This last summer I had a bit of a mania for looking for old-school cookbooks in secondhand shops. My rules were simple; I was not allowed to buy any books that: depend on name recognition to sell (i.e. no celebrity chefs or bloggers); were published to promote a product or…
This was an easy one to do. The birthday girl, who has problems with digesting wheat, specifically asked that I make the Hippie With a Minivan black bean cake for her, since the last time she had it some years ago it left quite an impression on her. There were…
The first time I learned of this recipe was a few years ago, when a friend with celiac disease shared it with me, gushing all the while about how easy it is to make. When I first tried making it, I made my usual mistake of failing to follow the…
This is one of the best chocolate ice cream recipes to have in your repertoire. It’s creamy, smooth, not too sweet, and just the right balance of chocolate and milkiness; it tastes somewhat like eating a Cadbury’s Dairy Milk bar (made in England, not North America), when they still used…
I had ice cream and I wanted hot fudge sauce. I specifically wanted the kind that gets thick and glossy and chewy when it gets cold; the kind that reminds you of those DQ ice cream cakes you had as a kid before you started appreciating quality of ice cream…
Hey, come on — don’t laugh at me. I know that all of the with-it food bloggers have moved on to newer, hipper, underexposed sources for their recipes, but this is my recipe book, not a place to prove my hipster cred. A long-time friend introduced me to these cookies…
