I don’t know about you, but I swear my kitchen always looks like a train ran through it. 😂
That’s not due to laziness or an apathetic slump, quite the opposite actually! I just cannot seem to keep up with pace of use. I do a major cleaning, like MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY AND STILL I’M STARING AT DISHES ON MY COUNTER RIGHT NOW! Not in the SINK even! 🙄
Anyways…
I just made the best coconut milk, and it was literally just coconut shreds (called for shavings but hey, we had shreds) and good ‘ol h2O.
I’m not going to ever be a purist in… well really anything in life, and I’d be lying if I told you I make all my milks with just the main ingredient and water. I ALWAYS add some type of sweetener, usually some maple syrup or dates or honey, but let me tell you… this shit did not need it.
Idk why this is blowing my mind so much, but it is.
I’ve made just about every freaking nut milk (heh heh) under the sun, but for SOME reason, I’ve always bought the coconut milk in cans?!
WHO KNEW ABOUT THIS AND DIDN’T TELL ME???
I use the coconut milk to make little chia puddings to help my cravings for sweet stuff!
Speaking of which, here is a nom snacky recipe for you:
Chia cacao coconut pudding
1 can of full fat coconut milk (or the fresh equivalent… guess I have to figure that out now for myself… just did, 1.5 ish cups)
big scoop of organic cacao powder
6 tablespoons organic chia seeds
eyeballed 🤷🏻♀️ amount of sweetener (use your judgement! I do one or two swirls around the blender, and I use maple syrup, honey, or date syrup)
little dashy dash of vanilla extract (make your own! Get some beans, B-grade is fine… and put those babies in a jar with some liquor! I use vodka but honestly bourbon is probably better. Wait a couple months for it to get delicioso.)
Blend all the goods together EXCEPT the chia seeds for a bit just to get the milk and cacao together nicely. When that looks good, pulse in the chia seeds.
That’s it! You could probably blend them more than I do if you want to, but I like the consistency you get that way.
When you let chia seeds soak over night it breaks their cell walls (I believe?) and you get all the nutritious stuff in it. If you don’t soak them for a long time, you need to blend them to manually have that happen so you can get the goodies. Hence why I blend chia and flax together to sprinkle on my morning oatmeal, but I digress.
Pour that goodness into a cute little jar of your choice and refrigerate! They tend to change consistency slightly over time, but it makes enough for me to pour into 4 small mason jars, so it lasts me 4 days. 😂
Yes, I eat about 1 a day. Yes I just said “about”… and yes that means occasionally I eat more than 1 in a day. I deserve pudding and so do you.
Okay, enough for now.
Oh, wait! Credit for shedding the simple coconut milk light on me goes to Isabel Paige, a rad young chick I watch on Youtube. The recipe is in her new online cookbook I just bought. Watch her here and fall in love with her like I have and then buy her cookbook too! ☺️
Okay, bye for now. Time to sit in a bubble bath.
Namaste, you beautiful soul streamer, you ♥️