Love is inward the air now, can't you lot experience it? The girls together with I receive got been making Valentine's for over a calendar week now. There is glitter all over the house!
What practise you lot practise to celebrate Valentine's Day?
I know for most of us chocolate is involved. Maybe roses, a massage, a prissy dinner. These are all wonderful things, but what nearly love?
I receive got a lilliputian volume that I bought when I was xix called Teachings on Love past times Thich Nhat Hanh. I receive got carried it alongside me during these final 12 years, through all of the moves, packing together with unpacking, changing schools, relationships, having babies. You all know him, right? He is the poet together with Zen Master, peacemaker together with writer who travels the globe leading retreats on mindful living. I receive got e'er wanted to take in Plum Village inward the South of French Republic where he resides...someday I will, mayhap when the kids are older.
In the starting fourth dimension of the book, Thich Nhat Hanh offers us this quote from the Buddha:
"With his hear filled alongside love, the monk permeates i direction, together with hence a second, a third, a fourth, above, below, together with all around, everywhere identifying himself alongside all. He permeates the whole footing alongside his hear filled alongside love, wide, far, developed, unbound, costless from hate together with ill-will. He does the same alongside his hear filled alongside compassion, joy, together with equanimity." (Subha Sutta, Majjhima Nikaya, Sutra 99)
I idea this quote was really moving together with indeed what nosotros necessitate today. By filling ourselves alongside beautiful thoughts, surroundings, flavors, people, colors, you lot advert it, tin nosotros fill upward up our "love cup." Then together with solely tin nosotros spread beloved to the world. And nosotros all know that the footing could purpose a lilliputian extra beloved correct now. This is only nutrient for idea for you lot on this upcoming lovely day, Valentine's Day. I am non trying to get married Buddhism here, nor am I Buddhist, I only receive got a lilliputian of everything together with encounter what plant for me. Hope it inspires you lot too.
So this Valentine's Day, practise a lilliputian something firstly for yourself together with hence i time you lot are feeling good, spread the love.
Now, if your indulgence involves chocolate, I tin help.
Tom together with I receive got been twittering unopen to alongside a raw chocolate pie recipe for sometime straightaway together with nosotros intend nosotros receive got it down.
Tom together with I receive got been twittering unopen to alongside a raw chocolate pie recipe for sometime straightaway together with nosotros intend nosotros receive got it down.
It is chocolate indulgence to the highest degree. Thick together with rich. H5N1 twinge of cinnamon. H5N1 flare-up of sugariness together with tangy raspberry. The sublime richness of deep, nighttime chocolate. Vegan, raw, together with gluten-free.
Your oral fissure watering yet?
Well, this pie is really unproblematic to make. Yes some of the ingredients may live on difficult to come upward past times if you lot alive inward a minor town. But I volition receive got you lot know that if you lot are hither inward Bellingham, all of the ingredients tin live on institute at our wonderful local wellness nutrient store, Terra Organica. Note: If you lot are gluten-free this is the house to shop; they comport a large draw of piece of job of Authentic Foods products now! Yippee! This is where I purchase my arrowroot pulverization from. I institute out nearly a yr agone that nearly all brands of arrowroot are non gluten-free because of cross-contamination during processing. So live on certain to purpose Authentic Foods brand if you lot are gluten-sensitive.
This pie requires a nutrient processor, a blender volition non work, nor a vita-mix. First the crust is made, hence you lot rinse out the nutrient processor together with construct the filling. It only needs to live on chilled for a few hours earlier serving. Then top each while alongside a unproblematic raspberry sauce. Today I used the raspberries that nosotros had frozen from our berry picking adventures this past times summer.
Happy Valentine's Day! Love to you lot all.
Raw Chocolate Pie
Crust:
2 cups pecans
8 to 10 medjool dates, pitted
1 tablespoon virgin kokosnoot oil
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 pinch footing cardamom (optional)
Filling:
1 loving cup raw cashew butter
1 minor avocado
½ loving cup + two tablespoons GF cocoa pulverization (Dagoba is GF)
½ loving cup raw agave nectar
½ loving cup barely melted kokosnoot butter*
¼ loving cup water
1 tablespoon non-alcoholic vanilla
Place nuts into nutrient processor together with pulse until finely ground. Add remaining ingredients for crust together with pulse until thoroughly footing together with mixed. Press crust into the bottom of a 9.5-inch deep dish pie plate. Place into fridge to chill.
Place all ingredients for filling into nutrient processor together with procedure until polish together with creamy. Add a lilliputian to a greater extent than H2O for a thinner filling, i tablespoon at a time. (It volition receive got longer to prepare if you lot practise this). Note: if you lot practise non similar a rigid chocolate season hence start alongside less cocoa pulverization together with gradually add together to a greater extent than equally your gustation suggests.
Pour chocolate filling into pie plate. Spread out evenly alongside a prophylactic spatula together with house dorsum into the fridge to chill. Chill for three to 4 hours. Slice together with serve alongside fresh berries if desired.
*Be certain to only barely warm the kokosnoot butter on really depression heat, it volition rapidly burn downward otherwise. Also, this is kokosnoot butter, non kokosnoot oil. Coconut butter is made from the whole coconut, flesh together with oil.
Raspberry Sauce
½ loving cup water
two tablespoons arrowroot powder
¼ loving cup agave nectar
1 loving cup fresh or frozen raspberries
1 to two teaspoon vanilla
Place the H2O together with arrowroot into a minor saucepan together with stir to dissolve the arrowroot. Add the agave nectar together with raspberries together with rut over medium heat. Simmer until the sauce is translucent together with the raspberries receive got broken down. I purpose a wire whisk to assistance alongside this. Turn off rut together with stir inward vanilla. Let cool to room temperature earlier serving.
More Healthy Valentine's Day Desserts:
Almond-Goji Berry Truffles
Molten Chocolate Lava Cakes
Raw Vanilla White Chocolates
two tablespoons arrowroot powder
¼ loving cup agave nectar
1 loving cup fresh or frozen raspberries
1 to two teaspoon vanilla
Place the H2O together with arrowroot into a minor saucepan together with stir to dissolve the arrowroot. Add the agave nectar together with raspberries together with rut over medium heat. Simmer until the sauce is translucent together with the raspberries receive got broken down. I purpose a wire whisk to assistance alongside this. Turn off rut together with stir inward vanilla. Let cool to room temperature earlier serving.
More Healthy Valentine's Day Desserts:
Almond-Goji Berry Truffles
Molten Chocolate Lava Cakes
Raw Vanilla White Chocolates
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