Teatime Today: chilled coconut matcha latte

300 grams TM homemade coconut milk from Quirky Cooking cookbook, 1 teaspooon matcha powder, dash of cinnamon, 1 tablespooon collagen, 1 pitted date.  Blend in TM, speed 9, 1 minute.

Teatime Today: maple snow cones

Planning and preparing for what we are serving at the Canada table at our school's international festival. Today, Thermomix is a snow cone machine. Our sample is snack.

Add 1 tray of ice to TM bowl, speed 8 for 10 seconds.  
Scrape down and repeat. Scoop crushed ice into cups and top with pure maple syrup

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Teatime Today: heladito de platanito y lucuma

Today for snack Little Brother added one frozen banana and about 1/4 teaspoon of lucuma powder to the TM bowl.  He then turned the dial to speed 4 for a few seconds.  We then scraped down the sides and he turned the dial to speed 3 for a second or two. 2 ingredient ice cream to be enjoyed outside on the patio before doing some weeding.  He wants to plant watermelons this weekend.

Teatime Today: loquats

gift from my friend :)

Little Brother rediscovering his love for loquats, or as we call them at home-nísperos

Scrumptious Saturdays

Animal Farm's perfect loose broccoli

Little Brother enjoying cashew based vanilla ice cream today at Farmers Market

                                                                                         

Back to enjoying weekly boxes of our favorite popsicles-goat milk and vegan 

squealing over my favorite flavor: avocado-just look at those slices!

some of today's provisions

tomato surprise

counting how many strawberries fit in our container

fresh market kale, daikon and Blue Heron's Green Goddess goat cheese-small salad no cheese

watching the dry ice from popsicles evaporate in the sink

Teatime Today: Date fudge

We are invited to a seder tonight for the first night of Passover.  We are bringing this simple to make date fudge.  This fudge has just a few ingredients and is free of dairy, gluten and egg.  If you cannot eat almonds, perhaps try with some sunflower seed butter.  If you have a Thermomix, nut and seed butters can be made prior to the fudge and then you wouldn't have to clean up as the residue would just be part of fudge.  *The next time I make I will weigh out with the Thermomix scale so that I don't have to measure. Original recipe found here

What you need:
1 cup pitted Medjool dates, soaked in warm water for 30 minutes to softnen
2 tablespoons coconut oil
1/2 cup roasted almond butter (I use half TJ's roasted almond butter which is free of peanut contamination)
1/4 cup unsweetened raw cacao powder.
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
pinch of pink salt
*a bit of honey or maple syrup if you want sweeter

What to do:
melt coconut oil if needed in Thermomix, 37 degrees for about 1 minute

add in soaked dates and blend on speed 4-6 for about a minute until softened into a paste

add in the almond butter, vanilla extract, cacao and salt

press mixture in brownie pan lined with parchment paper

top with nuts and/or Enjoy Life chocolate chips 

place in freezer for at least an hour

cut and serve

leftovers must be stored in freezer as it gets gooey at room temperature

Laughng Giraffe vegan Snakaroons and our date fudge along with our friend's most delicious and moist flourless chocolate cake

Our Version of Idli

Below is a step-by-step process for how I prepare my version of idli batter.  A huge thank you to my friend for teaching me several years ago.  Idli have become a staple in our kitchen. 

Step one: at noon
Soak one cup of organic red lentils in pure water in glass bowl
Soak two cups of organic brown rice in pure water in glass bowl

step two: 8:00 pm
wash and strain the lentils and rice

step 3:
   after washing and rinsing, cover with a tea towel
and leave out until morning

step 4:

the following morning, rinse and strain the soaked lentils and rice

sprouted red lentils 

step 5:
add the soaked and sprouted rice and lentils to Thermomix bowl, blend
with about a cup of water

step 6:
cover the mixture with a tea towel
until evening

step 7:
enjoy the fermented poof

store mixture in mason jar in fridge

add some pink salt and fry up in cast iron pan with a little coconut oil