Rich an Rawsome Puddin' Downloaded From Tree Love

"Thou didst create the deserts, mountains, and forests, 

but I produced the orchards, gardens, and groves."

-Turkmeni folk song

Trees love us so much, at least I love them. Trees reach down into the ground, bring up minerals, and benefit the soil. Trees breathe and improve our air, and in the the spring they sweeten the air with perfume. Trees facilitate ecosystems and habitat. Trees even make rain. Let's plant trees all over the world!

Another thing I love about trees: They feed me! 

This recipe is so rich, ice cream will be jealous! 

Five kinds of trees (and bushy type treeish things) are in this rawsome pudding:

raw COCOA powder (lots!)

ripe AVOCADO

VANILLA, to taste

MAPLE syrup, to taste

shredded COCONUT

Mash up avocados with a fork in a bowl.

Stir in maple syrup, vanilla, and cocoa 

Blend until smooth in your blender or food processor

Be sure to add plenty of cocoa to completely cover the green color of the avocado. 

This is a really green superfood recipe. The avocado grows well in drought conditions in California, and has a really healthy plant fat profile. Cocao, another superfood, functions in the body like dark leafy greens. Maple has minerals and is a unique sweetener in that it tends to be alkaline forming in the body compared to most sweeteners that are acid forming. Coconut, a plant based saturated fat source cherished by vegans, protects the brain.

The famous yoga teacher, Yogananda, commented when he came to teach in California and found the avocado there, that this food would help Americans eat a vegetarian diet. No doubt the satisfying creamy content of the avocado is what he meant.

For a garnish on top of your chocolate pudding, sprinkle shredded coconut. 

I like to spin the coconut in a coffee grinder first to really bring out the flavor. 

Also, if you chill your pudding in the fridge the ground up coconut will form a crunchy layer like a chocolate bar. Good luck waiting that long!

"In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, 

enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground."

-James Boswell, 1740-1795