Avalovara

Upon popular request, I will start posting recipes of goodies I share with you. Of course, this also to demonstrate that vegans don’t only eat carrots and celery sticks… (-:

Chocolate Matcha Heaven: The recipe is for muffins, but I just made marble-cake style brownies. I did a double batch. I don’t know if you can get matcha in Costa Rica. It is Japanese green tea that comes in powder form and is quite expensive as it is rather exquisite. It is used for tea, in the traditional Japanese tea ceremony (click here for part 2 of the video). You can also find it in sweets. Green tea ice cream (and here is a vegan verison of it for me) is common and sometimes daifuku (mochi dumplings) are filled with green tea (though red bean paste is more common). I have also had green tea candy and this amazing green tea chocolate made by Zotter, an Austrian chocolatier.