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[shadowkat]

Relaxing day, generally speaking. Not sure I'll make it to church tomorrow, we have a guest speaker, who is doing a sermon on "The Structural Evil of Prison" sharing stories from his time in prison and reflections on the nature of evil. ...and I just don't know if I want to listen to it at the moment. I know a lot about prison, the structural evil of prison, etc...already. Also, I've spent quality time with various hardened criminals and prisoners in my lifetime..so it's not like it's a new topic or anything. I find the whole topic insanely depressing and frustrating.

My motto right now is if I can't do anything about it, I'm ignoring it.

So may skip and swing by the farmer's market to go shopping instead.

I'm struggling with my diet at the moment. I caved this week and bought gluten-free bread. Which technically should not be an issue -- but my stomach hates it. The tummy knows...I suppose. But damn, that grilled cheese sandwich was good, and not that big. Worked very well with a cup of root vegetable soup. Just had massive heartburn afterwards.

So what to do with the bread and cheese? Throw it out? Freeze it? Try to donate, partially eaten bread and cheese? Take it to the farmer's market and dispose of it in the compost?

Caved again today, and made...Avocado Chocolate Chocolat Chip Cookies...basically you substitute Avocado for butter. They are rather tasty. Found the recipe on the Facebook and tweaked it slightly.

Here's the recipe, outside of the eggs, it's quite vegan. Although you can do eggs on a vegan diet, depending on how you feel about poultry. Not that I'm vegan -- much to the confusion of people around me. I'm modified paeolo, which is basically veggies, meat, poultry, fish, nuts, fruit, and that's more or less it. They call it the caveman diet - mainly because there's no processed foods or grains to speak of in it. But I've been cheating here and there, and having things like cheese, butter,
and rice.

Anywho...here's the recipe for the Cookies, which came out better than expected. Light and chocolatey.
Dangerous in a way, you can easily gobble up five and not notice.

Ingredients

2 ounces raw organic unsweetened chocolate melted in 1/2 tablespoon of coconut oil
1/2 organic avocado
2 tablespoons of unsalted organic almond butter
1/4 cup honey
1 organic egg and one organic egg white
2 tablespoons organic cocoa powder
1 1/2 tablespoons organic almond flour

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Puree avocado in a food processor or high-speed blender until very smooth

3. Add other ingredients, one at a time and pulse until the batter is smooth

4. Chill the batter in the fridge for one hour.

5. Fill a pastry bag and pipe batter onto cookie sheet, or drop the batter by heaping tablespoons.

6. Bake for 15-17 minutes.

7. Let cool for 5 minutes.

Line "5" made me laugh. Pipe batter onto a cookie sheet with a pastry bag...yeah right. Like I own one, and even if I did, I don't pipe. No patience. It's heaping tablespoons. See this is why I don't do bake sales well, I'm a messy baker.

Also, the cookies stick to the baking sheet. I used aluminium foil...I may try something different next round. Because they really do stick, as in half the bottom comes off.

I did fiddle with the recipe slightly, because I'm me, and that's what I do. I never follow recipes to the letter. I added vanilla, used coco powder instead of unsweetened bakers chocolate, and added cinnamon, nutmeg, and curry powder.

Discovered something when I was making it -- you can make a yummy chocolate mousse with avocados and cocoa powder...also egg white. Just saying.