Chocolate is a vegetable! 

Really? 

Really! 

And let’s talk fruit! 

Pick one. 

It seems that the cacao bean, is from a tree as opposed to being grown in the ground like a carrot. This pod has an identity issue teasing us humans! It grows on a tree in specific climates and a monkey spits out some part of the seed because cacao is bitter but the vanilla stuff around it is sweet. We don’t get the sweet stuff. I am happy to understand I am not eating something a monkey has um, rehearsed. (Rehearsed? A polite way of saying regurgitated) I didn’t want to know more about what a monkey does to the seed pod, so I skipped that part of my research adventures. Besides, I wanted to take pictures of my breakfast and finish my blog.  

The cacao seed or pod, or whatever you want to call it, can look like a fruit and it can look like a veggie depending on the ‘nut’ you are chitchatting with or link you are reading. For me, guess what? I don’t care! 

HOWEVER, I am NOW excited with gusto! In my way of thinking, I can double my pleasure with my chocolate cocoa! Pick one! Veggie or fruit! Or don't pick one. To me it doesn't matter! 

If you want to know the truth, this isn't the blog to rely on.  For me, chocolate and or cacao is in my 10% sin category. This is allowing me some wiggle room of errors. However, I DO WANT to eat all my veggies and fruits! This versatile food falls into both categories for me. There I have my bases covered! 

So, depending on how you feel, for breakfast, you can have your fruit in the form of cocoa power, maybe sprinkled over your cereal or the nibs for crunchies. For dinner, you can have cocoa nibblets veggies! Tonight, I just might add some cocoa beans to my stir fry! 

I do understand cocoa is a good antioxidant! If you think I will tell you the “boring~ and ~we ladies don’t want to know”, 'facts' about chocolate, you are half right! If it comes in the form of a yummy recipe I just might check it out. If you want concrete facts on the brainy stuff, you can research it yourself and post it below. 

I think I’ll go have some cacao on my bean sprouts. Yes! Really! See?

 

Then I added pumpkin seeds cashew pieces and sesame seeds! It was very good! 

I just must remember to brush my teeth after wards. The little black sesame seeds are past Halloween fashion! Even the dogs looked at me suspiciously! 

Cheers! Suzanne