Chocolate Strawberry Delight

Hello all you wonderful people:

Just wanted to share this easy and delicious raw food dessert recipe with you before the end of the season. This is one of my favorite quick desserts. It is so yummy and healthy too. Definitely a recipe to make for a cooked food crowd. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.


Chocolate Strawberry Delight
Makes 4-6 servings


Strawberry Cream

1 lb fresh strawberries
3/4 cup cashews, soaked
1/3 cup water
2 TBS agave syrup
Blend cashews with the 1/3 cup of water or enough to just cover. Measure out 3/4 cup of the cream and set the rest aside. Add 1 cup of diced strawberries and the agave then blend until smooth. It should make about 2 cups. Reserve 1/2 cup. Thin slice the rest of the strawberries and fold into the cream.

Chocolate Sauce

10 TBS cacao butter, melted
6 TBS cacao powder
5 TBS agave syrup
dash vanilla powder
pinch salt
Whisk together and adjust for flavor.

Crumble

1/2 cup raw almonds
1/2 cup raw pecans
10 deglet dates, pitted
1 TBS cacao butter, melted
2 TBS cacao powder
2 1/2 TBS coconut palm sugar
1/8 tsp vanilla powder
pinch salt
Place all ingredients except the cacao butter in a food processor and process until finely ground. Adjust sweetness and then add the cacao butter and process just enough to combine.

Assembly:
Make the crumble first. Take a glass 7 X 9" pan, press the crumble firmly into the bottom and freeze for 15 minutes. Make the chocolate sauce and pour just enough on top to coat the crumble and place back in the freezer for at least 15 minutes while you make the strawberry cream. Spread the 1/2 cup strawberry cream on the chocolate then spoon the strawberry mixture on top. Drizzle some of the chocolate sauce on the strawberries. Serve at room temperature with a sliced fresh strawberry fan for garnish. Use any remaining chocolate sauce or strawberry cream for candies or milkshakes.

Indulge and enjoy life now!

Blessings of health,

Dr. Diondra

What's Coming This Month?

Heirloom Tomato Salsa and Raw Corn Chips

Hi All:

I just wanted to give you a little rundown of what was coming up in the next few weeks.
The first thing is my raw soup class with Kim & Sean Smith from Pure Health Foods. The class is this Monday, August 16, 2010, 5:30pm. If you would like to attend you must sign up and pay on or  before Saturday, August 14, 2010.  There will be a couple other goodies there along with the spicy vegetable, sweet pea and watermelon mango soups we are making. We hope you can come and enjoy some raw vegan soups with us.

Sign up now for the Summer Soup Class

Coming the end of August is a fabulous energy healing class with my friend Vickie Smith. She will be teaching Healing Touch level 2. If you have not ever experienced a healing touch session or attended a workshop, you are missing out on a fabulous experience. Vickie does private sessions daily at her office, 612 S. Jones. ( near Alta ) For those wishing a more intense healing experience I encourage you to attend one of her Healing Touch Workshops. The next Level 1 is October 23 & 24, 2010. 
I have been to many, many healing workshops over the past 20 years, and this one knocked my socks off!! I walked away with so much more than learning another healing technique, although I do love this energy technique. So if you are in the market for a good healing, or another energy technique to add to your repertoire, I encourage you to explore Healing Touch and then come join us at the workshop in October.

If you like to do healing and spiritual work you may wish to check out Dee Wallace. She has a fun and inspirational radio show every Thursday morning. During most of the show she is working on people that call in. All the shows are archived for you to listen to at your leisure. I love her shows. I almost always have something in common with the person she is working on. The great part about that is, you can clear the issue in yourself as she clears it in the person on the phone line! What a deal for FREE!!  Check out her show HERE. Call in numbers for her Thursday 8am PST show: 866-472-5795.

Before I go, here's a quick, but very tasty sweet corn chip recipe. ( These are like candy treats to me. I could eat them all day long, I love them so much!)

SWEET CORN CHIPS

1 bag, 16oz frozen organic corn
1 red bell pepper, chopped
1/2 cup chia seeds, ground ( measure then grind )
1/2 water to soak chia in
1/2 cup ground almonds, soaked, then ground
3/4 cup ground cashews, dry
3 TBS nutritional yeast ( optional )
3 TBS flax seeds, ground
salt to taste
cayenne pepper or other hot pepper to taste
1/2 cup water if needed to process

Soak the chia seeds in 1/2 cup filtered water until they gel. Add the red pepper, corn, chia gel, almonds, cashews, flax, salt and yeast to the processor. Process until smooth and combined thoroughly. Use the other 1/2 cup water if needed to process.  The mixture will be thick, but spreadable. Spread on a teflex sheet about 1/4 inch thick. Use a knife or pizza cutter to score it for your crackers. Place in dehydrator for 5 hours at 115 degrees. Then flip onto another dehydrator sheet and peel off the teflex. Dry another 5 hours until crispy. Store in an airtight glass container.

Enjoy!

Blessings of radiant health,

Diondra