Oh She Glows – Seductive Raw Chocolate Walnut Fudge

SEDUCTIVE-FUDGE

Hope everyone is enjoying their civic holiday today! I know I certainly am. So much so, I decided to make a second batch of these seductive raw chocolate walnut fudge from Oh She Glows. The first batch got devoured disturbingly quick.  I find that food is so hard to photograph, so these photos may not do the fudge justice. But if I ever ask you to trust me on one thing, it’s these fudge squares that melt in your fingers within seconds, and forget about chewing on them. They dissolve on your tongue like a coconut icy square. Ugh, the thought of it…  I just want to run to the fridge and stuff my mouth. 

The other night I sat down to relax and read some blogs before bed. As always, Oh She Glow’s food photos makes me salivate. As do all of her recipes, but this one stuck out to me and I got up off the computer around 10:45pm, waltzed into the kitchen with my apron and pj’s on and made it in about 7 minutes. I didn’t even use my electric blender. Once I had everything mixed together, ready to be tossed into the freezer, I brought over the spatula and the Boyf licked it all clean. It was delicious.

Holy smokes. It’s the easiest dessert to make, ever. You need to make this. The texture reminds me of an icy square with hints of coconut. It yields quite a lot of coconut oil in the recipe. I’m a little leary on that since coconut oil is quite high in saturated fats and similar to butter in that sense. But it’s still a tasty treat!

All it takes are these easy ingredients.

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Dare say it’s true to its name, Seductive Raw Chocolate Walnut Fudge from Oh She Glows:

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Ingredients:

  • virgin coconut oil
  • raw almond butter (or nut butter of choice)
  • cocoa powder (or raw cacao powder)
  • pure maple syrup (or agave nectar) I used agave nectar
  • pure vanilla extract
  • fine grain sea salt, to taste
  • raw walnuts, roughly chopped I didn’t measure my walnuts, just poured some in.

Pop in the freezer for 20 mins and they’re done.

Want to know the exact measurements? Head on over to Oh She Glows and grab them!

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Summer rain

I absolutely love not having weekend plans, where I can just sleep in and eat a late breakfast brunch and relax. I have no chores to do since I did them all on Thursday evening.

I made myself some egg muffins, a sweet potato which I cooked in the microwave for 7 minutes (pierced) and two small peaches from the farmers market with a big starbucks mug filled with water.

Right now a big ol’ rain storm is coming through and I’m here in my PJs watching it. Have to unplug all the electronics shortly.

I just gave Alfie another hair cut. His hair grows like wildfire and needs it cut about once a month to maintain his image ;) Alfie smiles

He’s checking it out for himself.Alfie admiring his haircut I wonder if he approves of the layers I cut with the blunt crayola scissors. I was going to trim his nails because I can hear them clacking on the floor again when he walks. But I lost the tool. Lucky him. I feel so bad when I tell him it’s time to clip his nails. He hates those words and cowers on the floor waiting for me to pick him up and bring him out on the balcony where I cut them.

Hope you have a great Saturday afternoon!

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I didn’t quit!

Hey, anyone still out there? I didn’t quit my blog!

A mid-day update for you folks, I’m grabbing a quick (and late) lunch from home and heading back to work in a few minutes.

As you probably already guessed, I just didn’t blog while I was on vacation back home in Newfoundland, and of course when I arrived back in Ontario my internet connection was just wrecked for a while and I couldn’t do anything. Pair that with me not being able to catch up on reading your blogs because Feedly is having some issues on iPads/iPhones so I’ve only been reading the blogs that I really know the URL of. Which isn’t many! (Iowa Girl Eats, Posh Meets Pavement, Fresh Season, Js Everyday Fashion, Healthy Tipping Point, Peanut Butter Fingers). Sooo I’ve switched over to Blog Lovin’ for the time being. #FirstWorldProblems, I know.

Ever since Paleo ended on May 7th, I said I’d take a wee break from eating strict. When in reality, I have just went back to my regular eatings. Let me backtrack here… I’m not as mental as I was in the past eating candy for breakfast. I’m not eating carbs or dairy at all. I can’t stand cheese anymore – isn’t that strange!?  So to get back on track — the first night back in Ontario I didn’t cook because I was just tired from travel. But the next day I was in the mood to cook up a scoff (hey, gotta use some Newfie terminology while I can) and made a nice paleo and non-paleo meal for the Boyf and myself.

burger-and-fries-paleo-frieHomemade extra lean ground beef burgers with spinach and mustard on mine, topped with a portobello mushroom (boyf had a regular bun), and I also made some delicious sweet potato fries.

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paleo-burger-n-friesThey’re SO easy to make: fry’er up in the pan with some coconut oil on super hot, and flip them every now and again – once done put on a plate covered in paper towels and dab off the excess oil. Pour in a bowl and mix in some salt and Mrs. Dash’s Southwest Chipotle Seasoning and you’ve got some restaurant quality fries on hand. I also made a spinach salad for us too, with balsamic vinaigrette and coconut oil as the dressing. paleo-saladI’ll clue everyone in on the adventures I had on my vacation, but for now there’s a few photos to have’a gander at. See you when my internet works again!!

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