Recipe for vegan coconut whipped cream.

     This is a very easy and fun to make desert type food. It is mostly coconut and you can add whatever you feel would tweak it to fit your application. I am going to give you the bare bones ingredients and preparations as well as what I added into my recipe that inspired this post. I will try to be as organized as possible and if you feel like I may have left something out please let me know.

Ingredients:

• 1  Can of coconut milk,( Golden Star 13.5 ounce its from Thailand. Trader Joes coconut cream if you can get it. There may be others that I am not aware of as long as its more on the creamy side. coconut milk beverages may not work as well.)

• 1/4 Cup sugar, agave, powdered sugar. (I used organic coconut sugar and a small amount of organic agave.)

Optional

• Very small amount, ~1/4 tsp, of vanilla, lemon, almond, etc. oil or similar natural sweetener.( I had some organic lemon juice.)
• 1/8 cup shredded coconut.( Mine included shredded and toasted coconut.)
• SMALL amount of cacao, cocoa or vegan chocolate chips. (If your using cacao powder realize it is much stronger than nibs or cocoa/chocolate. Also we don't want to mask the flavor of the coconut. I used nibs which are pieces of the beans.)
• 1/4 cup coconut, almond, soy, hemp, cashew, etc. milk beverage.( I used some chocolate almond milk to help with the cacao nibs.)
• ~1 tsp Xanthan gum. This helps keep things together but honestly is not needed. 

Preparation:

1. Chill your can of coconut cream/milk. I did not chill mine very long and it turned out fine however I recommend chilling it over night. Also chill your mixing bowl for a while before use.
2. Gather all ingredients and a spoon or electric mixer/beater. Put cream/milk in chilled bowl and mix fast and well for 3 to 5 min or 1 min with mixer. It should be creamy and well mixed.
3. Mix in your optional ingredients one at a time keeping an even distribution of ingredients. Mix well for about the same time as step 2 OR until creamy and well mixed.
4. Taste and more milk, sugar, sweetener if needed to achieve the correct flavor and consistency.
5. You are done and can use it now, pop some in the freezer to make ice cream or store it in the fridge.

I find that the basic cold cream and sugar mix is just as good as adding any optional ingredient. You can enjoy your awesome creation with of course any kind of fruit and certain veggies. You can plop it on some vegan pancakes, cheesecake or carrot cake. I put some in a organic chai latte and it was soo delicious I had to make sure I was not dreaming. I also used it as dip with these freeze dried non gmo fruits I find at the local Safeway.

I made this recipe from my own general knowledge of what a "whipped cream" should be. Later as I recorded it here in this blog post, I picked up some tips from a blogger who's recipes I refer to often.

http://minimalistbaker.com/how-to-make-coconut-whipped-cream/

Please check out all the recipes there they are great and helped me quite a bit in my own creations.

Hopefully as you are making your own whipped cream, you are making it your own whipped cream.

Thank you for reading and please reply any comments or questions.

May 2, 2014 - Dream Journal entry

My sister and I are at a Wal-Mart or a similar store. We are buying pillows of various size and style for some reason I can not recall. One of the pillows was absent of a price tag. My sister thought it was going to be expensive while I speculated otherwise. We get a couple more pillows then head to check out, cart full of pillows. A very nice lady cashier is giving slight discounts on each item which didn't seem wrong for some reason, perhaps we were not at Wal-Mart. She gets to the pillow unknown in price but it gets hazy from here so I do not recall whether it was cheap or expensive. I know I had quite a bit of other dreams before and after this one but due to waking circumstances only recall this bit of one.

2013 Hold Up - Original poetry by me.

Man without purpose is like a tool without hands to guide it. We cannot deny that life is not right so why not try to stand and fight it. There is a plan we must take action but we're scared and would rather remain quiet. Mind is high, voice inspired time to take flight but the wings are tired. Its spring season of the green fired up and ready to bring the heat and mean humidity that leaves you soaking in your seat. I have got to be provoking, it feels as though we are all hopelessly floating alone on this ocean and no one is going to find land. We are all blind and choking on smoke from the explosion, nuclear winter the whole floor is frozen. We all fade away from erosion. Human existence! What a silly notion. 

Breath control - Meditation techniques and visions

Start by finding a quiet and comfortable setting. 

Sit in comfortable position or lay down. 

Close your eyes and take five to ten deep breaths. 

