Last week I completely overhauled my diet. I went on a whole foods spring cleanse with Baltimore Health Coach, avoiding processed foods, dairy, soy, gluten, and sugar. The idea was to eat clean for a week to improve digestion, release weight (I had picked up a few winter pounds), and increase energy. All of that sounds great, right? [...]
Archive for the ‘Experiments’ Category
Detox, Digestion, and Spring Cleansing
Posted in Experiments, tagged baltimore health coach, cravings, detox, digestion, food addictions, soft addictions, spring cleanse on April 18, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Candy Corns, Chopped Style
Posted in Experiments, tagged candy corn sauce, candy corns, halloween candy on October 28, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Do you ever get the want to make something creative in the kitchen that’s inspired by the Food Network’s Chopped? If you’ve never seen the show, here’s a summary: contestants make meals with mystery boxes, creating innovative dishes like gummy bear and kiwi wontons. In honor of Halloween, I used candy corns as my “secret” ingredient [...]
Food Science from What Einstein Told His Cook 2
Posted in Experiments, Writing, tagged food science, kitchen science, robert wolke, soft-serve ice cream, wasabi, what einstein told his cook 2, white film chocolate on September 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Several weeks after I mentioned that the very fun-sounding Cooking for Geeks book was sold out on Amazon, I was looking for blogging inspiration in my library’s food section. As the stars or Kismet or the higher powers would have it, I stumbled across another food science book instead: Robert L. Wolke’s What Einstein Told [...]
How to Make Pain au Chocolat (A Photo Essay)
Posted in Experiments, Recipes, tagged chocolate croissants, jacques torres, pain au chocolat, pain au chocolat pictures on April 9, 2010 | 93 Comments »
Photo Credit: Kenneth Yee, painter First, today is quite a milestone for My Morning Chocolate – this is the 100th post! I’m sending out a big thanks to you for reading this blog at any point over the last nine months. One of the things we bloggers live for is our blog’s stats - you want to [...]
Frozen Greek Yogurt – A Quick Ice Cream Substitute
Posted in Experiments, Recipes, tagged frozen yogurt, greek yogurt on March 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For the last few nights, I have been craving ice cream at the most inappropriate times. Last night, the craving hit on my ride home from school, and I didn’t have my wallet with me. What I did have was Greek yogurt in my refrigerator. Could frozen Greek yogurt be a quick substitute for ice [...]
The Huffington Post’s “The Week of Eating In Challenge”
Posted in Books, Experiments, Food News, tagged cathy erway, the art of eating in, the huffington post, the week of eating in challenge on February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Do you think you can eat in for an entire week? Even for me, a person who eats most of her meals in, a full week of home-cooked food is a long time. I run out of dinner ideas, or I’m tired of doing dishes, or I just want to eat at a restaurant because I like it. [...]
Snow Cream
Posted in Baltimore, Experiments, tagged maryland snow 2010, snow cream, snowpocalypse on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Congratulations to those of you in the Mid-Atlantic – we made it through the weekend snowpocalypse! There is still snow everywhere of course, but the streets in Baltimore are somewhat plowed, there are a few cleared walkways on the streets, and you have most likely shoveled your driveway, an arduous chore when you’re moving 20+ [...]
Healthy Baking: Should Applesauce and Canned Pumpkin Replace Butter and Oil?
Posted in Experiments, Ingredients, tagged butter and oil replacements in baked goods, healthy baking, joy bauer healthy baking, the today show healthy baking on January 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I work from home, which means I can keep my T.V. tuned into my favorite morning program, The Today Show, a couple of days a week. The Monday after Thanksgiving, the show’s nutrition expert, Joy Bauer, had a healthy baking recommendation for the holidays: replace all of the oil or butter in a recipe with [...]
