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Mulberry Chocolate

I love mulberries! When I was living in Spain, I lived about 5 minutes walk to a mulberry tree so when it was the season, I would go every day and pick and eat!

Taking a cue from the Vanoffe bar, which is a raw white chocolate bar, I decided to try my hand at dark chocolate with mulberries.

First, I ground up some very dry mulberries (if your mulberries are still a bit chewey, they may need dehydrating before you do this) with some vanilla pod. Then I melted about 40g of cacao butter and added:

• 4 tablespoons of the ground mulberries
• 3 tablespoons raw chocolate powder
• 1 tablespoon lucuma powder
• 1 teaspoon mequite powder
• 1 teaspoon dark agave nectar

I left it in the fridge for a while until hard and it was very good. I think this recipe might work well with my mint oil when it is ready.

1 comment January 20th, 2007

Cravings

It’s my belief that if we crave a certain food, it is most likely to be for nutritional reasons rather than emotional reasons. I just came across this chart which suggests which foods to eat to satisfy particular bad food cravings. It’s not vegatarian (so I recommend you ignore the the non veg bits), but most categories have vegatarian food options that you could use:

www.naturopathyworks.com/pages/cravings.php

If anyone finds it useful, I’d be interested to know which ‘good’ foods you used to satisfy which cravings.

5 comments January 20th, 2007