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Critic-Turned-Cook Gets Insight Into Gluten-Free Cooking
The Betty Crocker mixes are good, but they don't make much cake! The Namaste mixes are also quite good. However, the best thing I've found is the following flour mixture recipe which can be substituted in just about any baked good in place of wheat flour and yields excellent results:
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups brown rice flour
1 1/2 cups white rice flour
1 cup potato starch (not potato flour)
1/2 cup tapioca flour
1 1/4 teaspoons guar gum or xanthan gum
Everythng I've made from this turns out wonderful, even cookies!
What's your favorite cake?
Also, "Maida Heatter's Cakes" has awesome recipes, everything I've made out of there has been excellent. Her chocolate sour cream frosting is pure bliss.
What's your favorite cake?
Hmmm. I do a LOT of baking, so my favorite really depnds on my mood, but of the cakes I make, I like these best:
Ispahan - Rich vanilla almond cake brushed with rose syrup and filled with lychee and raspberry fillings and frosting with pink vanilla swiss style buttercream and garnished with raspberries and rose petals
Ancho Chili: Devil's food chocolate cake with a hint of ancho chili. Brushed with Kahlua, filled with mexican vanilla custard and topped with white chocolate whipped cream and chocolate covered coffee beans.
Caramel Cardamom Pistachio: Caramel flavored cake with a hint of cardamom. Milk chocolate pistachio filling and vanilla caramel frosting.
Lemon Rosemary: Lemon and rosemary cake with a lemon curd creme filling and white chocolate buttercream.
Or anything with cream cheese frosting. I'm pretty sure I would eat bark if you put enough cream cheese frosting on it.
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Cereal with Water and Other Cereal Compulsions
Yeeech. Unsweetened almond milk or coconut milk (http://www.turtlemountain.com/products/coconut_milk_beverage.html) would save a lot of calories (either will be 40-50 calories per 8 ounce serving) and taste a whole lot better.
Critic-Turned-Cook Gets Insight Into Gluten-Free Cooking
The Betty Crocker mixes are good, but they don't make much cake! The Namaste mixes are also quite good. However, the best thing I've found is the following flour mixture recipe which can be substituted in just about any baked good in place of wheat flour and yields excellent results:
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups brown rice flour
1 1/2 cups white rice flour
1 cup potato starch (not potato flour)
1/2 cup tapioca flour
1 1/4 teaspoons guar gum or xanthan gum
Everythng I've made from this turns out wonderful, even cookies!
What's your favorite cake?
Also, "Maida Heatter's Cakes" has awesome recipes, everything I've made out of there has been excellent. Her chocolate sour cream frosting is pure bliss.
What's your favorite cake?
Hmmm. I do a LOT of baking, so my favorite really depnds on my mood, but of the cakes I make, I like these best:
Ispahan - Rich vanilla almond cake brushed with rose syrup and filled with lychee and raspberry fillings and frosting with pink vanilla swiss style buttercream and garnished with raspberries and rose petals
Ancho Chili: Devil's food chocolate cake with a hint of ancho chili. Brushed with Kahlua, filled with mexican vanilla custard and topped with white chocolate whipped cream and chocolate covered coffee beans.
Caramel Cardamom Pistachio: Caramel flavored cake with a hint of cardamom. Milk chocolate pistachio filling and vanilla caramel frosting.
Lemon Rosemary: Lemon and rosemary cake with a lemon curd creme filling and white chocolate buttercream.
Or anything with cream cheese frosting. I'm pretty sure I would eat bark if you put enough cream cheese frosting on it.
'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'
...or cheese, lots of cheese :)
'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'
The stuff my gluten intolerant, lactose intolerant, shrimp allergic, fish (except for sushi) disliking husband can't or won't eat! So I go for shrimp, seared tuna, smoked salmon with creme fraiche or the occasional slice of greasy pizza!
Wig & Pen Offers an Iowa City Twist to Stuffed Pizza
I'm a 9 months pregnant cheese fiend, and right now I would sell my left arm for that pizza.
Serious Cheese: Part Two in the Adventures of Lactose Intolerance
Well, the thing that finally pushed my gallbladder over the edge and confirmed that was the problem was a little bag of cheese nips from a vending machine. You could always try those and see what happens :)
Cook the Book: Braided Beef with Anchovies and Olives
Mmmm...butterfied. I'm sure they mean "butterflied" but "butterfied" sounds so much yummier.
Serious Cheese: What Happens When a Curd Nerd Becomes Lactose Intolerant?
Also, as others have mentioned, gallbladder is a possibility. What exactly happens when you experience your "stomach" problems? It is cramping/nausea and diarrhea or are you having pain near the uppermost part of your stomach? When my gallbladder decided to crap out on me, eating cheese did trigger symptoms even when other foods did not and I didn't have the clasic right upper quadrant paint, but rather intense pain just below my sternum.
Serious Cheese: What Happens When a Curd Nerd Becomes Lactose Intolerant?
