Creamy, chunky taro makes one of my favorite wintertime soups, and with just 2 ingredients, plus some herbs, it’s hard to believe such a simple, vegetarian, and fat free soup could taste so rich, almost meaty… Is that weird to say coming from a vegetarian?? It’s all due to the…
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I purchased a bag of locally grown cacao powder on a recent trip to the Dominican Republic. Cacao is cocoa in its raw form. It’s less refined and retains many nutrients because it isn’t heated like cocoa. I brought this cake to a pizza party, and nobody could tell it…
When I went white water rafting a few weeks ago, my friend Kumi and I discovered a chestnut tree by the dock. We went nuts collecting them. Chestnuts come in prickly round shells with porcupine spines. My job was to stomp on them with my hiking boots to break them…
Fall is here! And all the fall flavors are in these muffins. Baking them smells absolutely amazing. Plus, these maple syrup sweetened apple babies are not only gluten-free and whole grain, but super moist and tender at that. I packed these for a white-water rafting trip and they were awesome.…
Just a little sweet, crispy-crunchy wholesome granola you bake up in a single sheet! Breaking it up into huge pieces like this is SO fun. My mom even miscalled them cookies, but come to think of it, they can totally be super crunchy cookies if you want them to be.…
Dark yet surprisingly light, this fantastic chocolate gelato from Alice Medrich’s latest book, Flavor Flours, uses superfine white rice flour, a favorite of pastry chefs for thickening pastry creams, in the gelato base for a clean, singular dark chocolate flavor. As my quest for the best homemade dark chocolate ice…