Fire and Ice Food Service

Status: Active

What if home cooking only required the use of your Fridge/Freezer and Stove/Oven?

No cutting, or washing. All the prep side, as well as the nutritional foundation is already handled? This is exactly how a Restaurant functions. There are prep cooks and line cooks. When you sit down and order food a line cook takes what has already been prepared by the prep cooks. Assembles the ingredients, heats them to create a dish to serve to the guests. The process is streamlined to effectively feed high volumes. Yet the home cooking process is usually done all at once. Creating a long, tedious, time consuming, and often draining process.

The actual cooking process….Working with Metal and Fire to create a meal….putting ingredients into a pot or pan and cooking is often simple, straight forward, and a fun and engaging process, while taking out a cutting board and knife. Cutting, washing, and prepping everything before hand often feels like a chore.

If home cooking meant no more cutting board/knife, no more working near or around the sink and instead was focused purely on putting things together on the stove top, would you enjoy cooking home meals more?

Convenience is great and all, but at what cost?

Groceries are getting more and more expensive….everything is getting more expensive. Convivence is great and all, but its simply not feasible to drop a paycheck on groceries. That is why this service is designed to effectively make clean organic nourishing meals simple and effective at a cheap and reasonable rate.

I am taking the same processes I have found effective in my own life and simply scaling up. If I am already shopping fresh produce, and processing/prepping them for easy, simple, and sustainable nourishment. It takes less effort to simply do that at a larger scale. Likewise if I am shopping not just for myself but for a community then I am ordering in larger quantities, getting better deals, and we all save money in the process.

Fire Ice Fire Food Technique

The Fire, Ice, Fire technique is designed to turn fresh produce into a freezer friendly state so it can be easily maintained until needed. No worrying about if it is going to go bad, and need to be tossed. It can just sit in the freezer while maintaining quality until needed.

When you freeze something often times the texture just isn’t the same. The reason for that comes down to cellular structure. Take a carrot for example. Nature grows a carrot in a specific form. The carrot is hard and rigid. It holds its form though its cellular structure. Put that carrot in a freezer, and then thaw it and your left with nothing but a limp disappointment.

When water freezes it expands. That expansion disrupts the cellular structure and when that occurs texture is “Off”.

Heat does a similar thing in a different fashion. Temperature is merely the rate of vibration. Cooking is raising that vibration to the point the molecules are vibrating at such a fast pace that the cellular structure is disrupted. Everything moving at that rate becomes ethereal. That is when ingredients intermingle, and fuse with each other. Using fire to bring multiple ingredients together to form a “Dish” is the essence of cooking.

You can boil a carrot, mash it, season it, and then freeze it. Once you thaw it you’ll get back what you put in….

Fire and Ice both disrupt the cellular structure of anything natural. Fire through ordered chaos, and Ice though ordered structure. By using fire first to alter things into a desirable state, then using ice to lock it into place before using fire again to release it. Food can be frozen while maintaining integrity.

I Apply the 1st flame, then freeze it. In that frozen state it is transferred to your home freezer, then you apply the 2nd flame when you are ready to enjoy!

What type of Food is available?

I am a certified Nutritionist/Holistic Nutrition Coach (In addition to 20+ other related certifications). I take that knowledge and combine it with my experience as a chef to create balanced meals. Specifically I have focused on how to get full nutrients through plant based eating. I believe in having the foundation of your diet being sustained by plants, and then supplemented up from there. For example it is actually very easy to get your full source of protein from plants. Proteins are made up of amino acids, plants are rich in amino acids. most just don’t have all essential AAs like meat does. Having the right combination of plants gets you all the protein your body needs. Then from there you simply add everything you personally enjoy to the mix. So if you love eating meat, or a specific type of meat, then you can cook and prepare that how you like it and combine it with the plant based foundation. This method ensures that you are getting all the nutrients your body needs. (Especially all the micro nutrients….vitamins and minerals). while giving space to add everything else you love into the mix.

This results in a meal system that is very open and accessible to most diets. Very vegetarian friendly. As far as Vegan diets I do use a lot of Honey and Ghee (Clarified Butter). The nutritional benefits are simply too great to exclude. In addition quality honey and butter come from Cows and Bees that are properly cared for…..Grass Fed Cows produce higher quality fats.

Main feature is a “Condensed Soup Starter” and Superfood “Nourish Mint Bars“

The “Condensed Soup Starter” and “Nourish Mint Bars” provide all necessary nutrients. The CSS is focused on Protein and Vitamins and Minerals while the NMB are your main source of quality fats, as well as super foods including Adaptogens like Reishi, and Ashwagandha.

Condensed Soup Starter

The Condensed Soup Starter is a basic soup. Lightly seasoned, ready to pair with anything or be enjoyed as is.

The perfect foundation to any soup. Easily stored compactly in your freezer. Just heat water or Broth in a pot and thaw the Condensed Soup Starter in the liquid when ready to cook. Once thawed enjoy as is or add your own favorite things to the soup. (Meats, veggies etc).

Can also be used in a variety of other ways. I like to thaw it in the fridge, then cook a pot of rice, and add the chilled CSS to a hot pot of rice for a quick easily filling meal.

Ingredients: Carrots, Cauliflower, Butternut Squash, Beets, Chickpeas, Qunioa, Lentils, Ghee, Salt, Lemon Juice, Cayenne Pepper, and Nutritional Yeast, Apple Cider Vinegar and Honey

Nourish Mint Bars

The Nourish Mint Bars are essentially Minty Banana Brownies using Oats instead of flour for a fantastic gluten-free snack designed to be filling and give sustained energy. The perfect snack to take with while your on the go.

They make a great frozen treat or can easily be re-baked in the oven. When re-baked the outer layer creates a nice crispy texture while the instead maintains a nice soft center. Recommend drizzling fresh honey when they are hot out the oven.

Note: The NMB are loaded with adaptogens. Adaptogens are a type of super food that when taken on a daily basis have been proven to lower stress levels. As such daily consumption of NMB is recommended.

Ingredients: Banana, Oats, Honey, Ghee, Cacao, Peppermint, Reishi, Ashwagandha, Maca, Cordyceps, Lion’s Mane, Turkey Tail, “Spices”

Supporting Food

Veggie Mash: Easily add veggies to any dish or sauce with this Veggie Mash. Included in Condensed Soup Starter

Protein Mash: Easily add a kick of protein to any dish or sauce with this Protein Mash. Included in Condenser Soup Starter

Spice Blends: Add more depth of flavor to your own cooking. Primary spice blend utilizes nutritional yeast. An under rated vegan cheese replacement, and pairs it with supplemental green herbs, and spices. the perfect addition to any savory dish.

Gaia’s Chocolate: The Adaptogenic Cacao blend used in the Nourish Mint Bars. upgrade your recipes that use chocolate/cacao powder with this adaptogenic boost. Also available on store shelves.

Availability (Kansas City Only)

Service is currently in closed beta form. Being tested with friends and family. Service will soon open to Kansas City. If you would like to sign up to be included when service expands fill out the form below, and have a great day!