I am causing mayhem in the kitchen again.
There’s mess and chaos, just as before, https://silkannthreades.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/kitchen-chaos/
but this time, I am cooking by the light of the moon…not really…..but there is a big, bold moon in the sky which I can see from my well-lit kitchen.
Here is what is happening:
There are cookies and crumbs
from the excellent The Sensitive Gourmet, Antoinette Savill, http://www.amazon.com/The-Sensitive-Gourmet-Imaginative-Cooking/dp/0722537131
- The Sensitive Gourmet
- Creates Cookies
- From this recipe
And there is divine chocolate cake, and more crumbs,
from the Healthy Food Guide http://www.healthyfood.co.nz/recipes/2007/may/gluten-free-chocolate-cake
And, to the cake, I added healthy, blueberry sauce and a helping of not so healthy ice cream.
- ice cream, cake
- and blueberries
But ice cream decadence is permissible when the moon is full and round and one is cooking in the night kitchen. Even snakes and dogs are permissible; as long as they are still.
That’s enough nonsense from my night kitchen, except my silliness has reminded me of a wonderful rhyme we loved when we were children :
I went to the animal fair, the birds and the beasts were there. By the light of the moon the giddy baboon was combing his auburn hair. The monkey he gave a jump, and sat on the elephant’s trunk. The elephant sneezed and fell on his knees and what became of the monkey, monkey, monk….
All my recipes tonight are gluten-free and dairy free but definitely not chocolate free.
© silkannthreades
Both look delicious! I might see if I can also cater the recipe to Lactose and egg free too!
🙂
Good luck. I am sure you can do it. Rome and the gluten free empire weren’t built in a day. 🙂
All looks delicious to me! Wish that was going on in my kitchen right now 😉
Me too. I have been a bit slack with cooking lately. Though I did make a lovely pannacotta yesterday. And am hoping to make a potato pie tonight.
Wow! Sounds amazing! Hope the pie was delicious (I’m sure it was) x
Definitely was!
I came for the recipes and stayed for the rhymes (and the dog, uuuh, aaaaw, is it a schnauzer!?)
blueberry sauce is great (unless stuffed with colorants) and there are amazing vegan coconut-based and soy-free ice cream concoctions out there, so veganising all of those would be pretty easy actually 😉
but, shhh, I occasionally do use a pasture egg or two. support your local green farmers, I say.
Yes, my dog is a miniature schnauzer although not as mini as some. He loves a bit of coconut oil when I will give it to him! The blueberries are beautiful gorgeous organic ones from NZ; no colourants. I won’t tell about the eggs!
pretty perfect recipes!
the dog is ubercuuuute!! my mum has a zwergschnauzer (is it miniature?) but he’s rather bigger than average. well, he’s 11 kilogram instead of 7 in our book 😀 pure muscle! (not even kidding)
My dog is about 8 kg. But he LOVES food so he puts on weight easily. Like me, his minder 🙂 However, Jack is fit and all muscle. I am not! Sigh.
that’s because us humans, we only chase our tails online 😉
good night from me (well, in berlin it’s really the dead of night) = a good morning to you! 😀
Thanks; I like the sound of Berlin in the dead of night. A New Zealand writer lives in Berlin; she often talks about the dead of night in Berlin. I think it is her favourite time. Sleep well. I will chase my tail online for awhile before I do some real work.
maybe because it’s daytime at home for her? 🙂
just kidding.
but yes, empty streets at night have their charm. drunk hordes of students not so much (we live in quite central a place).
Drunk hordes of students are found here too and not always in the dead of night!
😀
I think I can outbid this!
Drunk student hords peeing on the street en passant. As in: not even stopping to do so.
You win! It probably happens here; I just haven’t seen it.
Lucky you! Here everything is possible in the broad daylight 😀
The endless possibilities must be why Berlin is a favourite destination for New Zealanders. Though I hope they don’t make a nuisance of themselves like the students.
It’s ironic, because so many Berliners RAVE about New Zealand and dream about becoming motorcycle guides in paradise.
The grass is always greener, I suppose 🙂
For sure!
motorcycle TOURS guides, that is.
Perhaps we rush to Berlin so we can be cultured and Berliners come this way to be naturalised; it’s a funny world.
it is indeed!
p.s.
din replied to your chickpeas addiction comment over at the deathmatch post 🙂
Thanks! I went to see the comment. We had more of the chickpea curry tonight and now it is all gone. New menu for tomorrow.
Did someone say ice cream and blueberries?! 🙂
Definitely; and chocolate too.
Sounds like quite a night!
We’re trying a gluten-free diet for a month so your chocolate recipe arrived just in time!
It was a night out of the ordinary. For a change, I wasn’t falling asleep on my keyboard or in my chair by the TV. 😀 We don’t need to be gluten free anymore because my gluten intolerant son doesn’t live at home now. However, I do believe it is good to have as much variety as possible in one’s diet. Otherwise we do limit ourselves to the same old, same old and there are so many lovely wheat alternatives. Enjoy your gluten-free month.
Now this was something to look for…reading backwards! Sooo yummy looking and with chocolate and that beautiful rhyme …I really do must have some coffee…right now, on the spot!
Wish for an old express mail with your cake! (Worked in the Post Service for 22 years, so the old express mail still lives with me…) Maybe I can tempt my chocolate lover of a son to have some coffee with me too even if it is late…this is his last week living with us…moving out on Saturday. Oh, comforting chocolate!