Then start to slow your breathing. 

Still taking deep breaths slow the process so that it takes increasingly longer to inhale and exhale. 

The key is to avoid panicking and giving in. 

When you feel that you need to breathe faster slowly increase the speed until you feel comfortable in again decreasing speed. 

Instead of taking two steps backwards and one step forward do the opposite. 

Like riding a bike uphill it gets more difficult as you proceed but the outcome is well worth the effort. 

Also like any activity practice makes perfect. 

I am able to slow down to one and a half breaths per minute maybe even one bpm. 

The realizations I get while utilizing this technique are profoundly similar to those attained in altered mind states.

sometime in 2003? - Ethereal Experience

    My first trip to the salvia realm. I was young and all about getting trashed. This night in particular me and a good friend thought we were badass enough to finish off a fifth of Bacardi 151... just the 2 of us. So we took turns taking "flame shots" which involves setting fire to the shot, then quickly covering the shot glass with the palm. Next you lift your palm enough to inhale the gases that have formed(if any?) in the empty space at top of the glass then immediately take the shot or alcohol. Note that we did not waste any time in between shots this endeavor was strictly business, lol. I think it took us half an hour. Afterwards, priding our badass-ness we decided to take it too the next level. He had a bit of experience with salvia while I had only tried it once and tried to smoke it like ganja which hardly affected me(I thought it was bunk). While highly intoxicated I somehow safely drive us to the smoke shop which had closed just as we arrived. I was very determined though and convinced the lady to let us in through the back. We purchased some Purple Sticky brand I think it was 60x then somehow safely made it back home.
    I was first to "go". I learned from the friend that it didn't work for me before because you have to hold it in for a while and preferably use a "bong". So I placed a pinch in the bowl, inhaled a large amount and about 20 seconds later I was "sucked out of the matrix". I do not remember most of what happened next as I was not allowed to bring all the memories with me and it seemed like I was given a choice of what I could remember. I am certain that I had lived through what seemed like countless lifetimes each one on a different planet or plane of existence and as I "died" in each one I traveled through space to the next. Each one was an entire "life" from birth to death. I can slightly recall the last one which was on a planet so small you could walk its circumference in a few short hours. This planet seemed to have no atmosphere like our moon but not moon gravity. I'm not sure but I believe there were only residential areas, each house small but perfect with the greenest lawns you could imagine. At this point, where I had to choose what to take with me, I knew that I had been through maybe hundreds or even thousands of lives however I was only able to recall about ten from which I got to choose just one which I could "visually" remember. I can't explain the feeling of knowing you have just been through what seemed like an eternity and able to remember it then being forced to keep only an insignificant amount.
    After my choice I was transported to a realm of complete darkness just me and nothing else. I was a flat two dimensional figure suspended in space like da Vinci Vitruvian man but clothed and the normal amount of limbs. I was aware and able to see myself not like seeing from another's perspective but like visualizing yourself while meditating. After a short time of literally nothing happening, the words "game over" appeared above my head. It was exactly as you would see when losing all your lives in the original Mario brothers game on Nintendo. At that point I both felt and knew that I was dead. Right after this feeling I awaken on the floor next to a small amount of vomit. Immediately I started crying like a newborn still convinced that I had died and very confused about still being alive. I was in such disbelief that I thought it was a trick. I warned my friend not to try it but he was already in the process! I could not stop crying for next few hours and it was extremely difficult to convince myself I was alive even with my friends help. At one point a couple hours later I asked him to hold my hand as I was going without warning going back to the ether realm. This happened a few times and I do not remember a single detail of those trips except that I was somehow "tripping" again. I eventually found the strength and courage to go to sleep in my car.

