Grazed.

I love hiking and picking my food straight from its place in the bio-web. From plant to mouth for the greens and insects. Bad teeth demand I carry the meats back to camp for cooking.

Um... I can't get as ecologically philosophically profound, but mine is chocolate. Or asparagus. Or cucumbers. Or peas from the pod fresh in the garden, no waiting. Or, um, well, .... Anything that does *not* say "add water and cook five minutes".
Oh, I love wild rice, too. And wild grapes are awesomely better than the store ones. And dewberries. and parsley from the garden. And....

Well, other than chocolate, it's grazed or gardened, who knew?

Basically, Chcoolate and Green.

Chocolate cake, with chocolate frosting drizzled with chocolate ganasch and sprinkled with shaved chocolate.

I'm with Jewells. Chocolate is one of the major food groups after all.

Pasta, waffles, baklava. Basically...any carbohydrates. Bagels are an all-time favorite though.

I want to live in Jewell's cake. Forever. I"ll eat my way out. OMG, I think I'm drooling on my keyboard....

I admit, I'm actually not that big a fan of chocolate (I still like it though). My favourites are liquorice, passionfruit and, as weird as that may sound, lemon with salt. When I was really little, my father used to give me lemon slices with salt all the time, one of my few good memories involving him.

chocolate. white chocolate...dark chocolate... any chocolate. except with chili in. bleurgh. who did that.

If you do the right chocolate and right kind of chili, it's like spicy chocolate brownies, and I admit to loving them once in a while. Yay! That said, OMG, mostly it's horrible!

Oooh, I love lemons! And limes! Lemon meringue pie is such a fave for me:-) And I will suck on lime with a bit of salt for fun, no tequila, just lime and a dash of salt, in hot sweaty weather. I am such a mutant!

Aww, all that chili-chocolate bashing here... Chili and coffee are my favourite kinds of chocolate. I don't like white of milk chocolate, I'm not really into sweet stuff in general.

http://food.ninemsn.com.au/recipes/other/8337748/mississippi-mud-cake This is great though! One of the few things I can bake. I always put some pitted cherries in there too.

Arfie - that sounds delicious! I don't think I could trust myself to know what is safe to eat in the wild. How long did it take you to learn what is safe and not safe?

Leo - what are dewberries?

Jewells - you and I are similar! One of my favorite foods is chocolate lava cake. :)

Atec - I remember you saying that! :)

Current - do you have a favorite type of bagel or pasta?

Neo - I don't eat lemons, but had no idea you could just salt them! What kind of liquorice is your favorite? Also, is a mud cake sweet or bitter?

Lilac - what kinds of foods put chili in chocolate?


** I think my favorite food is avocados. They are exceptionally hard to get out-of-season where I live, despite how much I love them! I can easily eat one a day, and one of my favorite salad recipes revolves around avocados (salad with quinoa or chilled cooked mixed rice, chilled cooked asparagus spears, avocado pieces, and a light Italian dressing drizzle for moisture. Amazing!)

weird expensive upmarket brands put chili in dark chocolate. and other weird stuff too, ive seen cardamon, lavender, lemon, salt.... i just dont think it belongs in chocolate. sorry neo chili definitely doesnt belong in chocolate but your cake looks awesome

i am SO with Jewells on that exact cake :O) i have a very extreme love of CHEESE too, i love it, i love it very much. i haven't been eating much of it for awhile though... i do love raw green vegatables : ) fresh from the garden too. if i could, i would live on chocolate to all extremes cake and coffee, w/dark chocolate covered espresso beans on the side and a gallon of water please

Whoops. My roots are showing. Sorry!

Dewberries grow where I was raised, they're like strawberries in how and where they grow but they taste and look like small blackberries. They come out about the same time of year. I'd load up on dewberries and take the wild blackberries to my a-hole dad. Then I could have my berry fix, and he didn't get all up in arms that someone ate some of "his" berries. So dewberries for me are one of those wild foods my mom's fam taught me that was sorta freedom from my dad's idea of "parenting" (AKA tyranny?).... I was always munching out in the field and forest.



BTW, not bashing chili-chocolate, just saying if it's done wrong, it's horrible. Either too sweet or so spicy your eyes evaporate! Done well? OMG, so good. I think it's smoked chilis make the difference, but I opine only on that one.

Lilac: Haven't seen cardamom, salt or lavender definitely doesn't belong in chocolate (seriously, don't try that, it's horrible), lemon's alright though.

Alice: I loooooove avocados!!! How could I forget them?! I know a brilliant recipe with steak, avocados and tomatoes, one of my favourites and so easy even I manage it. Didn't find a website with it in english, but I can PM it to you, if you want.
Liquorice? Generally the saltier, the better, but you'd have a hard time finding a kind I don't like.
The cake depends on the kind of chocolate you use. I don't like it that sweet so I use chocolate with 75% cocoa (it's still sweet-ish though), but you could also use milk chocolate.

Leo: I don't think I've ever seen chocolate with smoked chili, but I'll look for it the next time I go groceries shopping.