it's earth day - raw eating

happy earth day!  these mighty little ballz are the perfect snack and why not make them for a protein packed snack or dessert tonight in honor of the grand ol globe we live on.  

have fun with food.  i can't take things too seriously with all this food change or i'd go bonkers.

my hot mama girlfriend kristy made these puppies on friday for her little guy's birthday party.  we inhaled them.  they taste like oatmeal cookie dough balls and helloooooooooo - party in your mouth.  i think we had the most fun thinking of creative names for them.  

she gets the prize with "schweddy balls".

saturday night live - pete schweddy

kristy pinned the recipe off pinterest.  unfortunately, the recipe's original site has been blocked for spam content or something crazy.  at least the recipe is in the comments!

update:  i have been inspired by other foodrev ambassadors with more sweet names...so i have decided to just keep adding to the list:)  depending on who you serve them too, feel free to change the name to your audience.  this list could get fun...

1. "schweddy balls" - kristy

2. bringin sexy back dark chocolate pb balls & orgasmic no-bake dark chocolate pb balls - stacy- food rev ambassador idaho.

3. little chocolate earth balls - gaia - food rev ambassador belgium

1 c rolled oats 

1/2 c flaxseed meal

1/2 c organic peanut butter (or whatever nut butter you want...hee hee)

1/2 c organic dark chocolate chips (i ran out, so i chopped up a bar)

1/3 c local honey

1 tsp vanilla

this recipe yields about 30 balls...but of course, that depends on how large you like them.

please stop me...this is getting inappropriate.  

easily palmed.

i brought these over to my in-laws house for some family birthday "special plate" celebrations last night.  major hitskies.

thank you kristy for the inspo...i will be making these balls often in the mullies:)

xoxo

trying truffles...chloé sucrée style

chocolat

i love chocolate.  wonderful, smooth dark luscious chocolate.  hmmmmmmm.  truffles....

now imagine if you could make your own...organic, crazy-easy-dark-chocolate-truffles.

i made these lovelies with my kids...but believe me, if i was with my hubbie, making truffles with him...with this music... alone in our kitchen...oh my lord.  so people, these puppies have a lot of versatility.  hee hee.

here's how:

chloé sucrée vegan truffles 

(led by a yummy carrot cake recipe...gonna try that soon!)

chloé is a food lover, recipe developer, organic chef and organic food coach...and i'm tickled to have connected with her as a fellow food ambassador for the jamie oliver food revolution foundation.  

this one's for you chloe.  you really inspire me in the kitchen.  thank you so much for this wonderful, pass-down-to-my-kids chocolate recipe from the gods.  your truffles rock our hizouse and here's how our chocolate adventure went down...

my make shift double broiler...just fill the bottom bowl with a little water and put another bowl on top.

the almond nut pulp (frozen from my previous adventure of making homemade almond milk).  i wasn't sure if i was going to make milk again...and the answer is now a resounding yes...for these truffles, yes, oh yes please.

simple simple simple mix.

we had sesame seeds and raw cacao on hand to roll the truffles around in.  the kids liked the sesame seeds the best but had no problem snarfing down the cacao dusted balls too.

it was really hard not to just face-plant ourselves into the bowl.

that just says it all.  

vegan dark chocolate truffle notes:

i simply used a google metric conversion tool to help me with the european measurements:

6 oz of organic dark chocolate (2 bars)

1/2 c of almond nut pulp (i froze the pulp from my last batch of almond milk...so happy i did!!!)

(i did not have any pralin - a mix of hazelnuts and brown sugar...but i will try that next time!!)

i followed the rest of chloé's recipe to a T.

ps

wondering how to make your own almond milk?  it's easy...check out this great tutorial here.  use the same method to make walnut milk too:)

speaking of yummy treats...still wondering what yellow #6 really is?  here is a handy food coloring guide....now go look at your pickles label...

today is a snowday!  no school!!!!!!!  yipppeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!