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Design Your Own Chocolate for a Cause!

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Today I learned about a company called chocrí Schokolade. It’s a fair trade company based in Germany. Not only do they let you create your own chocolate bars with things like bourbon vanilla, orange pepper, macadamia nuts, gummi bears, real gold flakes (so many cool things!) – they also donate 1% of their profits to DIV-Kinder (This site is in German, but you can read about their mission, in English, here.)

I created a milk chocolate bar with bourbon vanilla, cinnamon, Fleur de Sel, and real gold flakes. I call it Oompa Loompalicious.

Chocolate + fair trade + ministry = delicious

PS – My birthday is in June. 🙂

BOTM – Squaw Bread

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Squaw Bread

There is this restaurant in Idyllwild called The Bread Basket. They have a squaw bread that is delicious, and I miss it. This is the first squaw bread recipe I’ve tried, and while this recipe is not the same bread, it is pretty yummy. It’s quite sweet due to the honey and raisins, but it makes great toast. I followed the recipe and split it into four loaves, but I think next time I’ll split it into two because the loaves were really small. I got the recipe from AllRecipes.com. You can try it for yourself here: Squaw Bread

There are more bread pictures here: Bread of the Month

BOTM – Spelt Everything Crackers

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Spelt Everything Crackers

Well, I kind of didn’t get around to making any bread during March, so in April I made two things. Spelt Everything Crackers were the first. I’ve been wanting to make these for a long time. They’re from the blog Smitten Kitchen.  Hers definitely turned out prettier, I gotta say.

These are ridiculously easy. I couldn’t find sesame seeds, so I used sunflower seeds. I also accidentally bought paprika covered dried onions. They both tasted pretty good. I definitely learned one important thing about cracker making. After you sprinkle your toppings on, you need to go over them with a rolling pin to kind of push them into the dough. If you don’t you get some pretty plain crackers in a bowl and a mess of ingredients all over your counter. The second attempt on these crackers was much more successful as a result of this discovery.

There are more pictures here: Bread of the Month

Things You Can See While Your Husband Runs a Marathon

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Picnik collage

Clockwise from Top Left:

A grown man dressed as a baby, running a marathon.

A tree, being chased by an orangutan with an ax, running a marathon.

A man running a marathon in his silk boxers.

A 60 something gentleman, on a motorcycle that is airbrushed with a castle in the clouds, wearing leather pants and a helmet with a woman airbrushed on it, blaring George Michael from his stereo, leading the marathon.

More pics here: Vienna Marathon