check out my kraut baby!
you make me wanna kraut
Made it last night with a head of cabbage, bag of carrots, salt, red onion, garlic, cumin and coriander. So uber chuffed at myself and it’s soooo easy to make! It’s fermenting away and should be ready in a few days hopefully. Although I’m jetting on hols next week so it may have to wait till I come back woop.
Also made some amazing crackers from Shazzie’s book Evie’s Kitchen. The recipe is called Kate’s Crackers – they’re purple and I love purple food. Can’t give away the recipe but it has purple corn in it obv…
dans le dehydrator
Speaking of purple…or rather typing of it…
www.purplefood.com/totallyrocks
Two words, YU – UM! Meat from one coconut blended with 1/2 cup coconut water, 1/2 cup dried coconut chips, 1 tsp purple corn, 5 strawbs and 1/2 cup blueberries. Bloody hell this was delicious. Obviously my body must’ve been lacking in purple nutrition the last day or so 🙂
What else? Oh yes I made this as a treat cos I’m totally worth it…
mr sexy man
When I was making this bar last night I went to snap off the amount of cacao butter I generally use which tends to be 50g. I stick the knife in the flat block of butter in a random place and crack a bit off and I seem to have this ability to be able to break off exactly 50g every time. I mean exactly 50g! This has happened the last six times I’ve done it and last night it happened again! I totally freaked out in the kitchen at how amazing this mad 50g ability of mine is and Rod asked what I was blethering on about so I explained. He said ‘do it again then’ and so I stuck the knife in and weighed it and would you believe, bang on 50g? AGAIN? I mean, what is that all about? How come I have this mental ability to randomly pick off 50g from a huge block of cacao? Maybe 50g means something in some weird alternate universe? Or perhaps the king of the 50g of cacao butter people from the cacao dimension is communicating with me to tell me to join them in their world so I can make cacao bars all day long. Bizarre or what?
Anyway recipe is 50g cacao butter melted, mix in 1 tbsp lucuma, 1 tbsp mesquite and 1tbsp sweetener of choice (i use xylitol) mix it about and then add in gojis, cacao nibs and bee pollen. Pour in to a mould leave to set in the fridge for half an hour and voila mr sexy man cacao bar 🙂 Lovely lovely lovely lovely.
Err, that’s about it really. I’ve booked to go off on lots of travels having finally realised that I’m sitting here wasting my precious life on earth not doing as much as I’d like. So I’m going to Paris and Barcelona and Rome. Can not wait. Next year I’m defo up for a bit of Bali and Tokyo. Off to Croatia next week and need to pack my suitcase full of travel-worthy raw food. So far I reckon I can fit my travel blender in my hand luggage as well as chia, gojis, flax cracks, seaweed, algae, cacao bars. Should be fine. Shame I can’t take my coconuts 🙁 I’ve even got a lead-lined bag to stick my food in so it doesn’t get cooked by the X-ray machine. Ha ha ohhhh dear, I fear I may have turned in to one of those ‘health nuts’ I keep hearing about 😀
Peas dudes
lead lined bag?? am beginning to worry about u !!!
ha ha ha oh god i know. it was after something david wolfe said about those machines at the airport and the only way to protect the food was to put it in a lead lined bag. i am soooo looking forward to this airport trip! 🙂
I have the 12″ vinyl of Unbelievable! Found it in the garage today, forgot I had it. AND I went to see them in concert at the Barrowlands. I should probably hang my head in shame, no? 🙂
Oh, and nice kraut missy. Glad you got round to making it yourself. Don’t worry if it stinks the whole house out, it does that. Once it’s fermented enough you can keep it in the fridge and it stops stinking. Until you use it and then you’ll probably need to wash everything that came in contact with it immediately or your whole house will stink again. Seriously, even if you leave the spoon in a sink of water even after rinsing it, you can still smell it. Now that’s Unbelievable.
thanks Lucy. yes it has already exploded in the cupboard and is hissing A LOT. First time I heard it I thought Rod was trying to wind me up. Having to leave it till I get back from hols so it’s going to be super fermented! x