Bauhaus apples on chocolate chia pudding

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handful of soaked almonds
4 spoons of black chia seed soaked in 1/2 cup of water for an hour
2 spoons of raw cacao powder
2 spoons of hempseed protein
1 spoon of lucuma powder
1/2 an apple
handful of sultanas
teaspoon of muscavado sugar (would have used agave or dates but had none)
blended into a smoothish pudding
topped with slices of apple and blood orange

Brazhempnana smoothie

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handful soaked brazil nuts
2 spoons of hempseed protein
a spoon of maca and lucuma powders
a banana or 2
cup of water

Inside the mustard wrap

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Mustard leaf
sprouted quinoa (black, red, white varieties)
protein mixture (1 tbs hempseed protein, 1 tbs tahini, a spoon of miso and 1/2 tsp umeboshi plum)
grated carrot
purple sauerkraut

he-ia mp-ch

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4 tablespoons of black chia soaked overnight in 1 cup of water

big spoon of hempseed protein

coconut oil and lucuma powder

all blended together in the blender

topped with golden raisins and chopped pink lady apple

Breakfast under the eaves, near rain soaked grass

1.
Dill and mango smoothie
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2 bananas
2 mangoes
1/2 a bunch of dill
2 good handfuls of red cos lettuce
juice of almost a whole lime
1 cup of citrine and sunstone gemwater
1 cup of water

2.
Apple ladder
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Slice of apple from orchard down the road
Fresh mango from far away
A medium small leaf of mint from the garden


3.
Breakfast protein
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approxa-moxa-matelly -
1/2 cup of Hempseed protein
3 spoons of tahini
3 spoons of coconut oil
3 medjool dates
lime juice
rolled into a small ball and coated in fresh buckwheat sprouts and tipped with a borage flower

Blueberry brazil banana hemp pudding

This was based on the recipe/concept of recovery pudding by Brendan Brazier. It was pretty different from his recipe and I can't quite remember what I put in it, but something like...
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organic brazil nuts
1/2 cup of water
2 bananas
1/2 frozen organic moondara blueberries from the farmers market
1 tbs hempseed protein
2 mejool dates
tiny lemon juice

Hempseed Milk

Not milk Recipe on Ravishing Raw
I think I will go home and make this now and drink it with some slippery elm!

Today I followed a recipe

No substitution, invention or omission. It was really good and definately satisfying after a run.
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"Lemon-Lime Recovery Drink" by Brendan Brazier (p127, Thrive)
juice of 1/2 lemon
juice of 1/4 lime (actually I did omit this just because I didn't have any but I bet it would add another level)
4 dates
2 cups of water
1 tsp agave nectar
1 tbs hemp protein
1 tsp ground dulse flakes
1 tsp hemp oil
1/2 tsp lemon zest
in a blender, process until smooth
"approximately four parts carbohydrate for every one part of protein...this is the ideal ratio to help speed recovery immediately after exercise"

Serious chewing

Massaged kale with sprouts and tahina
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Cut kale into inch pieces, sprinkle with salt and lemon juice, then massage with your hands until juicy.
1 tbs hemp oil
2 organic Roma tomotatoes (bought in Daylesford yesterday)
A small handful of sprouted quinoa and sunflower seeds
1 tbs hempseed protein
6 or so biodynamic kalamata olives
Topped with a simple tahina (tahini, water)

Post run

Today I started training again. After a foot injury and a few other momentum distractors it was really wonderful to go for s proper run. Before I left I meditated for an hour and then read the sections on "Nutrition during and immediately after exercise" in Brendan Brazier(vegan ironman)'s book Thrive. I ran 10kms down through the parks and along the river. It's so sustaining to connect with some kind of nature on a regular basis. Below are the "recovery drink" and "whole food smoothie" I made post run.

Whole food smoothie
An hour after my run I made this smoothie (the recovery drink at the end of this post is what I drank straight afterwards)

"A liquid meal shortly after exercise is of value because the majority of the bodys blood will be bust rapidly circulating throughtout the body clearing lactic acid and other metabolic waste from the extremities and delivering nutrients...with the extra strain of digestion removed by consuming complete liquid nutrition, recovery (from exercise) will dramatically improve." (Brendan Brazier, Thrive, p120)
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2 segments of durian (my friend dumpstered amazing fresh durians imported from thailand, crazy that they get thrown out, too weird for normal people maybe? anyway the durian was able to lead a regenerated second life in my kitchen, thankyou world for the present)
2 cups of water
1 tbs unhulled tahini
1 tbs hempseed protein
1 tbs carob powder
1 tsp slippery elm
This was a really satisfying protein rich smoothie, and it tasted amazing!

