Raw bounty

This recipe if for my Mama who keeps a secret stash of hidden bounty bars (from my dad) in her kitchen drawer.

Dark Chocolate Buttercups

A super simple dark chocolate version of the rieces pieces penut butter cups... although this is a variation I've done using almond butter instead of peanut.

1 cup cacao powder

1 cup raw honey

1/2 cup cacao butter melted

1/2 cup coconut oil melted

Vanilla extract

Almond butter

Except for the almond butter mix the ingredients together before the oil and butter start to set and fill your chocolate moulds to just below the half way mark.

Use a pea sized amount of almond butter in the centre of each and then spoon some more chocolate mixture over the top.

Set in the fridge and turn out of the when set.

I believe you can buy silicone pop

out chocolate moulds of all shapes designs and sizes off ebay.

Kamy's carrot cake

Amy and Katy's carrot cake....

(Amy also hand Modelling the henna I just did for her haha)

(Serves 10-12)

These girls are awesome! Taking inspiration from websites, books, my sessions with them and then going full power to make their own cakes and raw treats.

It's such a nice change to have a sweet tasting carrot cake in rainbow city (the community on the hills of portugal where I am living at the moment) as everyone is obsessed with cacao (choccy).

Here is their very own recipe they want to share and it's a goodun so def try it out.

Cake layer (makes x2 layers)

3 large carrots peeled and chooped

1 1/2 cup oat flour

2 cups dates

1/2 cup desicated coconut

1tsp cinnamon

Food process all of the above ingredients

Cream cheese (x2 layers)

1 1/2 cups almonds (soaked and skins removed)

1 lemon juice

2tbs coconut oil (melted)

2tbs honey/agave/date pasts

2tbs water (as needed)

Rainbow city chocolate cheesecake

I literally love having Amy and Katy in the kitchen they are so kean to learn the raw food way and Katy has only recently gone vegetarian two weeks ago and is embracing it all like a super absorbent sponge! 

We invented this together yesterday and all agreed it's the best cake we've had all week. It's very very rich so you only need a little slice (sorry Anth you left the day before this creation was born but here's the recipe for you so let us know your verdict). 

Serves 8

Line a 6" pan with cling film and dust the bottom with desicated coconut.

Base

1/2 cup almonds/pecans

1/4 cup raisins/dates 

1 tbs desicated coconut 

1 tbs oats 

1tbs melted coconut oil 

2tbs cacao powder

Pinch of Himalayan salt

Pulse everything except the oats in the nutribullet then stir in the oats afterwards.

Press evenly into the pan and set in the freezer. 

Tip - if you find your fingers are sticking to the mixture while you're trying to form the base just wet your fingers slightly and then press the dough in.

Chocolate topping

4tbs melted coconut oil

1banana 

2 tbs raisins

5 dates

1tbs agave nectar/date paste/honey

2 tbs Carob powder

3tbs cacao powder

1tbs almond butter

1tsp coconut sugar (opt for extra sweet)

1/4 cup water

Blend everything into a smooth consistency in the nutribullet/vitamix.

Pour over the base quickly before it starts to set and then put in the fridge.

Decorate with a few goji berries! 

We all stood around in the kitchen afterwards licking the appliances in silence mmmm yummy! 

Find your Inner child - rainbow city

When I was in the Himalayas I was sat in the Once in Nature Cafe having lunch and found myself looking around... All I saw was drawing, sketching in notepads, paintings being done on the restaurant walls, poi spinning, dancing, singing, guitar playing, jewelry making, rock stacking, words being written in the sand with sticks, story and poems being shared... You may think I was amongst children but these people were all my age and even some into their 40's and 50's... All tapping into their inner child...

These artistic and creative things are what I used to do as a child, but somewhere along the way it was knocked out of me, or I made these artistic expressions into a means achievement or finding  merit in  rather than just for the sake of self expression and expansion.

I just took a breath in of pure love and thought YES these people are in touch with their inner child and are truly expressing their creativity. Nothing was being suppressed, nobody cared about what anyone else was thinking... It was very inspiring, enjoying life for the sake of it. 

