Frugal Feeds | Raw Diet Day 6

Raw Diet Day 6:

For breakfast I had 1/2 of a pineapple, two small bananas and four macadamia nuts.

For lunch I had one of my favorite salads, I think of it as a Mexico Inspired Salad. I eat variations of it often. Basically it is 3-4 cups of mixed lettuces with bell peppers, tomatoes and avocado. Today it also had jicama. I usually squeeze some citrus on it and today it was 1/2 of a lime. Top it all off with some sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. I enjoy it very much.

By the way, please excuse the blurriness of my photos so far. I need to get my camera checked out. Even on a tripod and all settings at automatic the pictures are coming out blurry. I don't think it is too terrible yet and will get it fixed as soon as I can.

I knocked together a "cookie" mixture as an experiment. I'm going to call it Throw Together Cookies. It is made of dried dessicated coconut, cashews and dried currants in equal amounts (about 1/2 cup each) 3 Tablespoons raw honey, 1 heaping tablespoon cinnamon and a half teaspoon of vanilla extract. I soaked the coconut, cashews and currants in just a little bit more water than needed to cover, for 4 hours. Then I processed it until fairly smooth, starting off in pulse mode until the currants started to break down and then on high for a minute or so. Using a Tablespoon scoop (disher) I scooped up 20 little cookies onto parchment paper and set it out in the sun to harden and dry. Since this is just an experiment I have no idea if this is going to be any good, but I'll let you know as soon as they are done, sometime tomorrow. The un-dried, un-hardened dough was mighty tasty--I ate about a tablespoon of that.

Also made a cacao pudding. It didn't turn out as smooth as I'd have liked, more dense like a mousse. Could whip it to add more air but it was good the way it was so I didn't want to fuss with it anymore. So, I'll call it Cacao Mousse.

 ( if I set the camera to auto exposure it is crisp but dark on manual exposure it is bright but blurry. Hmph!)

Meat from one Young Coconut
2 Tablespoons Raw Cashew Butter
1/4 cup Pureed Raw Cacao
2 Tablespoons Raw Honey
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
1/4 cup Fresh Coconut Milk from the Young Coconut

Place all in a food processor and pulse until broken up. Then process on high speed for two minutes, scraping down the sides from time-to-time until well mixed and pretty smooth. You could process it longer but pause for a few minutes to let the motor cool. Chill for 30 minutes and serve. Makes about 4 servings of 3 Tablespoons each. Very rich, you won't want more than 3 Tablespoons.

For snack I had 1 Tablespoon of the cookie dough while I was making it and later had 3 Tablespoons of the Cacao Mousse.

For dinner I'll have to report tomorrow since I have something to go to tonight and won't be back until late.