My mom
and I have been joking about noticing pumpkin flavored everything this season
and I think I “won” when I heard the Car Talk brothers joke about something
like pumpkin spice brake fluid on NPR. I think I could mention pumpkin in every
column for the rest of the year, so if you see me out, tell me what you have
experienced.
Pumpkin
crème brulee, in an adorable little canning jar, showed up in the dessert book
discussed below:
Vegan
Desserts
Unless
you routinely have bacon with your pie, vegan desserts sounds on track. But
remember, you won’t be cracking eggs or softening butter. Pie is a lifestyle,
author Kris Holechek Peters shares in the book “Vegan Desserts in Jars.” Anyone
can soften up to a little Mason jar of s’mores, raspberry brownie bombs and
lemon blueberrys scone domes. I hear the raw pecan pie is very rich and Peters
can make a “meringue” of wonders.
Many
recipes begin with a ganache from non-dairy versions of chocolate chips,
coconut oil and milk. Elvis is in a jar, so you better let out this peanut
butter and banana heavenly mix.
A
cup of donut
It’s
true, knowing a great coffee is in the pantry can motivate you to hop out of
bed. Dunkin Donuts ought to get some kind of science and humanity award for
getting the flavors of jelly and chocolate glazed donut flavors into a coffee.
I’m telling you, Dunkin Donuts new Bakery Series Coffee delivers a tantalizing
aroma and the warm flavor of your favorite pastry without caloric guilt. It
could be a new habit, though. Blueberry Muffin is one of my favorite flavors in
the flour edition. It’s great as a coffee, but I might pick Caramel Coffee Cake
as my favorite in a cup. Old Fashioned Donut is another option. Everyone I have
served these to can’t seem to believe all that flavor can get into coffee
beans.
Bring
on the truffles
I’m
pretty good at rationing out good things, so I don’t eat a box full at a time.
My husband had already tried Organic Velvet “melty silky goodness” dark milk
chocolate truffles and black truffles in dark chocolate before me. Before I’d
had even one, he asked for more. What the heck, he’d just mowed the lawn. When
I finally popped a ball and let the chocolate wall melt, exposing the promised
melty stuff inside and all resistance was futile.
Before
I finished that one bite, all I could think of was that husband over there was
two truffles ahead of me in this one life we live. I laid down the law. Only
one of each kind within a 24-hour period. It’s too good.
Alter
Eco Foods has infused organic ingredients, adding pure lauric acid-rich coconut
oil, instead of palm kernel oil, to fair trade chocolate. Packaging is
compostable. When this box is empty, by the end of the day I write this, it can
go in my garden compost. Guess what. These flavors are just the launch. More
flavors are coming.
Coffee
with your rum cake?
Tortuga
Caribbean Rum Cakes offer a taste of the islands that often showed up at Port
Arthur’s Cayman Fest activities. If you miss those festivals, order up a little
coconut cake. Thank goodness for mail-order shopping and not messing with a
good thing. News to me, because I’ve never been on a cruise, is that there are coffee
beans, too. Tortuga selections have been lauded in “Porthole Cruise” magazine
for nine consecutive years as Best Cruise Souvenir and in 2013 was named
Greatest Caribbean Gift.
A
burlap sack encases a bag of 100
percent Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee beans. Mornings are made better with a
quick grind and a rich brew that will take you back to the islands if you’ve
been there. In my case, the fantasy is a projection. I aim to enjoy this coffee
on the beach some day. It’s plenty good right here in my Texas kitchen.
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