City folks eat for free

There has been an excitement growing in me as the summer has progressed. I really want to share my reason for this with you.

Can you keep a secret ?

I eat for free!

Ok,, you may be wondering WHO is feeding me .. free ??

Yup.. free! I just walk up the street and plums literally fall in my path. Ta da!

Know , if I did not know this was an edible plum, I may have just walked right by. But, I had my spider senses in full activation that day. The plum was a japanese plum. They are pretty hard to see in the tree because the leaves and the plums are the same colour.

Here are some great finds I have found this week alone!

In my next post, I will tell you how you too, can start foraging for food. Even if you live in the city !

Raw Blackforest Cake

Oh boy.. I had been waiting ALL winter for this time of year! It finally happend!! Cherries, cherries, cherries! What a bumper Crop we have had !!

So, in honour of all that cherry goodness,, I did something I have wanted to do for a LONG time!

I made a Raw Blackforest Cake.

Dani and I are trying some new techniques we are learning through the Sweet Gratitude book. The raw dessert book from the Cafe Gratitude people. Amazing book!

It is so exciting to learn and grow. Seeing the process evolve into something you could only have dreamed of is a thrill that I am happy to say I know well now.

This cake took a long long time to make. It was many stages, and waiting times. Honest, it was a 5 hour process for us this time! Maybe we were tired that day, or maybe there were just a lot of steps and experiments going on. Not sure. But it was worth the effort.

Enjoy the beauty of this splendid cake.. it tasted as good as it looked.

ps. The cherries with the stems were from the neighbourhood. I found the tree on a local walking path.. yum!