You may have noticed a theme this week. Between the French Toast Having Wings, King Chaga: Ruler Of The Land, and the old Create Your Own Burger Adventure we enjoyed yesterday. Yep. I have had super foods on the brain as I gear up for the first run of my bran shiny new workshop formerly known as Raw Super Food Power. All week I have been working away at the recipes and info for the two-hour session and have been so inspired by the amazingly delicious ways we can enjoy food as medicine. I don’t know about you but I would so much rather eat a cacao nib filled cookie than pop a magnesium supplement. Food as medicine is one thing, but cookies as medicine… Oh wow!
Because I have been overwhelmed by all that I have been reading on the magical healing of everything from broccoli to shiitakes to spirulina to maca, I have changed the name of the class to Healing With Super Foods and am discovering all sorts of ways to integrate these gems into everyday eating.
This leads me to four things.
1. Daadadadadaaaaa! A new tutorial will be released in the next couple of weeks along this theme.
2. You can make these cookies yourself, or come over on Sunday and watch me make them right before your very eyes (and you get to eat them too!) I have room in this Sunday’s workshop: Healing With Super Foods $60.00 per person, Sunday March 7, 2010, 2:00pm – 4:00pm Register here
3. Well, 3 has nothing to do with the workshop this weekend but does have something to do with the AWESOME new Digestive Healing Retreat we just booked to take place June 25th-June 27th at Sugar Ridge Retreat Centre. Details are here! Since everyone I know has tummy troubles, and space is limited, this one will fill up. Not to mention that I am crazy excited over getting to do this as a joint effort with my fair gentleman, Josh Gitalis.
4. Okay, I will get on with the Cookie Medicine recipe
Maple Oatmeal Super Cookies
1/2 cup rolled oats
1 Tbsp coconut oil
1 Tbsp pure maple syrup
3 Tbsp raw honey
1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
2 Tbsp (30 ml) finely ground flax seeds
3 Tbsp whole flax seeds
1 Tbs chia seeds
2 Tbs cacao nibs
2 Tbs golden berries or goji berries (optional)
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp fine sea salt
- Preheat oven to 350F (180C). Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Mix all ingredients together with hands or spoon
- Dollop about 1 Tbs worth onto cookie sheet and form into cookie shape- not too thin though as they do flatten as they cook
- Bake for about 10-12 minutes.
Hahahahaha. Thanks to reading your blog for the last long while I have all but one ingredient for these cookies in my cupboard. I don’t know why I find that so funny. The missing ingredient is cocoa nibs. Funnily enough, I found out where they are sold here on Monday. Now I have the incentive to go buy some. Can’t wait to try these. Teeheehee.
Those look awesome, and I actually have everything on hand to make them. I might even add some of the raw dehydrated coconut chips I found last night at the Organic market! (I know I can make my own, but there they were, and quite reasonably priced). Can you tell me how many cookies that recipe should make? I have a feeling they won’t last long! Thanks for all the great recipes, info and ideas!
About 12-14 depending on the size. They are so good! crispy and delicious!!!
Do these cookies really rise in the oven? I’m trying to decide if it would be okay to omit the baking powder and baking soda. I’d prefer to make them raw, but they look so amazing in the photo that my tastebuds are craving the flavor of toasty oven-baked oats!
They don’t really rise much… I am sure you could omit it. Not sure how they’d be raw- I am personally not a massive fan of raw oats.
Nom noms! Cookies as medicine are my kind of cookies!
And I am sure you recognize the root of this recipe
These look fantastic! I make a version very similar and I add chopped up dried figs…….also amazing!!!
You can count me in for the tutorial — can’t wait!!!
Wow, those cookies look great! I love “healthy” cookies–the less sugar the better. And maple just is so wonderful.
I dream about attending a Meghan Telpner workshop…someday.
Someday… if not here than maybe St. Lucia!
Hey Meghan,
I want in for the tummy retreat! How do we sign up? (The link you provided with the details doesn’t say how you can pay/reserve a spot!)…Can’t wait!
I was waiting for a few things to be fixed up on my site!. Here is the link: http://www.meghantelpner.com/retreats2/rates-and-registration
Funny that I just read you saying something about avoiding magnesium supplement when I just had one
As a vegetarian (and a female!) I have to be careful as to what I eat so that I’m not too low on things like magnesium or iron. Do you have some tipps to what food supplies you with which nutrients?
Just better to get it from food than supplements. As long as your eating a variety of whole grains and vegetables- steamed and raw, you are a-okay.
I just made a batch of these and they smell amazing! Of course, I’m only now just realizing that they probably don’t quite fit the rules of low-GI eating! Fortunately, I think my partner is going to be excited to have these (mostly) to himself.
They keep quite well in the freezer… not to worry.
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Just made another batch. This time I added some coconut. Very yummy!!!
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