAST TRACK SERIES I
FAST TRACK SERIES II
Forget Cooking!
All-American Comfort Foods
Latin American Fiesta
Raw Italy
Flavors of the Mediterranean
Holiday Favorites Class
Breakfast and Brunch Class Description
Divine Desserts Class Description
Wrap and Roll Class Description
Kitchen Gardening
Why Raw?
GUILTLESS DESERTS! Class
Cooks Warehouse Forget Cooking! Class
Networking
Introduction to Raw Foods
Guiltless Raw Desserts WF

FAST TRACK SERIES I

The Raw Food Fast & Easy Training

This 5 hour, hands-on training teaches you everything you need to know to make healthy and delicious raw breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and desserts from scratch each day--in 30 minutes or less!

In this training, you will:

• Learn how to tailor the diet to your individual needs and tastes.


• Learn what to eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, and snacks on the raw food diet


• Learn how to get enough protein and other needed nutrients on the raw food diet.


• Learn how to do the right advance preparation each week so that daily food prep is quick and easy.


• Practice fundamental knife skills and equipment use.


• Gain hands-on experience preparing breakfast juices, smoothies, and cereals.


• Gain hands-on experience preparing soups, patés, salads and dressings, elegant entrées, and scrumptious desserts.


• Practice the art of flavor balancing and seasoning.


• Learn how to select and store fresh fruits, greens, and vegetables, and how to set up your raw foods kitchen.


• Learn how to lose weight or maintain your ideal weight.


• Learn how to stay healthy and raw while traveling.

Sample Menu: Green Juice, Fruit Smoothies, Granola with Almond Milk, Caesar Salad with Mock Ranch Dressing, Garden Vegetable Soup, Not Tuna Paté, Crudités Platter, California Rolls, Zucchini Noodles with Marinara Sauce, Mediterranean Kale, Chocolate Mousse Tart

Different recipes are available. Jenny can tailor the menu to your nutritional needs and tastes.

Cost: $550 plus cost of ingredients

The above course is available for group seminars or hands-on trainings.

Comprehensive training in Jenya's kitchen. Attend yourself, or bring a friend at no added charge.

For more information, or to set up a training, call Essential Energy Cuisine at: 404-925-3428

Advanced Techniques of Raw Food Preparation Training

This 5-day hands-on course takes your raw food training to the next level. Take one training or a series of four trainings at a discount; Jenya will tailor the recipes and techniques to your unique preferences.

Some of the things you might learn in an advanced training include:

• Mastery of knife techniques, as you practice opening coconuts and slicing, chopping, dicing, mincing, and julienning common fruits and vegetables.


• Hands-on experience, including advanced techniques, using high-speed blenders, food processors, juicers, and dehydrators.


• How to make sushimaki, spring rolls, lasagna, pizza, garden burgers, felafel, and other impressive entrées.


• How to make guilt-free gourmet desserts, including tarts, pies, crisps, cakes, custards, cookies, and ice creams


• Hands-on experience creating four-course, All-American, Pan-Asian, Italian, Latin-American, Holiday, and/or Mediterranean meals.


• Secrets of Raw "Baking," including sprouted grain breads, flax crackers, and crepes.


• The art of plating and garnishing.

Cost: $550 plus cost of ingredients
Cost of a series of 4 trainings: $2000 plus cost of ingredients

Seminars and Trainings in Your City...

Can't make one of Jenya's scheduled events? Jenya can travel to you--either for a seminar for a large group, or for a small hands-on training for yourself and your friends.

Here's how it works:

Time: 5 hours
Class size: Up to 20 people
Assistants Needed: 1-2 assistants for larger groups
Cost: $200/person, $1000 minimum, plus ingredients and travel expenses.
Travel expenses include plane ticket (unless Jenya is already in your area), ground transportation to and from the event, and accommodations for a 2 night stay.

The above course is available for group seminars or hands-on trainings.

