Laver is a type of seaweed, popular in Wales, and I remember several years ago a Welsh housemate of mine making “laver bread” which is not bread at all, but is made by frying laver and other things which I can’t remember. Anyway, on to todays recipe, which is raw, absolutly no frying involved:

• 1 avocado
• a couple of large handful of laver, soaked for about 15 mins
• 1 1/2 sun dried tomatoes, soaked
• 3 wild garlic leaves

All the ingredients go into the Vitamix with some of the seaweed soak water and some of the tomato soak water. It was delicious. I often find the simple recipes are the best.

Just a quick one to tell you all the dressing I made for tonights salad:

• 2 avocados
• 2 1/2 sun dried tomatoes. soaked
• 2 fresh tomatoes
• small piece of spring onion
• 4 wild garlic leaves
• small piece of chili

A simple one which worked really well. Everything in the vitamix including a little soak water from the tomatoes. Had it with a salad of cucumber, grated carrot, sweet potato and beetroot, and lots of wild greens – pennywort, dandelion and wild garlic.

I made a dressing using:

• 1/2 avocado
• 1 yellow pepper
• 1 1/2 sun dried tomatoes, soaked
• a bit of kelp, soaked
• a bit of chili
• a small piece of lemon grass (it’s still the same one I bought, I used the last bit tonight so no more lemon grass for a while!)
• about 1/4 tsp of coriander

Everything went into the blender, including a little of the tomato soak water and a little of the seaweed soak water. I know it’s quite similar to some of my other recipes, but it tasted particularly delicious to me.

We had it on a salad of grated carrots, sweet potato and beetroot and chopped cucumber, tomato and spring onion.

For desert I first ground up some sesame seeds in the coffee grinder then added them to the food processor along with

• handfuls of walnuts and pumpkin seeds, soaked
• handful of currants
• 3 figs
• a few goji berries
• about 2 tsp cacao butter
• about 1 tablespoon cacao nibs
• about 1 1/2 tsp cacao powder
• 1 tsp coconut oil

It tasted delicious. I’m still massively impressed with cacao butter, I need to get some for our shop…

Sometimes I’m not in the mood for chewing so I make myself a blended salad. And tonight I made one I was particularly pleased with.

First I put two tablespoons of flax seeds in a coffee grinder and ground them up. Then I put them in the Vitamix along with:

• 1 small avocado
• about 1/3 of a red pepper
• 1/2 a carrot
• a piece of cucumber
• 1 sun dried tomato, soaked
• a big handful of pennywort
• a few dandelion leaves
• a few wild garlic leaves
• a small amount of fresh chili
• a piece of fresh lemongrass
• about 1/4 tsp ground coriander

Pennywort is a wild green leaf which grows all over the place (well it does down here in Devon), although I’m sure this recipe will work fine with other greens.

Most people would call these energy balls but Bertie and Lizzy (Holly’s younger children) call them Rolling Balls and the name has stuck!
First I put the following in a coffee grinder and ground up:

• sesame seeds
• pumpkin seeds
• cacao nibs

(Sorry, again no quantities, but quite a few sesame seeds and less pumpkin and cacao.)
Then I put the ground mixture in to the food processor along with

• 6 fresh dates
• handful currents
• handful walnuts
• a few sunflower seeds

and blended until it formed a thick consistency. Now roll the mixture into balls and eat.

I’ve been working on this recipe for a while and I’m getting closer, although it’s really still nothing like a ‘real’ Thai green curry. As usual, the measurements are not very exact or non-existent – I’ll try and post a complete recipe when I’ve perfected it!

• 1 1/2 avocados
• 1/2 sun dried tomato (soaked)
• handful of fresh coriander leaves
• a couple of pieces of fresh coconut meat
• 1 tsp celery salt
• 3 wild garlic leaves (I guess you could use normal garlic if you prefere)
• fresh chili
• lemon grass – a piece about 5cm (2inch) long
• 1/2 tsp ground coriander
• 1/2 tsp ground cumin
• water – quite a bit

Celery salt is a natural alternative to salt, made by drying celery leaves and grinding up.

In my next attempt at this recipe, I’ll try replacing some of the water with lime or lemon juice and maybe some coconut water.

If anyone knows how to make ‘real’ raw Thai green curry, please let me know and put me out of my misery. It’s one of the few things that I can’t really re-create a raw version of.