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Hemp Pudding

I made this for lunch. It filled me up so much, didn’t eat another thing until salad in the evening and even then I stuggled with that!

As ever, all measurements are approximate. Soaked ingredients were soaked for about 3 hours, a bit longer than this is probably good. There quantities were just for myself (although it might serve 2 if you’re not quite as greedy as me!)
Soaked ingredients:

• 150g hemp seeds
• 50g sesame seeds
• 20g pumpkin seeds
• 20g hazelnuts
• 3 dried figs
• 3 dried apricots
• handful currants

Fresh/dry ingredients

• 1 banana
• 2 sharon fruit (persimmons)
• piece of fresh coconut meat
• 1 tsp coconut butter
• 1/4 tsp maca powder
• 1/4 tsp hemp leaf powder
• 1 heaped tsp raw chocolate powder
• 1 tablespoon cacao nibs
• 1 tablespon of flax seeds (I’m sure it would have been better to soak these but I forgot)

Put everything, including the soak water from the dried fruit into a blender and blend. I might have added a bit of water, I can’t remember. I didn’t make it completly smooth, it was crunchy and I liked it like that. I think to make it smooth would need a fair bit of water.

Now, on the surface it might look a bit like the chocolate pudding recipe, but the main difference is that you don’t make hemp milk, the whole hemp seeds go into the blend and this is what makes it particularly filling.

Hope you like it! Rob

Add comment February 6th, 2006

Ayahuasca

I’ve mentioned ayahuasca a couple of times, I thought it was time to do a full post on it. If you don’t know, ayahuasca is a shamanic brew made from various ingredients, we’ve been using Banisteriopsis Caapi and Psychotria viridis. We boil it up for about 10 hours with some satsumas (or oranges), here’s Holly’s complete description of how we make it.

If you take a large enough dose, it will take you on a “trip”.  My first time was in Spain with the Santo Diame.  It was a full on experience and at times I was very scared and I didn’t think I was ever going to come back!  Although other parts of it were very enjoyable.

I drank ayahuasca again under very different circumstances, at a friends house in Cornwall and had a much more enjoyable experience.  From this I now drink a small amout of ayahuasca on a daily basis, between 5 and 10ml, it doesn’t cause any obvious major effects but I’m sure it helps.  Research suggests that the brain used to produce a lot more DMT and due to things not working like they should anymore, this isn’t happening.  So the ayahuasca is basically a nutritional suppliment.

So, if anyone living in Devon is interesting in experience ayahuasca for them selves, we are doing an “Ayahuasca Experience” on Saturday, at our house near Totnes.  More info and booking over at Funky Raw.

The ingredients for ayahuasca can be bought from Deva Ethnobotanicals although if you’re going to try it I reccomend you read up more about it and do it with a good friend.

2 comments February 6th, 2006