Who cares about palm trees and sunny beaches when you’ve got wintery-white landscapes spread out before you and a mug of hot chocolate in your hand? (Though I admit it would be interesting to see snow-covered palm trees…okay, and I admit that it might be nicer to be on a sunny beach with a daiquiri…) [...]
It might be cheating to recommend one of your own recipes by saying, “Hey, my mom liked it!”, but when you’ve baked hundreds of things over the years (possibly thousands) and your mom tells you that your berry pie is the best thing you’ve ever baked, you tend to want to shout it from the [...]
…flour, that is! Why just just one when you can mix and match to your heart’s desire? Just be sure to remember a few rules when baking standard recipes (gluten-free is a different ball game): You can freely substitute gluten-containing flours for one another. (Gluten is a protein found in some grains.) These flours include: [...]
When I was living in Costa Rica, I visited a sugarcane and coffee plantation. Standing in the 100-degree sun surrounded by bamboo-like sugarcane and bright red coffeeberries was an amazing experience…and so was tasting a piece of raw sugarcane that one of the workers snapped off and handed to me. Now I know what sugar [...]
