Morish Choc Butter Squares

Ingredients:

Dark Chocolate:

2 cups coconut oil
1/2 cup Vermont maple syrup
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup cacao powder

Peanut Butter Filling:

1 1/2 cups natural peanut butter, room temperature
8 tablespoons coconut butter, (or oil) room temperature
1/2 cup Vermont maple syrup
1/4 teaspoon salt (a bit more if you don’t use salted peanut butter)
Nuts (optional)

How to:

1. Melt coconut oil in double broiler with maple syrup and salt. Sift in cacao powder and stir well until mixture becomes smooth and dark.

2. Line a 9-inch square glass dish with plastic wrap. Pour half the chocolate mixture into the dish and place in freezer until hard, 20 to 30 minutes. Meanwhile
make peanut butter filling.

3. Using a stand mixer with whisk attachment, beat peanut butter and butter about 5 minutes, until mixture is fluffy. Beat in maple syrup and salt. Add your nuts here if you decide to use them in your recipe.

4. Once chocolate layer is frozen, spread peanut butter filling over top. Place in freezer until firm, about 30 minutes.

5. If remaining chocolate mixture has hardened, reheat to make it liquid again. Once peanut butter filling is firm, pour over remaining chocolate mixture.

6. Place in freezer 30 more minutes or longer.

7. When you are ready to cut into squares, remove dish from freezer and allow it to sit on the counter about 10 minutes and then lift up the plastic wrap, which
allows for a little easier release.  Cut into very small squares as this is quite rich.

8. Refrigerate squares, as coconut oil is very soft at room temperature. Remove from fridge about 10 minutes before you want to eat one to allow it to soften
up a bit.

Makes approx 30 Pieces

This recipe is courtesy of Nancy Vienneau

Namaste
Lalita
YMSPB

YMSA Yoga Meditation Studio Palm Beach - Kindness

This photo has been doing the rounds on Facebook. It is very heart warming to see these guys helping this sheep. Wouldn't It be nice if more people were kind to animals.

Yes It's Cool To Be Kind

The benefits of kindness range from your emotional health, right down to your cardiovascular and nervous systems. It was in 1979 that psychologists first coined the term called "helpers' high" after a survey found that charity volunteers felt happier.

When a person performs an act of kindness the brain produces dopamine. Secondly, the brain has its own natural versions of morphine and heroine: endogenous opioids, such as endorphins. It is believed that when a person does a kind act they feel good on a chemical level thanks to the production of these endogenous opioids.

Why not set yourself a challenge, practice one act of random kindness everyday.  Pay someone a compliment, be helpful or thoughtful. Try to do something you wouldn't usually do, but which will make a difference. Don't limit yourself to humans, try to help animals also.

There's a very worthy cause circulating virally right now called Meatless Monday, if you are an animal lover or even if you're not, you might like to consider taking part. Studies have shown a vegetarian / vegan lifestyle choice has very beneficial effects on the environment, it's an opportunity for you and your family to get creative, investigate healthy wholesome food options, vege recipes, or introduce more fruit and smoothies into your diet. The humble Smoothie has taken the world by storm (more on that later). We hope you will give this idea some thought, you have nothing to loose and heaps to gain, you can improve your health and the health of your family while contributing to saving the environment.

 Yoga Meditation

The great thing about practicing Yoga mantra meditation is that this meditation technique quickly brings about a profound and noticeable softening of the heart. Qualities like compassion, patience, tolerance, respect, love and care towards all living beings become second nature to a sincere practitioner. 

The science and philosophy which forms the heart of this practice is based on Truth and knowledge (Vedas) This is a very ancient and timeless practice, the beneficial effects are as potent today, in this modern era as they have always been since the  beginning of time. All sentient beings benefit from this extraordinary, simple and enjoyable practice.

You will perceive a change for sure. Not only will you notice an increase in good qualities and the falling away of not so good qualities, you will gradually over time find that your world view begins to change.  How you percieve life and other living beings begins to shift. This simple little practice is pretty awesome and truly has the power to transform a persons life.

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Namaste

 Lalita 

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