My husband is lactose intolerant and finds that the best way to handle it is to use the lactaid chewables (they work a lot faster than the pills you swallow) and to use not just one pill, but more like 3 spaced out during the meal. Yes, that little chalky vanilla chew can be a tad disruptive mid-meal, but it beats suffering the consequences.
What Does Your Fridge Say About You?
My fridge looks like I live entirely on condiments and frosting (I bake a lot, so I always have 3-5 containers of various surplus frostings waiting to be used), with a little OJ and soymilk.
This Week in 'New York Times' Food News
A spreadable mixture of pork, pork fat and red pepper? Sounds awesome to me!
French in a Flash: Pain au Chocolat Cinnamon Rolls with Crème Fraîche Icing and Walnuts
Hmm. I wonder if one could assemble everything the night before and then just pop the pan into the oven in the morning?
Last Ditch Attempt to Eat the Best of Austin
Zoot is awesome!
Do Sugar Mama's rather then Hey Cupcake, Hey Cupcake's cupcakes are downright boring, all they have going for them is their cuteness.
I second (or third or fifth) Rudy's for barbecue.
Also, you MUST go to Fonda San Miguel. A little pricey, but so worth it.
Last Ditch Attempt to Eat the Best of Austin
Specifically at Taco Deli i recommend the Thunderheart bison picadillo taco!
Mixed Review: Canterbury Naturals Chocolate Orange Pound Cake Mix
How funny, I made this same mix this weekend!
I came out firmly on the "meh" side of things, it was OK, the consistency was good, the orange tasted a bit artificial to me though.
I poured chocolate ganache over mine, because what isn't better with a layer of chocolate?
Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 61: The Acid Reflux Chest Tightness Diet
Most docs telling you not to eat after 8 are assuming you're going to bed at a normal hour. The usual rule of thumb is "don't lay down for two hours after you eat." So that applies to naps as well, not just bedtime. So if you know you're going to be upright until 1am, there's no problem with eating later.
Also, a few people I know who have had reflux issues have found some relief by consuming some probiotic products regularly, like yogurt.
Another thing you can do is slightly elevate the head of your bed.
Blogwatch: Princess Cake
Marzipan tastes far superior to fondant ANY DAY!
Exotic Eggs Available at Whole Foods
The other day I was at my local asian market, and I noticed that they had eggs labeled "Baby Duck Eggs" and "Baby Chicken Eggs" that were in a different area from the rest of the styrofoam-packed chicken eggs.I was curious about the duck eggs, but too nervous to buy them because of the labeling. Would these actually contain an embryonic duck or chicken, or is this just a quirk of labeling??
Blogwatch: Chocolate Pasta
I had some once that I bought at a chocolate exhibit at a museum. Per a suggestion on the package, I used it in a savory preparation: chicken mole. it was actually quite good! it didn't seem to me like it would work well with sweet things though.
What's So Weird About That?
As a kid I would not eat: bell peppers, onions, avocado, salsa or lima beans. I still won't eat avocados. Yet I would eat: squid, snails, frog legs (mom was an adventurous cook), pickled pigs feet, almost any green veggie (especially spinach and asparagus). My favorite thing (still) to put on pancakes and waffles: a mixture of equal parts maple syrup and crunchy peanut butter.
Blogwatch: Vegan Orange Cream Tart
Yum! I'm not vegan, but I really like coconut milk yogurt!
San Antonio Restaurant Recommendations?
There are a lot of nice places in the King William district (a nice area to visit with beautiful old historic homes). La Frite Bistro in the downtown area is a nice little Belgian Bistro (San Antonio isn't just barbecue and Tex-Mex).
Review of the New 'M&M's Premiums': Fancy-Pants, Expensive, and Kinda Gross
I'm completely amazed that Mars would believe that M&Ms are lowbrow!
Cereal with Water and Other Cereal Compulsions
@wunami: Toushe. I was wondering if someone would catch that. Maybe I'm delusional, but I believe the Special K with Berries flakes are more coated (ergo more protected against sogginess) than the normal Special K flakes. So I bumped them up to the other category. Does that make any sense?
Cereal with Water and Other Cereal Compulsions
So happy about this post. I, like many people who commented, have had to endure endless ridicule for using water. Obviously it's not as yummy as milk, but in a pinch it works! My personal favorite is Honey Nut Cheerios. Hooray to Ms. Zimmer for making water and cereal ok!!!
Cereal with Water and Other Cereal Compulsions
- Avoid the flake family. (Honey Bunches of Oats, Frosted Flakes, etc.)
- Yes on clusters, freeze-dried fruit, and other chunky additions (Special K with Berries, granola, etc.)
Um...isn't Special K in the flake family? How does adding dried fruit make it okay. The flakes are still going to be unpalatable after getting soggy with the water instead of milk.
Cereal with Water and Other Cereal Compulsions
The original post doesn't say anything about giving up milk due to calories. Only that it was too much milk. Since anyone who isn't of European descent (any many of us who are) shouldn't have cow's milk, I imagine it gave her digestive problems. My partner stopped having gastro-intestinal issues when she gave up cow's milk. I've noticed health improvements, too.
Cereal with Water and Other Cereal Compulsions
Bravo, Rhetor. Bravo.
