High Vibe Cookery Class: transitioning to a plant-based diet

Dear Ann,

congratulation first of all, for your great endeavour at establishing yourself as a cooking coach. This is really needed for so many people right now. I am on the verge of becoming fully vegan for some years now, yet still slipping back to cheese from time to time. Reading your story motivates me again to look closer within myself and seeing how I feel about eating animal products. And the expansion of my consciousness is quite a motivator too.

I was wondering if you are envisioning more conscious online cooking classes or whether there is a new direction you are exploring? Do you see a way to share that with the Openhand community?

What would then be your business offering as per the Spiritual Ecosystem Growth Model from the Facilitator School?

Much love and appreciation,
Thomas 🙏🏼

This was the 2nd Zoom class Ann did today and it was spectacular!

We learned how to make Vegan Cheese Sauce, fermented cabbage (kraut) and Fire Cider (cold and flu remedy)

She shows photos, the recipes, and gives alternatives or add-ins. There's never a dull moment because she makes it so interesting, and I'm always fasting in the mornings so it makes me just ravenously hungry to see all that good stuff she's made!

I write down the recipes but she sends out an email with the recipes and photos in a link or format that's easy for my computer to open and see.

I really encourage y'all to try one of her zoom cooking classes and I bet you'll be hooked on them. They're by donation.

Thank you Ann, I'm eternally grateful for you doing these classes and can't wait to see the one for Sourdough starter to make bread. I love sourdough bread!

Sherri

Ann's first class on Sunday was brilliant, she gave us so much information and inspired us all with her enthusiasm. I've been cooking vegan food for a couple of years and had got into a bit of a rut food-wise, now I feel inspired to be a bit more experimental. Ann clearly knows her stuff both food-wise and nutrition-wise and I leaned loads. I can't wait for the next class in two weeks!

Thank you Ann - your a star🙏

Pam💗

I posted about the synchronicity of getting into the cooking class and now want to say how really great it was. Ann showed us the basic broth recipe but also offered various add-ins we could try. This allows for making various broths and using some creativity with it, which really appeals to me. Then she showed a rice and lentil dish we could make with the broth, and also how to make some crispy lentils by roasting them. There were good photos of the steps she used to in making each recipe.

She showed us a coffee alternative. I've never been a fan of coffee but was intrigued with the dandelion and chicory drink and ingredients that could also be added in. I may actually try this at some point.

The way she presented the class appealed to all 7of us who were there today. I think it was an enjoyable experience and look forward to seeing what other foods she presents in future classes. If you're curious and want to make some vegan recipes, join in and experience it for yourself. She even had some information about detoxing. It was a well-rounded presentation.

Sherri

Ann,

Thank you so much for the instructive class. I loved that you began with basics and that they were easy to make. The broth will be great, as you said, alone or to prepare other dishes with. There is a Japanese farmer at our farmer's market, and she has so many different greens that I have never seen before. I'm just going to purchase them all and put them in the broth or with rice . I like to see a lot of variety in what we can do with vegetables. I would also love to know how to put some density into the meals without raising insulin too much.

Thanks again, and I'm looking forward to future classes.

Helene

I knew I'd seen something about Ann and a Bone broth class but then couldn't find it, so I asked Openhand and got the connection to Ann by email replies from Open and Tilly .

Ann's going to provide a link for us to comment on today's class, which was excellent, but I wanted to say that it all came together in a magical way. I'd just found out about bone broth, looked into it and it's not vegan and I've not eaten meat or used meat broth in over 2 decades. The purpose of the bone broth is to keep your bones strong. So I was thrilled how the synchronicity lined it all up for me to get a super healthy recipe to make my own broth. That store-bought organic veggie broth is highly salted and not that good!

It was almost last minute but I was able to get the info. from Ann and get into the zoom class today, Chrome has issues with their updated zoom connection but my old unsupported zoom still works, thankfully! It always amazes me how I'll learn about something then synchronicity brings that class at the perfect time.

Thank you to everyone who had a hand in making that class happen.

Sherri