I went to a potluck yesterday and I made my own version of the Super Duper Raw Chocolate Fudge recipe. First I made coconut cream from one mature coconut - blend the meat dry in the Vitamix and then squeeze through a nut milk bag. I then mixed the cream with the following:
Just keep mixing until you have a thick chocolate pie filling.
I made my own base, I soaked lots of sunflower seeds and a small amount of pumpkin seeds for a few hours, rinsed and dried then and put them in the food processor with some nice fresh dates. Processed until a pie base consistency - for me it was not thick enough so I added a tablespoon of lucuma to thicken.
I also made a raspberry sauce to serve it with - I blended two punnets of raspberries from the farmers market with a handful of fresh dates and a squirt or two of agave (more dates and less agave and this could have been raspberry jam!)
And of course it was delicious and everyone wanted the recipe - so here you are!
July 29th, 2008
I spotted this video posted on We Like It Raw and I just had to make it (or my version of it, I used agave instead of honey) and it was so delicious that I need to share with you all:
This video shows how to make the coconut cream. If you don’t have a juicer, I made it in my Vitamix by grinding the coconut up (dry) and squeezing through a hemp milk bag.
July 26th, 2008
I’ve been away for a couple of weeks, we went to Sweden and Lithuania with a day trip to Denmark - I’ll post photos from the rest of the trip soon, but I will start with the Fresh Food Festival, Scandinavia’s first raw food festival.
There’s only one place to start, and that’s the food - it was amazing! As you can see from the photos, it was top quality gourmet raw food - pizza, nori, flax crackers, pates, soup, etc, etc. The day started with yoga, then breakfast of a selection of fruits. Throughout the days there were a selection of talks, given in various languages with an English translation, a wild food walk and some food demos.
Apart from the food, the best part of the festival was connecting with raw fooders from a different part of the world - I know what is happening in the UK and US raw food world but I never really knew about the growing network just across the water!
The coast was about half an hours walk away and we found lots of local wild food including raspberries, red currants, various greens and a new berry for me, the June Berry (Amelanchier lamarckii), which is delicious, I’ll be on the lookout for that here in the UK. I have some photos but they are on Jolita’s camera so I will post them as soon as I can.
While I’m on the subject of festivals, don’t forget the Funky Raw Space of Love Gathering coming up very soon (15 to 18th August)…
July 23rd, 2008
