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DIY Coconut Butter

{by Teniel Moore-Raw Foods Contributor}

Who doesn’t love coconut butter? It Is rich, decadent & delicious.

Are you one of those people spending a fortune on gourmet brand coconut butter? Then let me show you how you can save yourself a fortune and make your own in under a minute or so for under $4.00!

WHAT YOU NEED

All you are going to need is a high speed blender

3 cups of dried coconut (or more– this will make approximately 1 cup of coconut butter.)

HOW TO

~Pour at least 3 cups of dried coconut into your high speed blender

~Turn on and start blending. My vitamix blends it down in 30 sec on high speed.

~Then turn it off for about 20 sec to rest and blend it again for another 30 sec.

Done! Its that easy. Depending on how good your blender is what will determine the time it takes to get the consistency you like. Make sure to give your blender a little rest in between if you feel like its struggling a bit.

Now you can pour your coconut butter into a cute little glass bottle and store in the fridge or in your cupboard depending on how hot it is at your place.

Or… you can do what I love to do and pour it into cute little chocolate moulds and keep them in the freezer. I eat them striaght from the freezer, just like a little white chocolate treat.

No guilt, all I’m eating is coconut. Delicious, good- for- you healthy fat. Remember, good-quality healthy fats are nothing to be afraid of.

Coconut butter can be used to spread on toast or pancakes or add to your cooking.

I hope you start making your own and have fun doing so!

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More posts by Teniel:

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Raw Chocolate Hedgehog Balls

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Sugar Free High Raw Chocolate Mint Bars

Raw Gingerbread Cookies

Golden Milk

My Kitchen Staple-Sprouted Buckwheat

DIY Probiotic Coconut Yogurt
Carob Almond Joys

Healthy Eating/ HOME/ How-Tos/ RECIPES/ Simplifying

Spiralize Your Vegetables

We have had so much fun with our Vegetable Spiralizer! We have had it now for almost a year and I can’t tell you how it has transformed the way we eat raw veggies around here.

So often kids won’t eat vegetables because of the shape and texture, so what better way to get them munching than by changing the shape and even the texture of the vegetable?

I recently made a fun, spiralized vegetable lunch for my girls. I spiralized carrots, sweet potatoes, and cucumber. I cut up some strawberries and made a quick egg salad for egg salad sandwiches.

I even reheated some beans from our dinner the night before. We try to eat the rainbow as much as possible, to get in as many phytonutrients and antioxidants as possible, and this colorful lunch had us doing just that.

My Avery loved that I made a fun face for her lunch, it brought on the smiles.

Eating vegetables in their raw state is much more healthful than cooked– in most cases. I have found that certain vegetables are more appealing for my kids palate if they are in fun shapes and set out in bowls, ready to eat.

Leftover spiralized veggies are great on salads or in wraps.

You can turn raw zucchini into pasta. Top with tomato sauce.

The back of the box shows you the many ways you can use the spiralizer. It is really easy to use and super easy to clean.

My sweet friend Erin from Home With The Boys recently put a picture up on her Instagram that caught my eye. She has the same spiralizer and turned her sweet potato into spirals.

She then tossed them in a little olive oil, sprinkled a bit of salt, and baked at 400 degrees for 25-30 minutes, or until brown and crispy.

They looked delicious! The above is the ‘before’ picture. We have spiralized our sweet potatoes and eaten them raw, but have yet to try them baked.

I plan on doing it this weekend! Erin has lots of awesome ideas, so take a look at her great blog. She is an inspiration to me & I love knowing her…you will too!

What do you think? Does this appeal to you? Do you think your kids would get into making their veggies spin and spiral? If you are interested in getting your own, use this link and I will get a small percentage for passing it on to you.

Want a way to save all of those great veggies? Take a look at this post where I share our favorite way to store vegetables using a lidded vegetable platter.

Books/ Sponsored

She Makes Hats + Book Giveaway!

My name is Robyn, and I make hats. I make hats on repeat, at least one hat-in-progress always on my knitting needles, piles of finished hats on our desk, our dining room table, and in bins waiting to be donated. Almost every hat I make is given away to someone in need, with the remaining few given to friends and family. It’s a compulsion, some might even say an obsession – I simply keep knitting.

I started knitting hats in earnest back in 2009. Newly married and looking for a new challenge, I decided to knit 100 hats for 100 people in one year, using 100 different patterns. That project, completed on September 1, 2010, changed my life.

Since 2010, I’ve made close to 700 more hats, working slowly but surely towards my goal to make 10,000 hats in my lifetime!

I started blogging at She Makes Hats around the same time I began the One Hundred Hats project. What started as a way to keep track of the hats I was making has blossomed into a website dedicated to not only sharing the hats I’m making, but also a space to encourage folks to knit more hats and give them away. I share hat patterns, charities that accept finished hats, and share some of the tips and tricks I’ve picked up along the way.

People often ask me, why hats? The short answer is hats are simple — they take just one skein of yarn, can be carried with you wherever you go, and don’t need any special measurements.

Most people’s heads fall under one of three or four sizes (baby, child, smaller adult, larger adult) so you can be fairly certain the hat you’ve made will fit one of these four sizes of person depending on the number of stitches on your needle.

Hats can do quite a bit to keep a person warm. Little babies have a hard time regulating their temperature, so a hat can mean the difference between health and sickness. For folks living on the street, a hat can help stave off sickness in the coldest of temperatures. Naval ships run cold so a hat can help keep soldiers warm while on and off duty. For folks dealing with a wide variety of illnesses, a hat can not only help keep them warm through treatments, but can be a reminder that they are still seen and valued as more than their diagnosis.

