You rock, seeing real food harvested at home is so important. Lots of rotting fruit is why I became a brewer a few years ago, it made me sad to see all that bounty go to waste. Free booze on trees I call it. Currently have a sage rye beer, a coriander corn beer and a fir tip sassafrass beer. Rice wine next, I think ginger rice wine, but I try to stick to things I can gather so I get out in nature. Otherwise I just click and click. Best
:-D Kidding aside, I only know the dried form that one can buy here... Fresh is more a rare sight, and perhaps a bit expensive to do anything big with.
As for Cashews: Do you have any idea how those who claim to sell rawfood cashews open them?
One can buy explicitly roasted ones here, and it's clearly visible in their darker color, and then they sell the regular supposedly "natural" ones which are not roasted through, but you can see, looking at a half one, the closer to the outer part, the more it looks changed and darker, with some brown spots here and there even on the outside. So I guess that's from the heat opening them.
But then some more rare makers sell e.g. cashew paste that's supposedly rawfood i.e. not heat treated at all, and it does seem to have a lighter color than cashew paste not sold with that claim. It also tastes a bit sweeter.
For some reason, my belly doesn't like me eating 100g or so roasted+salted ones (don't particularly like the taste either), but I can eat a lot of the claimed raw stuff. Taking a piece of 100% cocoa chocolate and dipping that in the raw cashew paste, glass from the refrigerator (getting solid-ish after some days)... that's one of the tastiest combinations on earth, to me anyway :D
You rock, seeing real food harvested at home is so important. Lots of rotting fruit is why I became a brewer a few years ago, it made me sad to see all that bounty go to waste. Free booze on trees I call it. Currently have a sage rye beer, a coriander corn beer and a fir tip sassafrass beer. Rice wine next, I think ginger rice wine, but I try to stick to things I can gather so I get out in nature. Otherwise I just click and click. Best
"21 Things to Do With Jackfruit"
- holy moly, I always just ate them!
:-D Kidding aside, I only know the dried form that one can buy here... Fresh is more a rare sight, and perhaps a bit expensive to do anything big with.
As for Cashews: Do you have any idea how those who claim to sell rawfood cashews open them?
One can buy explicitly roasted ones here, and it's clearly visible in their darker color, and then they sell the regular supposedly "natural" ones which are not roasted through, but you can see, looking at a half one, the closer to the outer part, the more it looks changed and darker, with some brown spots here and there even on the outside. So I guess that's from the heat opening them.
But then some more rare makers sell e.g. cashew paste that's supposedly rawfood i.e. not heat treated at all, and it does seem to have a lighter color than cashew paste not sold with that claim. It also tastes a bit sweeter.
For some reason, my belly doesn't like me eating 100g or so roasted+salted ones (don't particularly like the taste either), but I can eat a lot of the claimed raw stuff. Taking a piece of 100% cocoa chocolate and dipping that in the raw cashew paste, glass from the refrigerator (getting solid-ish after some days)... that's one of the tastiest combinations on earth, to me anyway :D