This past Saturday, we held our third Food Craft Evening. This one – Food Craft Evening Trois: Dopamine Release – featured the flavors of chocolate, passion fruit and chilis. As always, proceeds benefited the Original Green Community Food Plan. As always, it was a lovely evening full of great conversation and food improvisation! And, as always, there are lessons in the creating.
One of the evening’s hits was our version of Three Floor S’mores. There’s an awesome recipe for these on the Callebaut site. It’s a truly gorgeous display of graham cracker, chocolate, marshmallow and caramel sauce! But, recreating that beauty was not practical for our event. Seriously, look at the link.
What do you do when the very thing you really want is not available? The German language has a word for this: Beinaheleidenschaftsgegenstand. Or what if the thing is perhaps just not possible in the scope of your available time? Obviously, you could quit the entire idea. You could substitute another thing altogether. Or, you can use what you have and put your own spin on things.
As we’ve been developing our co-working space, we’ve idealized the perfect site as a free-standing building with a large outdoor growing area. And, that has been the quest. But what do you do when the very thing you really want is not available? We’re certainly not going to quit the entire idea. We can’t simply substitute another project or concept. But perhaps it’s time to use what we have and put our own spin on things. Our site may very well be available space in a larger, multi-use building with gardens on the roof. Just maybe…
Here’s our version of Three Floor S’mores…
photo courtesy Cindy Bolf
Homemade graham crackers and caramel sauce with marshmallows and chocolate. Were they really delectable? Seemed so. The thing that was almost the thing we wanted, became our thing that was meant to be. It’s likely that our co-working site will also be the thing that was meant to be. Unsurprisingly, the Germans have a word for that, too: lebenslangerschicksalsschatz.
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