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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...
View ArticlePlans in the Works…for Lemon Mousse
I’m out to conquer safe meringue. I had big plans to try a lemon mousse in “Chocolate and the Art of Low Fat Desserts” but it called for heavy cream that had to be whipped. As far as I know, there’s no...
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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...
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Party Prep: Pastry, Peppers and Imperfect Polenta
With all the preparations for the 2nd annual family house party in full swing, I tackled the ”P’s”. Fresh off my mousse mistakes, I decided to separate the great Mocha Buche de Noel into sections....
View ArticleAnniversary Post and Chocolate Hazelnut Mousse Cake
2 years ago tomorrow I wrote my first blog post. It was based on the story of making my own birthday cake – a dairy-free chocolate-hazelnut mousse cake, because you can’t buy one of those around here,...
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Rum-Raisin Lemon Loaf with Lucuma Glaze
When you’re craving something sweet, but you’re not craving cookies and you’re not craving cake and you’re not craving ice cream…you might be craving a sweet loaf. I get this particular craving when I...
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The Queen of Chocolate Explores Gluten-Free Flours
My last article on FineDiningLovers.com is an interview with Alice Medrich, San Francisco baker extraordinaire. I grew up with one of her earlier cookbooks, Chocolate and the Art of Low Fat Desserts,...
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Gluten-Free Chiffon Cake with Vanilla-Plum Jam from Alice Medrich’s “Flavor...
After interviewing Alice Medrich, I was so inspired that I swore I’d bake my way through her latest book Flavor Flours. It’s organized by type of flour, so I went out and bought heaps of sorghum, kilos...
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Toasted Cinnamon Sticks from Flavor Flours by Alice Medrich (and the...
One of the highlights of my food journalism career thus far is my 2015 interview with Alice Medrich, the Queen of Chocolate and James Beard Award-winning cookbook author and baking instructor. What’s...
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