Cabin Blendings: raw cacao tart

When I was a child one of my favorite books was a gorgeously illustrated version of "The City Mouse and the Country Mouse". I was thinking about that story during my time in our state's booming metropolis. Although there are aspects about Anchorage that I adore (i.e. staying downtown and walking to New Sagaya), most of it makes me nervous. The traffic is horrendous, one-way streets sneak up on me, I get lost in parking garages, and apparently you can't park overnight on the street unless you want to head for your car the next day, find it missing, and through major detective work discover it's been towed for snow plowing ($$$). My last night I went to Barnes and Noble as I was waiting for TH's flight to come in. Did you know that people go to the bookstore at 10:00 on a weeknight?? In fact, the place was hopping. I was shocked.

One thing I truly love about the downtown area is the Coastal Trail. I was chasing the sun every evening after sessions.

As far as I know, Natural Pantry is the only health food store within 250 miles of my cabin. I spend way too much money there when I'm in town. Two of my purchases this go around were vitamins.

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I've been interested in purchasing vitamins in non-pill format, as I've read that the absorption rate of pills is 5-18%, (Physicians Desk Reference, 2009). I wasn't too excited that the B12 strips contain sorbitol and sucralose, but the other options weren't any better. One of my friends told me that she could feel the effect of increased Vitamin D the day after upping her levels. Didn't happen to me. Do you supplement with Vitamin D? How soon, if at all, can you tell a difference?

After a cacaoless week, I was rifling around behind my mountains of bananas and found a lone Super Cacao Caramel Tart (Delightfully Raw recipe)! I was kind and offered to share with TH. He hasn't eaten his half yet and it won't stop staring at me.