Raw-vegan walnut milk

Raw-vegan walnut milk

...I know, I know... I'm not entirely raw-vegan, I'm still changing my habits and it is for this reason that most of the recipes in the blog are sweet, forgive me please :) I began with changing my breakfasts and snacks first, not to put too much difficulty in my family , with whom I'm quite close, referring to eating habits. 

I managed to completely remove diary products and most of packed meals from my diet; My breakfast are mainly raw-vegan: only sometimes I have some toast with jam ;) .... at school I always bring with me some fresh or dried fruit and, only if I don't have any at home, I remedy with a packet of organic corn creakers, because I never have enough money with me to buy some fresh orange juice, even if relatively cheap (1€ per glass).

My meals also abound in fruits and vegetables , raw or cooked , it depends .... I still eat meat but not so much, I prefer legumes and , for lunch, pasta ... rice... soup with croutons .... ... always accompanied with a fruit.

My closer goal is to be able to have at least two raw-vegan meals per week, not being able to remove all of the meat from my diet yet. I have set a deadline at the end of February, hoping to be able to respect it. 

You know , sometimes it is a bit hard to see who lives with me eating pralines , chocolates , puddings , sweets and snacks of all kinds, in every moment of the day . I'm sad, firstly because they have no love for themselves, secondly because sometimes, I have to admit it, I miss bit those chocolate snacks , freshly baked hamburgers other not diary-free things ... but I am sure that , improving my cooking skills, I'll be able to prepare valid vegan alternatives, and even raw ones, to those succulent dishes! 

During these days I came up with a particular desire : milk;I'd been without having a nice cup of milk for months! I spent hours thinking about what I could do to solve my problem until I saw all the nuts, left from Christmas holydays, staying there without being eaten. So I thought, " Why couldn't I make some nut milk if it can also be donewith hazelnuts and almonds?? " So I started working and here's the recipe of my delicious nut milk:

Ingredients for 1/2 l of walnut milk:

• 1/2 cup walnuts
• 1/2 l water
• 2 o 3 tsp sweetner to taste (I used agave syrup)

Method:

2. Soak nuts in water for at least 8 hours, I left them soaking for about 20 hours, the more you leave them soaking, the better it is
3. drain walnuts and blend them until having a creamy texture, firstly without the addition of any other ingredient, and then while slowly adding the water  
4. filter it into a close-meshed strainer and add the sweetner
5. keep in fridge into a closed jar 

Ready to drink: 

I served it with a fresh orange and pomegranate fruit salad!! 

Are you ready to enjoy your cup of milk?? Let me know what do you think about this recipe and also what do you miss from when you changed your eating habits: tell me a bit 'of yours ...
  Kisses, see you soon! 
Luna    

TRY WITH:
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 (RAW) raw-bites-nutella-tasting
 (RAW) raw-vegan-pistachio-and-clementines

Raw vegan pistachio and clementines treats

Raw vegan pistachio and clementines treats

with hazelnuts, grapes and desiccated apricots

Ingredients:

• 3/8 cup (60g) shelled pistachios
• 3/8 cup (50g) shelled hazelnuts
• 1 tsp sesame seeds
• 1/4 desiccated apricots (about 4 apricots, or 30g)
• 1 tsp desiccated raisins
• grated rind of a clementine, and juice of half a clementine
• 1 or 2 tsp agave or meaple sirup, to taste
• shredded coconut as needed

 Method: 

1. ground pistachios, sesame seeds and hazelnuts togeter
2. add chopped apricots, raisins, clementine rind and juice and the sirup and blend again 
3. sprinkle coconut above a sheet of baking paper or aluminium foil one and, with aid of a spatula, spread the mixture smoothly
4. sprinkle again with coconut over the mixture smoothed and freeze for about 5-10 minutes before cutting it

 ...I cutted it into little triangles but the shape doesn't matter. Interpose a piece of baking paper or aluminium foil between a treat and another one and keep them in the freezer. I recommend you to eat it at freezer or fridge temperature to emphasize flavours and also because the texture is better at that temperature...

Ready to serve:
...try it also with walnut milk ( http://rawvogliadivita.blogspot.it/2014/01/raw-vegan-walnut-milk.html )

Luna

Raw vegan Oranges tartare

Oranges tartare 

with grapes and hazelnuts

... New year, new years resolutions, new recipes...
One of my new years resolutions is to have 10'000 visualisations of the blog. Is it only a dream or can it really be?? who knows...
Now I only know that I'll have to work hard in give you new, good, beautiful and practical recipes to let you live raw-vegan eating with serenity.
Let's start with something easy and fast then:...

Ingredients for 4 people:

• 3 oranges (medium size)
• 20 hazelnuts
• about 20 grapes

Method: 

1. peel and cut into chunks oranges. then organise them on the plate as first layer of the tartare
2. chop 16 hazelnuts and spread them on the oranges layer
3. cut in half grapes, rimove seeds and cut them again into thin slices
4. finally arrange some of grape slices in the shape of a flower, on hazelnuts granola and dispose the slices left all around the tartare as if it were a crown. to complete the composition, put one of the kept hazelnuts filling the center of the tartare

 Ready to serve:

Finally I want to wish you a prosperous 2014, with every-day health, semplicity and serenity, also throught eating raw-vegan.

Best wishes to everybody,  

 Luna