Cinnamon chocolate balls

Hello good people!

This whole being sick thing is getting on my nerves. It's the 4th or 5th day now and I'm still not amused. Not at all, but at least it's kinda getting better. So let's hope next week it'll all be better. And then I only have to be patient for one week to start doing sports again. Until then I can just somewhat control what I eat. My least favorite part of getting into shape. Anyway I made these cinnamon-ginger balls, covered in chocolate. Usually I would use dark chocolate, but I said to myself hey yolo! hahahaha yolo whatever that means, crazy kids these days!

So where was I?

Oh yeah, about the chocolate - well I used a whole milk chocolate. Sshhhhhhsh!!! Don't judge me! Or do, I don't care...because these balls were P*E*R*F*E*C*!T*!

INGREDIENTS

2 oz/about 50g hazelnuts (soak over night)
1 oz/ 25g raisins
1/3 cup/25g oats
2 tbsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground ginger
whole milk chocolate for coating

DIRECTIONS

1. Grind oats to oat flour, add raisins and process. Then add the soaked hazelnuts. There should be small nut chunks in the mixture at the end.

2. Add cinnamon and ginger to the mixture - and it's ready. Form small balls (about walnut size like with the raw chocolate hazelnut balls) with your clean hands.

3. Melt chocolate - I did this in a hot water bath using a heat resistant bowl.

4. Once the chocolate is melted - coat the balls with the chocolate (use spoon, or just dip the balls into the melted chocolate, if I say melted chocolate again I might start drooling) and place them on a plate. Leave in the fridge to cool off.

And that's it. Although I used whole milk chocolate and I should probably go and seek a doctor right away, these balls still are better than any chocolate or cinnamon dessert you can buy in the store. So less judging and more trying, mkay? This made very delicious 8 balls, of which I consumed 8 in 2 days. You do the math for the rest. And it's about 80 kcal per ball.

See you soon or even better write to you soon!

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Raw chocolate hazelnut balls

Good news humans of the planet Earth!

Three good news actually. Let me start with the first one. I know it's a weird order, but just for fun.

1. You saw the picture of the chocolate hazelnut balls in this neighborhood? I made them. And they're healthy. And good to support your diet and training goals. And to support your life goal of being super awesome. And I'm giving you the recipe for them. *In a minute!!!* So this is me being serious and motivating. For once in my life.

2. I just finished my workout and I feel great. I felt like I'm gonna die while I was at it. But now like Rocky. To be honest I haven't even seen Rocky. But I'm guessing he's strong??? Now I don't have to become fat bastard in a few years, I'll be a fit bastard. And I won't move the Earth out of its orbit, when I jump on my own in 10 years. A small step for Stella, a big step for humanity.

3. I now have the results from my stool and blood samples (hopefully not mixed together) and it's all good. Even though I ate crap the whole month and didn't do much moving around. Of course those samples don't actually say anything about your health at all. I know that. But it's comforting to know some things in your body function properly.

Now to the recipe. I made these balls once when I was trying to eat healthy and lose some fat. I just wanted to eat chocolate soooo bad!  Sounds like any day of my life actually.

Look at them!!! My little balls. So proud of you! Going out in the big scary world and making it on your own!

To be honest I was trying to make something like a raw brownie, but I'm not very patient when it comes to food. I couldn't wait for the mixture to get cold and then cut in small brownie pieces. So I decided to get messy and started making balls from the mixture right away. A few of the balls didn't make it in the picture. They were in my mouth/stomach.
 
Since then, almost any healthy dessert I make is shaped as a ball. You can also juggle with these balls. I haven't tried that, but probably.

INGREDIENTS

1/3 cup raisins
1/3 cup soaked hazelnuts (raw)
3/4 cup soaked almonds (raw)
1/3 cup quick oats
5 tbsp cocoa
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup ground hazelnuts/almonds

DIRECTIONS

1. Grind the oats to powder with your food processor.

2. Mix oats and raisins, add cocoa, vanilla and process further.

3. Add the nuts - almonds and hazelnuts - and process.

You should get a dense, chocolaty mixture with small nut chunks in it.

4. Aaah! The best part. Now you have the mixture - make the balls! Form walnut-sized balls with your *clean washed* hands and roll them in ground hazelnuts or almonds. I used hazelnuts here. But almonds elsewhere. So surpriseee!!! Both works. Couldn't even tell the difference.

