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Author Archives: Susanna Balston

Susanna is a qualified professional Interior Designer, with over 10 years experience in commercial interior design. Graduating in Interior Design at Kingston University in 1996, she worked in several retail design consultancies before working for the highly successful design consultancy, iDEA, in 2000, where she later became an associate for the company. Over the years Susanna has worked for many prestigious clients, including Royal Sun Alliance, The Bank of New York, BBC, Sky, Prudential, Karrimor, Schuch and Dixons.

Whilst working for iDEA, Susanna came across raw food and began to quickly realise its huge benefits but, frustrated that raw food was still relatively unknown, with little support in restaurants and food stores, Susanna took the plunge to create her own interior design business, focused predominantly towards raw food. This was developed to help people create their own raw food restaurants, cafes and retails stores, as well as for organisation in the kitchen to support a raw food lifestyle.

In summer 2008, Susanna travelled to California to the Living Light Culinary Arts Institute and graduated as an associate chef under Cherie Soria. It was here where she learned the principles of creating delicious raw food meals that taste as good as cooked and the organisation required to create raw food recipes.

My Easter Weekend

It has been a very eventful and wonderful Easter weekend. I’ve been up in Scotland this last week visiting friends and family and the weather has been perfect for the whole time.
On Saturday night I was treated out to see the Australian Pink Floyd concert in Dunfermline. If anyone is a fan of Pink Floyd [...]

Australian Pink Floyd, Dunfermline

Duke of Gloucester signing the Clinton Devon visitors book

Raw Vegetable Stir Fry at http://blog.rawbydesign.co.uk/

Raw Stir Fried Vegetables

Well, I have been pretty busy finishing off a new Raw Kitchen Interior Design Study Course that will be run over a conference phone system and the internet. It has taken a while, but it has now finally launched on the web site.
Yesterday, I really did fancy something a little cooked. I still haven’t been [...]

Raw Stir Fry Vegetables

1 ½ cup of broccoli florets cut into small pieces
6-8 Chestnut mushrooms sliced
1 Sweet red pepper
½ cup of peas
Large handful of green beans cut into quarters
3 tomatoes chopped into small pieces
1 red onion chopped into small pieces
¼ cup of olive oil
2 tablespoons of Nama Shoyu or Soya Sauce
1 clove of garlic crushed
Pinch of Pink Himalayan [...]

A raw vegan commercial interior design especially developed for those who want to promote raw food at http://blog.rawbydesign.co.uk/

Kale Salad Recipe: http://blog.rawbydesign.co.uk/

Kale Salad

Yesterday, I was not feeling so well at all. I have no idea why. My food has been really good, consuming green smoothies, kale green salads and either nut dips or nakd raw bars for something to keep the chocolate or dirty foods at bay. It just seemed to be a 24-hour thing and it [...]

Kale Salad

1 bag of kale
2 small/medium carrots shredded
1 sweet corn cob
1 sweet red pepper
8-10 cherry tomatoes cut in half
½ cup of raisins
¼ cup of olive oil
Juice from one lemon
Pinch of Pink Himalayan salt or sea salt
Directions:
1. Wash kale and remove any hard stalks. Roughly cut into smaller pieces.
2. Place kale into a large bowl and add olive oil, [...]