Archives – July, 2009
nothing beats a positive gf experience…it just makes your whole day. last weekend i was in santa monica, ca visiting my brother and he took my sister and i, who are both gf, to Pizza Fusion. this was by far the best gf pizza i’ve ever had in a restaurant. everything was delicious and they are a very conscious company with franchises around the country. check out their website and if you have the time and the money PLEASE buy a franchise and open it in Sonoma County!
July 30, 2009
Chocolate Brownie Cookies
Dense, chocolatey, and ultimately satisfying. Use the best chocolate you can afford to make these cookies…since chocolate is the star in the recipe, it pays to use the good stuff! These make a great base for ice cream sandwiches, or are delicious dipped in caramel, white chocolate or thick icing.
Makes 2 dozen cookies
July 27, 2009
Look what came out of my oven! Tonight is Taco Tuesday here on the compound. My job was to stir up a pitcher of margaritas & come up with something a little sweet. Done and done! The cocoa-coconut cake is an adaptation of the chocolate birthday cake recipe I’m working on (wait’ll you see this recipe…can you say surprise ingredients?), and to give it a latin punch in the face I added a heap of cinnamon, a squirt of Coco Lopez (that super sweet coconutty stuff you use to make tropical drinks), and topped it off with a cream cheese coconut icing. I think it’ll go down easy. Thanks to the margs.
July 21, 2009
I was testing out a loaf of bread the other day & ran out of starch. It was simply not an option to run up to the grocery store seeing as I had a fine dusting of various flours on my brow and a mixture of eggs, butter, molasses, yeast & other goodies working away in the stand mixer. Since buckwheat has inherently sticky properties I thought I’d try using it as a substitute for half of the starch quantity. The other half came from instant mashed potato flakes. [Kids, don't underestimate the value of those instant potato flakes in your cupboard! They're a great add-in to waffle batter – savory or sweet.]
July 8, 2009
