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Join Leslie Cerier, The Organic Gourmet chef/teacher and cookbook author on Wednesday, May 13 from 4-5PM EST on Zoom. Leslie will offer delicious recipes to make your own organic nut and seed [...]

You all know how much I love cacao.  Years ago, the morning after a late night flight, I made this delicious, energizing cacao maca smoothie for breakfast. Quick and easy to prepare. All [...]

  Hi Everyone, I hope you are staying healthy and safe. I had another fun and full class last Sunday on Zoom.  Don’t miss my next class on Wednesday, May 13 from 4-5PM EST on [...]

Organic Hemp Seeds are powerhouses of nutrition. Full of beneficial nutrients like zinc, protein and Omega 3 & 6 that can help give our immune system a boost. These small seeds have big [...]

Smiling at the memory of teaching my hands on farm to table cooking class at Esalen Institute and showing how to make these delicious, absolutely scrumptious Chocolate Chip Hazelnut Brownies, [...]

Fun to eat chocolate chocolate chip waffles with my daughter Emily. I like the chocolatey flavor of teff flour. Adding either organic, fair trade, cocoa and cacao make delicious waffles. I also [...]

In honor of my 65th birthday and party, my daughters Emily and Michelle visited. We played, went swimming, cooked together and ate lots of yummy meals. They helped me celebrate and make the party [...]

Organic Cacao Truffles, these are my daily treats and super foods. With magnesium rich cacao for my energy, stamina, healthy skin and strong bones, just to name a few of the many benefits, I love [...]

In my world organic cacao and/or chocolate goes with everything. Even in height of strawberry season, I am thinking about how great these cashew coconut cocoa pops are with fresh strawberries. [...]

Summer has come and gone and now it is the time to harvest and gather ourselves, dream big, shine our light, and cook up nourishing organic meals, feasts for all our senses. To inspire your home [...]

Today, I made Organic Cacao Cashew Truffles, easy to make, high energy, nutritious snack, gluten-free and vegan. I have made them before, but this time swapped out the cacao butter and used [...]

A Conversation with Leslie Cerier, “The Organic Gourmet” (Leslie is featured in The Breast Archives documentary) This interview is also posted on June 26, 2017     [...]

The difference between cacao and cocoa is that cacao is raw; cocoa is roasted. Cocoa is darker than the raw cacao. Some folks think that raw foods have more minerals than cooked cocoa. Cacao and [...]

“Gather Ingredients grown with love: cook and serve with love.” Leslie Cerier February 19-26, 2016, I taught 2 hands on organic, vegetarian, farm to table cooking workshops at Esalen [...]

You might say, I am a cacao-aholic*. I love very dark chocolate, too. So for my birthday, I made a variation of the Chocolate Chip Çhevre Cheesecake I developed for Equal Exchange. Cacao gives [...]