Happy Spring Break to all my fellow students out there! My Morning Chocolate will be on hiatus for the rest of the week. But I didn’t want to leave you hanging. So, dear readers, here is the Barefoot Contessa’s chocolate cake recipe.
The cake is fudgy and moist, and the icing is buttery with a [...]
Archive for the ‘Ingredients’ Category
Why I’m Not Sold on Chickpea Flour
Posted in Ingredients, Recipes, tagged chickpea flour, chickpea fries, mark bittman on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A few months ago, I bought some chickpea flour, mistakenly thinking it was the type of flour I needed to make Indian breads (it’s actually chapati flour that is used to make them). So what do you do with chickpea flour? The back of the bag had a recipe for hummus, but I still [...]
Chocolate and Maca Powder
Posted in Fun Food Bites, Ingredients, tagged chocolate with maca, endangered species chocolate, maca festival, maca powder, maca recipes, maca root, spider monkey on February 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
When I went to the store yesterday, I looked carefully through the chocolate section to find the most interesting bar. The winner at my local store was Endangered Species Dark Chocolate with Goji Berry, Pecans & Maca. Clearly, this bar won because of the maca; I had no idea what maca might taste like and [...]
Homemade Bread
Posted in Fun Food Bites, Recipes, tagged chewswise, homemade bread, no-knead bread on February 15, 2010 | 7 Comments »
I am now a homemade bread convert.
Now when I say that, I don’t mean homemade bread made in the bread maker (though I do still love my bread maker). I mean the bread that is really made by hand, that takes nearly a full day to rise, and that bakes in the oven until the [...]
Super Bowl XLIV: Make Food Inspired by the Players
Posted in Fun Food Bites, Pop Culture, Recipes, tagged colts, saints, super bowl recipes, super bowl XLIV on February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Time for Super Bowl Sunday! Those of us in the Northeast will likely be snowed in, watching the game with our spouses or kids or roommates. But for those of you who aren’t expecting a storm, or who are hosting a Super Bowl party anyway, I’ve put together a list of recipe ideas inspired by [...]
Tempura (on a Slanted Stove) with Soba Noodles and Hot Dashi Broth
Posted in Ingredients, Recipes, Travel, tagged dashi broth, mirin, portobello mushrooms, tempura, the asian kitchen, tofu on February 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
My stove makes me curse and stomp and slam things around the kitchen every time I want to use the two back burners. That’s because it slants forward, pushing all of the ingredients to the front third of my frying pans.
But I wanted to make tempura last weekend. I planned to have [...]
Dashi (Japanese Stock)
Posted in Ingredients, Recipes, Travel, tagged bonito flakes, dashi, Japanese stock, kombu, seaweed on January 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
If you watch Top Chef, you may have heard Leah or Michael explain their dishes by saying they made a little dashi, as nonchalantly as if they had made a peanut butter sandwich. Was dashi a type of fish? The name of a dish? A flavoring? I’ll admit it; I didn’t know.
So I turned to my Food [...]
Breakfast for Dinner: Open-Faced Waffle, Bacon, Egg, Cheese, and Maple Syrup Sandwich
Posted in Recipes, tagged bacon, Eggs, maple syrup, tofu eggs, vegetarian bacon, waffle sandwich, waffles on January 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I went to New York this weekend so I fully intended to find a New York food experience to blog about for today. But even though the city is overcrowded with restaurants and food stores, I couldn’t stop thinking about making a sweet and salty breakfast sandwich, kind of like the McDonald’s McGriddle pancake sandwich [...]
6 Ways to Improve Your Daily Coffee
Posted in Baltimore, Fun Food Bites, Ingredients, tagged caffeine, coffee enema, coffee tasting, energy drinks, kopi luwak coffee, Red Bull, village learning place, zeke's coffee on January 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Good morning to the coffee addicts out there! Wouldn’t it be nice to get more from your bag of coffee, or to learn how to make a better cup of coffee that suits your personality?
Last night, I went to the Coffee, Coffee, Everywhere Coffee! event at Baltimore’s Village Learning Place (a space loaded with [...]
