This ice cream features fruits, flowers and nuts from plants that are from the rose family, botanically speaking: strawberries, cherries, juneberries, almonds and, of course, roses. Notes on ingredients and substitutions are at the end. Ingredients 1 cup frozen strawberries ½ cup cherries ½ cup juneberries 2 tablespoons almonds 2 tablespoons unsweetened coconut cream or coconut milk (full fat) 1 teaspoon … Read more
The first time I had cardamom ice cream was in Baltimore, Maryland. It was one of the most delicious things I’d ever tested. This recipe gives homage to that wonderful ice cream, and is just as tasty. Bonus: All the sweetness in it comes naturally from fruit, and it can easily be made vegan or paleo by substituting full-fat coconut … Read more
Dilemma of the day: Amazon has the 6-inch HD fire on sale for $69 today. Do I buy it? I have a first generation Kindle Fire that’s pretty much only good for reading e-books and watching Netflix now. Browsing the web is impossible. But I’m also annoyed that Amazon doesn’t offer any support for the first-generation Fire anymore, so going … Read more
We signed up for a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) share this year, paying a flat fee at the beginning of the growing season to a local farmer, who then delivers a box of fresh vegetables once a week. Getting a CSA subscription is more economical than buying an equivalent amount of vegetables at the grocery store, and some CSAs let you … Read more
I’ve got nothing against wheat, but it’s fun to mix things up a little. I found some coconut flour at Trader Joe’s and have been playing around with different recipes that use it. Coconut flour can’t be substituted one-to-one for wheat flour; it expands a lot when mixed with liquid, so you generally need to use less coconut flour than you … Read more
In November, the Olly Writes blog gave me my first introduction to halogen ovens. Apparently they’re quite popular in the UK, but in the United States most people still haven’t heard of them unless they been, um, lucky enough to see the Flavorwave infomercial with Mr. T. I read up on halogen ovens. They use a halogen and infrared light … Read more