Sesame Mucho (Sesame Bars)

In my quest to make healthy energy bars, I had a few breakthroughs in the last couple of weeks. Today, I will give you a quick recipe for sesame bars - really good for trips and for fast energy before, during and after workouts. Because they contain a lot of sesame and sesame is very high in calcium, these energy bars also give you a serious calcium boost. If you eat half of the bars (7) in one day, you have around a quarter of your RDA.

You need:
- 1/4 cup of sesame
- 1 cup of cashews
- 1 1/2 cups of dates

You do:
Grind the sesame into powder in a seed or coffee grinder. Mix all the ingredients in a powerful food processor until you have a firm dough of a somewhat coarse nature. Due to variations in the degree of moistness in the dates, you need to play around with the ingredients a bit. The dough should be so firm that it stays in a shape that you give it. Knead it and form it into a flat brick and then cut off the bars with a big sharp knife. Put them on a tray and in the oven for around 20 min at 200C. After baking, you need to let them cool down for about another 20 min before you eat them or put them in a box. Enjoy.

Avocado Walnut Dressing for Carrots

You think you are not eating enough carrots? Well, some more surely wouldn't hurt. Eating carrots always seems like a good idea to me, but apart from the occasional one that I just snack without any preparation, I don't eat that many to be honest. I don't like cooked carrots, so my only option is carrot salad. As part of my new "eat more carrots"-project, I have created a nice dressing, that is fully HiFi, so you can drown your carrots in it without control.


(Takes about 10 min)

You need:
- a hand blender
- a mandoline
- about 4 medium-size carrots
- 1 avocado
- 1/4 cup of walnuts
- 1/8 cup of sesame seeds and a seed grinder or 2 tblsp of tahini
- 1 orange
- 1 lemon
- 1 piece of garlic
- 1 piece of ginger
- 1 piece of chilli
- no salt (seriously, you don't need any)

You do:
Cut the carrots into small sticks using the mandoline. Grind the sesame seeds into a paste with a seed grinder. Put the sesame paste and the other ingredients into a tall container and blend until smooth. Mix the dressing with the carrots. Enjoy.

Michael