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| The candles that Eric gave me. This picture doesn't capture their essence |
Our major purpose today was to make chocolate. Raw, sugar-free dark chocolate, to be exact.
We made it right before we left school for the holidays, and it turned out wonderfully. The only shortcoming was that it wasn't entirely solid. It would melt too easily when touched.
Today we made some modifications to the chocolate recipe to prevent that ..... and let's just say more research and development is needed. (It was a slightly disgusting mess, edible, but not worthy of you!)
So if you were looking for some chocolate to devour on Valentine's Day, take Madeleine's advice from Valentine's Day last year and go for a kick-butt run instead. Any superpowers I have are definitely borrowed from her.
In short:
raw, sugar-free dark chocolate will be posted soon
sugar-free carrot cake in 2 weeks!
I want to expand on farmer's markets, and some wisdom that seems really obvious once you read it. Apart from helping the local economy and not supporting oil companies (there really are other sources of energy being developed!)
Here's the wisdom: Eat the food grown in the same climate that your body is living in (that's you!). Why? Well because something like a pineapple has a thinning effect on the blood, and your body won't be able to warm itself as efficiently if you're in a climate too cold to support pineapples (the middle of winter). So when your local farmer's market only has apples, kiwis, and pears, that's the fruit to eat because it was grown in the same climate. More on this as it develops.
I bought an abundance of kiwis for $2 at the farmer's market today. I'll eat them, and when they are too liquidy to be eaten, I will blend them with other fruit and dehydrate them into fruit leather.
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