happenstance home

No Bake Energy Bites

1 cup ORGANIC oatmeal - finely ground in a little food processor

1/2 cup Artisana Organics Raw Pecan Butter with Cashews - I'm going to make my own pecan butter when this runs out because it will be even healthier

1/3 cup local honey

1 cup organic unsweetened coconut flakes - ground in the food processor

1/2 cup chia seeds

1/2 cup chocolate chips (I didn't use healthy here - I used Ghirardelli Bittersweet Chips)

1/4 cup organic dried strawberries - ground in food processor - I was wondering if this would work and taste good and it worked!  You could even mix 1/2 cup in.

1 t. vanilla

Mix everything above into a medium bowl - let chill in fridge for about a half hour and then roll into balls.  Store in airtight container and keep refrigerated up to one week.

There is so much flavor in this little recipe.  The way that the chutney caramelizes and browns as you fry the chicken patties.  That really brings out the extra flavor.  So good in my opinion.  I made this recipe up many years ago - I never measured any ingredients before so you can eyeball everything to your liking - or use the recipe below.  I measured everything out today, and they were as delicious as I remembered. 

Major Grey's Chicken Patties

1 pound ground chicken

1/2 cup diced red onion

1/2 cup Major Grey's Chutney (I did not use the raisins that are in the jar)

2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

1 teaspoon fine pink sea salt

1/2 teaspoon pepper

(arugula and Naan bread if you want to make a little sandwich)

Combine the first 6 ingredients in a bowl.  Form the mixture into patties.  Heat your nonstick frying pan on medium to medium high heat.  Cook each side until browned and caramelized.  In a separate pan warm each side of your Naan bread.  Then simply place your cooked patties on the warmed Naan and top with some arugula.  I sprinkled mine with a little parmesan as well.  These patties are also really good to serve alongside a vegetable like green beans and some mashed potatoes.  

I use a Breville Milk Cafe to make this recipe.  Use the Cappuccino Frothing disc in the bottom of your carafe. 

For one serving of hot chocolate use ...

1 cup milk - I only use Kalona organic whole cream top milk - supposedly this brand is as close as we can get in the grocery store to raw milk.  We don't have the freedom in Michigan to buy raw milk at the grocery store.  It's a process to get any.  

1/2 cup filtered water - This is my very favorite purchase of the last two years.  When you see what's in our water you'll want one too.  And water bottles - not good at all.  Microplastics galore, etc.  We are being poisoned by our food and water.  If you want to start to learn follow Food Babe.  Even when you see what the same food companies sell here vs. overseas you will really start to wonder.  And I am not perfect in what I eat - just trying to make better choices.  OK - enough of that!

1/8 teaspoon pure vanilla - I used Trader Joe's organic bourbon vanilla

1/8 cup Enjoy Life mini semi sweet chocolate chips - super clean chocolate chip brand

and just to take it to the next level - 

as much as you want of Toonie Moonie Organic Vanilla Marshmallow Cream - it's amazing and as clean as you can get as far as something like this goes.  It's so delicious!!!

Combine all the ingredients in the stainless steel carafe.  

I have mine set to 160 degrees.  I use the cappuccino frothing disc.

Note that if you use larger chocolate chips you might have to do the cycle twice to get them to melt.

And that's it!  Hopefully you enjoy your cup of goodness!