80 Degrees, March, Ok?

Ok so its like 80 degrees outside, it's March, I love it.  Fuck yes.  I just got finished making a BAD (bad as in GOOD) "Chunky Almond Fudge".  Yeah, its so nice.  For your information I eat a diet consisting of uncooked, unprocessed, raw, organic, vegan foods.  This shit is amazing let me tell you.  I can't get over how awesome I feel at all times of the day, I am ready for it all.  Life is good.  The food is even better.  I suggest trying out some of these recipes, your jaw will drop, it will, it will drop all the way to the floor, like, HARD.  

PS:  I didn't make this, its from the amazing "Raw food/Real World" book by Matthew Kenney & Sarma Melngailis who own the restaurant and juice bar known as 'Pure Food & Wine' on E. 17th and Irving Pl. in crazy NYC.  If you go I recommend the Taco Salad, I ate nothing but this the last few days before I moved out of New York.  RIP.  One other thing, the "Official" recipe is called "Chewy Freezer Fudge" and I've altered just a few ingredients, so get the book if you are looking for the official one.  But my version is chunky nuts, literally.  It goes like:

2 Cups Chunky* Almond Butter (1 16oz Jar, basically). 

1/3 Cup Carob Powder or Raw Cacao powder (I originally was turned off by carob's carmelish grainier taste, but realized the fudge is 110% nicer with carob as opposed to Cacao, try both and find out for youself, both are good.  Carob is less "intense" though.  

1/2 Cup + 2 Tblsp. Maple Syrup (Shoot me, Maple Syrup is not even 1% raw because its been boiled at extreme temps to remove tree bark, ants, dirt and shit...so if you dont want that cool "yumm" tang of Maple Syrup, go for the raw option of Agave, use A LITTLE LESS THEN HALF A CUP OF AGAVE in that case, and make sure its true raw agave, got it!

1 Heaping Tblsp. Coconut Oil (Often times called Coconut Butter, its the same thing at different temps ie: Cool = butter/Warm = Oil)

2 Tblsp. 'Alc. Free' Vanilla Extract (Shoot me twice, cause this ain't raw either...infact, alot of it contains up to 35% alcohol and thats lame...use real vanilla bean, if not, use alcohol free organic vanilla extract.  Its out there, whole foods has it by the brand 'Frontier'.  If you are put off by this idea, just use the real thing.  It's a bit hard to convert the extract to beans, so start with 2 pods, mix it taste it and add more to taste)

1 Tsp. Coarse Sea Salt  (Sea Salt folks, NOT table salt.  NOT, NOT, NOT table salt.)  

Get out a big mixing bowl, blend everything together with a big spoon and put it into a tray so that it is about 1/2" thick.  Freeze it.  Eat it!  

***Make sure you dont leave this out or it will just turn into what you started with, only weirder looking***

Here are some pictures to reference, and a song to listen to while you chew on this out in the warm sun, or, bundled up in your warm residence.