Rainbow city is a place to let people explore their childlike nature and more and more people that come here are embracing this aspect and it's

beautiful.

Nic the artistic genius (and his beautiful girlfriend Anna in the background) designing a tattoo for me.

I just feel to share this ridiculous game that we were playing the other night when we had a power cut... You each suggest an animals body part then pass the paper onto the person sitting next to you who does the same thing...and we didnt stop laughing... and the best part was in the morning no one had hangovers... This is pure divine happiness...love energy flowing like children again. 

The breif was...

Mouth of baboon

Neck of giraffe

Eyes of fish

Crow claws

Punk hair

On a skate board 

Human bottom

Elephant ears... 

Some drawings that came out from the game...

Play this at you're at a house party instead of a drinking game... I guarantee more laughter :) or even last night when the power went out we were in hysterics making shadow puppets on the dome walls... 

One love you beautiful people.

Yes I do...

Photos - World peace warriors

My beautiful home and brothers in the mountains of portugal... living in space ship domes. 

Lemon & Cranberry biscuits

(This recipe makes a huge batch so half it if you're looking to make a smaller quantity).

1 cup dates

Vanilla essence

1/2 lemon zest

1/2 lemon juice 

3tsp coconut oil

2 tsp agave 

1 cup almond flour

1//2 cup oat flour

1/2 cup oats

1/3cup cranberries

Pinch Himalayan Salt

Blend the dates with the coconut oil lemon zest, agave and lemon juice.

In a large bowl combine the blended mixture with the rest of the ingredients to form a dough.

Roll out to just under 3/4cm thickness and use a cookie cutter.

Place on a greesed or lined tray and dehydrate for 2 hoursor in the oven on 100.

You can also omit the cranberries for a pure lemon flavour.

Grape squishing - raw Ribina

I discovered these amazing grapes in my parents green house..

So my sister, niece and dad made raw ribina... The old fashioned way... squishing them between your toes.

The juice was very sweet. My dad as usual being the eccentric john cleese type of character that he is decided to drink it... quite gross really considering Laila and I hadn't even washed our feet but he will do anything to make us laugh. 

Singing in Camden

Little clip of Alex and I singing in Camden

http://youtu.be/sNTGiVkZ7dQ

I used to have all these beliefs around singing... "That People will think... that I think... that I'm really great..."if I sing.... and I felt I didn't want to put myself out there to be judged! But I realised... what does it matter what anyone thinks if it feels right and good and honest and connects me... If my heart sings when I sing I'm not going to suppress that... It's just a belief... It doesn't make it real... It's just a thought... 

When I first got to India I was so depressed the Ayurvedic dr I collapsed in front of prescribed singing along with (many) other things... That along with my friend Alex encouraging me I was able to find the little squeak of a voice inside. I would sit around campfires on the beach and just jam with beautiful people making music and sing whatever came to my head, about the trees,  clouds stars, connections, whatever... It was out there I realised the voice... and Music,  is a gift to uplift people, change the vibration... Whereas before I linked singing to a job, success, money, famous people... There was nothing in that belief that liberated me. Then once I accepted this... a shift happened within me... 

Singing opens my heart and throat chakra and connects me to creativity and expression.

Growing up I trained as a classical singer and then went onto attend The London School Of Musical Theatre. I loved singing but just went into shutdown with lack of self love and confidence to express my self, I never really sang after that apart from one acting job I did for this big  pharmaceutical company where I played a girl who had bipolar and was cured by this drug... She couldn't perform her songs she had written... The short film showed how she found her balance through medication (eeeeek!) and then after it had been played I had to come out onstage and perform this song to huge auditorium... Of course morally it was wrong but I wasn't living my truth then... I was blinded by the fact I was paid a ridiculous amount of money, flown out to Niece and got my ego stroked! I didn't realise the dichotomy 

I was putting my soul through.

So apart from that one job I struggled with my throat chakra for years with being able to speak my mind in social situations and being in relationships that stunted my ability to speak, I was the mouse in the corner in social groups.

I recently found my voice again after shutting it out... Finding the truth... Speaking it, singing it... and the opening effect it had on my life has been incredible.

