Horchata is a Spanish and Latin American beverage traditionally made from ground nuts, seeds, or rice, combined with sugar, spices, and water. In this foraged horchata recipe we’re infusing milk with carob powder to make a carob horchata. There are as many horchata recipes out there as there are horchata makers, which means I didn’t feel too guilty about messing with…
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I don’t call this a brownie because then you’d expect a deeply chocolate treat and you might be disappointed. (Life and dessert are all about managing expectations.) Carob is NOT a chocolate substitute and anyone who tells you otherwise is a big, fat liar. At the risk of sounding heretical: chocolate isn’t the only worthy dessert flavor out there. Carob…
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I grew up thinking that carob was something hippies ate because chocolate was a commercial product controlled by “the man.” Ok, ok, I thought that until the beginning of last week. Then I visited Israel to research a new book project, and I learned a thing or two about carob. Carob doesn’t grow where I live or forage, although you…
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