I’m not a huge fan of the documentary “Forks Over Knives,” but it’s nice to hear that there’s a cookbook coming out. You don’t want to lecture people without also offering them some recipes. It’s even nicer to hear that Isa Chandra Moskowitz is doing the dessert section. She posted one of the recipes on the site, and it looks too tasty for its own good: raspberry truffle brownies.
I love chocolate and raspberries together, so I had to try it.
Assembling the Ingredients
I found most of what I needed at the co-op. I didn’t want to pay for organic frozen raspberries, so I picked that up at my second stop, Price Chopper. Or I tried to. For some reason, they were completely out of frozen raspberries. I was on my way home from work and didn’t feel like asking to have more brought out of the warehouse, or even stopping at the Hannaford across the street. (The Hannaford literally is across the street.) So I grabbed a bag of blackberries. Close enough. Sort of.
Making the batter
Went together pretty well. Toward the end, after adding the dry ingredients, it does get extremely thick, as the recipe warns. The texture is sort of like Play-Doh.
Baking
I baked them longer than the recipe calls for. I really need to stick a thermometer in my gas oven, since everything takes longer than it should.
Taste test
Fudgy, rich, amazing. I still hate raspberry seeds in my teeth so I’m going to try remaking this recipe with canned apricots and apricot jam and report back. But the flavor is great.
I don’t want to make these again with raspberries for a while because the flavor brings back horrible memories. The night I finished these, I was hit with norovirus, scourge of the cruise ships, schools, and nursing homes. It’s going to be hard to make them again without remembering what it was like to turn into a vomit machine within an hour of trying them.
I liked the Facebook game Cityville. It combined the fun things about social gaming with some of the fun things about SimCity. But then completing quests required larger and larger numbers of friends who are active players.
In theory you’re supposed to recruit your own friends to play. In practice, you end up friending strangers because they happen to play, too, and you REALLY need ten more marbles and some sunglasses to complete the hotel. And suddenly half the posts you see on your feed are in languages you don’t understand and religious glurge you understand all too well.
You realize that this is a game you will never finish, you will never win, because it always demands more, more, more friends, more time, more space in your city, more recruiting.
It’s not an addiction, exactly, but it’s not all that entertaining anymore, either.
So I’m out. I sealed the gates to Hamsterdam and left the residents to starve. I guess.
Tiny Tower is a much better companion than Cityville ever was. It’s another game that you can never finish, but doesn’t require recruiting strangers to send you things needed to progress by the dozen.
A lot of my friends and family have asked if there’s a way to get updates on only the posts that only I write, because they’re curious what I’m up to but don’t want to subscribe to all 25+ posts per day that Consumerist publishes. I finally figured out how to do that, because I had misunderestimated Feedburner’s filtering capabilities.
So, if you use some sort of RSS reader, that feed of just my posts can be found here.
If you like to get updates in your e-mail instead, use this thingy:
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