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Beetroot baked oatmeal with raw cacao powder (gluten free)

Beetroot baked oatmeal with raw cacao powder (gluten free) This week's habit is all about eating more chocolate. Oh yes! But not the typical chocolate from the store. We're going to check out how amazing it is to eat raw cacao powder so we can take advantage of a wondrous superfood that is one of the most nutritionally complex foods on the planet. Cacao contains over 300 important compounds, including protein, fat, certain B-vitamins and minerals such as calcium, sulfur, magnesium, phosphorus, iron, zinc and copper. (Another reason why this week is quite special for me - I can't believe this is my 100th post on [...]

Orange ginger oatmeal chocolate chip cookies (wheat free, gluten free)

Orange ginger oatmeal chocolate chip cookies (wheat free, gluten free) While oat week is officially over, I just had to share one more recipe from my oat week experiments. I had some trouble making a cookie that was not either rock hard or really bitter thanks to the baking soda. After finding this wonderful exposé on the gluten-free leavening agents necessary for successful baking, I did a few more tests, and voila! I finally ended up with with tasty, hard on the outside, chewy on the inside, wheat free cookies! But wait! Sin of all sins, how can cookies be [...]

How much chocolate does it take to show appreciation?

How much chocolate does it take to show appreciation? It seems like there have been a few aha moments during the past recession about the importance of customers. I think the most commonly offered nugget of advice I've seen countless times over the past few years has been "since the chips are down, and you're not acquiring as many customers, focus on the ones you have." On Friday I benefited from this advice in the form of a lovely surprise from my mobile carrier, O2, in the post. It was a brief thank you note, and a bar of Divine's [...]