This amazing sweet, cardamom-flavored Christmas bread is made with cashew flour and is grain and gluten free. It is best served with raspberry jam and clotted cream.
This coconut syrup toffee is easy to make (just takes some time) and is delicious and exotic. Wow your Christmas guests with this home-made candy.
Detailed article on the history of sugar which isn't pretty to say the least. Slavery for one, destruction of environments as well, and now there is GM sugar beets. Best to boycott refined sugar completely.
GAP Syndrome diet and SCD diet friendly gluten-free persimmon chews, made with honey and butter. Delicious Christmas and Winter Solstice recipe.
I finally got around to searching for the recipe to this amazing almond and honey energy paste that they eat for breakfast during Ramadan in Morocco. It started niggling at me a few months ago, but the truth was I couldn’t even remember the name of it. I soon found results coming up that were pointing to a treat called Sellou. Soon I was on youtube watching this video by cookingwithalia.com:
Many years ago I lived with a Moroccan family in Rabat. The family had a son and daughter who were around my age. The daughter was wiry, smart and a black belt in taekwondo. The son was refusing to follow the Ramadan fast as he was as skinny as a rake and in the middle of intense exams at his school which are highly competitive. The mother was possessive and passionate, an amazing cook, the father was rarely seen but seemed a very quiet mild-mannered fellow.
Sellou is eaten before the sun rises during Ramadan and is power-packed with energy to get you through a long day of fasting. Each family has their own recipe and whenever I asked for it they would always wave me off, saying that it was so easy just almonds, roasted flour, sesame and honey so I never bothered to write it down. Perhaps this was just their way of keeping their household sellou recipe their own special secret.
Consumption of refined sugar is the most pleasant means of gradual suicide.
On Easter Monday (April 13, 2009) we finally stepped out of the house and went on an excursion. The cherry blossoms are out in Vancouver and Spring is finally in the air. We hadn’t been out in months. We decided to head down to False Creek and check out how the building of the Olympic Village was going.
Along the walk I kept getting Midnight Oil’s song Blue Sky Mine
popping into my head. To be honest I am not sure if this happened before or after I took the photos of the old Canadian Sugar Refinery Building, but it probably doesn’t really matter. I found it interesting that this song kept nagging at me as it has been a very long time since I have heard music in my head like this.
Vancouver’s sugar refinery was established in 1890, by B. T. Rogers and was the beginning of Rogers Sugar. It was:
Ideally located to receive shipments of raw cane sugar from Pacific regions and to access Canada’s rapidly developing western markets.source
The refinery was Vancouver’s first major industry not based on logging or fishing. The Vancouver refinery is an efficient, productive facility to this day, and $1 million is invested annually in this plant. source
Method:
Rinse dates, leave the seeds in. Drain well. Place in bottle, add alcohol, cardamom and ginger. Cover. Place in fridge.
Hungarian Plum Dumplings (Szilvasgomboc) are a traditional food, this recipe comes from the Hungarian Cookery Book
by Karoly Gundel (1956)
Serves 6
Method:
Boil six mealy potatoes and rub them through a hair sieve. Add the butter, eggs, salt and as much flour as they will absorb but not too much. Roll it out and then cut it into squares big enough to hold a plum.
This favorite is based on a recipe from Ruth Wakefield’s Toll House Tried and True Recipes
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Method:
Mix the milk, yolks, salt, butter, zest and sugar together and pour over rice. Bake for ½ hour in a water bath in a 350 degree oven.
A very simple recipe and a great way to showcase the quality of ingredients used. Serves 6 4 (farm fresh) eggs, beaten stiff 1 c hot maple syrup Cook until mixture thickens, then cool and add: 2 c cream, beaten stiff Place in the freezer.
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