Posts by CompassRose

Now, I have a honkin' big can of my favourite sweetened chestnut puree down in my pantry, which I bought with the intent of making a chocolate-chestnut torte. Thing is, the torte only uses I think a half-cup of puree, while the can is...

Oh, yes, absolutely. I've been working more or less from a recipe in Susan Purdy's Have Your Cake and Eat It Too (it changes every year though) and it is really really good! It seems to keep just as well (with the regulation dose of rum...

I prefer fruitcake made with nice real dried fruits... but I'm ashamed to confess that I'll devour chunks of even the stickiest commercial variety, studded with lurid plastic cherries and cased in faux "almond icing." Mmm,...

Heh. I'm going to post what I ate yesterday simply because it was such total junk. Breakfast: Bob's Red Mill 10-grain pancake mix, made with grated apple and chopped dried apple, topped with honey-vanilla soy yogourt. 2 Yves Veg...

And if you haven't tried it, let me assure you that President's Choice mincemeat is really, really yummy. Highly recommended by me -- devoted mincemeat and fruitcake fan!

uh... could we maybe have an alternative for those of us (and I don't think I'm the only one) who don't generally "do" bits of dead beast?

That's excellent! I'm trying to cut meat and fish out of my diet again (I found my health was suffering, because basically I wasn't eating enough to get enough protein at all). I feel a lot better PHYSICALLY when I eat concentrated...

This is what I think, too. It makes me laugh to see all the articles coming out now saying "See? See? Low-fat diets don't work! Go and eat steak and butter!" Uh... nooooo, low-fat diets consisting of white flour and sugar...

There is also this site on vegan baking, which is the most comprehensive discussion of the matter that I've ever seen.

I haven't tried them, but there is at least one fabulous-looking white chocolate buttercream recipe in Rose Levy Berenbaum's Cake Bible. She also has adaptations for very large-scale (eg wedding cake) recipes for same.