trying some new things

Saturday I went to a cooking class, where she taught about raw foods, ok before I go any further there are a few things I wanna say about this, when my friend started telling me she is going on a raw vegan diet my first thoughts were ok that is just weird, why would anyone wanna eat raw food, but as I sat in this cooking class I started realizing that my diet already is very similar to eating "raw" or " vegan" already and what I eat is not weird, so when I talk about my recipes I do not refer to them as raw or vegan because I think people get a predetermined thought in their head ok I'm not gonna try that because raw and vegan food is weird, would you call a salad raw salad no but its raw food, do you call no bake cookies raw cookies no but that's what they are(well depends on what ingredients you use I suppose) green smoothies is a raw and vegan thing, so my point is alot of us eat alot of raw and vegan dishes all the time but we just don't call them that. so now that I got that off my chest lets talk about this class the girl teaching the class was Cynthia Summers. Super cute girl with a great passion for bringing health, nutrition , and good energy altogether to create a true balance from the inside out. You can find her here....https://facebook.com/?_rdr#!/profile.php?id=100324280089860&__user=1589905874 at this class she made these amazing no bake brownies relish, so of course I had to come home and make them for my family because I know they would like them too I had to make some changes because unfortunately I didn't have the same nuts she used so the recipe I used is as follows 1 cup of almonds 1/2 cup raw cashews(you don't want the salted and roasted kind) 1 1/2 cups chopped dates( I buy the medjool dates from Costco they are moist and so delicious) 1 tsp of vanilla extract 1/4 cup cacao powder(this is different than hershey's baking cocoa, the brand I used is sunfood superfoods it has a much better flavor than the bakers chocolate powder its worth getting this stuff cause it tastes better) 1/8 cup raw honey then a few drops of peppermint( I used doterra peppermint but you can use peppermint extract) then blend all ingredients together either in a blend Tec or food processor, if you don't have that then use a regular blender with small portions at a time then press blended mix in a glass dish ( I used a loaf pan to make them thicker) then put in freezer for about 30 min then enjoy....elizabeth kept coming back for more everytime I turned around and if I can win her over with these than we are golden cause she does NOT like anything healthy so that says alot....enjoy!!!