I’m excited to share my first book, She Makes Hats with the New Nostalgia community! A short collection of stories, She Makes Hats tells the longer version of how I became a knitter, then a hat
knitter, then a wife and mother. I share some of my favorite hat-making stories with the hope that I can encourage more folks to cast on a hat they plan to give away!

To celebrate my book, I’m giving away two copies to New Nostalgia readers, with a bunch of ways to enter to win!

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If you would rather not wait and want to purchase my book now, buy She Makes Hats here on Amazon, in print or Kindle form.

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HEALTH/ Natural Products/ Sponsored

The Organically Clean Home

Photo: Clean Mama

If you have been around New Nostalgia for very long, then you already know I am a huge fan of Clean Mama. She has changed my cleaning world with her homemaking advice and awesome printables, and now she is doing it again. I am so excited to tell you that Rebecca Rapinchuk aka Clean Mama just released a book called The Organically Clean Home and you are going to love it!

When I got my copy in the mail and opened the package, I just beamed with pride at this beautiful book that Clean Mama wrote. It really is a great book to look at, which made me happy because I love pretty books sitting around –especially if they motivate me to clean! I wouldn’t expect anything less from Clean Mama, as she has always done everything with such a clean, simple beauty.

This book really is the end all in homemade cleaning products. It has 150 everyday organic cleaning products you can make yourself–all natural and chemical free! It is meant to be a resource, not read from cover to cover, but I found myself doing just that. I was amazed at all the different recipes from Lemon & Clove Hardwood Floor Cleaner to Peppermint Glass and Mirror Wipes.

I made the Citrus Carpet Freshener recipe, and oh MY it smelled so good in here after vacuuming. I put the recipe in the above shaker jar, marked it with cute washi tape, and now I look forward to vacuuming again. Only Clean Mama can make THAT happen. I am going to use the second jar with the pour-flap lid to make Lemon & Clove Nightly Sink scrub. The recipe is listed link below.

Photo: Clean Mama

I am going to make a cleaning caddy, just like the one in the picture above, which she writes about here. I cannot wait to gather my supplies and start making all these wonderful recipes to use while spring cleaning.

Here are a couple ideas and cleaning recipes Clean Mama has shared from the book:

Get this book. I can’t speak highly enough of it and I just know you all will love it as much as I do. It is only $10 and it is worth every penny, and will pay for itself in no time with all the money you will save by making your own natural cleaning products. You can order it through Amazon, or it is at Barnes and Noble nationwide.

Have you ever made your own cleaning products?

Interested in Essential Oils for those homemade cleaning products? I recommend doTERRA brand.

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RECIPES/ Sponsored/ Sweets

Arroz Con Dulce – A Sweet, Sticky, Coconut Rice Treat from Puerto Rico

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Puerto Rico, The All-Star Island for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

It is getting warmer here in the Midwest, summer is coming, and I have been dreaming of a vacation somewhere with a beach…specifically I’ve been DREAMING OF PUERTO RICO!

I’ve been watching some amazing videos about Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico Tourism recently partnered with popular Trip Advisor to transform real traveler 5-star reviews into stunning short films. These short films are narrated by Puerto Rican stars, and has helped me realize that Puerto Rico is filled with world-class attractions that will turn any trip into a 5-star vacation story! I want to go!

Just watch the above video to see the beautiful El Yunque National Forest. I sat and stared wide-eyed at that waterfall. This is the only rainforest under US national park service.

A few other reasons I’m dreaming of Puerto Rico & what I would do there:

~Flamenco Beach in Culebra, cited as one of the best beaches in the world.

~I want to glow like and angel in the water in the Bioluminescent bays.

~I’d visit San Juan and enjoy its old world charm.

~The foodie in me would love to explore some of Puerto Rico’s delicacies.

Speaking of Puerto Rican food, I thought it would be fun to experience some authentic Puerto Rican food. I’m hoping that giving my family a taste of what we would eat there will get us all dreaming. A bit manipulative, yes, but a great way to introduce my family to the place I want to go and get us all on the same page. {wink}

I explored the internet and found this recipe for Arroz Con Dulce from the Noshery. It is “basically translates to rice candy. It is a sticky, coconut sweet rice treat with cinnamon and raisins tossed in. It is delicious, sweet and sticky.” It is the perfect recipe to lure my family into falling in love with the flavors of Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico is also knows for their Rum. Of course I had to find a fun Puerto Rican rum drink recipe, and I found a Mojito drink that is light, refreshing and full of mint flavor. I’m gonna sip and dream of being at the beach in Puerto Rico.

Mojito Diego

2 ounces Puerto Rican rum

Mint leaves

Splash of simple syrup

2 small lime wedges.

club soda

Instructions:

Muddle mint, simple syrup and lime wedges in a tall pint glass. Add rum. Add ice. Fill glass with club soda. Shake once to mix.

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One last HUGE reason that I would choose to visit Puerto Rico over any other tropical place is that there is no need for Passports or foreign money! We would just hop on a plane and go. I think this reason alone would get my very practical and efficient husband on board…hopefully on board that plane!

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If this sounds good to you and you would like to Live your own 5-star vacation story in Puerto Rico make sure you check out seepuertorico.com and share with me via comments section why you would want to go there!

Don’t forget to Like SeePuertoRico.com on Facebook and Follow @PRTourismCo on Twitter