Even though The Great Pumpkin Day has come and gone, pumpkins are still everywhere we look, and they’ll still be seasonally “in” when winter has us in an icy grip. (Not looking forward to the slick streets, but I am looking forward to soft white carpets of snow making the neighborhood look like it’s been [...]
In the world of natural sweeteners — i.e., unrefined sweeteners like maple syrup and molasses — there aren’t as many solid sweeteners as there are liquid ones. Normally, this works out fine when baking, because most baked goods include liquids (which allows you to tinker with the overall total amount of liquids), but some baked [...]
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For many of us, gingerbread is a favorite holiday treat…albeit a very buttery, sweet one. But it doesn’t have to be that way! For this tweak, I’ve substituted unsweetened applesauce for some of the sugar and butter, used sucanat and dark molasses instead of white sugar and light molasses–this means more iron and more flavor–and [...]
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 [...]
