Stuff Raw Foodies Like #2: Raw Chocolate

For the longest time, I couldn't eat regular chocolate because I would get laryngitis in winter (almost always February-ask my former coworkers in the Pacific Northwest!) or in August when it rains in Manila. Thank you to Dr. Emmanual Ibay of Makati Med for helping me figure that out that I had to change my lifestyle, including cutting out chocolate  (as well as a host of other harmful food) out of my diet. Half a decade laryngitis-free! Yay!

Since starting raw, I've been reintroducing small doses of raw cacao and toasted carob (tastes a little bit like chocolate) into my rotation (very difficult to find raw carob in the Philippines! Kontactr me if you know someone who supplies this locally!). So far so good! I listen to my body though. It knows when too much is too much.

It is interesting to note that there is a group of raw foodists that claim it is a super food, while some other raw foodists say they can do without it, or take only a little.

Here it is as a sauce with nuts and goji berries*.

What are your favorite raw chocolate desserts?

*Have you tried goji berries? These taste fine in a trail mix, but alone? Eeek. They need some getting used to.

They are considered a super food and the Chinese in Manila use it a lot in traditional Chinese medicine. I am glad my dessert is my medicine.How many fad diets can say that about their dessert?

Stuff Raw Foodies Like #2: Raw Chocolate

Coco Cacao Nice Cream

My godsister Berni is craving pinoy food. But she is in snowy Milton, MA and has no access to fresh Philippine mangoes and freshly squeezed calamansi juice, and buko juice!  :(

She told me to have some buko juice for her with some vanilla ice cream, and I told her, I'd have something non-dairy, like maybe coconut ice cream. 

Here's what I came up with:

3/4 to 1 cup gata, kept in the fridge for 2-3 days*

1 tsp or more raw cacao (I guess you can grind yours but I wanted to keep the texture so I didn't grind these up)

raw honey or agave nectar to taste

soaked sunflower seeds - optional

freshly grated cinammon - optional

*I like it because it gets a little more dense in the fridge when I keep it this long

The question is, what shall I call it? It's not exactly coconut ice cream. And if I call it gata with cacao and raw honey it just sounds....wala... awkward. And long.

Come up with a name and I will reward you with 4 fresh bukos (only if you live in Metro Manila) or USDA organic, kosher-certified, Philippine-made VCO :D (if you live elsewhere). A great way to infuse electrolytes into your system! Metro Manilans can choose if they want the bukos or the VCO. 

Use the kontactr form on the right. Subject line: Help me name this dessert! 

Include your full name and exact delivery address. If applicable, please inform your lobby guard to accept condo deliveries. 

I'll choose a winner by March 4th 2011. You don't have to be a raw foodist to join the contest. :D 

Contest is closed!

Coco Cacao Nice Cream