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Chocolate Walnut Torte

This delicious traditional walnut torte is grain-free and sugar-free. Made with chocolate, walnuts, cloves, cinnamon and cherries it is also an anti-oxidant rich powerhouse. No sin here! Only goodness for your health and your tastebuds 🙂

Torte:

  • 4 oz (110g) organic raw chocolate nibs (ground)
  • 6 T local grass-fed butter
  • 3 T date syrup*
  • 1 t cinnamon (ground)
  • 1/2 t cloves (ground)
  • 4 eggs separated
  • 4 T date syrup*
  • 3/4 c walnuts (ground)
  • dash salt
Cherry Ice-Cream

Cherry Ice-Cream

One of the best things about living in Vancouver is all the great fruit in the summer-time. We have had the best blueberries and cherries. I don't think I have ever eaten anywhere near this many cherries before in my life. I just love it. This delicious ice-cream recipe is simple and nourishing with ...

Cherry Halva Pie

Cherry Halva Pie

This rich treat is featured on the cover of the Hella Delicious 2011 calendar--it is delicious and quite easy to make. Crust: 3/4 c raw cashew butter 1 1/2 c chopped nuts (I use cashews, pecans, walnuts and/or hazelnuts) 3 cardamom pods, seeds removed and ground 5-7 fresh dates, seeded and ...

Sun-Reduced Cherry Compote

Sun-Reduced Cherry Compote

This is a very simple recipe which is a good way to prepare a fresh cherry sauce for a cheesecake! I was preparing my apricot and plum jams in a similar fashion, when I met a lady in the Vancouver farmers market who told me of her cherry sauce recipe, which is basically the same and confirmed my not ...

Scented Cherry Cheesecake

Scented Cherry Cheesecake

This recipe is absolutely to die for, it is gluten-free, grain-free and refined-sugar-free, what more could anyone ask for? I have actually been working on this recipe for a few years now. I got first got the vision for an infused yogurt cheesecake when we were living in Neversink, NY. It is ...

Almond Torte with Cream & Cherries

Almond Torte with Cream & Cherries

Last night I decided to try an almond torte with cherries and cream. The BC cherries are fantastic and I get raw cream from our local herd-share fresh every week, in fact I have just gotten back from picking up my share. The almonds probably come from California. I did find a online farm-stand t ...

Aromatherapy and Cherry Blossoms

Aromatherapy and Cherry Blossoms

Last month I got a great email in my inbox from Out of The Box Sampler inviting me to share a sample for their monthly box. This was great news and I started trying to figure out what in the world I could make 25 of that wasn't gonna take me a whole month, but that would also be a sample of the item ...