tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67231074073214026222024-03-19T01:46:51.913-07:00nOshin with Chef EJChef EJ is a Certified Raw/Vegan Personal Chef, Certified Raw Food Coach, Certified Raw Foods Nutrition Specialist, Educator and runs a Personal Chef Service called Nosh In. She is also a professional photographer and is truly enjoying creating the photos for this blog.
This blog has recipes, health tips, ways to live lightly on the earth and in harmony with yourself, others and nature.
Nosh In is located in beautiful Victoria BC CanadaEJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-4281780657475349272010-07-13T10:47:00.001-07:002010-07-13T10:47:57.194-07:00Are you ready to find your inner glow?Have you ever woken up and looked in the mirror and wondered who the heck was looking back at you ? Within the last year, so many changes have happened, that when I look in the mirror, or photographs, I can hardly believe that is me.You see.. all my adult life, I have had a very slender body, anFrom: http://ping.fm/SEGcWEJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-88307694419842632622009-12-04T04:49:00.000-08:002009-12-04T05:42:39.962-08:00Muppets and Holiday Healing and ChocolateYou may be wondering what has been happening in the Nosh In world over the last while....So, I'll let you in on what has been going on.Lots of transition as we decided to pursue teaching about nutrition and healthy lifestyle as well as going more into creating a new branch of Nosh in which is called Haute Chocolate Monde This is our new line of Organic, Fairtrade, Raw, Eco-Sustainable, Healthy, EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-6245880426377951822009-08-26T09:10:00.000-07:002009-08-26T09:32:10.977-07:00Seeing Pink !I saw this great pink fridge today on the site www.inthekitchen.comI love pink !!( Even their mixer on top of the fridge is pink !)I also have a little girl who has been so pink focused that often I SEE PINK everywhere !Lately I have been seeing it in the meadows and by the fields in the way ofRed Clover. ( which to me looks pink)Benefits of Red ( PINK) CloverSweet Edible FlowersBlood EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-8078284036161053762009-08-26T08:54:00.000-07:002009-08-26T09:03:28.993-07:00Free Book Offer ~Dani and I are continuing to put time into getting Simple Everyday Raw Recipes to you as soon as we can ! It was so much fun to make recipe, write them out and take the pictures. It is going to be so worth the wait for you to get this fun book !!!In the meantime, while waiting to get this launched, I JUST got in my own Email box a FREE book from Joe Vitale ( it is a e book version he is EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-67996777760996295682009-08-14T04:54:00.000-07:002009-08-14T05:20:31.998-07:00Free Downloadable CUTE Grocery ListsCute is the best way to describe these great grocery list downloads I found while looking through a curbly post today ! They can be found at the Kodak download site here.I love the dancing carrot. The bunny and the tortoise are great too.We are trying to get a bit more organized in our space these days. We have mountains of chocolate molds, cookie cutters, cake pans and cupcake holders to find EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-36646576400107686402009-08-07T05:55:00.000-07:002009-08-07T06:19:25.307-07:00Craving CrazinessThe last few days I have been have a 'craving' for something. Problem is, I just could not figure out what that craving could be .Has that ever happened to you ? You go to the fridge, the cupboards or the freezer and rummage around looking for that 'just right' thing to satisfy you ?I have been using a process of checking in with myself to know if the food I have in my hands, or am considering EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-40864043225323886852009-08-04T02:26:00.000-07:002009-08-07T06:18:33.939-07:00What's new ??Dani and I have been so busy getting things ready for all of you to see !!!I finished writing the 5 day mini e-course. Wow! My first e-course, and I think you will really benefit from the simple, yet powerful principles in it.Then, there is the Recipe Book!! Yup, you have been asking for months for a recipe book, and I have been working on it in so many ways. This week it is all the recipes EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-897276482395724942009-07-24T07:18:00.000-07:002009-08-04T02:48:09.090-07:00City folks eat for freeThere has been an excitement growing in me as the summer has progressed. I really want to share my reason for this with you.Can you keep a secret ? I eat for free! Ok,, you