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I love cooking! And eating! :) So, in the spirit of no massage discussions, anyone have any recipes they'd like to share? Healthy or horrible, we will all be responsible for our own consumption!

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Permalink Reply by Gloria Coppola on October 11, 2009 at 6:11pm

I know of a great raw chocolate mousse recipe and it's healthy!!
Get 1 ripe Hass avocado (yes an avo)
In a food processor mix it with the following: a dash of balsamic vinegar (trust me), a dash of shoyu (dark soy sauce), raw cacao (chocolate) add approx. 1 -2 tblsp. depending on your taste. Add 1/2 to 1 tsp (depending on sweetness) of the following: maple syrup and agave. Make sure you mix it up real good til nice and creamy smooth - no bumps or lumps. Now add 1 tblsp cold pressed coconut oil (solid). Blend well again.Chill and serve with strawberries or raspberries.
You can always modify sweetness by adding more agave. Enjoy

Permalink Reply by Eeris Kallil CMT on October 11, 2009 at 9:32pm

ARE YOU SURE???

Gloria Coppola said:

I know of a great raw chocolate mousse recipe and it's healthy!!
Get 1 ripe Hass avocado (yes an avo)
In a food processor mix it with the following: a dash of balsamic vinegar (trust me), a dash of shoyu (dark soy sauce), raw cacao (chocolate) add approx. 1 -2 tblsp. depending on your taste. Add 1/2 to 1 tsp (depending on sweetness) of the following: maple syrup and agave. Make sure you mix it up real good til nice and creamy smooth - no bumps or lumps. Now add 1 tblsp cold pressed coconut oil (solid). Blend well again.Chill and serve with strawberries or raspberries.
You can always modify sweetness by adding more agave. Enjoy

Permalink Reply by Gloria Coppola on October 12, 2009 at 7:50pm

Yup - totally, it's awesome. I adjust it for taste...OH I forgot, add vanilla extra too! oops

Eeris Kallil CMT said:

ARE YOU SURE???

Gloria Coppola said:
I know of a great raw chocolate mousse recipe and it's healthy!!
Get 1 ripe Hass avocado (yes an avo)
In a food processor mix it with the following: a dash of balsamic vinegar (trust me), a dash of shoyu (dark soy sauce), raw cacao (chocolate) add approx. 1 -2 tblsp. depending on your taste. Add 1/2 to 1 tsp (depending on sweetness) of the following: maple syrup and agave. Make sure you mix it up real good til nice and creamy smooth - no bumps or lumps. Now add 1 tblsp cold pressed coconut oil (solid). Blend well again.Chill and serve with strawberries or raspberries.
You can always modify sweetness by adding more agave. Enjoy

Permalink Reply by Trevor Chisman on October 13, 2009 at 5:48am

You heard of Jamie Oliver over there in the States? He's a big time TV chef here in the UK, but down to earth and fun with it.

Loving his recipes, recently got his new book Jamie's America, with recipes he's collected during a TV show trip round the states, some great stuff but my favourite so far has to be the Beer Butt Chicken.
See picture of chicken waiting to go in the oven, that should explain it!

Note - Please look away if you're a vegetarian

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Permalink Reply by Marissa on October 13, 2009 at 6:53am

Ha! I love doing this too! Cooking it, I mean. I call it "Up the Butt Chicken"! My husband yells at me to not call it that every time I cook it. It geeks him out. You can do it on the grill too! I didn't see the pic. For bacon lovers, follow the same principle and use tooth pics to pin bacon around the outside of the bird. Grill it. The bacon fat makes the bird really tender and flavorful! Plus, the extra crispy bacon isn't half bad either!

Trevor Chisman said:

You heard of Jamie Oliver over there in the States? He's a big time TV chef here in the UK, but down to earth and fun with it.

Loving his recipes, recently got his new book Jamie's America, with recipes he's collected during a TV show trip round the states, some great stuff but my favourite so far has to be the Beer Butt Chicken.
See picture of chicken waiting to go in the oven, that should explain it!

Note - Please look away if you're a vegetarian

Permalink Reply by Marilyn St.John on October 13, 2009 at 9:24am

Jamie Oliver is a hoot, he's on TV here too, and I watched him prepare this chicken once but haven't tried it myself. I don't enjoy food prep myself, so I'm not sure how I feel about shoving that beer can in there, it kinda creeps me out because I like my chicken friends!

We go with the one-pot meals around here because I'm such a lazy cook, that way there are usually more meals from it. My daughter made something interesting last week that was really, really quick: 1 bag Uncle Ben's rice-in-a-pouch (the newer kind that gets put in a microwave for 90 min,); 1 can of Black Beans; 1 can of Corn; 1 small jar Salsa. Mix together and heat through. She added some cut up spicy chicken sausage, but any other protein "leftover" would work. I like that this mixture can be made from ingredients that aren't commercially processed if one has the time, too. It was actually very good! Tortillas come in handy if you want to make a wrap out of it. From start to finish it took less than five minutes! Generously feeds four.

Permalink Reply by Marilyn St.John on October 13, 2009 at 9:29am

Gloria, this sounds delish. Where does one find the cold pressed coconut oil? I've never had occasion to look for it...Whole Food, maybe? Thanks, I'd really like to try this.

Permalink Reply by Trevor Chisman on October 13, 2009 at 12:47pm

I'll have to try that with the bacon, sounds yummy!

Marissa Macias said:

Ha! I love doing this too! Cooking it, I mean. I call it "Up the Butt Chicken"! My husband yells at me to not call it that every time I cook it. It geeks him out. You can do it on the grill too! I didn't see the pic. For bacon lovers, follow the same principle and use tooth pics to pin bacon around the outside of the bird. Grill it. The bacon fat makes the bird really tender and flavorful! Plus, the extra crispy bacon isn't half bad either!

Trevor Chisman said:
You heard of Jamie Oliver over there in the States? He's a big time TV chef here in the UK, but down to earth and fun with it.

Loving his recipes, recently got his new book Jamie's America, with recipes he's collected during a TV show trip round the states, some great stuff but my favourite so far has to be the Beer Butt Chicken.
See picture of chicken waiting to go in the oven, that should explain it!

Note - Please look away if you're a vegetarian

Permalink Reply by Trevor Chisman on October 13, 2009 at 12:51pm

That sounds like a great recipe! I'm a big fan of one pot cooking too, cooking should be all about the flavours and the ingredients. I'm not into the whole idea of al a carte presentation. Good old homely comfort food is down my street.

Marilyn St.John said:

Jamie Oliver is a hoot, he's on TV here too, and I watched him prepare this chicken once but haven't tried it myself. I don't enjoy food prep myself, so I'm not sure how I feel about shoving that beer can in there, it kinda creeps me out because I like my chicken friends!

We go with the one-pot meals around here because I'm such a lazy cook, that way there are usually more meals from it. My daughter made something interesting last week that was really, really quick: 1 bag Uncle Ben's rice-in-a-pouch (the newer kind that gets put in a microwave for 90 min,); 1 can of Black Beans; 1 can of Corn; 1 small jar Salsa. Mix together and heat through. She added some cut up spicy chicken sausage, but any other protein "leftover" would work. I like that this mixture can be made from ingredients that aren't commercially processed if one has the time, too. It was actually very good! Tortillas come in handy if you want to make a wrap out of it. From start to finish it took less than five minutes! Generously feeds four.