Testimonial for these oatmeal chocolate chip cookies: “These cookies are like crack.” True story.
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Balls, baby!
Mmm, balls. It seems that the darling snack of the vegan/yoga/healthy/holistic world are these little round packages that are often raw, made with nuts to give a punch of protein, perhaps some oats for fibre, maybe dried fruit for sweetness, and chocolate to satisfy all females. As I become slightly stricken with panic if I’m …
See-same
I had a really, really old package of instant black sesame powder in the pantry. It is the kind that you are supposed to mix with hot water to make pudding. I didn’t really like the pudding it made, so instead I decided to use it to make black sesame cake. This is what happened: …
Star tip
A few years ago I took a baking course at a local culinary college. I had some vague aspirations that it would help my career path, but I mostly did it because I thought it would be fun. And fun it was! I think the first day we made bran muffins, and we continued along …
12 eggs
One of the qualities I admire most is elegance. Women who walk like they have a tea cup balanced on their head, the slope of a swan’s neck, the way water pours out of a tall glass pitcher….these things are elegant to me. One thing I like even more than elegance is when it is …
moofins!
MOOFINS!!! Aw yeah.
A cookie, times three
My lovely friend S gave me homemade cookie mix for Christmas. It’s a great gift, because it’s an excuse to bake and then I get a large Mason jar to store dried lentils in afterwards. It was originally a recipe for “classic sugar cookies” but since I have a belligerent streak, and it was going …
sweet sounds.
For a long time my favourite sound has been ice gently and casually clinking in a glass, but the other day I happened across a new favourite: the sound of fruit juice sizzling as it smacks the baking sheet, because the peach and apple filling is leaking out of the pie crust while baking.
Lemon-on-on
So apparently gluten-free foods are super sexy right now. It seems that more and more people are being diagnosed (by themselves and otherwise) as having celiac disease/wheat intolerance. Perhaps it is due to our changing environment (damn those pesticides/preservatives/anything deemed unnatural/the government/plastic water bottles/slash punctuation marks), or perhaps it is simply greater awareness of intestinal …
gluten free vegan awesomeness.
I’ve been baking gluten-free, vegan goodies for my friend’s farmer’s market stall. It has been a fun experiment thusfar! I’ve made brownies with pea fibre, muffins with buckwheat flour, and the most recent creation have been blondies (brownies without cocoa powder in the batter). Yay!