broken*saucer

I am not a big baker. At least not yet. I don't have much of a sweet tooth instead choosing to spend my calories on cheese. Oh delicious cheese. brie, camembert, valedon blue, gorgonzola, english cheddar, bufala mozzarella... mmm.... So, when I decide to make dessert, ehem, want to, am hungry for, suddenly decide I want to bake, I usually crave something fruity like pie or crumble. I believe I've mentioned before my continued hesitation to make pie crust (mom, I think I need a lesson and one of those plastic pie sheet things now) so my solution is the always the fail-safe crumble. I went crazy over the winter making apple cranberry crumbles, because that combination is just delicious. But since my desire to eat less wheat, I have toyed with the alternative flours with little success - until now. Last weekend, charged with making dessert and inspired by a couple of Aran of Cannelle et Vanille's recipes , I headed to the farmers market to buy some lovely fruit for a cru...

Last year, our landlord took it upon himself to plant a peach tree and a plum tree in our front yard. super pretty, all we had to do was water them. and lo and behold the little saplings are bearing fruit! we had to rig stakes with a mess of twine to keep the plum tree's branches from bending to the ground, it was so heavy with fruit. In the last week a couple tumbled from the tree, so I plucked a big bowl full of small but ready plums. It was good timing too because suddenly the leaves started to get all wilted and I had to douse the poor thing in a stream of water. It has rained and been so nasty for so long I couldn't imagine that the ground wasn't saturated but... Anyway, the bounty of plums were pretty small and a bit tart which someone I know said is what the first year of fruit brings. But I didn't let that stop me from making this rosemary plum crisp from canelle et vanille . { cannelle et vanille } It was delicious. But in typical me fashion, here are my ...

{ thekitchn } Today has been a wheat day. It started with a slight hangover and a deep desire for an egg sandwich from Starbucks. Oh english muffin, how I love thee. Next, as my co-worker and I headed out to just get some nice innocent soup, we walked out to the corner and found a new dessert truck (I have no name for you yet, so hold for an update when they come back next Thursday). I bought an uber-delish Macrina roll to go with my soup. And then hello High-5 apple hand pie and dessert-truck baker special carrot cake cookie sandwich with cream cheese filling. No I didn't eat them all at once. (I meant to eat a nice light lunch because today is my friend Jason's birthday (happy birthday, Jase!) and for dinner we will be eating a ton of amazing food at Spinasse . oh well.) Even though I'm eating wheat some of the time, I'm still trying to lay off for the most part which is why I was delighted to have this this Kitchn recipe for vegan and gluten-free chocolate cupcak...

{ brown rice spring vegetable risotto from whole foods} I've been obsessing a lot about food lately - a requirement when on an elimination diet. No, I'm not on a full elimination diet, because I know I'm good with certain foods, but the ones we're not so sure of are out. So, I ditched papaya (supplements and body creams), but because I was a bit sensitive to all citrus, all citrus is out for now. We knew I had a wheat and yeast sensitivity (beer, and they both appeared on the test too) those are out. These were the rules handed down on April 12. I have since broken them all a few times but as of April 24, I've been good. Except that I discovered this morning that there is lemon juice on the frozen peaches that I use every day. Citrus has been particularly hard because it's not a common allergen and it's in and on everything. It sneaks up on me. But, I have whipped limes out of my soda water and inspected oh so many ingredient lists. I passed cinco de may...