Given my recent preoccupation with macadamia nut butter, I’m sure you knew another mac butter recipe would be on the way. How could it not? The stuff is simply fabulous! I’m in a bit of culinary mourning right now, actually, because I polished off my jar this morning when I stirred the last spoonful of [...]
It’s summertime, and the blueberries are calling. (So are the strawberries and the blackberries and the rest of the berry bunch.) Time to celebrate with some fruit soup! It’s ridiculously easy to make — which is probably one of the chief reasons fruit soup is on every cruise ship’s menu — and can be made [...]
Although we’ve become accustomed to the taste and style of European-made chocolates (most American chocolatiers stick to Continental methods when it comes to cocoa), the great chocolate traditions originally came from Mexico — specifically, the Aztec civilization. They drank their chocolate unsweetened, accenting their frothing cups with chilies, cinnamon, and vanilla rather than sugar. Not [...]
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What started out as a basic chocolate cake became much more fragrant and flavorful with the simple switcheroo of unrefined peanut oil for butter. Using maple syrup instead of sugar intensifies both the chocolate and the peanut, and you can add your choice of spice to provide a different dimension of flavor. In the end, [...]
…Sssshh!… I have a secret ingredient in my cupboards that I’ve started to use in unexpected places. It’s something I stumbled upon when reading a Mediterranean cookbook and then again in one featuring Middle Eastern cuisine. Seeing the ingredient twice in a row made me curious, and finding it at a local market the [...]
Ice cream is one of those things that can either be horrible — made of cheap fillers, refined sugars, and low-quality, hormone- and antibiotic-laden milk — or can be nothing short of lush. It is, however, very difficult to find lush ice cream. (The reason I joined a cowshare program to get top-notch, grass-fed, beyond-organic [...]
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This four-ingredient breakfast (nuts, fruit, milk, and spice) is bound to get you off to a good start. The only ingredient that will take any time at all is cutting up the fruit, and the fresh taste and hearty nutrition of this breakfast is worth the two minutes you’d save if you poured yourself a [...]
