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Pear Crumble

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We have a pear tree in the garden so I’ve had lots of ripe pears recently. Yesterday I made a pear crumble:

For the topping I used hazelnuts, soaked sunflower seeds, soaked pumpkin seeds, soaked sesame seeds, dates and a few cacao nibs. I put everything into a food processor and processed until a good crumble topping formed.

For the filling, I chopped the pears and put in to the food processor with a few tablespoons of lucuma powder. I processed on pulse briefly so that the mixture was still a little chunky.

Spain and France

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I’ve been on holiday to Spain and France for a couple of weeks.  I was half planning to do a bit of a photo blog as I travelled, but I forgot the lead for my camera so couldn’t do that, but it might have been for the best so I didn’t spend the whole of my holiday on the computer!  So here are a few of the best shots from my trip.

I started out in Orgiva where I used to live but didn’t really take many photos, so the first couple are in Zaragoza, northern Spain:

Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar, Zaragoza (Spain)

Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar, Zaragoza (Spain) (Detail)

This is near Jaca, Spain, which is on the edge of the Pyrenees, I went on a couple of good walks around here:
Puente san Miguel, Jaca (Spain)

And this is near where my parents live in south west France:
Crocus

Chocolate Love Bar

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Chocolate Love Bar Chocolate Love Bar

I got my first order from Jess’s new online shop Total Raw Food today. I got some lucuma powder for experimenting with my own chocolate recipes and I got a Chocolate Love Bar to see how the pros do it! As with anything like this, I couldn’t resist opening it straight away so I had chocolate for breakfast. It’s delicious, a bit sweeter than some of the other raw chocolates which is what I like.

We’ve just started selling some other chocolates by Jess, it’s a gift wrapped pack of 15 chocolates. Edit: we’ve got some Love Bars in the Funky Raw shop now…

White Chocolate Pudding

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If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you may know that I have chocolate pudding for breakfast everyday. Well, today I fancied a change and made white chocolate pudding.

The following ingredients are soaked overnight:

The rest of the ingredients:

First, drain and rinse the hemp seeds and then blend with the soak water from the dried fruit and a bit more water. Strain through a muslin bag or cheesecloth to make hemp milk. Then put all the rest of the ingredients in the blender (drain and rinse the nuts and seeds first) along with the hemp milk and blend until smooth. I usually stir in a tablespoon of flax oil for my omega 3’s before serving. Mmm, delicious.

Raw Magic Cafe Opening Party

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I went to Brighton yesterday for the opening party of Kate Wood’s new café “Raw Magic“. It’s in a great location in the Indoor Market on Ship Street.

Kate on the right

Many people turned up to celebrate including Shazzie and David Wolfe.

Shazzie eating her lunch!

As was to be expected, the food was delicious. First were a few finger foods, the nori rolls were amazing! Then the main course – spaghetti (made from courgette) and pasta sauce, “meat balls”, flax crackers and salad, all up to the usual high standard. Then David Wolfe gave a motivating talk on restoring paradise on earth. He put into words a lot of what I believe. A great quote he recited is “where the attention goes, the energy flows”, we need to keep focussed on the positive.

He talked about how the sea contains every mineral in existence and how to make use of that by watering our plants (particularly food such as wheatgrass) with sea water diluted with 10 parts rainwater or distilled water. He continued that plants that have all minerals available to them can deal with any pest or disease.

David Wolfe

Desert was tiramisu or apple pie, I had the tiramisu which was delicious but Jess let me taste her apple pie and that was also amazing.

The Menu

As we were leaving, Kate gave us all one of her new chocolate bars “Be The Change”. They’ve got crystal mana and etherium gold in them and we’ll be selling them very soon in the Funky Raw shop…

Brockley Nature Reserve

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There is a nature reserve just round the corner from where I live but it is permenantly closed. Well, until today, when it was open for a couple of hours in the afternoon, so I jumped at the chance to go and have a look. Here are a few photos, click to enlarge:

Autumn Colours

Flower

Flower with water droplets

Goji Berries in Supermarkets?

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Goji BerriesToday must be the day of the Goji Berry or something is what I thought as orders for Goji Berries increased 800% today. I decided to investigate a little, and I found this in the Sunday Mirror. I’m guessing it was in the printed version also.

A few quotes: “A SUPER-FRUIT said to slow ageing. boost sex drive and fight cancer hits Britain’s supermarket shelves for the first time tomorrow.”

“Goji berries – dubbed “natural viagra” – are already available in the US and are all the rage with stars like Madonna, Kate Moss and Jodie Kidd.”

Well, it’s good for business at least! You can buy organic goji berries at Detox Trading.

Mushrooms, Seaweed and Chocolate Milk…

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I expanded the mushroom sauce recipe from a couple of days ago and did this:

  • a large handful of mushrooms
  • approx 30g of sea spaghetti, soaked for 20 mins
  • half a red pepper
  • a spring onion
  • an avocado
  • small piece of chili

I put everything including the soak water into the blender and blended until smooth. I served with mixed wild greens and grated carrot.

A bit later I made a very simple chocolate hemp milk drink:

I made hemp milk with the hemp seeds and the soak water from the dates (blend and then strain, I use a sprout bag to strain the hemp milk through). Then put the hemp milk back into the blender with the dates and choc powder and blend until you have a smooth chocolate milk.

Mushroom sauce

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Mmm, just made a delicious mushroom sauce which reminded me of the cooked mushroom sauce my mum used to make:

  • 1 avocado
  • a handful of mushrooms
  • about 20g of sea spaghetti, soaked for 20 mins

Chuck it all in the blender, including the soak water and blend. I served it with a large plate of wild greens (what else!) with some spring onion chopped up and mixed in.