Raw Vegan Chocolate Pudding Delight

Today I had three avocados going ripe and no clue what to do with them, until I suddenly remembered that I've been dying to try out an Avocado dessert because it sounds so strange!
So here's my little spin on it and it turned out a treat, I don't even like avocados but I simply could not get enough of this!

You will need a blender or food processor
An avocado, peeled and chopped
30 grams cocoa powder
85 grams of honey
60ml Almond milk

Presentation isn't my strongest point, I'm all new to this food photography malarky!

Blend blend blend until it's all smooth and delicious and creamy and there's no avocado lumps, and serve to unsuspecting individuals and ask them to guess what makes that wonderful creamy base!

My favourite foodie viewing

One of the things I've really missed since coming home for Summer is cooking for myself, although I can cook for myself here at home of course, it's not the same when you're not in 'your' kitchen and you don't purchase the food yourself. But I've been looking at lots of new recipes to try when I get back, I like watching cooking videos on YouTube a lot, but it takes a bit of leg work to find a really great channel with high quality filming and obtainable ingredients in the UK.

My absolute favourite of the moment has been the Taste made channel which I will link here
They post new videos Sunday to Friday with a different show and presenter for each day of the week. My favourite day is Tuesdays for the Raw.Vegan. Not gross
The presenter is Laura Miller, and to be honest I firstly just love her, she has this wonderful rich voice that just soothes the soul! She's also entertaining and easy to watch. I've been addicted to every video she's done on the channel, which isn't many since it's a new channel and I've probably watched them all twice. For most (maybe all?) recipes you need a food processor which is a tool that we don't have, but today is my mums birthday (happy brithday mummy) and she wants to get one with some vouchers that she got for Lakeland, so now I'm dreaming of making tomato tarts and chocolate truffles.

I'll a couple of my favorites here:

Let me know if you watch any cooking channels and what your favourite ones are!

Making an egg-less Egg salad!

 This was such a creamy delight, I wasn't expecting it one bit, and how perfect for the shining sun!

Here is how my eggless Egg salad went down:
Take a generous palm full of cashews
3/4 cup of water
Half a squeezed lemon (or just a tablespoon of fresh lemon juice if you have it)
3/4 teaspoon of Tumeric
1 clove of garlic
and blend blend blend!

Get whizzy with it until it looks creamy and delicious, and pour over delicious raw veg. I used a chopped red pepper, it was seriously delicious, refreshing, light but filling and dare I say it again... so creamy!

Nuts are the wonder ingredient to get your sauces and soups creamy without the fat and calories of using milk, cream and yoghurt!

Enjoy in the sunshine!

Soothing Summer Tomato Soup Raw Vegan Recipe

There is more to eating like a raw vegan than soups, but I just really fancied tomato soup and something really really easy. If you're a bad cook being a Raw Vegan might be the way to go, the meals are faster than waiting for a ready meal to heat up or a pizza to cook and basically so far involve putting everything in a blender!

Here's how the Tomato soup went down:
1. Took 4 vine tomatoes, gave them a wash and put them in the blender, along with half an avocado, teaspoon of onion powder, a clove of garlic and half a mug of water.
2. Blend til smooth
3. Eat

Yippee that really is all there is to it, and I have to say it tastes nothing like tomato soup from a can, it still has the creaminess from the avocado and i used a huge clove of garlic which I love and made it super fresh tasting. It was really like a summer soup so it's lucky the weather is warm.

Raw Vegan Red Pepper Soup recipe

Is this just a fad?
Yes.
I'm trying a raw vegan diet for 7 days only. I love bacon, I love bread and I love nutella too much for this to be a lifestyle change. I'm told this could help clear up my skin, or if not it could at least make me feel better, more energy etc etc
A week may not be enough for it to kick in, or I may end up extending it if I really enjoy it, but I doubt it!
Here was my dinner tonight, it was really delicious and soo much easier than actual cooking - certainly a perk of going 'raw' the food gets to your plate within 5 minutes.
This is the red pepper soup recipe that is 100% from www.therawtarian.com
Head over to there for the full recipe, but this is how it went down for me...

I took a 1/3 cup of plain cashew nuts and soaked them in water for an hour so that my little smoothie blender would blend it up easier.

Then I took a red pepper and washed it, then I cut up 3/4 of it roughly, and 1/4 of it finely.

I threw the 3/4 roughly cut into the blender, along with all the drained cashew nuts and 1/2 mug water.

I added a pinch of dried mixed herbs just to give it a little kick (not in the original recipe)

I blended it up for about 2 minutes, until it's almost completely smooth, there shouldn't be any little grittiness of nuts

 I scattered the 1/4 of finely chopped peppers in the bowl of soup, this recipe makes enough for one person.

It tastes really good, I can't believe how creamy it is, all because of the nuts. Also, the red pepper makes it really naturally sweet too. But I do recommend adding the herbs for an extra something.

Then for dessert, it just so happened that the supermarket were selling 300g grams of raspberries for £1 because they went out of date today, so I snapped those up and ate the whole bowl! Raspberries are my favourite!