Cacao grows on a tree like this. These ones aren't ready yet- they turn a yellowy- brown when ripe.
When it's ripe you start with the raw cacao fruit (above). You can eat the small bit of fruit around the seed which tastes a little like a grape and that leaves you with the purpley seeds. Then you let the seeds ferment for some time(not pictured).
Now you have a bunch of dried out fermented cacao seeds.
Put on your bathing suit and start a fire. Smokin'!
Get a little help from your friends to stir the beans so they won't burn on the bottom. Stir til they start to pop and smell real good.
Now they're roasted! While they're still warm shell the little papery skins off them.
Then you have the fresh roasted edible beans. Eat a few just to make sure. Just to make sure you're still alive- that stuff's the bomb!
Pour some beans and sugar in a mortar and pestle it up, just like in the olden days...
Uh, the coffee grinder's a lot faster- but don't let anybody see!
Boil it on the stove in water (add a little bit of fresh ground coffee if you want to be really divine about it.
Pour and serve hot.
Kiss and enjoy..
With friends!
