To continue the trend of celebrating winter citrus fruits, I thought I’d share an idea involving grapefruit. You can think of this as a snack idea or a dessert idea depending on how much sucanat you add or if you top the grapefruit with a dollop of vanilla ice cream. (Combining hot-off-the-stove ingredients with chilled-out-of-the-freezer [...]
There’s one bad thing about fall, and that’s having to abandon sandals in favor of closed-toe shoes. But there are plenty of great things about fall, from autumn fruits to technicolor leaves to cider mills with giant apple-pressing wheels. And making cobblers (and slumps and grunts) from apples and pears is definitely one of the [...]
Continue reading about Pears + Rolled Oats + Buckwheat = Deliciously Healthy Breakfasts
Whole-grain baked goods are, by nature, drier than baked goods made with refined flour. Sometimes this is a good thing — biscotti and crackers are supposed to be crunchy and dry, meant to be dunked into coffee or spread with savory soft cheese — but usually you want baked goods to be moist and perhaps [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading about Creating Tasty & Healthy Chiffon Cakes (Amongst Other Things)
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 [...]