Eating healthy foods has never been so delicious and easy.

After this class, you will have the skills to prepare a variety of dishes for daily breakfasts, lunches and dinners. Basic knife skills and special equipment for the raw food kitchen (blenders and food processors) are covered.

In forget cooking! You will learn:

• How to make non-dairy nut and seed milks.


• How to make creamy vegetable soup in less than 10 minutes.


• How shredding and marinating kale and other dark leafy greens makes them as tender as cooked, without loss of nutrients.


• How to turn nuts and seeds into protein rich pates.


• How to transform zucchini into delicate angel-hair noodles—it’s pasta without the starch!


• The secret ingredient in raw chocolate mousse that replaces butter, cream, and eggs.

Menu: Almond Milk, Cream of Zucchini Soup, Mediterranean Kale Salad, Not Tuna Pate, Zucchini Noodles Marinara, Chocolate Mousse.

The Raw Diet doesn’t have to mean living on salads, energy soups, and fruit. The comfort food fare in this class will satisfy even the heartiest appetite.

In All-American Comfort Foods you will learn:

• How to make creamy non-dairy shakes.


• How to use cashews to replace sour cream in dips and dressings.


• How to use a dehydrator to make burgers out of sunflower seeds and veggies—served with all the fixing’s on a lettuce leaf bun – for lunch or dinner.


• How shredding and marinating collards and other dark leafy greens makes them as tender as cooked, without loss nutrients.


• How to make a classic Southern peach cobbler in less than 30 minutes.

Menu: Old-fashioned Chocolate Milkshake, Vegetable Platter with Mock Sour Cream and Chive Dip, Garden Burgers with BBQ Sauce, Coleslaw, Southern Greens, Peach Cobbler.

Mexican food is what many people crave when they want something hearty, cheesy, and comforting.

And who doesn’t love to munch on chips and salsa in front of a video?
Unfortunately, traditional Mexican cuisine is notorious for being high in calories, greasy, and short on fresh veggies. But once you learn the raw food preparation techniques in this class, you’ll be able to make a truly healthy and delicious Latin American Fiesta for yourself and your friends.

In Latin American Fiesta Class you will learn:

• How to use a dehydrator to make thin, crispy chips out of flax seeds and vegetables—perfect with guacamole.


• Which knife skills to use to dice up delicious homemade salsa


• How to use a dehydrator to make flexible wraps out of vegetables—the perfect tortilla for enchiladas.


• How to use shredded cabbage to replace rice for a lighter version of Mexican rice


• How to make a beautiful mango fruit tart with a coconut crust—delicious either as a dessert of as a light meal in itself.

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Raw Italy


Everyone loves Italian food, but traditional dishes are heavy in wheat and cheese. With Raw Italy, simple substitutions allow you to enjoy this classic cuisine.


In Raw Italy you will learn:


• How to make a delicious vegan Caesar salad--almonds and pine nuts replace egg yolks and cheese, and nori seaweed replaces anchovies.


• How to make hearty and hot winter soup in the raw.


• How to make zucchini penne pasta in minutes, and top it with a variety of delicious sauces.


• How to make dairy- and wheat-free lasagna that's as comforting and delicious as the traditional version.


• How to make non-dairy ice creams that are rich and creamy.



Menu: Caesar Salad with Pine Nut Parmesan, Minestrone, Pasta al Pesto, Lasagna, Walnut Gelato with Carob Glaze


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Flavors of the Mediterranean


Middle Eastern restaurants are always a hit, and with good reason--aromatic herbs, warming spices, and pungent flavors such as olives and feta cheese make this cuisine both exotic and comforting. Now you can enjoy all your favorites, even hummus and felafel, in the raw.


In Flavors of the Mediterranean you will learn:


• How to make no-bean hummus that tastes just like the traditional version.


• How to use a dehydrator to make savory felafel patties--no frying needed.


• How to make wheat-free tabouli.


