Joi on November 25th, 2009

This recipe makes a small amount. It’s pretty fattening and uses quite a bit of erythritol, so for me, a little goes a long way. Besides, it’s the holidays anyway.
This isn’t a perfect recipe, but I thought it was worth sharing. If you can handle agave, that would be the ideal sweetener because it [...]

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Joi on June 14th, 2009

I used to get something called a “Cosi Break Bar” from the infamous restaurant when I had some time in Washington Dulles airport. It’s basically made up of sunflower and pumpkin seeds, oats, coconut, cranberries, pistachios and sweetened with honey and cream.
I made a very simple version of this recently with only sunflower and [...]

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Joi on April 28th, 2009

Rock candy is one of the oldest forms of hard candy, which also happens to be one of the easiest candies to make. It also is one of the candies that takes the longest, taking about seven days to form something edible. That’s probably why it’s not such a popular confection anymore, unless you’re in [...]

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