Sahagun Handmade Chocolates

INTRODUCING...

Posted on Feb 16, 2010 in Archive

At Sahagun, we get a thrill out of bringing outlandish ideas to life. We believe in imagining new ways of tasting things and in writing love letters to our ingredients.

KA-POW! was created for the Edible Portland Ecotrust/ Slow Food-organized event called from Bean to Buzz. Four Coffee Roasters teamed up with four chocolatiers, chocolate makers or chocolate bar shop owners from Portland and Seattle area.

Sahagun was paired with Stumptown Coffee Roasters and Claudio Corallo Chocolate.

I wanted to come up with something that I didn't already make, something that I had never seen before. I wanted to create true union/collaboration between coffee and chocolate. I wanted to make a baby from them so to speak...

KA-POW! has the bold flavor & aroma of coffee with the physicality of chocolate, all while adding no chocolate; a coffee bar. It has a pure coffee bean flavor and a crunchy texture without the unpleasant hardened shards of coffee bean.

After making KA-POW! I then made a backwards bark using KA-POW! as the medium into which I poured unmelted pieces of Claudio Corallo chocolate and nibs: a coffee bean-covered chocolate. This one is still in the works....

in the meantime, KA-POW! has landed! The only way to know it is to taste it.

KA-POW!

Posted on Feb 04, 2010 in Archive

Tonight will be the unleashing of KA-POW! at Ecotrust Portland. Hope you can be there!

From Bean to Buzz

Posted on Jan 15, 2010 in Archive

Fall in love with the flavors and practices of local artisan roasters and chocolatiers

Thursday,

February 4th, 2010

5:30 pm -7:30 pm

at the

Billy Frank, Jr.

Conference Center, Ecotrust

721 NW 9th Ave, Portland, OR

97209

$10 General / $8 Slow Food Members (show ID at the

door)

Purchase online at: https://www.hulahub.com/event?id=92035

Join Ecotrust and Slow Food Portland for a fun and tasty lesson in chocolate and coffee flavors, sourcing, and local production in a round-robin evening of local artisan tastings. Attendees will rotate through sampling stations of our region’s best chocolatiers and coffee roasters. Come for the stimulating flavors and take home a new understanding of the skills and dedication these Northwest business apply to importing and producing fine coffees and chocolates. With Valentine's Day around the corner, it’s the perfect time to fall in love with your local chocolatiers and roasters.

Presented by Ecotrust and Slow Food Portland, and featuring local producers including:

Cacao

Claudio Corallo Chocolates

Missionary

Chocolates

Sahagún

Theo Chocolate

Xocolatl de David

Caffe

Vita

Cellar Door Roasters

Portland Roasting

Stumptown Coffee

For

more information on the event, please contact:

Christine Caurant, Ecotrust

Patrick Leonard, Slow Food

Portland

Happy New Year 2010!

Posted on Dec 31, 2009 in Archive

We will be open today from 10-6pm so come get your party chocolates!

We will be closed 1/1-1/10 for vacation.

Thank you for a great year!! Stay warm and Happy New Year!

Pit Stop!

Posted on Dec 21, 2009 in Archive

Take a que from Santa's best. Get your chocolates on at Sahagun!

Portland's Hot Chocolates

Posted on Dec 12, 2009 in Archive

A great round up of our great city's hot chocolates in the Oregonian.

NED LUDD now serving local chocolates for dessert

Posted on Nov 20, 2009 in Archive

If you haven't already eaten at this scrumptiously wonderful restaurant, you have even more reason to do it: They have rounded up four local chocolate artisans to put their work on a chocolate tasting dessert plate for those who have only enough room for a few tasty morsels after their DELICIOUS meal.

Ned Ludd is alone on pulling through for the people who have no room for a full size dessert. No disrespect to pastry chefs. I think a whole OTHER meal time should be dedicated to their work when people have more room to taste their amazing work When we can really appreciate their art. Mid-day maybe?

Anyway, a big THANK YOU to Ned Ludd for recognizing the work of chocolatiers in Portland. We love you!