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

• water from a young coconut (a bit more than half)
• flesh from young coconut (maybe a quarter of the coconut)
• 1/2 red pepper
• 1 small avocado
• 1 stick of lemon grass
• fresh chili
• fresh ginger
• 1 tsp coriander 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 coriander seeds first (or use ground coriander which I would have done if I’d had any).

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!

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

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.