Thanks Blake! No one wants to try my Chocolate Avocado Pudding anymore. I just call it Chocolate Pudding now because everyone else is too disgusted when I say there's avocado in it, but I promise it's delicious.
A few weeks ago I was at Deirdre's (my birthmom) house getting my hair dyed. This is usually a great time for us to catch up and talk and I actually get to see my siblings cause they don't tend to frequent the Thursday Night Music Club where I almost always get to see Deirdre. My little sister is a 16 year old vegan and she has been for years now. She used to be mostly vegetarian but now I'm pretty sure she's completely vegan. At first I was appalled cause I love meat and I just never thought you could get all the great flavors without the savory-ness of meat. But over the years I've warmed to the vegetarian lifestyle and a lot of the dishes. I try to eat two vegetarian meals a day then try to only eat one meal with meat a day and I try to always have that one meat be chicken.
This year I've been trying lots of awesome healthier vegan, vegetarian and raw foods like my Green Smoothies which rock, vegan chili, Chia Seeds and just general healthier stuff. So far it's going great. I've definitely lost some weight but I also feel a lot better. I feel healthier and I have more energy. Those Chia seeds and Green Smoothies really make me feel like I have more energy so yay.
So anyways my little sister came into the kitchen while my hair was setting in it's color and started adding some avocado to the blender. To this Deirdre asked if she was making her chocolate pudding thing. My sister Grace then went on to explain what it is.
Chocolate Avocado Pudding
1 Avocado
2-3 tablespoons Cocoa powder (depending how chocolate-y you want it)
Agave Nectar to taste
A splash of vanilla
Whipped together in a food processor
She then let me try some of the concoction and it was great! It tasted just like chocolate pudding and you couldn't even tell there was avocado in it. Grace told me that she suggested letting the mixture sit overnight to get more of the pudding texture out of it. I was super excited and put that little recipe in my head for later use. We talked a little about chia seeds and my sis Grace is apparently a fan of the gel and then just adds stuff to it- I like to doctor it up from the start- see previous post on Chia :)
So weeks went by and I noticed some avocado in my fridge about to be too mushy and so I bought some agave nectar and cocoa and decided to try it. After I gathered my ingredients I realized I didn't have a food processor. I almost gave up and waited till I could buy one but then I just bit the bullet and started mashing with a fork. Luckily the avocados were soft enough and mashing wasn't too bad, I added the rest of the ingredients and tested it. It tasted great! It was a little thick but it had all the potential of an awesome chocolate pudding. Because I had some in the fridge I added about a 1/4 a cup of vanilla almond milk and it got much smoother and even looked like pudding.
I put it in the fridge to set and started dreaming about eating it with bananas the next morning for breakfast. A few hours later Bruce came home and I wanted to put him to the test. I run up to him with a spoonful of pudding and said "honey I made homemade chocolate pudding wanna try it?" and shoved the spoon in his mouth. He said it tasted great and then I told him what was in it. He seemed surprised but not as disgusted as I was expecting. So it passed the Bruce test yay!
The next day I took it to work with a banana and everyone in the office seemed more than disgusted by the idea. I posted it on Facebook and again got a pretty grossed out reaction. So for now it looks like there are only a few fans of the Chocolate Avocado Pudding...but it is really good. You know you want to try it.
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