Putting my 2p in here as the other person who tried this concoction tonight.
I'm not a fan of shrimp, coriander, or lime, so this took a while to warm up to. I wanted to try it though (and try those things I'm less keen on) and overall I liked the result. I'd agree with Hugh that it's "pre-optimised" though, as I think the shrimp work okay in it, but the lime and coriander are just things my portions will be going without in future, as this time they rather overwhelmed the rest of the dish for me. I can also really see this working better with beef cubes and, oddly, an extra banana.
Leaving the industrial quantities of bunkum aside (you both have the right genealogy to eat tomatoes and limes? How fortunate...), this looks pretty interesting. Are you substituting coconut oil for the fat content of the muffins? Which I suppose would add to the overall coconuttiness - would it be worth trying ground almonds in place of the coconut flour as a less coconut-flavoured alternative? And for the chili, I've heard of using chocolate (or cocoa powder) before but not coffee. Is it just a flavour-enhancer or is it something you can actually taste?
Now, now, no need for sarcasm, there's plenty of evidence to suggest that cavemen liked a nice mug of coffee of a morning:
"Some anthropologists speculate, without hard evidence, that most of the caffeine-yielding plants were discovered in Paleolithic times, as early as 700,000 B.C. Early Stone Age men, they say, probably chewed the seeds, roots, bark and leaves of many plants and may have ground caffeine-bearing plant material into a paste before ingestion. The technique of infusing plant material with hot water, which uses higher temperatures to extract the caffeine, was discovered much later."
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I'm not a fan of shrimp, coriander, or lime, so this took a while to warm up to. I wanted to try it though (and try those things I'm less keen on) and overall I liked the result. I'd agree with Hugh that it's "pre-optimised" though, as I think the shrimp work okay in it, but the lime and coriander are just things my portions will be going without in future, as this time they rather overwhelmed the rest of the dish for me. I can also really see this working better with beef cubes and, oddly, an extra banana.
News just in: banana goes well in chilli.
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"Some anthropologists speculate, without hard evidence, that most of the caffeine-yielding plants were discovered in Paleolithic times, as early as 700,000 B.C. Early Stone Age men, they say, probably chewed the seeds, roots, bark and leaves of many plants and may have ground caffeine-bearing plant material into a paste before ingestion. The technique of infusing plant material with hot water, which uses higher temperatures to extract the caffeine, was discovered much later."
(from 'The World of Caffeine' p. xii)
See? Plenty of evidence.
See also: bacon, chocolate, the technique of baking, pre-cultigen plants, de-evolved animals, and so on.
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