It should have been a full moon last night because we were both unable to sleep and i just started clearing out the fridge around 2am for the coming batch, and added the flavors for today which are the much loved cinnamon and vanilla. If you haven't heard about the origin of these spices you can check out this site http://www.rainforestspices.com/. We were there while they were pulling the bark off the trees and hope to get some vanilla starts from them for our farm the next time we go back. Last night when we ground the cinnamon we did a smell test. The cinnamon I ground two weeks ago had zero smell compared to the fresh ground. Imagine what we are buying in the stores???
Today's chocolate is 62.5 percent cacao and 90 percent our own farm sugar that we cut, juiced and made, (see video in the first post of this blog) - the same sugar you see there is the batch we have here. They all have a base flavor of cinnamon and vanilla.
We have our kisses which look a little unshapely but taste great, some large 4 ounce bars plain ($10) "cherry and cashew" medium bars($7.50), bee pollen, goji and brazil nut small bars ($4. with the nuts) The latter is my personal medicine, I eat the brazil nuts for the selenium, the goji and pollen for extra energy. Need i mention that the farm sugar, because it has not been processed, has all of the minerals that you would get in molasses.
We have untempered bars and hand tempered bars( my fav. is the untempered because it really melts in your mouth but it can't get to room temp and then put back in the fridge because it will "bloom" - this is bad, in case you don't know what bloom is.)
We also have our flavor of the month, Spicy hearts , which are a little more spicy than the last batch. These are flavored with chili that we have grown in our garden and dehydrated and powdered.
We have a little stock pile from the last batch so now we can rest for a week or so. We've done our best to keep all the different batches and flavors organized but there is a surprise element to some of it.
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Spicy hearts
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