Recipes from the April potlucks

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--Janet

Cinnamon Rolls

From Naked Chocolate by Shazzie and David Wolf, page 129


Ingredients

4 heaped tbsp Cacao powder
3 tbsp Agave
1/2 tsp Coconut oil
Cinnamon, ground (enough to dust on work surface)
1 cup Pecans, not soaked
1 cup Medjool dates, stoned


Instructions

1. Make the chocolate sauce by mixing together the Cacao powder, Agave, and Coconut oil. Should be quite runny, so you might need more Agave. Set aside.
2. Process the nuts and dates together to make a dough.
3. Dust some cinnamon onto a clean work surface.
4. Work the dough flat til it's about 4 mm thick, possibly 15x15cm square, dusting with cinnamon when you need to remove stickiness.
5. Spread the chocolate sauce evenly on top. (NOTE: I had trouble with this because the cinnamon on top made it really hard to spread the chocolate sauce, but perhaps if the sauce was more liquid, or warmer, or something, this wouldn't have been a problem.)
6. Pick up one side of the dough and start to roll to the other side so that you end up with one roll. (NOTE: I had trouble rolling the dough. As you recall, we ended up with crumbly squares. Perhaps I needed more dates, or should've soaked the dates for a few minutes. Grrr.)
7. Cut the roll into 1.5cm rolls and serve.


FYI, there's a really involved recipe on http://www.goneraw.co....

Red Rose Speedway Tomato Basil Soup
from "Rawvolution" by Matt Amsden
with some changes of my own.
The amount I brought was a double batch.

First blend:
3 c blended tomatoes (4-5 medium size)

Then blend in:
1 1/2 c thai coconut water
1 stalk of celery
1/4 c yellow onion
1 c fresh basil (loosely packed)
2 cloves of garlic (Matt's called for 5)
1/4 c fresh lemon juice
1/4 c Nama Shoyu
1 teasp. sea salt

If desired chop up mushrooms and soak in nama shoyu for a few minutes, then float some in each cup.

-Laurie & Steven