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Thai Coconut Curry

This was a first attempt at this kind of recipe and I was pleased with the results. The consistency was great, although I will definatly experiment a bit more with the spices:

  • water from a young coconut (a bit more than half)
  • flesh from young coconut (maybe a quater of the coconut)
  • 1/2 red pepper
  • 1 small avocado
  • 1 stick of lemon grass
  • fresh chili
  • fresh ginger
  • 1 tsp corriander seeds
  • 1 tsp cumin powder
  • dried basil (maybe 1 tsp, I didn’t measure it)

Everything except the avocado went into the blender and was blended up, then I added the avocado and blended a bit more. Depending on what your blender is like, you might want to grind the corriander seeds first (or use ground corriander which I would have done if I’d had any).

Add comment April 17th, 2007

Banana Chocolate Milkshake

Another milkshake recipe, I just made this and it was delicious!

First, I gound up 4 tablespoons of cacao nibs, about half a teaspoon of bee pollen and a bit of vanilla pod and set aside.

Then I made milk by blending the meat from about 1/3 of a mature coconut, 4 tablespoons of sesame seeds and half a blood orange with some water and then straining in a hemp milk bag.

Then I put the milk, the ground ingredients from before, 3 fresh dates (use soaked dates if you don’t have fresh ones), the other half of the orange, 1 banana and a little of the pulp from the milk into the blender and gave it a whizz.

If I’d have had any aloe vera, I would have put that in too, I’ve been craving it a bit and need to get some more.

Hope you enjoy it as much as me!

Add comment March 13th, 2007

Coconut milkshake mark 2

Freshly inspired by the David Wolfe video to try using aloe vera again, I made a coco-choco-carob-aloe-vanilla milkshake.

Ingredients (as always, very approximate!):

Coconut milk

  • about half a brown coconut
  • water

Blend and strain to make the coconut milk.

  • 3 tablespoons of cacao nibs
  • 1/3 vanilla pod (could maybe have done with a bit more)
  • 2 tablespoons carob powder
  • 3 dates
  • gel from one small aloe vera leaf

Put the cacao and vanilla in the blender on their own first to grind them to a powder then put everything else in with the milk and blend. It’s not very smooth as the cacao nibs don’t grind very finely but it is delicious… enjoy… love Rob

4 comments February 26th, 2007

Peanut Sesame Cake

I bought a bag of peanuts yesterday and have been experimenting, here’s a nice cake recipe I came up with:

  • 40g peanuts
  • 4 tablespoons sesame seeds
  • 2 tablespoons cacao nibs
  • a small piece of vanilla pod
  • 5 dates, soaked

I ground up everything except the dates in my seed mill. I then added the dates and ground some more (maybe do this bit in a food processor depending on what equipment you are using).

Roll into balls to serve.

Add comment February 12th, 2007

Spicy Tomato Sauce

Tonights salad sauce, similar but different:

  • 2 tomatoes
  • 4 sundried tomatoe halves, soaked
  • a small amount of sea spaghetti, soaked, with soak water (I didn’t weigh it, but maybe only 5 grams)
  • 1 date, soaked
  • 1/2 yellow pepper
  • 1/2 carrot
  • 1 avocado
  • 1 tsp corriander seeds
  • a few pieces of fresh chili
  • a sprinkling of herbs de Provence
  • a small piece of fresh ginger

I blended it all together and it was delicious, I put a good amount of chili in it. I had it with a bowl full of baby spinach and some wild hedge garlic.

Add comment February 12th, 2007

Peanut Curry

I made a delicious sauce to go on my greens today, but I didn’t weigh or measure everything, I was just adding stuff and playing around, but I think I can remember everything that went in:

  • 35g peanuts
  • 20g coconut
  • 1 tsp corriander seeds

I ground these up in my seed grinder first and then put in the blender with the following

  • 5 cherry tomatoes
  • 1 avocado
  • a couple of handfulls of wild garlic leaves
  • some wild chives
  • date soak water
  • lemon juice (a bit less than half a lemon)
  • fresh chili
  • tumeric
  • garam masala
  • cumin powder
  • water

Blend until smooth and creamy, adding water as necessary.

Add comment February 11th, 2007

Raw curry

I attempted to make a sweet chili sauce and what I ended up with was the best raw curry I’ve ever made!

This is what I put in the blender:

  • 3 dates, soaked for about 4 hours, plus the soak water
  • 3 sundried tomato halves, soakes for about 4 hours
  • 1/2 red pepper
  • 1/2 carrot
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 1 tsp corriander seeds
  • 1/4 tsp ground cumin
  • about 1/2 tsp of chili powder (I’m a bit unsure of the exact amount as I added it in a bit at a time)
  • 1 avocado
  • 1/4 tsp agave nectar
  • a couple of handfulls of wild greens including some chives, wild garlic, sorrel and dandelion
  • 3 tablespoons of soak water from sea spaghetti (just the soak water, I ate the sea spaghetti yesterday) - I guess if you don’t have this then some seaweed flakes or a small amount of salt would create a similar flavour

I think that was everything! I blended it all up and poured it over a large dish of wild greens, and it reminded me so much of eating [cooked] curry!

Add comment February 5th, 2007

Quick and easy pudding #247

It’s the old favourite in one of it’s infinate variations - banana and sesame:

Banana and Sesame Pudding

I ground up maybe 80g of sesame seeds with 1 tablespoon of cacao nibs and a bit of vanilla pod. I mashed this up with a banana and and a teaspoon of mesquite and a teaspoon of hemp leaf green superfood.

The basics of the recipe are the ground sesame seeds (or tahini) and the banana. Any number of other things can be added, I often use spirulina but I fancied a changed today. If I want something really sweet I’ll mix in a bit of agave or carob powder.

2 comments January 24th, 2007

Golden Cream Pie

I just made Golden Cream Pie, one of Holly’s recipes. It was great, although not quite as good as when Holly makes it!

(Also, I didn’t have dried cherries, so I used fresh ones, which made the base not very base like!)

Add comment January 23rd, 2007

Dehydrator Radiator

I made myself a dehydrator:

dehydrator-radiator.jpg

Ok, not quite. I worked out how to dry stuff using my radiator! I’ve been using this method to melt my cacao butter for a while now, then started drying some orange peel for making the orange oil which then led me to try and dehydrate a cookie…

So I was experimenting with a recipe for a cake base and I thought “mmm, this would make a good choc chip cookie, so I added some currants and, there it is:

Raw Chocolate Chip Cookie Ingredients:

I put everything except the currants into the food processor and processed until the texture was ‘cake like’ (took quite a while, kept having to stop and stir it up a bit). I then added the currants and processed briefly. I ate most of it as it was and dried one cookie for an hour or two, but I think if you have a dehydrator it might make good cookies. You might want to add more cacao powder, 1tsp doesn’t make them very chocolaty.

2 comments January 23rd, 2007

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