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  • A New View of Healthy Eating Healthy Recipe Blog by Melanie Albert: Arizona Peach Tomato Goji Salsa

    A New View of Healthy Eating Healthy Recipe Blog by Melanie Albert: Arizona Peach Tomato Goji Salsa

    Intuitive Cooking with our Local Arizona Farmers Summer Goodies: Peach Tomato Goji Berry Salsa

    by Melanie A. Albert, intuitive cooking expert, award-winning author, speaker, retreat host, Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition Group, LLC

    This weekend, as usual, I shopped at our Downtown Phoenix Farmers’ Market. Honestly, my refrigerator was quite full and I didn’t really need food, but I love supporting our local farmers, the community of like-minded friends at the market, and creating unique delicious dishes with “what’s in season.”

    Let’s take a look at some of my favorites at the Market, from flowers, to friends, to prickly pear cactus, to Armenian cucumbers…

    FOOD & FLOWERS

    FRIENDS

    When I arrive home from the market I love to simply enjoy the beauty of the food I intuitively shop for at the market.  With intuitive shopping, we pay attention to the colors, the textures, even the aroma of the foods, and buy what we are attracted to from a sensory view.

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    About a month ago, I created an Arugula Salad with Tomatoes and Peaches and recalled loving the combination. Again, these two summer fruits were the inspiration for my fresh dish which I intuitively created. When we create our dishes intuitively, we enjoy the process of mixing and matching flavors and colors to create beautiful, tasty meals. Have fun!

    Arizona Peach Tomato Summer Salsa Recipe

    Simple Ingredients

    • 1 ripe peach, rough chopped
    • 3-4 yellow and red tomatoes, rough chopped
    • 1 Armenian cucumber, rough chopped
    • ½ red onion, minced
    • 2-3 garlic bulbs, minced
    • 1 lemon zested
    • 3 tbsp capers
    • 2 tbsp goji berries soaked in water
    • Pinch sea salt

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    Simple Steps

    Gently toss all ingredients.

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    Plate and enjoy!

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    PLATING FUN!

    In addition to intuitively shopping, and intuitively creating dishes, I love to have fun plating with different looks. Thanks to Clay Madness for my new aqua plate and my favorite green clay bowl.

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    If you’re interested in additional simple plant-based whole foods culinary techniques and recipes, please purchase my book, “A New View of Healthy Eating: Simple Intuitive Cooking with Real Whole Foods.”  I’m happy to mail a copy to you.

    If you’re interested in a Cooking Event, Class, Team Building for your organization, I’d love to chat and create a custom program for you. — Melanie

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  • Experience Nutrition: A New View of Healthy Eating: Cooking Challenge Team Building Programs with Melanie Albert

    Experience Nutrition: A New View of Healthy Eating: Cooking Challenge Team Building Programs with Melanie Albert

    by Melanie A. Albert, intuitive cooking expert, author, speaker, retreat host, Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition Group, LLC

    I’m excited to announce that we have recently added another fun interactive Cooking Program to Experience Nutrition and A New View of Healthy Eating: Team Building Cooking Challenge.

    Recently, I had the wonderful opportunity to host a memorable Team Building Cooking Challenge with Visit Phoenix. What an honor to lead such a beautiful event at The Farm at South Mountain in Phoenix, Arizona.

    “It was a great event! Thanks for everything. You and the team did an amazing job. Look forward to seeing you again soon!“ Ronnie Collins, Director of Sales, Visit Phoenix

    The goals of the team building event:

    • Fun, interactive, hands-on Team Building Cooking Challenge
    • Tour of The Farm at South Mountain, urban farm right south of the Phoenix airport
    • Friendly culinary competition around healthy eating and local Phoenix farmers’ food
    • Time for participants to enjoy the beautiful, tasty food created during the Challenge

    “Thank you for all your hard work on this. I had a blast with my teammates!” Polly Phelan-Flachman, Director of Member Relations, Visit Phoenix.

    Our Team Building Cooking Challenge Menu

    • ROUND 1: Massaged Kale Salad with 3-Ingredient Salad Dressing
    • ROUND 2: Raw Deconstructed Lasagna. Veggies: beets, carrots, zucchini, radishes. Three sauces: Red Tomato, White Cashew Cream, Green Pesto
    • DESSERT: Chocolate Dessert with Superfoods
      • NOTE: All recipes: Plant-based, gluten-free, dairy-free.

    Photo highlights of the event, thanks to Travel Blogger & Photographer, Cassie Hepler, Explore with Cassie.

     

    The tables are set with local Arizona farmers’ beautiful produce.

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    We are Ready: Melanie Albert, Experience Nutrition. Cassie Hepler, Explore with Cassie.

    Take a Look at the Amazing Kale Salads the Visit Phoenix teams created. Beautiful, creative, tasty, and delicious.

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    And, the proud winners of ROUND 1 of the Challenge.

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    On to ROUND 2: Raw Deconstructed Veggie Lasagna Cooking Challenge. Seriously, take a look at the culinary creations in the Cooking Challenge. Outstanding creativity, lots of passion, and friendly competition.

    Time to enjoy the meals in the beauty of The Farm at South Mountain with Visit Phoenix friends.

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    Finishing the meal with a little chocolate. Of course. Melanie Albert plating the sweet Chocolate Sweet Potato Brownie.

    A little Singing Bowl magic.

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    The Visit Phoenix Team enjoying the Team Building Cooking Challenge and the beauty of the day…

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    “Thank you so much to my friends at Visit Phoenix for the incredible opportunity to share our Team Building Cooking Challenge with your organization. I am so honored and love being part of our beautiful Phoenix community.” Melanie Albert, Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition Group, LLC

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    Ronnie Collins, Director of Sales, Visit Phoenix. Melanie Albert, Experience Nutrition. Lorne Edwards, VP Sales & Services, Visit Phoenix.

    Thanks, dear talented friend, Cassie Hepler for capturing the Visit Phoenix Team Building Cooking Challenge in photos.

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    Cassie Hepler, Explore with Cassie. Melanie Albert, Experience Nutrition. Ronnie Collins, Director of Sales, Visit Phoenix

    If your organization is interested in a fun, unique, friendly competitive team building event in Phoenix, across the USA, or even around the world, please let me know and we can collaborate and create a custom cooking team building activity for you.

    Thanks, VISIT PHOENIX!

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  • A New View of Healthy Eating: Reader’s Digest: How to Get Started on a Raw Diet this Summer

    A New View of Healthy Eating: Reader’s Digest: How to Get Started on a Raw Diet this Summer

    By Melanie A. Albert, intuitive cooking expert, author, and speaker. Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition Group, LLC

    A few months ago, The Farm at South Mountain and I had the honor to host a fun hands-on Intuitive Cooking Class for Visit Phoenix, Visit Mesa, travel and food bloggers, and the media.

    As a result of this memorable cooking class, blogger and writer, Fiona Tapp featured our class and my thoughts on Raw Food in the Reader’s Digest article: 9 Things to Know If You’re Thinking About Starting a Raw Food Diet This Summer.

    Get tips to Go Raw this Summer in the article.

    Reader’s Digest: Raw Food this Summer

    Enjoy a few photos from our fun cooking class at The Farm.

     

     

     

    Purchase Today!    “A New View of Healthy Eating: Simple Intuitive Cooking with Real Whole Foods.”

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