succulents

succulents

My passion for succulents continues, last count over 60 different variety's and still there is more!!

Thought i would share a few of my favourites with you.

Agave

 This cutie grows from a single leaf

Super spiky!

Brilliant colour

Babies

Cacti

Pinky tips and a super cute flower

Great ground climber and hanger

One of my outdoor pots looking divine

Blues

These are so easy to grow it is not funny!!

Beautiful colours

Sharks teeth

Grows from a single leaf

I love this one!

Bear paw

Colours change with different amounts of light

Good uses for coke cans. Pea like succulent in the foreground, grows super long!

Recycled my old bag and added a bit of colour to the garden

Lambs tail this one...lol...it's the kiwi in me!!

Something to do with lambs succulent...it is woolly feeling too!

 

In a t pot 

Warty

See that amazing flower down and to the right...that is this sucullent's flower! Amazing!!

Most stunning flower!

Albino corn! Has the tiny purple flowers.

Got lots to share if you live local message me!

Raw falafel with garlic aoili

Raw falafel with garlic aoili

This is an awesome recipe that is great to have in the fridge at all times so you can throw in on the top of salads for lunch or pop it into wraps. It lasts well in the fridge and combined with the aoili i find it is irresistible!!!

Falafel ingredients:

* 2 cups of roughly chopped carrots

* 1 cup of dry sunflower seeds

* 1/4 cup of flax seeds, after grinding should equal 1/3 of a cup (grind your own using a coffee grinder)

* 1 cup of fresh parsley well chopped

* 3 tablespoons of diced onion

* 1 clove of garlic crushed or minced

* 1/4 teaspoon salt (you can add less or more to your desired taste)

* 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder

* 1/2 teaspoon curry powder

* 1/2 cup of sesame seeds (to be added after processing the above ingredients)

Method:

* Place carrots in food processor and blend until they are nearly a paste.

* Add sunflower seeds, garlic and spices and process until well mixed.

* Add onion and parsley and process well, scraping the sides if needed to get the mixture well mixed.

* Move the mixture to a large bowl and add sesame seeds, mix well by hand.

* Roll approx 1 tablespoon at a time and roll into balls, place the balls on the teflex dehydrator sheets.

* Dehydrate 2 - 12 hours depending on how moist you want the inside of the balls to be. Move balls to mesh sheets after an hour of dehydrating, flip them in the process. The more you dehydrate them the crispier they become.

Garlic aoili ingredients:

* 1/4 cup of dry cashews

* 2 cloves of garlic

* 1/8 teaspoon of salt

* 1 lemon juiced

Method:

*  Place nuts, garlic and salt in food processor and blend till no chunks

* Transfer the mixture into a bowl and add lemon juice, whisk, chill, enjoy!!

Raw herb crackers

Raw herb crackers

This is an awesome recipe that i found in a book call 'Everyday raw' which was lent to me by a friend of mine. It has some awesome recipes in it, this one is super easy and the crackers are so so so yummy!! I have all the herbs used growing in the garden so this is a super practical recipe for me. 

Almond meal you can buy in bulk from the Industrial estate at Santos, i have found it is a lot cheaper than buying it anywhere else. 

The recipe can be halved if you do not want to make such a huge amount, i often do this as i live by myself and like to eat fresh!! Remember that flax seeds go rancid once ground fairly quickly.

 A great recipe for vegans as it contains nutritional yeast which is high in vitamin b12.

Ingredients:

4 3/4 cups of Almond flour

A selection of raw foods, the crackers are on the right hand side,

1 cup of oat flour

1 cup of flax meal

2 tablespoons nutritional yeast

2 teaspoons of salt 

2 tablespoons of olive oil

2 cups of water

2 teaspoons well chopped oregano

4 teaspoons well chopped thyme

4 teaspoons well chopped rosemary

Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl. Spread very thin on Teflex sheets, about 1 cup per sheet.
Cut with a pizza cutter to desired size, recommended 8 down and 8 across in the book but u can go with whatever size u want here.
Sprinkle with sea salt.
Dehydrate 2 days approx
Transfer to dehydrator screens and dehydrate until crispy.
Cool and store in air tight containers


* Once you have made them once and have got used to the consistency of the 'batter', you then can add some nuts and seeds to the mixture. I have tried adding sunflower seeds and sesame seeds, i added about 1/3 of a cup of each and just added a little more water to compensate for the extra ingredients.......i really like the sunflower sesame addition to the crackers.

* I also have made a batch using almond, cashew and walnut meal instead of just the almond meal, use the same amounts but u can play with the ingredients a little....these were also a success and had a nice flavour too!!