Raw Recipe: Velvet Mousse Pudding

Like the title implies. Following is the end result.

(Mint leafs courtesy of Milena. Thank you for you generous donation.)

Ingredients:
Young Thai Coconut (can get them at any Asian market)
Cacao Paste
Dates (Raw)
Vanilla Powder
A Little Water (either the coconut water from the coconuts or normal water)

Note: I like to use dates as a sweetener for most of everything I make. Except for chocolate, which I always use honey for instead. In my opinion supporting good fair honey farming is a major contribution for the ecologic system and food supply. From what I heard from bee farmers, the farmers that practiced humane organic old-fashioned bee farming weren’t affected by the bee die offs. http://www.google.com/search?q=organic+bee+farming+and+bee+die+off&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Regarding dates, they are a very ancient food highly regarded for their healing properties. Their vitamin and mineral content makes them nearly a perfect food. The sugars in them are very easy for the body to break down. The entire fruit is very easy to digest, which makes them a good food for people with poor digestion or who are breaking a fast. Muslims will use them during Ramadan to begin, and then break their fast with. They actually make you insensitive to hunger (curb appetite) and are, surprisingly, anti-parasitic.
If you’re lucky enough to live in a desert like climate (like California) you can actually get fresh date fruits from the local farmers markets. I get mine from a local grower who’s very passionate about the insanely broad varieties he caries. Dates naturally turn brown and wrinkly as they ripen on the palm. He picks them the day he sells them. Their taste is from another planet. The difference about fresh dates is that any commercial dates sold in stores (even “raw” ones) are dried once picked. Good sellers sun dry them. This reduces the water content and gives them a longer storage life. Unfortunately the date doesn’t taste so amazingly juicy, sweet, and candy-like. Fresh ones are literally palm-candy.
Regarding healing/nutritional information about them. It’s hard to find any decent research or publications on dates (other than those written in this ) as most of the results for “dates” is western research, which is limited. To say the least.
Some links (in english):
http://www.medjooldates.com/faq-nutrition.asp
http://ezinearticles.com/?Date—A-Wonder-Fruit-of-Arabia&id=1527461
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/date-fruit-benefits.html

Cacao paste is used instead of powder because it’s (if from a good traditional source ) made from grinding the whole cacao bean. No extraction process has to be done in separating powder from oil. The nutritional value is higher. It’s an insanely healthy food with the full spectrum of minerals and fats.

A visual summary of the ingredients:

In a good blender combine:
*The small bit of watery fluid (might need to add a bit more later just to keep blendable)
*The coconut flesh
*Plenty of dates (to sweeten to liking)
*1 tsp Vanilla powder (or to taste)

Blend till absolutely smooth. No trace of chunks should be left.
Then add:
*The cacao paste
A handful to fistful.

Pour into a human food bowl, decorate with cacao or other pretty things (like hair and industrial laundry-soap) and either refrigerate (to harden a bit), eat it, or feed to an unsuspecting bystander to document the results (if it doesn’t kill them add more hair and laundry-soap).