rawfoodhaven: chocolate day and more....

week 3 started with a chocolate day. i like chocolates but i'm not crazy about them. we had a lot of fun making chocolate torte, choc chip cookies, vanilla macaroons (was supposed to be choc. macaroons but enough chocs...

we started off with scraping off the cacao butter from the big block....

and then put the metal container over a bowl of hot water to let it melt into fluid form....

we're doing the choc chip cookies recipe from matthew kenney's everyday raw book. that's my chocolate chip cookies dough... i've always wanted to make this but just never got round to doing it! it doesnt help that it's almost impossible to get raw cacao powder at home!

i forgot to take a pic when i was so busy prepping... so this is the cookies after being in the dehydrator overnight... looks yummy! :-)

i did remember the vanilla macaroons though....

we also made granola with the buckwheat sprouts we sprouted last week. this was the start of our training to create our own recipes. russell gave us a walkthrough of how to develop a recipe, which is really useful coz i dont think i ever did pick it up when i was at LL... so its like letting a kid run wild in a toy shop. we were allowed to do anything we want with our granola concoction.

i made mine with buckwheat sprouts, orange & lemon zest, 1 apple, 1 mango, 1/4 pineapple, 1 pomegranate, 1/2 cup of coconut flakes and a handful of goji berries. (i never knew what goji berries was since we call them wolfberries at home!) and we dont even eat them raw! for spices, i had a combination of cinnamon, cardamon, chai spice, clove, vanilla powder, cacao powder, 1/4 cup of tahini.

and this is what you get.... this is the "before" look, i.e before i put it into the dehydrator, i'll get to see the after look tomorrow...