date-ing around

A quiet, food-filled evening is coming to a close- but NOT before I document the delicious goodies I created. When I make really excellent, outstanding foods is when I most want someone to eat them with. Tonight is one of those nights.

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extraordinary kale chip
my kale chips are different every time.  It always depends on what I have in my tiny cubbard pantry... tonight, it included
one cup [ish] of brazil nuts
1/4 cup hemp seeds
splash of coconut vinegar
1 tbsp coconut oil
1 tbsp bladderwrack powder
1/2 or 3/4 cup rejevelac
1 tsp horseradish
shakes of real salt and cayenne pepper and black pepper

blend blend in franc the vitamix, massage into kale for extra tasty love and voila! they are dehydrating now, but i've eaten about a third of them anyways. strange how that happens.
I also had a spoonful of extra dressing left in franc, so I spooned it onto a nori sheet and made a little cracker. I've already eaten that, too, and it was delicious!

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I think this is a fair time to put in a disclaimer about my recipes.
Because no one reads this yet.
I practice what I feel is a soulful, uninhibited way of preparing food. I use my hands, I make a little mess here and there... and I don't measure. I eyeball everything.  I am a pretty good eyeballer though- smaller measurements especially. The bigger you go the more room you have to be off... but for the sake of my culinary career and for any future readers that may follow my recipe dream book here, I am working on making things more precise.

HOWEVER
I completely agree that the whimsy of making raw food should include a fair amount of intuition.  If you think you'll want a little more cacao, put in more.  Not feeling a few ingredients? Leave them out. The strictness that recipe books have had in the past is out, and REAL RAWR food is in!

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that said, I also made a tray of date bars.
These are tasty enough to devour as is, but not quite tasty enough to want to share the recipe yet.
Coming soon- the best rawr date squares you've ever had!