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We advance health through whole food plant-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine, empowering healthcare professionals and communities to prevent, manage and treat chronic disease alongside promoting planetary health.
Depending how thick it turns out, it may take longer than an hour in your fridge to firm up. |
Ingredients:
200g good dark chocolate - 70% or more, and;
300g ripe bananas
Method:
Melt the chocolate in a bowl over hot water (don't let the bowl come in contact with the hot water
Break up the bananas, and add to the melted chocolate, then blitz with a stick blender.
Once blended, pour into a flat dish, lined with parchment, and place in the fridge for an hour or so.
And that's it! It solidifies to a sort of fudge-like mousse, which you can chop into pieces you can offer around.
I’ve found it best to divide it into bite-size pieces and freeze.
Couple of variations - but really you can play around with this recipe!
I'm a great fan of chilli chocolate, so I added a pinch of cayenne pepper to my last batch.
My granddaughter likes to pour the mix over a loaf of raspberries
April 2025 One more milestone reached, today - I've now completed 800,000 press ups - in just under seven and a half years! Just 200,000 to go - and I've two and a half years in which to get them. Averaging about 8-9000 a month at the moment, so I'll get there a bit early, I fancy. |
When I'm out training for my next ultra, or just getting the miles in - and I'm doing about 40-50k a week ATM - I often strike up a conversation with people I meet.
This morning, 13th February 2024, returning home after a 10k walk, I met Garrett (sp?) and his lovely family. He asked initially about how much weight I carried in my backpack - about 3kg it was today. I told him I aimed to carry as much weight around as I would carry on one of my ultras. From there we went on to my health since going vegan - and from there into the whole speil. He wasn't able to take a copy of my leaflet, so I told him to search for 'No bread is an island'. I hope he sees this!
If you're going to make a cake - may as well make a big one! |
That's Melissa's hand applying the chocolate icing |
The doubled up recipe actually made 2 dozen of these. Thought at first we hadn't put enough batter in each one |
But when they came out of their cases and were iced - the size was just right! OK, the icing's not very neat - but that didn't affect the taste one iota! |
Next time I'll divide the batter between two Swiss roll tins - and then it won't split! To keep it vegan it was spread with jam. I need a vegan filling for next time. |
Hi! If you've happened on my blog as a result of meeting me walking around Taunton, welcome. As I probably said, I'm passionate about early education, wanting every child to meet their full potential.
If you find any merit in what you read, well, I'm currently fundraising for Viva!, the leadingUK animal rights charity. If you wish to donate, you'll find my fundraiser here. Thanks.
Sir Kenneth Robinson was, IMO, one of the greatest educators the country has ever produced - His TED talk is the most viewed of all time. Well worth watching!
In the year 2000, at the age of 63, I completed a degree in Education and Training at Plymouth University, gaining a 2:1 - which contrasts with my first brush with education, which resulted in 2 'O' levels!