• How to roll picture-perfect dolmas--with a zucchini "rice" filling and aromatic marinara sauce.


• How to make decadent non-dairy cheesecake--it isn't Mediterranean, but it tastes great with this menu!



Menu: Hummus, Felafel with Tahina Sauce, Tabouli, Greek Salad, Carrots with Moroccan Spices, Dolmas with Middle Eastern Marinara, Blueberry Lemon Cheesecake


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Holiday Favorites Class


You don't have to deprive yourself of foods you love to look and feel great this holiday season. In this class, you will discover how to make a raw feast that features everyone's favorites, from stuffing to pumpkin pie.


In Holiday Favorites you will learn:


• How to make rich and creamy nog without dairy or eggs.


• How Almond Mayonnaise can replace unhealthful bottled mayo in Waldorf salad and other favorite dishes.


• How use a dehydrator to make delicious low-carb stuffing with almonds instead of bread.


• How to make two raw vegetable side dishes that you can proudly present at any holiday party.


• How to make a show-stopping "I can't believe it's not cooked!" mock pumpkin pie.





Menu: Holiday Nog, Waldorf Salad, Almond Stuffing, Cranberry-orange Relish, Christmas Kale, Green Beans Amandine, Mock Pumpkin Pie with Cashew Cream


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Breakfast and Brunch Class Description


Breakfast is the most important meal to eat healthfully, since a heavy meal at this time of day can be difficult to digest and slow you down. the menu for this class has something for everyone--juices and smoothies for maximum vitality or weight loss, people-pleasing granola and oatmeal, and decadent crepes and cinnamon rolls.


In Breakfast and Brunch you will learn:


• How to make low-carb granola out of nuts and seeds in 5 minutes.


• How to make dairy-free nut and seed milks.


• How to soak whole oat groats to make a raw oatmeal that tastes better than cooked.


• How to make wheat-free crepes with a sweet fruit filling--perfect for brunch.


• How to use leftover almond meal to replace flour in decadent gooey cinnamon rolls.



Menu: Green Vitality Juice, Blueberry Smoothie, Granola with Almond Milk, Old-fashioned Oatmeal, Tropical Fruit Crepes, Cinnamon Rolls


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Divine Desserts Class Description


Raw desserts are ideal for anyone who loves sweets but is trying to avoid refined carbohydrates and sugars, dairy products, and unhealthful fats. Any dessert you can make cooked--pies, tarts, crisps, ice creams, cookies, cakes, and candies--you can make raw. But your family and friends will never know these desserts are raw and healthy, since they taste as rich and sweet as their traditional counterparts.


In Divine Desserts you will learn:


• How to make easy no-roll, no-bake pie crusts, tart shells, and crisp toppings.


• How to use coconut oil to replace butter in chocolate truffles.


• How to make foolproof dairy-free ice cream


• How to make a gourmet flourless chocolate cake in 10 minutes flat.



Menu: Kiwi Lime Tart, Turtle Truffles, Almond Cookies, Blackberry Crisp with Vanilla Ice Cream, Flourless Chocolate Cake with Raspberry Sauce


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Wrap and Roll Class Description


Everyone loves to eat with their hands and to take food "to go"--which explains the popularity of finger foods such as sandwiches and burritos. But the typical sandwich is high in carbs and can leave you feeling weighed down. Raw Wraps and Rolls are the solution to energizing food on the go.


In Wrap and Roll you will learn:


• How to roll picture-perfect vegetarian sushi and spring rolls.


• How to use the dehydrator to make wheat-free wraps--the perfect raw substitute for burritos and sandwiches.


• How to make favorite finger foods that travel well for hearty lunches and snacks.



