Day 3 - Cashews and Blackberries

Today was a sad day... I had to say no to a cake!
But let me start with breakfast. I thought it was time for some protein. So I made a hemp smoothie, inspired by Raw on $10 a Day. I have no hemp protein powder, so I substituted it for 1 tablespoon of flax seed.

Crunchy and quite okay. I still have to get used to carob.
Later I continued searching for raw cake recipes and started to learn for my Japanese test. Eventually I needed a big salad.

Yes! A real big one. One small head of lettuce, blueberries, kohlrabi, hazel nuts, almonds, onions, sprinkled with white balsamic vinegar and spicy blossoms.
Then I had enough energy to go to some asian markets. I found young coconuts! But they seemed moldy. That african food store had an incredible assortment of lentils and beans. Very tempting, have to go there once more. In an asian market I found tamarind, cashews and garam massala. That was okay, too. Before I got to my friend S, I grabbed 2 avocadoes from an oriental market (they weren't organic, but from Israel, which I think is better than to get them all the way from Peru).
At S's place I found him baking a Blackberry cake and cook jam from those sweet buddies he gathered from the forest nearby. I was lucky, I got a lots of Blackberries, because there were still serveral kilos left. I could resist the cake and was a little proud. But I tasted the blackberries with a hint of oatmilk. Wasn't very good, so I stuck with 2 cups of only berries.
On my way home I snacked 3 or 4 cashews and realized that I didn't like them that much o.o I don't know what's wrong with me.

Right now I have my first raw cake un-baking inside the freezer.

Crust:
1 cup cashew kernels
1 cup tamarind
some water
Filling:
2 cups cashew kernels
1 pitted date
1/2 cup blueberries
1/2 cup blackberries
1/2 cup water

The filling could be a little sweeter (extra dates or some maple sirup), but you'll get the final examination once I tried it completely chilled. I think you should chill it for at least 1 hour inside the fridge, but right now I put it into the freezer, because I can't wait that long, when I'm experimenting.

I'm looking forward to try recipes with the avocadoes. But those cakes and raw gourmet recipes are a little too expensive and fatty for my taste.

Tomorrow morning I will be going to the dentist to get my inlays changed. In the evening I have to go to friends from university to talk about orientation weeks, I hope K doesn't have cracker and hummus around, because that's a thing I used to eat in large amounts when I was at her place.