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Skriven 2007-07-09 01:07:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av BARBARA MCNAY
Ärende: bird nest 794
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 BM> What is the weather like in a rain forest?  All pictures I've seen
 BM> show no rain, either falling or fallen.

Photos of rain won't look so good! Rainforests are wet all the
time, but that doesn't mean that it's raining all the time. I'm not
sure what the formal definition is, but probably there are several
factors - high humidity, high rainfall, and distinctive flora.

The forests we visited on that trip - the Hoh and Iao valleys and
that of central Taiwan - were as different as they could be, with
the common factor being the general wetness. It was a neat trio,
not planned exactly that way - one temperate, one semitropical,
and one tropical. We may have visited more areas of tropical
rainforest but did not do any hiking in them, so I forget if there
were any. I guess that the area southeast of Haleakala might be 
one (the neat thing is that the area southwest of it is a desert),
as well as some places we visited on Oahu.

Tropical Bliss Cake
cat: raw, dessert, odd
yield: 1

h - Flour
2 c walnuts
2 c almonds
8 dates
3 T mesquite meal
h - Lemon Cream
1 1/2 c macadamia nuts
- soaked over 8 hours
1/2 c honey
1 lemon, juice of
h - Icing
2 young coconuts, meat of
1/4 c coconut water
1 c pine nuts
1/4 c honey
h - Assembly
sliced bananas
sliced mango
sliced papaya
chopped mango
chopped papaya
shredded coconut

For the flour: Process almonds fine. Add the rest of the
ingredients and process well.

For the cream: Process in blender, add water as needed.

For the icing: Process in blender.

Put a thin layer of flour mixture on the bottom of a
casserole dish and press lightly.

Pour lemon cream on the first flour layer and add
sliced bananas. Top with a second layer of flour.

Add a layer of sliced mangos and papayas. Add next
layer of flour.

Top with icing and add chopped mangos and papayas.
Top off with shredded coconut. Place in refrigerator
for a couple of hours to set up.

recipe by Joseph Custer


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