Back to Alice Medrich's "Chocolate and the Art of Low-Fat Desserts". Oh Alice, I'm not happy with you right now. I'm not happy with me, sure, but I'm not happy with you. Your bittersweet chocolate truffle mousse recipe is sublime - manageable and delicious. but your white … [Read more...] about The Sky fell back up (I destroyed a milk chocolate mocha mousse)
Desserts
The Sky is Falling (I made a passable lemon mousse)
I did exactly what should be never be done when making mousse... ...I multi-tasked. I was rushed and nervous and my egg whites started boiling, and I made a drastic substitution, but my goodness, it worked. The pillows of fluff that I tasted yesterday were enough to convince me … [Read more...] about The Sky is Falling (I made a passable lemon mousse)
Homemade Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin Pie is a problem. Problem #1: Every decent recipe I found in my recipe books and online called for evaporated milk or dry-milk powder (which, as far as I know, doesn't come in a lactose-free version). Then there's the issue of store-bought pumpkin purée, which just … [Read more...] about Homemade Pumpkin Pie
Buttermilk Pound Cake with Blueberry Honey Wine Glaze
What does one do when one goes to an 18th Century Quebec Marketplace? Learn to weave, blacksmith, and sample honey wines, I suppose. That's what I did a few months ago, anyway, and have had a bottle of bottle of Blueberry Honey Wine being saved for a special occasion ever since. … [Read more...] about Buttermilk Pound Cake with Blueberry Honey Wine Glaze
Chocolate and the Art of Low-Fat Desserts by Alice Medrich
After hours of searching for a real, but cream-free, chocolate mousse in vain (so many unwanted tofu and avocado options) I gave up. Some things are just not meant to be. Until my birthday. Then looking through my favourite cookbook, I decided on a Bittersweet Chocolate Truffle … [Read more...] about Chocolate and the Art of Low-Fat Desserts by Alice Medrich