No Sugar Added Dark Chocolate Fudge

This is the simplest fudge I’ve ever made. It’s very rich and you only need a little to satisfy your sweet tooth. You can feel good about the sugar content, it is just the dark chocolate chips. I just love it, and I think you will too!

Dark Chocolate Fudge

Ingredients:
3 cups dark chocolate chips
3/4 cup full fat coconut milk
2 tbls coconut oil

Directions:
Place chips in large bowl. Combine Coconut milk and coconut oil in microwave safe bowl and microwave until hot, about 1 1/2 minutes. Pour hot mixture over chips and let stand 2 minutes. Mix until totally smooth. Line mini muffin tin with mini liners. Fill each liner to the top. Freeze or refrigerate until set. Store in fridge or freezer. Sprinkle a little sea salt over each if desired. Enjoy!

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3 Ways to Cook Kale

When I first decided to clean up my diet I knew I had to add more greens. Kale has built up a reputation of being a “super” green. So I knew I should start eating kale.

I was most intrigued by kale chips, which is now my favourite way to eat kale, but there are many ways to eat kale.

Boiled or Steamed

Wash it, tear it from the stem and throw it in a pot of boiling water. This is the simplest way to eat kale. I will do this with pasta or throw it in with rice as it’s boiling. The kale will take about 5 minutes to cook to be soft and edible. Don’t bother with the stems, they are extremely tough. It’s also good on its own as a side. Cover the bottom of a frying pan with water, bring it to a boil and fill the pan with kale, let it steam until soft, add salt and pepper or any desired seasoning.

Raw

You have probably noticed how tough kale is, and maybe you’ve tried to eat it raw and thought this doesn’t seem edible. The secret to eating raw kale is once you have rinsed it clean, torn it away from the stem into bite size pieces and put into a bowl, pour a table spoon or so of olive oil and squeeze half a lemon over it. Massage the oil in with your hands, this actually takes the toughness away. You can than add more salad ingredients to it or just eat it on its own.

Baked

This is my favourite, crispy kale chips. A great snack or side dish.

Kale Chips

Ingredients:
1 bunch of kale
1 table spoons of coconut oil
1 table spoon of sea salt

Preheat oven to 350. Spoon 1 table spoon of coconut oil on a baking sheet and put in oven to melt. Rinse kale and tear into chip size pieces avoiding the hard stem. Bake for 10 minutes, check chips and stir. Bake for 2-5 more minutes. It’s a very fine line between great crispy kale chips and burnt kale chips, watch carefully when returning to the oven.

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Zucchini Noodle Stir fry with Peanut Sauce

If you haven’t had peanut sauce and you like peanut butter, you HAVE to try this. It’s delicious (I get specific cravings for it) and surprisingly easy to make. It was first made for me by family and then I started to get cravings for it and learned to make it on my own.

PEANUT SAUCE
serves 4

Ingredients
1 1″ piece of ginger peeled and chopped roughly (doesn’t need to be fine, it’s all going into a blender)
1 garlic clove
1/2 cup peanut butter
2 tablespoons of soy sauce
juice of 1 lime
1/4 – 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes

Direction
In a blender or food processor blend ginger and garlic together to start until it is finely chopped. Add all other ingredients and 1/3 cup of water. Blend together. If the sauce seems too thick add 2 tablespoons of water, beware of adding too much water. Can be stored in the fridge for a few days, serve at room temperature.

Zucchini Noodle Stir fry

Ingredients:
2 zucchini
1 onion
mushrooms
peppers
broccoli

Directions:
You can use any vegetables you want. The key to good zucchini noodles is using a spiralizer. I’ve tried for the same effect using a cheese grater and it’s weird. Ask around to borrow one, you will fall in love with it. Ask Santa for one, it’s a kitchen tool I wouldn’t give up. Spiralize your zucchini first so you are prepared when the frying begins. Start with your onions in a pan with your oil of choice, I always use coconut oil for frying. As your onions are getting soft chop your other veggies how you like. You can use any vegetables you want or have in your fridge for this, don’t get caught up in the ingredients. Add the zucchini noodles last once everything else is cooked, they don’t take long. Once the zucchini noodles are soft toss in the peanut sauce. Beware not to over do the zucchini noodles, they will become mush. They will be cooked in under 5 minutes.

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SQUASH AND APPLE SOUP WITH MAPLE

serves 4-6

Ingredients:
2             onions, chopped
1 tbs       butter (I used coconut oil instead)
1            Large Butternut Squash; peeled and cubed
2            Apples; peeled, cored and cubed
2            cloves garlic
4 cups    vegetable broth
t tsp        fresh thyme
1 tsp       salt
1/4 tsp    pepper
3 tbsp     maple syrup
1/2 tsp    pumpkin seeds

Directions:
In a large pot, cook onions in butter over medium heat until soft, about 5 minutes. Add squash, apples, garlic, broth, 1 cup of water, thyme, salt and pepper: bring to boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for about 20 minutes or until the squash is tender. Let cool slightly, blend, an immersion blender is easiest. Stir in maple syrup and nutmeg, serve garnished with pumpkin seeds.

This is a really nice fall soup when squash and apples are in season. Double or maybe even triple the batch and put left overs in your freezer for when you want it again. Make it your own, change up the ingredients as you see fit, I’m going to try ginger and garlic next time, because I love ginger and I have a really nice organic chunk of it that I got recently.

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