My dad grew up in mexico, and on a visit a few years ago he brought home a packet of mole. Its still sitting in the pantry, because although the ingredients are in spanish, its got stuff called 'modificado' and 'artificiales' and sugar is the second ingredient. I recently got Cafe Gratitude's recipe book. It took me a year of wanting it to finally order it. Its sort of intimidating, but i had not succeeded in making crackers and breads in the dehydrator and i wanted engelhart's help!
Oh~ That mole is delicious! First i made buckwheat crackers. It used a cup of my veggie pulp, but it was mostly made of buckwheat. Its not good on its own, so i made the mole the next day.
1 avocado,
3 tablespoons chocolate
3 or 4 dates, pitted of course.
3 tablespoons lime
some dashes of spicy sauce, according to your preference
some dollops of tomato paste and some sundried tomatoes to account for their 'two dozen soaked halves of sundried tomatos'
a tablespoon cumin
salt...
i think that was it! Put it in a food processor and blend it up. But it ontop of your dehydrated buckwheat crackers :P or wrap it in your enchilada along with an avocado, some beans, corn, and cilantro.
And here's Engelhart's substitute for sourcream:
1.5 cups soaked cashews (8 hours)
add lemon to taste, i like it with half a lemon.
Thats it! its aight. I'll post a picture when i have all the ingredients to make my mole cracker complete. I'm sprouting some seeds right now to make sprouts, and growing some cilantro, and so when thats ready i'll top my buckwheat cracker with mole, sour 'cream', cherry tomato halves, sprouts, and fresh grown cilantro! (i'm excellent at delayed gratification :)
We really miss basil so i planted some seeds and they became long and spindly and stopped growing. I Learned that the sunlight in the winter is about 1/10th the strength of summer, so i got a 100w fluorescent bulb and now i'm growing basil, cilantro and parsley.
Oh!! I want to share with you an excellent marinated kale recipe:
3 or 4 cups chopped/shredded kale
1 cup shredded carrot
1 cup cucumber or zuchini sliced thin
1/3 cup sesame seeds
1 or 1/2 cup soaked hijiki (they don't expand lol they're just small)
1 cup soaked or sauteed shiitake mushrooms. If you soak them, soak them for a long time in 1/4 cup each of lemon and soy sauce or braggs liquid amino's to make it delicious. If you sautee it just use the soy sauce with water.
1/2 cup olive oil
3 tbsp soy sauce
1/3 cup orange juice
3 tbsp sushi vinegar
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 tsp salt like it makes a difference
toss it all together and enjoy~
PS there seems to be a difference in quality of kale. Some kale is really hard and some kale is really soft. Find a good source of kale, or grow your own. Don't have space? Have you heard of windowfarming?