My cereal mishaps have never had to do with the liquid (I won't use anything but non-dairy milk) but one time I was out of cereal, so I crumbled up granola bars and popcorn into the milk and ate that instead. Mmmm. Soggy starch.
Cereal with Water and Other Cereal Compulsions
when I was 13 or 14 I was visiting my dad, and he had almost nothing to eat in the house, (I think once I even ate expired bacos and cheese for dinner there) and I needed breakfast. I was starving.
there was cheerios, and the only liquid in the fridge was beer, so I ate cheerios and beer for breakfast. it was actually pretty good.
Cereal with Water and Other Cereal Compulsions
@mtgall - well what else was she going to do with it? :p
Cereal with Water and Other Cereal Compulsions
I once saw a lady pour diet coke,
on her cereal...AND eat it.
Cereal with Water and Other Cereal Compulsions
I like almond or hazelnut milk on cereal sometimes myself. My sister swears by Crispix and hot cocoa.
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What's your favorite cake?
I'm so over the heavy, in extremis cakes of my youth. You know, Death By Chocolate, or stuffed with everything you can get the batter to hold--like Hummingbird Cake.
For the past couple years, I've been making white and yellow cakes, with whipped cream or mousse filling and the splendid perfection of impeccably ripe fruit. light, light, light. Citrus curds are yummy, too, as fillings. I usually flavor the batter to complement the filling.
When only chocolate will do, Sachertorte. I've been making it since college, but apricot isn't very popular amongst my kith & kin, so I use raspberry or cherry. Once, as a special birthday request, I filled & iced the cake with Swiss meringue, then dripped a fudgy ganache down the sides. It was an imitation of Max's Cafe "Niagara Falls Cake". It was gone very quickly and well appreciated.
Currently, I'm trying to perfect crumb cake versions: vanilla ("plain"), spice and with fruit. First, mini muffins, then muffin tops.
If you're going to sell by the slice, I would buy pieces of fruit-filled quick breads like pumpkin, persimmon, apple-walnut.
I strongly suggest you develop a killer buttercream. A good cake becomes a repeat, must-have with a well balanced, rich but not overwhelming, frosting. And, of course, you can doctor the flavoring extracts to suit the final product.
My reason for this suggestion is that while I don't make buttecream except as a special request for a special occasion,--because I feel bad about its unhealthfulness--it doesn't stop me from buying a high-end cuppie for myself!
Good luck! a homey bakery is a great idea.
What's your favorite cake?
The cake I find myself making most often is a Marcella Hazan almond cake.
Then there's the tres leches cake at Red Cat. When I told the server that I had to really make an effort not to pick the plate up and lick it, she told me that if I had, I wouldn't have been the first one to do so.
But the one that stirs my memories is my mother's banana cake from an old Settlement cookbook, not that she made it very well. It was always gummy on the bottom, but that was my favorite part, even more than the cream cheese frosting. It was the only thing she could make other than Rice Krispies treats. Fortunately, my grandmother lived with us and did all the cooking.
What's your favorite cake?
Anything with caramel frosting is amazing. It's good on jam cakes, but I think it would be yummy on a plain yellow cake too.
What's your favorite cake?
I really like Hummingbird cake with cream cheese frosting- basically its banana and pineapple cake. Never met anyone who didnt like it, super easy cake and always gets love.
What's your favorite cake?
My friend Wendy's carrot cake with ginger cream cheese frosting. Lots of pecans, carrots and fresh pineapple. They are never pretty but always tasty.
What's your favorite cake?
mexican radio in NY's tres leches cake.
What's your favorite cake?
My favorite cake is really a frosting made by Van de Kamps bakery in L.A. I believe the bakery closed about 15 years ago. My mom would buy their birthday cake at Ralph's market for my first 14 birthdays. I love their frosting. Does anyone have the recipe? I would love to make some. Please, if you are part of the Van de Kamp family, send the recipe so I can make it for my kids.I live in Oregon and Alaska now and cannot find a frosting like that!
Thanks
What's your favorite cake?
Rick dark dark dark chocolate cake with white chocolate mousse and fresh raspberries between the layers, chocolate ganache on top garnished with fresh raspberries and macadamia nuts. Gets RAVE reviews!
What's your favorite cake?
Southern Living's Mile-High Hummingbird Cake is one of my most requested recipes. A true show-stopper.
http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1727431
What's your favorite cake?
Chocolate cake with mocha frosting. Yum!
What's your favorite cake?
I just LOVE cakes! Nothing too fancy, a good German chocolate cake or my current favorite is lemon cake with lemon curd filling and lemon buttercream icing. Fresh coconut cake that my mom used to make is a sentimental fave as well.
What's your favorite cake?
I love a southern standby jam cake with caramel frosting or better than sex cake
What's your favorite cake?
I love the Hawaiian cake with fresh cream topping
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Yeeech. Unsweetened almond milk or coconut milk (http://www.turtlemountain.com/products/coconut_milk_beverage.html) would save a lot of calories (either will be 40-50 calories per 8 ounce serving) and taste a whole lot better.