may be wondering WHO is feeding me .. free ?? Yup.. free! I just walk up the street and plums literally fall in my path. Ta da! Know , if I did not know this was an edible plum, I may have just walked right by. But, I had my EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-27376103797656682872009-07-23T07:07:00.000-07:002009-08-04T02:47:19.872-07:00Raw Blackforest CakeOh boy.. I had been waiting ALL winter for this time of year! It finally happend!! Cherries, cherries, cherries! What a bumper Crop we have had !!So, in honour of all that cherry goodness,, I did something I have wanted to do for a LONG time!I made a Raw Blackforest Cake. Dani and I are trying some new techniques we are learning through the Sweet Gratitude book. The raw dessert book from the EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-18886857102796913572009-07-21T01:54:00.001-07:002009-07-21T02:07:11.774-07:00Banana SplitLast Thursday we had a class on making Raw Banana Splits at Planet Organic in Victoria BC.The class was awesome!!We had many people return from other days, and had some new people who came up to me and said.. " EJ, we were told to come to these classes because they are SO good!! I Loved your class.. thank you !"I must admit, I find it spectacular when people get so much good out of my classes, EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-1701312444379672952009-07-19T02:10:00.001-07:002009-07-19T02:10:24.658-07:00Learning how to use ping.fm MORE learning!! I think my brain is tired.EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-18779199028068422222009-07-15T20:26:00.000-07:002009-07-15T20:36:44.904-07:0010 Easy Budget ways to Eat Raw!I Just posted this to Raw Fu today, responding to Wendysmiling question... Raw on A Tight Budget.Thought it would be GREAT idea to have it on my blog too!!! ( seeing as I have not figured out entirely how to link things yet.)You can find the forum at this link, Raw Fu Forum .Here are some things that I do that bring me joy as well as lots of yummy things to eat. AND then I just feel ABUNDANT EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-17224893626525188172009-07-15T20:08:00.000-07:002009-07-15T20:16:31.405-07:00Raw Banana Split ClassTomorrow Is BANANA SPLIT DAYThe plans are all in placeChef EJ ( ME!) will be teaching this class with my lovely assistant Dani to help out .Thurs. July 166:30 -7:30 pmPlanet OrganicMckenzie Ave and Quadra St.Victoria BCYou will learn how to make a scrumptious guilt free... RAW Banana SplitThese Recipes will be shown at the class and you will be given the print outs of them too!Super Fast and EasyEJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-27652415998003113782009-07-15T05:06:00.000-07:002009-07-15T20:25:50.001-07:00Treasures to be found !!I have been taking the time to really get to know my neighbourhood by foot the last few weeks. Since I live in an area where there are many coves, I have been finding the very coolest flowers and places. These beautiful Lavender I used to make some Lavender Cashew Creme. I did not use very much lavender, but boy! How supremely strong they are in a bit of creme! Especially when just picked. I tookEJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-76989703640774351232009-07-09T04:36:00.001-07:002009-07-13T02:50:14.116-07:00New and Exciting!I have been working on so many new things for bringing to light to both my local community and the larger worldwide community!! I am SOOO excited to share them all.To be fair, Dani and I have been both been working on them.I hope to be able to launch the entire package together , but it may happen in a few pieces over a month or so.We are revamping the nOsh in website to reflect all the changes EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-35172690404143599152009-07-09T04:05:00.000-07:002009-07-09T04:35:19.029-07:00Gray And Dreary Outside..What a difference the weather seems to make for me.It has been so gray and dreary the last couple of days.. all I want to do is stick my head under the covers and hide.I am much too practical for that in so many ways ! Today though, I was told.. go to bed, lie down and cover up, by my mom and dad. They insisted a bit of a rest would make me feel better. And taking a break really did.. though I EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-29274175728050368912009-07-04T23:48:00.000-07:002009-07-05T01:46:24.443-07:00Canada Day foragings...Canada came this year with less of a bang than it often does. We chose to stay home, and not do any public things at all! ( oh, yes, it is a few days PAST Canada Day,, which was July 1)It was great to just let go of the