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Chocolate Orbit Cake

This recipe, which makes a sort of steamed torte, comes in the box of Scharffen Berger semisweet 62% cocoa pure dark chocolate.
It comes from David Lebovitz’s cookbook, Room for Dessert. It’s a book that, just to look through, probably causes the brain to gear down the metabolism.
Chocolate Orbit Cake

It’s a super simple recipe: […]

Be Italian Night

Some 3-cheese herbed tortellini with asparagus, boiled mushrooms, home-grown tomatoes, thyme and homemade cheese-topped bread and olive oil.

Seitan by Sunset

Spiral macaroni in the that paradise evening lighting. The broccoli, asparagus, orange and green bell pepper are in a greek feta sauce with seitan.

Scrambled Eggs and Romance

Scrambled eggs and asparagus at dusk.
Warm ambiance. Good company is the best seasoning.
Although a little pie later on never hurts either:

Dolfin Chocolat Noir vs. Michel Cluizel Tamarina Plantation

Chocolate Review:
Dolfin Chocolat Noir is an intense flavor, especially considering it is only 52% cocoa and $4.29 for 70g (about 8 servings the way I eat it). It’s predominant flavor is the ginger. The texture is smooth (all that soya lecithin emulsifier.) It is almost a medicinal chocolate, in the good sense of the […]

Reliable Rhubarb Pie Recipe

I’ve tried a few rhubarb pie recipes and most don’t seem to work.
The Reliable Rhubarb Pie Recipe
Mix the following:
1 egg
1 1/4 c sugar
1 T butter, melted
4 T flour

Combine the mixture with:
3-4 cups of fresh or thawed from frozen chopped rhubarb (1/2 inch pieces)
Put the rhubarb mixture in a double crusted pie shell.

Bake 425 degrees […]

Make a Really Big Daal

A cup of red lentil and half a large sweet potato, half a large white onion and about a tablespoon of garam masala. That tomato on the side is from our garden.

For dessert some strawberries, hip-high in homemade custard and yogurt, with ladies fingers.