Just SING! :)

Snickers

Snickers slice

A healthy no dairy, no sugar, no wheat, no gluten delicious treat to make any skeptic want to know more about a raw vegan way of life.

You MUST try this recipe!! Please trust me on this... 😋

Shortbread layer

Ingredients

1/2 cup oat flour 

1/3 agave

1/4 cup pine nuts

1 cup almond flour (ground almonds)

Once everything is combined press the 'nougat' into a cling film tray about 3/4 of a cm thickness. Place in the freezer.

Caramel and penut layer:

1 cup dates (soaked)

Pinch Himalayan salt

Half a scraped vanilla bean pod

2tbs coconut oil (melted)

1/2 cup Peanuts (sliced or chopped thin)

Except for the the peanuts, blend all the above ingredients together adding just a little of the water from the dates until a thick gooey caramel is formed. 

Finely slice the peanut and then stir them into the caramel.

 Caramel is my weakness... And having cut refined sugar sugar from my diet I think I've found the best alternative to gooey caramel sauce!

Spread the caramel layer onto the nougat  and place the whole thing back in the fridge to set.

Chocolate layer

I bought back a load of raw cacoa beans from Bali and used the nutribullet to grind them into a fine power.

Ingredients

1/2 cup coconut oil

1 cacao powder

1/3 carob powder 

4tbs agave

Stevia 

(This makes a little extra so save about 1/3 of this in the fridge for chocolate sauce ice cream topping).

Pour and spread with a spatulas the chocolate sauce on the nougat and caramel.

Sprinkle the chocolate with rough chopped almonds optional) then set back in the freezer.

I loveeeee these so much! The only issue I've found is that if you want to take them out to places or for your friends to try they tend to get a little gooey when they're out the fridge for more than an hour which makes them difficult to transport... but to have in the fridge at home is a dream treat.

Korma curry (raw vegan)

Creamy korma curry

Serves 4

(alternativly use a pre bought curry powder)

Ingredients

1/2 tsp ground pepper

1 tsp garamasala

2tsp turmeric

3 tsp coriander

2tsp cumin

1 tsp ginger

1 tsp chili

1/2 tsp cayenne

2 whole cardomon pods

1/2 clove

Pinch saffron

Pinch of stevia 

Grind all the above ingredients into a fine powder

Place the dry spices in a roasting pan and dehydrate for 1- 2 hours to let the aromas in infuse.

For the sauce

1 1/4 cup cashews

4 cups courgette 

1/4 cup white onion

1 clove garlic

1/2 lemon juice

Stevia or agave 

1/2 tsp Himalayan salt

1/3 cup water

30g raisins

3 dates

1 cup coconut milk

40g coconut dried

20g almond flour

Peel and remove the green skin from the courgettes then put just the white flesh and the above ingredients into a blender and blitz together to form the sauce.

Veggies

250g mushrooms

1 carrot (diced very small)

100g mange tout

2 courgettes

2 celery stalks

1/2 head of broccoli

25g raisins 

(If you want to you could also dehydrate some thick chunks of mushroom to give you a meaty bite and texture)

Chop up the veggies into small bite sized pieces - you  pretty much use whatever veggies you like... Providing they can be eaten raw. I wouldn't recommend tomatoes or cucumbers as they have a high water content and will make the creamy korma sauce too thin.

Then cut the raisins into 1/4s so the sweetness of them goes through with each mouthful.

Rice

Blitz up a head of cauliflower 

Asemble 

Put 2-3tsp of the curry powder into your sauce and blend it up well.

Mix the sauce in well with the veggies.

Serve on a plate with the rice, you can also sprinkle some sliced almonds over the top and some fresh coriander.

Raw Jaffa torte

Chocolaty orange Jaffa torte.

I stupidly didn't write down the quantities to this as was just having fun whilst making it and it turned out so good I wish I had. If I get enough requests or when I get round to making it again I will post the quantities needed for the recipe.

The base is made from pecans,dates , Himalayan salt, cacao powder, oat flour and carob.

The filling is made from home made raw caramelized orange peel, avocado, fresh zest of an orange and the juice, carob dates, cacao, and coconut oil.