Do you know what bliss balls are? I had never heard of them before. There’s a coffee shop near the beach out here that sells these bliss ball things. They look like desserty meatballs and are kept in a glass jar near the cash register. If you’re sleep deprived, they look like pets held captive by the bakery ladies. Chris bought one…
I’m five-ish weeks into a gluten-free life, and the waah waaaaaah is starting to wear off. (I can’t pretend to be above the waaah. Diabetes is such a food-anchored disease, and an additional restriction acts as an extra fun vacuum, sucking the fun out of meals even more.) But I’m rounding a corner with this new (and admittedly self-imposed, but…
Earlier this week, Birdzone asked if we could bake some bread. (We’ve been baking bread for her since she was very small, avoiding gluten for the first 15 months of her life and becoming gluten-free bakers, after a fashion, for a year or two.) Now, thanks to a bread machine that makes baking bread easier, we whip up random recipes. …
Yesterday, my mom and I made attempts to make a bunch of Christmas cookies. We started out early(ish) in the morning, and with some normal looking cookies and with our brains fully functioning. We made some delicious winners, like these tasty Hershey Kiss cookies that have a tinge of peanut butter and are melty and awesome. However, after too many cookies…
For our dessert party last weekend, one of the things I made was a pumpkin cake roll with cream cheese filling. My beloved aunts make this all the time, and it’s the only pumpkin-flavored thing I like. But my aunts are like dessert genies, and their baked goods always come out perfectly, and enviably well. I thought, “Hey, the baking…