Recovery drink - I made this straight after my run.

"What is consumed after the workout is vital for cellular reconstruction.. To speed recovery, the body needs simple carbohydrate to enter the blood stream - the quicker the better. This means that the post-exercise snack should contain very little fat and no fiber, since both slow the rate at which carbohydrate enters the bloodstream...as well as electrolytes lost in sweat." (Brendan Brazier, Thrive, p118)
Suggested in Brendans recipes are the use of dates, coconut water, blueberries and papaya which are all lovely but I don't have them. So I read his ideas and made my own.
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2 calendula flowers (the petals)
sprig parsely
2 cups of water
1/4 tsp pink salt
2 tsp maca (for adrenal nourishment)
1 tbs hemp oil
1 tsp wakame seaweed
1/2 large lemon
1 tsp raw honey

Super great textured icecream

Sometimes you enter your kitchen with a desire in mind, to make a pie for instance. You are little unsure about the exact flavour and composition of this, pie, you are also not sure if you have all the ingredients required though you are not following an exact recipe. You launch yourself into this venture, and in the beginning you have a vision that you are making a pie crust and a pie filling to achieve this pie desire. As you progress along this pie making process it becomes evident that these two parts really need each other but not in the way that you expected. The crust and filling wish to be truly entwined, and suddenly, unexpectingly you have icecream with the most incredible texture.
 

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1 tbs coconut oil melted

1 tbs raw honey

2 tbs black tahini

Some amount of hempseed protein, I used about a cup

The other half of the flesh from the fresh Thai coconut 

(previously seen in milk thistle smoothie)

2 frozen bananas

Green Smoothie love

The green smoothie phenomena is quickly becoming a central part of my life. Everyday I pick greens and blend them with water and whatever fruit I can find. Everyday I invent a new recipe and find out you really can eat everything that grows (almost haha).














Here are a couple of recent smoothies I really enjoyed
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24.08.10
parsley and a few leaves of cos lettuce (from garden)
a grapefruit and 2 bananas
1 cup of water
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23.08.10
fresh parsley
1 and 1/2 bananas
tablespoon each of carob powder and dessicated coconut
1 cup of water
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22.08.10
(made with Chita)
milk thistle and nettles
1 orange, stick of celery and 2 bananas
3 cups of water
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17.08.10
lots of spinach stalk and all
a small apple and half a banana,
spoon of tahini and a spoon of hemp protein
1 and 1/2 cups of water
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11.08.10
lots of chickweed!
Spoon each of hemp, cacao and carob powders
4 squishy Turkish dates
1 banana and 1/4 of an avocado
1 and 1/2 cups of water
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another version of chickweed chocolate!
04.08.10
chickweed!!
Half an avocado
1 banana and 3 strawberries
raw cacao and maca powder to taste
a tiny bit of agave of you need to balance sweetness
1 and 1/2 cups of water
(by all the exclamations you can probably see I am fond of chickweed-chocolate smoothies...)
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01.08.10
buk choy leaves
2 bananas and 3 strawberries (these were high flavoured organic strawberries so don't need many, also I don't generally use much expensive fruits in my smoothies, since the high proliferation of bananas, I buy ripe ones from the markets and keep in freezer, I do the same with avocadoes sometimes-removing skin, quartering and freezing-rationing)
spoon of maca
1 and 1/2 cups of water

Carob tahini hemp ball

I've made these a few times in the last week, I'm a bit into carob at the moment, it's so aromatic and delicious. Depending on quantities you have available and particular taste (whether you want an intense flavour or more sustenance) this concept is very adaptable. Yesterday I made it like this
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1 cup of ground sunflower seeds
1-2tbs coconut oil melted
1-2tbs tahini
1-2tbs raw honey
1-2tbs carob powder
1 cup of hempseed protein
juice of an orange
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the previous day I made a version without the sunflower seeds and much less hemp, they were deliciously rich, this recipe above is a sustenance version. Hemp is super high in protein.