pressure I often feel when it come to going to any kind of event. Especially BIG events. I am not really a crowd person. My kids are not either, so it works out pretty well.So, EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-7568707715868891242009-06-25T05:26:00.000-07:002009-06-25T05:39:06.058-07:00Dads CakeThe other day was Father's day. When I asked what my daughter wanted to do for her dad, she said 'Make a cake'. Sooooo we made a cake! A great new recipe that will go into the new cookbook we are working on right now.We usually try to find what we have in the house, this makes the process go much faster. So... this day we had Mangoes, and started from there.Willow wanted a marble swirly EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-48994295036234716962009-06-24T00:27:00.000-07:002009-06-24T00:55:32.549-07:00Local Cheery-nessThere are so many amazing things going on lately that I barely have time to think about them before a NEW one emerges!Lots of incredible ideas, recipes, thoughts on new things to write about, questions to answer and experiences to share!I wonder if any of you have any suggestions for a great place to put all this incredible creative energy that is flowing out of me!I have thought of doing a 'EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-39844631767799806002009-06-17T06:31:00.000-07:002009-06-23T05:51:21.160-07:00Sun TeaWe have a wonderful abundance of Lemon Balm growing in our garden. Actually, not just our garden, but in many gardens and fields and any empty space it seems in the neighbourhood!Lemon Balm is a wonderful herb, very prolific. It is part of the Mint Family, so grows very well. It is beneficial for many uses.. here are some culinary and medicinal uses. I found this information on the epicentre.com,EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-77226376263644729462009-06-15T23:56:00.000-07:002009-06-17T16:45:46.051-07:00My 3 Year Anniversary Raw!Today is the day three years ago I decided to raw. ALL raw. No transition time, just from one way of eating, to another.I did not make a cake though, to celebrate. I even forgot about it until I noticed the date when my daughter was on the computer, and I kept thinking,, June 16 hmm.. June 16... what is special about this day ?? It took me quite a while to put it together, but as I was reading EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-59881324125183973562009-06-12T04:23:00.000-07:002009-06-12T05:16:13.151-07:00I Scream , we all Scream for Ice Cream!Have you been to the grocery store lately and seen the size of the ice cream section ??? WOW!! What a selection ! I scanned the grocery store ice cream aisle tonight and saw shelf upon shelf of frozen desserts. They came in all sizes from the 500 ml ( pint sized) Haagen Daz kind to the 4 litre never-turns-liquid- EVER variety. ( When I was a teenager, I discovered that this was true! )There is EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-6275584070786339152009-06-12T01:15:00.001-07:002009-06-23T10:40:24.251-07:00Almonds.. a long post!I have been getting a lot of questions about almonds these days.. as I have posted in other blogs. Today I went searching for more information of the Almond Question.First a little history. In 2007 The Almond Board in the US decided that due to 2 events where there were almonds recalled due to salmonella contamination in the previous 5 Years . This is what they had to say: "the industry EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-44353511736347048242009-06-10T23:22:00.000-07:002009-06-11T00:17:26.194-07:00What a great class!!!Tonight we had a Record number of people at the Raw Food Class at Planet Organic. There was standing room only, as the store filled up with over 35 people! We even had a few children! It was great!!! So many wonderful questions too.. ones that I would like to take some time answering over the next little while if I can. Some questions just keep coming up.. like the almond question. I am going to EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6723107407321402622.post-8736538944804929422009-06-10T16:56:00.000-07:002009-06-10T17:27:21.738-07:00Almond YogurtI love yogurt.. Strawberry flavour especially. So much in fact, that last month, for Mother's Day, I taught a class on how to make it, and also how to make Parfaits with it! It was a great class! So many wonderful responses to the ease and deliciousness of the parfaits.What I did NOT do, was send out the recipe , as I had promised! Life just got ahead of me, and I found myself doing other EJ Shameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072599976086976651noreply@blogger.com0