Raw Chocolate Party Day!
Yesterday was great…
Day started with a jackfruit smoothie…jackfruit is the fruit that inspired the taste for Juicy Fruit gum…it is amazing. My first favorite fruit is Durian…second is jackfruit for sure.
at 8:30 am we harvested fruit….i ended up working the citrus trees around the property with Nori….we picked like almost 2 wheelbarrows full of Oranges, Tangelos, Tangerines, Grapefruits, Navels, etc. We found some jackfruit, Mamey Sapotes, and i found another Jackfruit! It weighed like 25 pounds….these things can get enormous, but they taste glorious. After Harvest, we had an amazing raw lunch (nori rolls, etc) and then headed to this black sand beach….we sat in the sun for like 3 hours and just enjoyed the ocean. Then we came home and we had a Raw Chocolate Party Potluck at our outdoor (and only) kitchen area. It was superrrr exciting..lots of chocolate, fun people, and a bonfire…yayaya. I wasn’t too sure on what to make for the potluck, so I came up with this recipe:
Chocolate Goji Glory Balls
-Raw cacao
-Dried Shredded Coconut Meat
-Raw Agave Nectar
-Dried Goji Berries
-Raw Vanilla Powder
-Raw Mesquite Powder
-Frozen Bananas
-A pinch of Pink Himalayan Salt
(add a pinch of cayenne on top at the end for an added spice!)
Guesstimate on the above..dump into a food processor, roll into balls, roll those in more shredded coconut mixed with dried raw cacao powder and dried vanilla powder….then in a seperate bowl, mix agave with cacao until it turns into a chocolate syrup….take a spoon and drop about half a teaspoon of this raw chocolate syrup on top of each ball…..then put in fridge……ja ja ja.
Its blissss…just have fun with it!
x
j
Days 6 and 7
Raw Spirit Festival randomly moved for an “after-event” festival this weekend to the farm next to us through the jungle leaves and avocado trees. So we have been snooping around and peering through the bushes at the rawesomeness that’s going on next to us. We also rode to the beach, 9 people in the back of this pickup, which belongs to Ann, one of our neighbors, who sounds remarkably close to my Aunt Kathy’s voice, and laugh, and even kind of looks like her. Today is saturday, and I did nothing but eat. I made this recipe up:
Machete Salad:
1 Huge Avocado, diced
Handful of fresh Dulse or Nori, crumbled/shredded
6 cherry tomatoes, quartered
Raw tahini Ranch Dressing, 3 TBS
Dried Peruvian Olives, 8 diced
3 stalks of Celery, chopped
Half a squeezed lime
1 crushed up/mushed up/diced Thai Chili Pepper
——I was sitting in one of the bali huts towards the back of the land, and was sitting with Anna and Anders, and looked at the sunlight coming through all the green leaves, projecting all of these green and maroon shadows, and then i looked to the right of the door with the “witch wand-looking” crippled wood handle, and the old machete was resting against the doorframe. It looked and reminded me of a lost-boy sword, and then i looked down at my feet and felt like I was in Lord of the Flies. That was my favorite moment this week.
aloha
x
j
Days 3,4 and 5
Too many things happened in this 3-day timespan, so this entry will most likely not be in chronological order hehe…
So over the past few days we have done alot here on the land. We dug out and turned an old can field into a future garden. We macheted a whole field of cane in 2 hours, which was superrrr intense, and i absolutely loved it. We visited alot of the surrounding communities here in the jungle and near the lava rock beaches. There are alot of interesting people here, and alot of interesting stories. Alot of people pick these new names to go by, such as: Na-Nam’i, Ocean, Spirit, etc etc…pretty trippy! I will stick with Joshua :). I have been biking every morning to the tide pools and the warm ponds, and recently began biking to this huge rock arch on the ocean…u can climb to the top and watch these huge waves crash against the ancient, lava cliff shoreline….and watch the sea turtles dive up and down in the deeper parts. I have been doing yoga some mornings as well to help my muscles heal and stretch a bit after all of this work. Very healing…Im getting a ton of sun, and eating the best food i have ever eaten. I feel the healthiest i have felt ever, and thats only after a few days of being here. Today I scrubbed our outdoor lava rock shower area where we all shower, and pulled weeds out of the lava rock so that they didnt take over the shower area. Then, we packed lunch, and headed to this amazingggg black sand beach. I found out its a clothing optional beach when i got there, so there were alot of naked islanders running around…we did see a few huge whales off shore slapping the water a bunch with their tales and spraying out of the water…the sun was shining bright again too, so it was really nice. Oh and yesterday, my day was crazy…woke up at 5:30 biked 8 miles, and swam in warm ponds, then did intense machete work, then ate lunch, went to green lake, which is this ancient volcanic caldera filled with this green water…no one knows how deep it goes, and there have been scientific attempts to scuba to the bottom, with no luck whatsoever. There is a legend that it reaches this similar caldera in New Zealand…neat story behind it! We met some cool locals, and i cracked open and ate my first coconut sprout…imagine a coconut, but in the middle where the water should be, there is a ball of white fluff. It tastes just like coconut angel food cake, and has the same consistency too…except it is raw, vegan, and extremely healthy for you…it packs a huge nutritional punch! After green lake, we headed to more this place called the Champagne Ponds, on the ocean…warmer water, but the bottom sparkles in the sun…pretty cool. Ok, I will update again soon! with more pictures too!
aloha,
x
j
Day 1 and 2
I arrived at the permaculture community, outside of Pahoa, Hawaii, where I will be spending the first bit of winter, possibly longer. On day 1, my arrival was greeted by a lush green landscape, with foggy bits of atmosphere moving around in the leaves. There are palms, ferns, and fruit trees, fruit trees, and fruit trees. My hut is actually quite large, built as an indoor/outdoor sleeping quarters, it has no walls in some parts, so nature comes in as it pleases. Im surrounded by citrus trees, and surrounding the citrus trees, are avocado trees, and surrounding the avocado trees are bananas, coconuts, starfruit, lillikoi, mamey sapote, jackfruit, noni, macadamia nut, cacao etc etc etc. There are so many bananas that not all of the picked ones can be eaten in time before they go bad…same with avocados, and basically every other fruit on this land. This is fine though, as everything is composted, and thrown back to the land so that more trees can grow. I ate more than my share of fruit the first day, and retreated to my mosquito net-covered bed around 9 pm or so. The sound of tropical frogs lulled me to sleep, until I was in a deep deep dream state, and then at midnight the sound of a pack of 200-300 pound wild boars squealing, and crunching on raw unshelled macadamia nuts woke me up. I quickly fell back asleep though, as the frogs overpowered the macadamia boar crunch party!
Today (day 2), started at 5:30 am for Han (another work trader) and I. We rode our bikes a few miles out to “the warm ponds” which is basically a big tide pool with natural hot water vents, right on the ocean, which is blocked off by a barrier of lava rocks. The waves crash over the rocks and into the tide pool, giving it warm spots, and slightly colder spots. It was a really nice way to start the morning, especially being able to sit in the warm tide pool and watch the sunrise over the ocean….very surreal. After sunrise, we hopped back on our bikes and rode back to cut some coconuts, and we made two huge, simple smoothies.
First Smoothie (all ingredients picked fresh and organic):
-Coconut (water and meat)
-Bananas
-Celery
Second Smoothie:
-Marble Lillikoi
-Banana
-Avocado
-Celery
Both really hit the spot, and soon after we set off to a town called Volcano for a Potluck, and the sun was shining alllll day.
Aloha
-j
