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 struggled 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 oil
• 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 completely 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

The dressing I made for tonight’s salad was quite similar to one I’ve posted before but we both thought it was particularly good and it’s fairly simple so here goes:

• 1 avocado
• 1 red pepper
• 1 1/2 sun dried tomatoes, soaked
• handful of seaweed flakes
• 1/2 tsp hemp leaf powder
• 1/2 tsp maca
• bit of chili

Put everything in the Vitamix, including the soak water, and blend. Delicious.

Every morning for breakfast we eat chocolate pudding. The recipe is based on a recipe created by Tony Wright who is a bio-chemist (or something) to include a large amount of nutrients which our bodies need. It’s been through lots of changes to become what we eat at the moment.

Some days I make it and some days Holly makes it and we each make it slightly different every time. This is what I put in today: (for 4 people)

Hemp milk

• 300g hemp seeds, soaked overnight
• 2 oranges

The rest

• 4 dried figs, 4 dried apricots, about 10 goji berries, all soaked overnight
• a handful of walnuts, a few sunflower seeds and a few pumpkin seeds, again soaked overnight
• 3 bananas
• 2 pears
• few bits of coconut meat (or a tsp or two of coconut oil)
• 1 sharon fruit (persimmon)
• 1/2 tsp maca
• 2 heaped tsp raw chocolate powder
• 1/2 tsp hemp leaf powder
• 1/2 tsp bee pollen
• 2 tablespoons raw cacao nibs

Method

First make hemp milk by putting the oranges (pealed), the hemp seeds and the soak water from the dried fruit into a blender. Blend until all hemp seeds are broken down. Now squeeze through cheesecloth or a muslin bag (or a tea towel) to get the hemp milk.

Now put the rest of the ingredients (drain the soaked nuts and seeds first and chop the fruit a bit) into the blender along with the hemp milk and blend.
You might need to stop and stir depending on how thick the mixture is and what kind of blender you use. We use a Vitamix, which is a high power, high speed blender which can cope with chunks of coconut and whole pieces of fruit, if you have a different blender you might need to chop the fruit more and maybe grate the coconut (or use shredded coconut).

If you find making Hemp milk a bit of a faf then there is a new hemp milk maker machine which does it for you. Some friends have one and they think it’s great but I’m quite happy to make it the messy way!

I was going to post last night but I got embroiled in finding out how much import duty we would have to pay to import our coconut butter from Thailand. I eventually sussed it, and thankfully it is a lot less than I thought it might be.

Anyway, on to more exciting things like recipes. I made a really good avocado and coconut sauce tonight, here goes:

1 avocado (how many of my recipes start like this!)
large handful of fresh coconut meat
3 or 4 tablespoons of seaweed flakes
1 carrot
1 tomato
some spring onion
1/4 tsp maca
1/2 tsp hemp leaf powder
1/2 tsp coriander
pinch or two of ground ginger
some water

As usual, it all goes in the Vitamix and out comes a sauce to spread on your salad.

Lots of catching up today after being away for six days. Unpacked a large box of superfoods for the shop, we’ve now got 1kg bags of Goji Berries and some delicious fresh dates from Iran. Also decided to give a free sample of coconut butter with every order for the month of February.

Made a very nice dressing for tonight’s salad:

1 avocado
2 large handfuls seaweed flakes (dulce, nori and sea lettuce)
a bit of spring onion
1 medium carrot
4 cherry tomatoes
1 soaked sun dried tomato and some of the soak water
1/4 tsp maca
a little water to blend

Put it all in the Vitamix and blend, adding more water if necessary.

Hope you like it!

I made a delicious sauce today for the salad:

1 red pepper
1 avocado
1 small carrot
3 cherry tomatoes
1 1/2 sundried tomato (soaked)
3 tablespoons seaweed flakes (we use a mixture of dulce, sea lettuce and nori)
1/4 tsp maca
1/8 tsp ginger
1/4 tsp coriander
1/2 tsp hemp leaf superfood
small piece of chili

I put all the ingredients into the power blender including some of the soak water from the sun dried tomatoes. I served it with a salad made with grated carrots, beetroot, sweet potato and chopped cucumber, broccoli and tomatoes with some wild pennywort and chickweed.

Today we did a stall at the Staverton village market. Bertie made “Berties Yummiest Recipe” (Butterscoth Pudding), Lizzy made “Rolling Balls”, made from dried figs, dates, dried apricots and goats butter and Holly made Hazelnut Truffles which were delicious. I made dehydrated burgers with a chili sauce served on a lettuce leaf:

4 large Mushrooms
2 handfuls of walnuts (pref soaked first)
80g flax seeds (soaked for an hour or so)
1 tomato
50g sesame seeds
some spring onion
a teaspoon or 2 of ground coriander (fresh works better but we didn’t have any)
thyme, basil or other herbs

Put it all in a food processor and process then form into burger shapes and dehydrate. I did them for about 6 hours but you might want to do them for a bit longer.

The chili sauce is made from fresh tomato, sundried tomato and chili and a bit of water as necessary to blend. This time I also added a red pepper and a date. Blend up and there you have it.

Anyway, back to the market stall. We had a nice table laid out with all this delicious food and some superfoods – goji berries with some to taste, yacon root, cacao and coconut oil, also with some to taste, and the magazines and recipe booklets. But it was pretty quite and we didn’t really sell much. Oh well, maybe next time.

I don’t usually eat dehydrated food but I know non-raw people appreciate it, but as we had loads left I ate a few and it’s upset my digestion a little. I think I’ll stay off dehydrated food in the future.