Menu: California Rolls, Vietnamese Salad Rolls, Zucchini Pepper Wraps, Assorted Dips and Spreads (Basil Pesto, Avocado Dip, Spicy Miso Paste, Mock Peanut Sauce, Sesame Mayonnaise)


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Kitchen Gardening


The Living Foods Diet, pioneered by Ann Wigmore, is a healing diet ideal for recovering from illness, losing weight, building immunity, aiding digestion, and maximizing health and vitality.


In Kitchen Gardening you will learn:


• How to make fermented foods like Rejuvelac, Coconut Yogurt, and Sauerkraut, which aid digestion and build the immune system.


• How to grow sprouts, wheatgrass, and sunflower greens--living foods rich in enzymes, protein, and nutrients.


• How to make a complete-meal blended energy soup--great for cleansing and rejuvenation.


• How to make non-dairy cheese and wheat-free crackers.



Menu: Rejuvelac, Coconut Yogurt, Green Leafy Sprouts, Wheatgrass and Sunflower Greens, Sprout Salad with Tomato Basil Dressing, Herbed Almond Cheese Spread with Pizza Flax Crackers, Sauerkraut, Energy Soup


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Why Raw?


This engaging lecture on the benefits of the raw food diet will inspire you to try this healthful and delicious way of eating and will answer the most common questions about raw foods.

In Why Raw? you will learn about:

1. The effects of cooking on different nutrients


2. Where you get your protein on the raw food diet


3. The raw food groups


4. Food combining for better digestion


5. How to maintain your ideal weight


6. How to adapt to a raw food diet


7. How to make raw food preparation quick and easy

Sample of a decadent raw dessert is included!


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GUILTLESS DESERTS! Class


Decadent, rich, dairy free, flourless, gluten free, maximally RAW, simple to make, and good for you! Finally, you can have your cake and eat it too!

Learn to prepare:

1. Very Berry Chocolate Pie


2. Lemon Pudding


3. One Pan Brownies



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Cooks Warehouse Forget Cooking! Class


Eating healthy foods has never been so delicious and easy.

After this class, you will have the skills to prepare a variety of dishes for daily breakfasts, lunches and dinners. Basic knife skills and special equipment for the raw food kitchen (blenders and food processors) are covered.


In forget cooking! You will learn:


• How to make non-dairy nut and seed milks.


• How to make creamy vegetable soup in less than 10 minutes.


• How shredding and marinating kale and other dark leafy greens makes them as tender as cooked, without loss of nutrients.


• How to turn nuts and seeds into protein rich pates.


• How to transform zucchini into delicate angel-hair noodles—it’s pasta without the starch!


• The secret ingredient in raw chocolate mousse that replaces butter, cream, and eggs.



Menu: Almond Milk, Cream of Zucchini Soup, Mediterranean Kale Salad, Not Tuna Pate, Zucchini Noodles Marinara, Chocolate Mousse.




Registration - You may register for classes via the internet at Cooks Warehouse, in person at any of our three locations, or by phone at 404-815-4993, 404-949-9945 or 404-377-4005.


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Introduction to Raw Foods


$15 Demonstration
Wondering what the raw food craze is about? Join raw foods chef Jenya Hampton for a look at the benefits of the raw food diet. She will inspire you to try this healthful and delicious way of eating and answer the most common questions about raw foods. She will teach students how to create delicious dishes out of whole, unprocessed, organic, raw ingredients using only a food processor, blender, and a knife while she demonstrates a guiltless dessert. Lunch will be provided.

To register click here

Note do not use our registration form for this class use the link above.


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Guiltless Raw Desserts WF


$30, Demonstration
If you love dessert but are trying to avoid refined carbohydrates and sugars, dairy, and unhealthy fats, then raw desserts are for you! Come learn how to make rich, sweet desserts using only a blender and food processor. These treats will fool your family and friends and leave everyone feeling satisfied and totally guilt–free! Lunch will be provided.
Menu: Very Berry Chocolate Pie; Key Lime Mousse; and One–Pan Cherry Brownies.

To register click here

Note do not use our registration form for this class use the link above.


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