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Nature's Chef Private Holistic Chef Tom Kral offers private dinner experiences, wildfood workshops, foraging tours, retreats and community events. Private Holistic Chef

He has been serving the Vancouver Island community since 2012 and has over 25 years of prosessional cooking experience🔥🔪

11/04/2026

Everyone has been loving the Pumpkin Cashew Cheesecake, so here's the recipe🎃
And it's even better when you use actual roasted sugar pumpkins and local ginger since it's all available now at the farmers market.

3 cups raw cashews, soaked
1 Tbsp ACV
1/2 cup coconut milk
100gm melted coconut oil
1/2 cup maple syrup
1/2 cup icing sugar
2 cup roast pumpkin puree
1 pinch sea salt
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1 pinch cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla extract

Add all ingredients into high speed blender and blend until smooth and creamy. Pour into cake pan with a crust of your choice, then let set overnight for best results.

Enjoy😋

10/29/2026

Countdown to tomorrow's pit-cook harvest feast!!🎃
Still some space to join the autumn festivities🔥 This is our annual tradition, a way to celebrate Halloween in the light🌟
Nature-based Community • Tom & Kait

See more details on my site cal
https://natureschef.ca/calendar

Calendar link also in bio💚

We hope to see you there👻

10/29/2026

Found my fav mushroom!! The Bears Head🐻🍄‍🟫
In the tooth family, similar to lions mane. It's similar to crab meat when you sauté it, I also like it pickled as it lasts longer rather than eating it in one go.

Here my picked mushroom recipe, which you can use with all kinds of other mushrooms, ones that stay firm when cooked.

Recipe:
4 cup pickling vinegar
1 cup water
1/4 cup salt
Pickling spice (coriander seeds, mustard seeds, peppercorns, bay leaves, fenugreek)
3 x Garlic cloves, sliced

Directions;
- clean mushrooms from debris using brush
- sterilize mason jars (2 x 500ml wide mouth)
- blanch mushrooms in boiling salted water for 2 min
- place pickle brine ingredients in pot and simmer for 10min
- pack mushrooms in jars
- pour hot brine into jar, place lid on jar immediately
- you can keep like this for several weeks in the fridge, or option to can in water bath

Happy hunting🙌🍄

Wild Christ Brotherhood🔥✝️🏕️November 13-15, 2026 Christ & Spirit, Creation, Provision & Brotherhood. Gather around the f...
10/28/2026

Wild Christ Brotherhood🔥✝️🏕️
November 13-15, 2026

Christ & Spirit, Creation, Provision & Brotherhood.

Gather around the fire and deepen your earth skills.

Many men are looking for purpose and salvation, but without a compass, this path isn’t easy to find.

The truth is that we have actually been provided with everything we need.

Psalms 23

This is not about a religion, this is a relationship with what our Creator created, connecting to the source of all being.

It’s time now that we come together to live in harmony with nature, and to protect and provide for our families and communities.

“Here I am, send me”
Isaiah 6:8

Stoked to be offering this with my bro D'Arcy D'Arcy Los Strategy It's been on our hearts for sometime, we now invite you to camp in the Wild with Christ as our Light.

What does it look like to live with Christ as our guide?

Outside the walls, in creation, in
community, as we were designed.

Join us in training in earth-based skills such as foraging plants & fungi, tracking creatures, creating tools from the landscape, strengthening our bodies with cold plunges and martial arts - all underpinned by the lessons Christ shared.

Jesus didn't just come to “preach” or give us a set of beliefs - He openly demonstrated a way of living that is much more aligned with our divine nature.

He broke cultural norms, living in close relationship to the earth, food, water, people and Spirit.

He came to remind us that we’ve already been given everything we need to live lives of abundance, we just need to remember who we are, and why we’re here.

“I came that they may have life, and have it to the full.”
John 10:10

Grounded in Christ and led by Spirit.

Do you have the call to step into this container?
DM to get more details and to secure your space, limited group size as we will be out in the bush.





10/23/2026

Sunset rays blessings the meal🌅🍽️✨
Appy spread🌿
Carrot Caraway Crackers
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Sourdough Focaccia, Sea Lettuce, Rosemary
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Beet Cultured Nut Cheese
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Bolote Mushroom Strudel, SSI Goats Chèvre,
Truffle Aioli
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Hot Smoked Sockeye Salmon
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Cucumber Salad, Dill, Spruce Tip Vinaigrette

10/15/2026

And then there was the turkey🦃🤤
This was the best Turkey I ever roasted, and I roasted a lot of turkeys over my years🧑‍🍳

Van Isle free range, brined in 3 cup sea salt to 13.5L of water.

Let it brine for at least 24hrs, up to 48hrs.
Add some aromatics to it like sage, rosemary, thyme, peppercorns, bay leaf, mugwort. I heat up the brine first to extract the flavour, then cool down and add the Turkey.

After I remove the Turkey and rub with butter and more herbs, then smoke in offset smoker with cherry wood, you can use maple too. Hot smoked for 3 hrs. Baste with more butter and herbs as it cooks.

Then I put in the oven with lid on with water in the pan so it steams, kinda like pulled pork style, cook until it falls off the bone.

That's it!🦃
Grateful everyday for what is provided from the source🙏

10/07/2026

Mushroom Workshop Recap🍄‍🟫💫
Nature-based Community • Tom & Kait
After going through identifying edible mushrooms we popped popcorn and dusted with porcini powder, baked mushroom bread and ate with wh***ey flambé chanterelles and balsamic boletes. Also with a side of medicinal mushroom tea☕️✨

If you missed this one I've got one more workshop coming up through EMCS Society on Wed.Oct.14th.
3-6pm at Sooke Seaparc.
More details on my site cal
https://natureschef.ca/calendar/

09/30/2026

It's that time of the year to connect deep down to the Wood Wide Web and find some mushrooms!!🍄‍🟫🍄🍄‍🟫 If this is all new to you or your already finding some treasures and want to unlock even more levels of flavours and nutrition then this workshop is for you🫵

Sunday Oct.4th 12-4pm
Metchosin, BC.

What we’ll cover;
🍄How to safely identify
👀Where to find mushrooms
🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒Understanding mushroom families
🌲Reading forest ecology
🍯Preserving methods
🥘Preparing mushrooms so they are delicious
🏥Medicinal mushrooms
☕️Medicine extracting

More details and to sign up👇
https://natureschef.ca/calendar

09/29/2026

Coming back to nourish the High Vibe tribe!!🔥
Popup dinner is set for this coming Friday, Oct.2.
Doors open 6:30, dinner served 7🍽️
High Vibes
Primal Practices
High Vibes Media

MENU
Porcini Rubbed Grilled Chicken Thighs

Smashed Purple Potatoes, H**p Milk, Nettle Greens

Chanterelle Mushroom Gravy

Corn Stuffed Delicata Squash & Pineapple Sage

Slaw - Massaged Kale, Alaria Kelp, Cabbage, Charred Onion, Horsetail Vinegar

Crispy Leeks

Chickweed Greens

*BONUS special dessert option created by Sky 🌹 herbalist

Mushroom Spiced Pumpkin Cupcake🍄‍🟫🧁🎃

*Dairy & Gluten Free!

Be sure to make your reservation, nourish yourself with nature💚

More details and ticket link can be found on my site cal
https://natureschef.ca/calendar

Address

1543 Kangaroo Road
Sooke, BC
V9C4C6

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