100 Happy Days Challenge - Day 95

I made banana milk with coconut water!  Dairy-free, nut-free and refined sugar-free.

Remember the bunch of ripe bananas I mentioned in yesterday's blog post 100 Happy Days Challenge - Day 94 and the coconut water I bought awhile ago?

100 Happy Days Challenge - Day 74

Made some dairy-free chocolate cups.

I made some dried cranberry with brown rice syrup and had 2  tablespoons (30 ml) of cranberry brown rice syrup sauce left over inside the fridge.  So, I added cocoa powder, coconut oil and maple syrup to make chocolate cups with silicone muffin cups.  Dairy-free, soy-free and refined sugar-free, my friends.

Really like the chocolate cups with a tint of red colour from the cranberry brown rice syrup sauce.

Why did I cut it?  I only want to eat 1/4 of the chocolate cup per day.  Too rich and too sweet to eat the whole thing.  Next time I should make chocolate truffles instead.

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100 Happy Days Challenge - Day 73

100 Happy Days Challenge - Day 72

Following one of my Japanese friends' instructions,  I made some Japanese style pickled cucumber.

My dad used to cut cucumber in paper-thin slices when he made salad.  Instead of using a vegetable slicer, dad was the human cucumber slicer in our family.  I tried to cut cucumber in paper-thin slices but some of them were 2 mm thick.

Why didn't I use a vegetable slicer?  Hey, I'm my dad's daughter.  If my dad can do it, I can do it too.  It's in the genes, my friends.  Well, just need to practice doing it more often.

My Japanese friends won't cut cucumber into very thin slices when they pickle the cucumber, though.

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100 Happy Days Challenge - Day 60

Made another apricot smoothie !  This time I used apple sauce instead of banana.  Well, it's still not as sweet as I want.  I think I get used to the tangy apricots.  So I didn't try to add any sweeteners into my smoothie.  All natural.

100 Happy Days Challenge - Day 55

Made my first Raw Vegan Chocolate Spread.  I wanted to have something other than peanut butter to eat with my rice cake for snack.  So, I just whisked up some Vegan Chocolate Spread quickly and put the spread in the fridge.  It's gluten-free, soy-free, dairy-free and refined sugar-free.

100 Happy Days Challenge - Day 54

Look at my apricot orange smoothie !  An orange colour smoothie !!  I have been trying to make colourful smoothies for awhile.  Now I made it.  Yes !!!

100 Happy Days Challenge - Day 47

My sis wanted a hand cream, so, I used what we have at home to make one.  Well, this is a light cream, we can use it for hands, feet, face or body.  Very easy to make with only 4 ingredients - organic shea butter, organic virgin coconut oil, bees wax and vitamin E oil from vitamin E capsules.

100 Happy Days Challenge - Day 40 (April 29)

Made my first flourless crust with my Magic Bullet.  It's a flour-free, gluten-free, nut-free, egg-free, dairy-free, sugar-free and soy-free raw vegan crust.

Only 4 ingredients to make this crust, my friends.   Unsweetened shredded coconut, unsweetened cocoa powder, maple syrup and coconut oil.

100 Happy Days Challenge - Day 39

Made and drank another smoothie today.  My second smoothie ever!  Yesterday's smoothie was very brown.  I wanted my smoothie with bright vivid colour same as the ones in recipe books.  So, I dug out  my bag of frozen cherries and added them into my smoothie.  Well, you can see the result.  The colour was not as beautiful as I wanted.  The taste?  Without banana, it's not as sweet as I wanted, either.  I guess this is why people usually add banana inside their smoothies.

100 Happy Days Challenge - Day 38

Made and drank my first smoothie today.  My friends were very surprised, or shocked when I told them I've never had a smoothie before.  Well, some of them encouraged me to make one.  I have apples, bananas and unsweetened almond milk at home so I made one.

It was very sweet and it tasted good.

100 Happy Days Challenge - Day 28

Found Dr. Bronner’s pure castile liquid soap on sale this week.  A bottle of 472 ml (16 oz) is $9.49. Yeah !  I have been thinking about trying castile soap for a long time.  Many websites talk about how good this soap is.

Dr. Bronner’s pure castile liquid soap - Photo copyright @ Loblaws

Castile soap  is eco-friendly.  It can be used as facial cleanser, body washer, shampoo.  Wow!  We can use it to wash our clothes, our dishes and our houses.  Excellent!

So, how long will this 475 ml bottle last?

100 Happy Days Challenge - Day 23

Followed my friend's instruction, I made my first small batch of brown rice flour.  She taught me how to make black rice flour before.  With my DIY black rice flour and DIY oat flour, I made Japanese steamed sponge cup cakes (mushi-pan) on April 3.  This time with my DIY brown rice flour, I'm thinking about making a Chinese dessert with black sesame seeds - black sesame seed porridge / sweet soup. 

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100 Happy Days Challenge - Day 9

My Homemade Black Rice Flour

One of my Japanese friends taught me how to make rice flour and I made a small batch of black rice flour just now.  It doesn't look as black as the one I bought online, but, I don't have to pay shipping fee now.  Yeah!

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