Gebana dates!

WOW! 5kg of dates! I´m impressed! Gebana, Gebana, Gebana.

Some time ago I heard that Gebana, a fair-trade company, would send you dates to try an in return ask you to blog about them. I like dates and I like supporting fair-trade and I like getting free stuff, so why not? I thought I would get a try-out box of maybe the size of your hand, but wow! I got a 5 kilo package of best quality dates!
It came at the perfect time. I was having friends over for a house warming evening, it was christmas time and we were having hot wine and christmas cookies. So dates perfectly fit the party. We ate loads and people also took some home. I got a recipe for a vitamin-drink, you are supposed to drink one sip during ten days, it strengthens your immune system:

4 dates
4 figues (they can be dry)
1 apple

You cook everything with some water for 1 hour, afterwards mesh it and then you can have one sip every day to survive the winter.

Date tart is also a very nice thing to use these many dates for: just make a normal dough with hazelnut and dates, on top you put one extra layer of dates (you should cut them open) and on top of that whipped cream. Let it rest for a day, the whipped cream takes the flavor of the dates. Delicious! It´s my traditional birthday cake.

So I am completely satisfied with the Gebana dates, really nice stuff. Also their way of trading and watching the ecological balance of the places where the dates grow is very appropriate for our times. We should know where our food comes from and how it is grown. Check on www.gebana.com