Hey hey all!
Thank God it’s Saturday, right?! After five-and-a-half hours of cooking class yesterday, this was much needed. I have an überfun Saturday planned out. First I am off to my third Bikram class of the week (I know right?). Straight after I’m going to a very cool event in downtown Amsterdam to hear the president of the Slow Food Movement, Carlo Petrini, and infamous Jaap Seidell, leading food & nutrition professor at the University of Amsterdam, talk about the changing face of food agriculture. Vegetarian, organic & fair-trade lunch included, score!
Afterwards I’ll be hitting up the organic farmers market, but this time not my usual Noordermarket, but the Nieuwmarkt downtown. Always fun to change things up. The rest of the evening will be spend with this cutey:
Bonus points for drinking a Green Smoothie!
Don’t tell him, but the only reason I hang out with him :
His adorable little kitty! Can’t get enough of it!
Well, seeing as how I’ll be out for the rest of the day, I thought I’d treat y’all to a wonderful new recipe. Fair warning: extremely addicting!
Raw Chocolate Truffles
Yields about 18 medium-sized balls
Slightly adapted from The Beauty Detox Solution
* 1 rounded cup almonds
* 1/4 cup raisins
* 1/4 cup (raw) cacao
* 2 dates
* 1 T coconut oil
* 1 t vanilla extract
* 3 T water
* optional: few drops stevia or 1 T liquid sweetener
* garnish: shredded coconut, more cacao powder, ground nuts, etc
Ground nuts into a fine flour in food processor (don’t overprocess to a butter!). Add rest of the ingredients into a sticky batter. Roll balls and refridgerate. There you have it, a completely wholesome & healthy chocolate fix! Plus, a cool spinoff:
Banana Chocolate Fudge* one recipe chocolate truffles
* 1 large banana
* 3 T water
Add one large banana and 3 T water to above recipe in the food processor and mix. (use a very ripe banana if you like a banana-y flavor. use an unripe one if you wish a more chocolate-y flavor). Spread out onto a small ramekin or perhaps ice-cube tray, mini-muffin tray, etc. Be creative! Store in freezer or fridge. Let soften for one minute if stored in the freezer prior to eating.
Pretty much the perfect day if you ask me. Absolutely perfect would be if I had some of these truffles left, though..
Enjoy your weekend all!
Love,
Sabine
Lovely recipes
That kitty is so cute, and I’m diggin’ the chocolate fudge!
i Loveee the fudge!! such wholesome recipes!
cuuuute kitty! i just LOVE me some raw vegan truffles!
That’s so mean! Lots of yummy chocolate recipes, now that I’m trying to limit my chocolate intake. What a tease!
Anyway, enjoy your weekend!
ooooooooooeeeeeh. Will you bring some before the 4th of June? Pretty please….
i will, great idea!
Everyone’s talking about the cute kitty, but I have to say: the boy isn’t that bad either!
Those recipes rock my world! I see they’re made of grounded almonds and that’s just what I need, because my cute little blender can’t process nuts. (I already messed up one set of knives from the blender..) Grounded almonds I can buy at some stores, so that’s great. Do you know a place where you can buy other grounded nuts, like cashew?
haha how sweet of you to give him some loving too. and you’re right, he’s not too shabby
i forgot to reply to a comment in which you mentioned frozen banana messing up your blender. now I know you are eager to buy yourself a new one
, but it might help to throw in an unfrozen banana, and place it in the freezer for a few minutes before drinking. freezing the banana is mainly to get your smoothie nice & cold.
i cant help you with the nut thing actually. i dont use ground nuts too often and if I do i can easily grind them myself. ‘my’ nut guy (haha) only sells ground almonds as well, me thinks.
by the by, i store the bulk of my nuts & seeds in ziplock baggies in drawers, only ground flaxseeds & raw hempseeds i store in the fridge. its supposedly best to store nuts & seeds in the fridge but a) i have too many and b) i go though them too fast to spoil
. if you have a certain stash of nuts that you dont go through too fast, i’d store those in the fridge, or even freezer. otherwise, a cool, dry place is just fine, in airtight containers or baggies.
Thank’s for the reply! It’s very usefull to me. I think it’s great that you react on so many comments, but I would never expect you to reply though. I don’t want you to burn out just because of al the stuff I write! (and I’m just one of the many readers of your blog, and I don’t even want to know how many e-mails you receive.) I hope you can make a living out of it somewhere in the future. That would be great! (And I already see the item ‘counseling’ on your blog, so you’re probably thinking about that as well).