First time I've ever eaten a mango while riding a bike

Sticky awkward and juicy. Perfect accompaniment for sunshiney ride to footscray.

Best smoothie ive had in a long time

Just got home from dancing at my housemates gig and a long day of working and health club. I got heaps of fruit at the market today so prepared this little number. So deliciously what I wanted.
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2 bananas
1/2 a mango
1 and 1/2 cups of water
juice 1/2 lemon
small spoon of honey
handful of coconut flakes
2 tablespoons of mesquite

Heidi's raw mango cheesecake

I helped out at the last class in Heidi's Conscious Nutrition series - raw vegan deserts. My job was to plate up a million slices of raw vegan mango cheesecake with fresh strawberries, raw chocolate avocado mousse and fresh mango lime sauce. I had 18 plates balancing on makeshift kitchen benches. It was fun, I enjoyed it, the desert was delicious. And the best thing, well one super amazing thing was Heidi gave me the demo cheesecake she made in the class while I was out the back preparing. I think a tea party is in order! An early birthday celebration and whatever else we would like to celebrate...come eat cake!

Raw magic carrot cake dedicated to the Permablitz'ers

Three layers of situational invention. I made a pie cake pudding slice thing this morning to take to Lex's permablitz today. It was a two hour culinary journey, in that way that things take on their own sense of time when you start cooking before you have woken up fully. On rising I began dreaming up this creation. Investigating, experimenting and getting feedback from the pie and from other humans inhabiting the kitchen, just like the conversation dancing or any other method of communication. I kept thinking about the magical consistancy powers of coconut oil but didn't have any so looked for other ways of making.
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base
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a cup of almonds (fresh, raw, from farmers market)
5 or 6 medjool dates
a few spoons of thick chia gel (black chia seed soaked in water, but not too much)
ground Ginger
pinch of salt
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carrot layer
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a cup or so, maybe it was two cups, of tiny baby Dutch carrots (grown on the peninsula) blended in food processor or grated
1/2 white chia seed ground in mortar and pestle and soaked in a little water so becomes thick gel
a few handfuls of golden raisins chopped
lemon juice
1/2 coconut flakes
ground Ginger, cinnamon, pimento
a couple of pistachios
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cream layer
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1/2 cup soaked almonds with skins removed
1/2 a mango and 1/2 a passionfruit (the other halves got eaten as breakfast while I worked away on the cake)
a banana
spoon of lucuma powder

I forgot to take a photo at the end. It looked quite beautiful covered in the greens and pinks of broken pistachio nut pieces (raw, from farmers market), a few juicy golden raisins and three fleshy white flowers from my lemon tree.
I froze it for a few hours but it had quite a soft consistancy. It was really lovely to share with so many people that I didn't know, food being first introduction is a very delicious one. It was a very inspiring event to be apart of, and find ways to contribute to. Harray for growing vegetables, gardening, soil, air, water, love, community and permaculture being such an expansive wholistic idea that is so much more than tilling soil, but nutrition love health and connection on all levels. And as Lex said just on dark 'all people are plants and all plants are animals.'

Chia lucuma and apple breakfast pudding

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4 tbs white chia seed
1/2 cup of water
pink salt
spoon of lucuma powder
ground mountain pepper leaf
a few prunes
a fuji apple chopped
a few slices of mango on top

Breakfast under the eaves, near rain soaked grass

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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

3 o'clock smoothie

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Sparkling mineral water

sunstone and citrine gemwater

spoon of lucuma powder

1 banana and 1 mango

1 spoon of almond butter

1 medjool date

Fennel Mint Mango-nana Smoothie

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handful of fat leaved mint and handful of fennel tips

1 mango and 1/2 banana

1 glass of sunstone gemwater