April 23, 2014 - Dream Journal Entry

    I was shopping at a thrift store. It was small and square but with many different items. I had finished shopping and was checking out. I had purchased some individual pieces of candy which you would not find normally, some dice, a couple other small items and some other items you actually would find at a thrift store. I had a container that looked like a bowling pin. It was plastic and plain white but had some ridges like a futuristic looking pin. It was big about two or three times size of a pin. It also had a reddish sticker with words or symbols I did not try to read it however. When I handed it over to be rung up there was not a price tag which I did not notice when I grabbed it. *Note that the store had closed during me checking out. I told the cashier(tall male) that I did not notice the lack of price tag and that there were a lot more of the item back there. He thought I was lying. He offered to just charge me a standard price which I refused. I asked if there was someone to go check the price on the others so he went. The rest of what I remember of this dream is hazy… after he left I noticed that one of the pieces of candy I was purchasing was slightly unwrapped at one end. So I opened it to find that there was a bite taken out at that end. ?I think the cashier may have come back after this but then left again for ? some other reason. This time a small candy dish I was purchasing had some chewed up pieces of gum stuck to it. The cashier or maybe a different man? came back with a price for the container, ten dollars. I had two more items but did not wish to purchase them because of the unexpected price of container. The other items were a T.V. meal stand(old metal style) and a big plate? So I go to pay and now my set of dice was only three instead of the full five. There were other issues I had encountered as well but the details are not so clear. They offer me more candy for free and asked if I had a suggestion of something they could do to make up for the cashier's behavior. I think I asked for a two dollar discount on the container. The manager apologized a few times then we got into a conversation about how I used to work at a thrift store(I actually did work at one in this reality). The rest is hazy.

    Now I am in a small room of a house, seemed to be someone else's home. I am asked to care for a sleeping baby. In this place it was the norm to set the baby on a pillow on your lap. Or just on a pillow on the bed next to you. This soon presented a problem as the baby would tend to roll off the pillow.  I have a slight recollection of this baby who was not as 'troublesome' rolling onto his stomach and possibly being unable to breath for a moment. I asked if it was ok and it somehow replied that it was fine?(babies can't speak) Soon I was asked to care for a second baby. This one however was the size of a baby kitten. In fact it got smaller as the dream progressed. This one kept rolling to the side and I believe it may have fallen of the bed once. Eventually it was so small it was no bigger than a finger nail. As it rolled to the side of the pillow(seeming they were purposely doing it at this point) I stopped it and tried to roll it in the other direction. It got all twisted up like a piece of playdough and a couple pieces broke off. There was no blood or any indication that it was injured and it actually started reforming to its original form a just like the T2000 in the Terminator after it got frozen then blasted into pieces. Hazy after that happened then I was assigned to care for a different regular sized female baby this time they gave me a flat table resembling an ironing board next to the bed. So she is set on a pillow on the table and sure enough eventually rolls off the pillow and onto the floor. There was a bunch of clothes and jackets making it hard to find the baby but it could speak so it was eventually found and the rest is hazy.

    Now I am in an outdoor place that is both imaginary and made up of a real place I have not seen(but was described in great detail to me. Its called the god damn its somewhere around Farmington NM) its basically a huge cement slope leading down to a manmade 'lake'. The whole area was perfectly rectangular and surrounded by wooden fencing. I know we climbed over the fence to get into but I cannot remember what was outside the fence. There are two other young men with me and it seems we are having a race to a section of land in about the middle of the area extending out from one of the sides. In order to reach the land you had to jump off from the cement slope into the water then swim there. The other two were already there and I was still at the slope. I was looking for another route as I did not wish to get wet. I found a way climbing along the inside of perimeter wooden fence. I eventually got close enough to the land where I could jump down to it. I did so and one of the guys pushed me in the water since that was cheating. So much for not getting wet. I get back onto land and we all jump over the fence and I wake up.

April 19, 2014 - Dream journal entry

    I was in a mall similar to the trolley square mall in Salt Lake City Utah.  I was trying to buy a meal, however my credit card was not working.  I was attempting to check the balance through various means, but they all seemed to be leading me in a circle.  Finally I was able to find the balance so I purchased my meal transition to next dream state.  I am in a small but cozy home in the living room when some kids come to the door.  At first it is just a young boy.  We asked him to leave and he came back with two bigger guys, which were forcing the door open.  We tried to lock the door but they open the door before we could lock it.  There was a big guy with me he had chased away the two big guys.  The boy was still messing with us so I went outside and I slapped him up.  At that point he decided that he did not want to mess with me anymore and he asked me to let him go, which I did.  He left, but then came back with the two big guys.  I for some reason I had a piece of rebar and I was ready for the guys.  Then all of a sudden a police officer were at the door with them so I hid the piece of rebar under a couch.  We allow the officer in along with the three guys.  The officer is lecturing us about solving our issues with words instead of violence.  I then inform the three guys that if they do trespass on my property again but I will start a commercial Lien against them.  So the guys leave and we go about our way.