Category: Dessert
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Moab Vignette
Bonus post for you subscribers! When I close my eyes, I can still see the desert. I look down and toe the red-brown dirt at my feet. I look up, and a vast horizon unfolds before me, the carpet of dirt for miles, dotted with the occasional tenacious yellow-green scrub bush. Far beyond, a ribbon…
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Pro-Tip Tuesday: Buy the Oranges, and Make Macaroons too!
Pro-Tip of the Day: Have you been buying those boxes and bags of oranges on sale at the store? Next time pick up a bag of coconut flakes and sliced almonds, and you can make this quick, yummy (gluten-free) byproduct treat from in-season fruit! Just remember to take 30 seconds to grate the rind off…
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Pro-Tip Tuesday: Tea Infuser + Dessert Dusting
How can you dust powdered sugar on your holiday desserts without making a mess, AND conserve the left over for the next round? Try a tea infuser! Here’s the shortest video I’ve ever intentionally made, lol. I’m pretty sure even if you don’t have one with an easy handle and all, it’ll still work neater…
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Home Made Almond Milk
You guys, I finally gave in and tried making home made almond milk! Blame it on that Monday MLK holiday, and a big bag of expensive-feeling almonds from Cash & Carry. As a lactard, I ordinarily drink almond milk at home en lieu of regular milk, when I’m not indulging with coconut milk to lace…
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PLOC Juice!
..or Pineapple Orange Lime CayenneThe forecast in many parts of North America reaches 90 degrees in the next several days, so here’s a cold drink recipe to try. Shout out to my many Northwest peeps living without air conditioning. I had a real brain-sparking juice from Assembly Hall (a part of that behemoth conglomerate known as Tom Douglas restaurants)…
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Oven-baked Sweet Plantains
In honor of the South American countries and their gracious hosting of the World Cup: baked plantains. A little late in posting, but better than never. Recipe was from my local grocery store (see photo)! Ingredients: 1 plantain (ripe = black spots all over) high heat cooking oil and a pastry brush, or just cooking…
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“Heat Wave!”
Frozen Coconut LimeadeHere in the Northwest, this week has a “heat wave” forecasted, by which I mean highs in the low 80s and somewhat sunny. Possibly laughable in the rest of the U.S., yes, but still a great excuse to try Smitten Kitchen’s Frozen Coconut Limeade. Did I mention I’ve been in a coconut obsessed phase? Anything…
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Goat Cheese Stuffed Squash Blossoms
Had some freshly-fallen zucchini squash blossoms in the garden I’ve been busying myself with.. So I cribbed a recipe for goat cheese stuffed squash blossoms from Gena Knox for a trial run, baking at 350 for 15-20 minutes. 2018 post-script note: since the source URL appears to have morphed and eliminated the recipe, here it is,…
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Vanilla Pound Cake
Vanilla Pound Cake, in honor of my father’s visit: the man who fed me Sara Lee Pound Cake for breakfast as a kid (with a side of hot chocolate), yet somehow avoided giving me diabetes.
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Cheese Gougeres
Cheese Gougeres I’ve been meaning to try making these for a while and finally got around to it (and editing the photos, and writing a post). Since I didn’t change a thing besides halving the recipe, I won’t list the steps here but just link to the kitchn’s recipe here. Ingredients 1 cup (8 ounces)…