5. Store in the fridge. They're good for 3-4 days. Although it almost never occurred to have them that long.

 !WARNING! Some of the balls might disappear while you make them. This occurs very often. Must be something supernatural. Some voodoo stuff. Someone just stuffs them in my mouth.

The outcome for this amount of products is about 15 balls. Each one has around 90 kcals, is high in potassium, magnesium, zinc, iron, B-vitamins.

Even though these raw chocolate hazelnut balls are healthy and definitely better for you than some brownie loaded with processed sugar and fat, consume in moderation (up to 5/day as a snack or dessert). You don't want to move the Earth out of its orbit one day either.

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YaSUSHI, Yakashi

Last time with all the excitement about Greece, goat crap, and getting fat I forgot to tell you about my sushi week. I do not recommend that sushi week to my worst enemy. Especially if he/she has a thyroid condition.

Can you believe that I ate sushi for one whole week and I didn't even make one picture of it. Talking about greediness. Now you must stare at this salad. But it was also good.

Anytime someone says sushi, my dad likes to make this comment: ya sushi, ya kashi. In Bulgarian it means: either sushi or porridge. Yes, I come from a family of creative minds.

One time when I was stupid and brave enough, I asked my dad about the deep meaning of his wise words. Turns out there is a famous guy in Japan named Yasushi Akashi, who my father (but not me) has heard of and always makes this association, when he hears the word sushi. Now I say it too, so that people think I know who's who in Japan.

Aah what a nice story that was, wasn't it? Now I'll tell it again! I'm just kidding. Don't leave. Or hurt yourself.

Anyways. About the sushi week. Man I feel like I said sushi for the trillionth time in this post.

Sushisushisushisushisushisushsushisushisushsushisushisushisushisushisushisushisushisushisushisushisushi!

SUHSIIIIII!!!!

Now it's out of my system!!! The last one is spelled wrong?

Next fill in the blanks:

So yes, I was craving ....... for a really long time. At some point I even felt like I can wrap myself in seaweed and just lay there drooling happily. Maybe it was iodine deficiency, maybe not. Who knows? Not my doctor. I already asked her (she is not a psychiatrist).

So after I ate ........ at a friend's place, me and my sister, who has a problem with her thyroid decided to make ....... And no we didn't make 20 or 30. We made around 300 in one week and ate them all. It was so delicious, but it is a little addictive. I didn't actually lose weight, as I expected, cutting all the pizza and other delicious stuff out of my life. Now I had .........!!! My precious.

In the end of the week my sister and I both had bad headaches, really salty taste in our mouths and felt really nervous for no reason. My heart was beating so fast. Probably the way I would feel if I ever met Bradley Cooper. Or Justin Bieber. Or the guy from Gangnam Style.

The doctor didn't even think of iodine overdose. She was - stool sample here, stool sample there. And all I was thinking: "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I don't want some stranger digging in my stool". Although I can imagine it was not a holiday for that person too. We mentioned here and there my sister's thyroid condition (covering it with a cough or a sneezer, so we don't seem like desperate hypochondriacs) trying to bring the doctor to the right diagnosis. Nothing helped. The stool sample was stuck in her head. So we had to do it.

Man what a fun that was. Something in me changed that day.

Anyway, after this very unproductive visit at the doctor's office we ate a salad made only of vegetables with a little bit of olive oil and without any salt. I didn't expect it, but it actually turned out delicious. And we both felt a whole lot better after eating it. Here's the recipe for it, if you ever have a sushi or some other intoxication problem and you need to take it easy.

INGREDIENTS

5 small potatoes with skin (cooked)
6 medium sized radishes
1 medium size green pepper
1/2 cup arugula
1 medium cucumber
1/2 cup chopped parsley
1 tbsp olive oil

DIRECTIONS

All you need to do is chop everything (except olive oil, I dare you to try chopping olive oil!!), put it in a huge salad bowl and mix it.

NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION

The whole thing has 317 kcal and it makes 2 big portions, so for all the non-mathematics-geniuses out there - it's 158.5 kcal per portion. And it's rich in potassium, iron and magnesium.

Enjoy and write to you tomorrow!

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