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[divideby0]

Qualia helped me make 'Blancmange' the other day. It's a simple pudding that uses milk, sugar, cornstarch, salt, and whatever flavoring you want to add. I went looking for an alternative to the JELL*O package sitting on our counter, tempting me to shake-shake-shake it up. Verdict: takes about fifteen minutes longer to make but lets you choose any

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[lordq42]

The other day i was listening to NPR, and they had a guy talking about chocolate as the most evil thing in the world, because you take the most pure, natural and wholesome thing and process and destroy it to make it palatable... paraphrasing here, but anyway. his contention was that you should use the cacao nut or nib raw,crushed, etc... instead of processed. had a few suggestions for how to do it without using refined sugars or the like... mostly honey. I gather that the cacao nib is a super concentrated chocolate flavor, but... well, you've probably tasted bakers unsweetened chocolate before... its like that only more bitter and stronger choc taste. eep. so... Coconut milk, honey and cacao nibs, in an ice-cream maker, makes a raw food friendly ice cream.

[divideby0]

I get the raw food argument. If I ate cocoa/chocolate for the nutrition I would probably agree. But as Alan Watts once put it, do you have sex to live, or live to have sex? Now, what you described sounds pretty delicious, but I'm not about to close the door on chocolate. Crappy chocolate has already been purged from my diet anyway :)

Nibs are pretty raw tasting. Strong being part of that... but also not something I would want to gobble as I do when I want to gobble chocolate. A nice addition to a chocolate bar at times though.

semi related to the chocolate topic

[verrucktfrog]

I had awesome 70%cacao chocolate with bits of sun-dried tomatoes when lis was visiting.... mmm yummm!