2nd bowl green

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Same soup as before (raw carrot soup)
Just added some sunflower seeds (blended with water separately for a milky affect), a few leaves of dinosaur kale, tiny bit of raw Ginger and a dash of hemp oil to serve

Platter of condiments

Jas came over for a late afternoon pancake lunch, see batter below. We made up a nice selection of fermented and fresh things to go on top.
The mash pumpkin has kefir in it and the white/green thing is a pesto made from slightly fermented sunflower seed sprouts, fresh rocket and hemp oil. These okonomiyaki style pancakes are particulary delicious when made really thick and cooked covered on low heat for awhile (and of course some kind of mayonnaise is always a hit).

Raw chocolate coated energy bar

Major discovery, I can choc dip things... Ive figured out how to make raw chocolate and how to chocolate dip my energy bars. It was really easy, pretty much melting at a very low heat some super awesome ingredients and then dipping in my already prepared energy bars. They dried super quickly and were really delicious.
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raw cacao butter
raw cacao powder (raw chocolate)
agave
salt
dried sour cherries
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the energy bars had a LOT of ingredients and whilst they were pretty good they weren't totally amazing, until I came up with the genius idea of choc-dipping them, it's amazing how even a really thin layer of chocolate can change your life. It really complemented the subtle lemon tahini flavour of the bars.


here is a rough inventory of ingredients
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sunflower seed sprouts and buckwheat sprouts (this is the bulk of the recipe, 1 cup of each)
chia seeds (made into a concentrated gel by adding a little water),
brazil nuts, sultanas, raisens, sour cherries
sesame seeds, coconut oil, salt
slippery elm powder
lemon juice and rind, tahini
dry buckwheat and sunflower seeds for texture and to add dryness and form to the bars.
- After mixing all the ingredients together, press down into a flat container and freeze. When frozen dismantle the slice from the container by popping it out and slicing into bars or squares. Alternately you can form into shapes by hand and then freeze.

So another energy in a bar

So another...
I'm pretty much making up all of my energy bar recipes as I go along. They are definately inspired by The Thrive Diet Book by Brendan Brazier, but like all recipe books, I flick through to get excited and then I go off on my own adventure
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activated almonds, sunflower seeds and buckwheat (sprouted)
chia gel
mesquite, maca, slippery elm
cacao powder
and carob powder
chunks of smashed up cacao butter and dried sunflower seeds
dedicated coconut
agave
-- golden tanas (sultanas), smashed almonds and a couple of cacao beans
smash, blend and mix together, form into bars and freeze. The freezing keeps the energy bars alive for longer otherwise the sprouted content would go off very quickly. These are really yummy.

Soaked chia and golden sultanas preparing for masceration.

powders in the blender
mesquite, maca, slippery elm

Sprouty squish crunch salad

The squish is the beautifully ripe flavoursome tomatoes, the sprouts are quinoa and sunflower seeds (sprouts grow so slow in a cold house in winter so their tails are small but the lively freshness is there), super crunchy and sweet buk choy, calendula flower petals, and parsley. The salad is dressed with lots of dulse flakes, a tiny bit of salt and lemon juice. I can't remember if there was any oil, a dash of olive oil ewould go down asily.