i had some mangos to use up last night, so i made this!
filling: 3 mangos food-processed, with one cup of cut-up bits of 10-minutes soaked dried mangos
crust: 1/2 cup medjool dates with 1.5 cups walnuts and 1.5 cups dried coconut. i made the mistake of getting the low-fat coconut at the store a while back (made low-fat by steaming, which makes it no longer raw AND tastes bad), so out of desperation i opened up a fresh coconut and hacked out some of the meat. i think that helped. so i'd say food-processed fresh coconut would work just as well as dried!
topped with: strawberries, 3 kiwi fruit
it was yummmmmmmmmmy. i know i sound like a broken record, but it's just strange it's just raw fruit and nuts. as chris said, it tasted like a fruit tart. chris hates coconut, though, so next time i have to make it without that bit! i think i'll tackle the key lime mousse next. (made with avocados!)
after making this and finishing up the raw pasta, the kitchen was a huge disaster. at least most of the waste was headed for the composter - or the tortoises!
who knew raw "cooking" could make such a mess? best viewed large. :)
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