I hope you have lots of yummy chocolate and coffee times with your son this week. My son used to love chocolate but he takes it very rarely now.(Perhaps too expensive for his student budget??) And, I loathed chocolate when I was young but I can’t stay away from it now.
In years gone by, we did send cake by mail, and not even by express mail. They were fruit cakes or pieces of them. Do you remember the tradition of sending friends and family a piece of your wedding cake if they weren’t able to come to your wedding? Perhaps people still mail cake!
Please!! DON’T leave out the chocolate!
The baking would be rather dull without the chocolate, wouldn’t it? 🙂
How about boysenberry? Or am I just getting silly?
Boysenberry, in or out? The original recipe actually calls for boyesnberries but I didn’t have any, so I made blueberry sauce to go with the chocolate cake.
You’ve got to be kidding!? I love boysenberry.
No kidding! And I do think they go better with chocolate than blueberries.
Gluten and dairy free rings true for my oldest son, sugar and dairy free for my daughter and dairy free for the youngest.
Is your snake a paper weight of sorts? He/she has a certain look in its eye!
Jazz is merrier at full moon time and we seem to sleep more fitfully. Perhaps we should be up cooking treats too….and include some for Jazz. He has been known to enjoy muffin crumbs.
It’s a challenge trying to cater for everyone, isn’t it? But I think it also means that we get to eat a wonderful variety of food. The snake is a paper weight, especially for keeping the pages of recipe books flattened. It was a gift from my daughter, years ago. And yes, as far as full moon cooking is concerned, as Mr Dilmah would say, “Do try it”. Jazz will love you for it.
Cake, cookies, ice cream, blueberry sauce and a full moon what more could a body ask for!
A nice restful day, the day after 🙂
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It all looks delicious….thank goodness it’s nearly lunchtime!!
Oh good! Make sure you have some healthy chocolate!
Oh well, if you insist!! 🙂
I do. I can’t do this chocolate thing alone (well, I can! but company makes me feel less guilty!)
I suspect calorie free too if you are eating in the middle of the night… 🙂
Who knows? Midnight and moonlight make for a real muddle and all sorts of merry possibilities.
tee hee 🙂 I can just imagine you dancing around your kitchen, having the most wonderful time. Does the resulting baking taste different from when you make it during the day?
Um, …….possibly…….I may have to experiment more with that possibility. I will call those posts The Test Kitchens 😀
TTKs – I like it! 🙂
But I will have to leave that experiment for awhile. I can truthfully say I have had enough chocolate for a week at least.
I can understand that. It won’t be long before you get the bug back again though…
😀 Chocolate is very contagious.
😀
the magic carpet’s on its way for a week’s worth of cookies!!!!!
i’ve been painting all night, stopped now at 2, and wow, do those sweets ever look great!
z
They are super great! With enough chocolate and caffeine in them to keep you working till morning!!!! So we will save some, for when you wake up; that might be better.
I always liked the old rhyme about “I went to the animal fair. . . ” I hadn’t thought of it in years. Thanks for reminding me of it.
It was such fun to say/sing but really made no sense that I could see. I believe there may be more verses.
Look so delicious, they are good recipe for a really good night sleep I suppose.
Sadly, no :D. So much chocolate and sugar late at night meant that the mayhem could have gone on all night without a wink of sleep.
There are cookies, and cake, and ice-cream and a Schnauzer snoozing. This is why I need to drop by. I need to help you clean up your kitchen like the good sport I am, and then I can have cookies, and cake and ice cream, and wake up the snoozing schnauzer…….
Of course, when we meet up at Necker Island, none of us will have to cook~
If you come at the time of moon madness, no one will be required to clean up. We will simply feast and be merry. But, no cooking at all, sounds even better.
It all looks lovely and yummy. The sweet snake in your kitchen too 🙂 I ‘ll have some of the cookies please and icecream with blueberry sauce! I’ll clean the crumbs up for it….
The crumbs are the best part. Oh no, wait, the best part is licking out the bowl 🙂
I agree, I always did that at my mums too. Now they say it is not healthy but I do it anyway. I love that part too!
Yes, let’s stand united on the joys of bowl licking!
🙂
Oh, I missed that blue full moon and the permissible indulgence! I went out to look for it but it was hiding behind a thick cloud cover. Maybe I can blame that and have some of this later? Like a rain check, maybe….it looks so GOOD!
Yes, take a rain/moon check! I saw the moon clearly the other night and then we had clouds for a couple of nights, but last night it was lovely and clear again. I’ll have some chocolate goodies for you at the next moon madness 🙂
Thank you, looking forward to that 🙂
Me too.
We also had that animal rhyme but the words were a bit different. The ice cream and blueberry sauce really catches my eye 🙂
When I looked for the words for that rhyme on Google, a lot of variations came up, so I just went with the ones I remembered. What were the words that you knew?
Oh no,,,the mouth is watering again…and to top it off…stomach rolling♥
Quick; get a chocolate remedy whilst you can still stand 😉
Ah, you made me feel hungry ! Need to go to have a cup of coffee and some sweets !!!!! 😃❤
My chocolate cake has coffee in it as well; isn’t that convenient?
I love chocolate too. 🙂
It is supposed to be good for us!
it tastes so 🙂