Posted in cookies, holidays, tagged bacon fat cookies, bacon fat polvorones, bacon fat recipes, bacon fat shortbread, baking with bacon fat, cinco de mayo cookies, cinco de mayo desserts, cinco de mayo recipes, lard cookies, mexican cookies, mexican recipes, polvoron, polvorones on May 5, 2017| 2 Comments »
If you weren’t aware, I’m a fan of pork fat. Using lard rather than butter in some recipes, particularly baking recipes, changes the flavor and texture for the better. A pie crust made with lard, or my preference of a lard/butter combo, is like no other. Today, in honor of Cinco de Mayo, I had the idea to do some very traditional Mexican cookies from none other than Chicago’s own Chef Rick Bayless. And I was going make them with lard.
Posted in frozen treats, tagged avocado desserts, avocado lime tequila popsicles, cinco de mayo desserts, popsicle recipes on April 26, 2013| 3 Comments »
There’s been a vegan/raw chocolate mousse recipe making the rounds that derives its creaminess not from dairy or whipped egg whites but from avocados. Right. I’ve never made nor tasted it but have always looked upon it with a half-cocked eye, dubious of the flavor. I am steeped in tradition and a proper mousse contains melted chocolate enriched with yolks, whipped egg whites and full fat cream. One of my favorite Parisian meals was capped by a towering bowl of chocolate mousse, doled out by an aproned waiter in enormous spoonfuls. I can guarantee there was no avocado in that mousse. But I’ve come around on my thinking having since made an avocado based popsicle. They’re rather delicious and quite surprising.
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