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Fluff

While running errands today, i stopped by the Dean & Deluca in Soho and picked up a pain au chocolate. The woman behind the counter recommended the brand that started with a "P," which i'm totally blanking on right now, since it was flakier than the City Bakery chocolate croissant. She was totally right; the pain au chocolate was ultra tender with buttery, flaky crisp corners, filled with a sweet melty dark chocolate. I liked it much better than the one i had at Jacques Torres' place, and that one was already great. At $2.50 each, it was a fair price for something so choco-good!

The strawberries we got in our most recent box were the 2nd best we've ever had. The gariguettes we had all over Paris are probably impossible to beat (they tasted like candy, i tell you!) but tonight's container of organic, dark red berries are probably the best you can find in the U.S. be was a little skeptical when i declared they were 2nd best ever, but after he ate a particularly sweet & juicy one, he seemed to be sure. I'm not a strawberry-lover, but these were so yummy i just might say i am.

After my cook-a-thon at 2AM, i decided to make a batch of rice krispie treats with marshmallow creme, aka Fluff. It doesn't contain gelatin so they're vegetarian, although not vegan due to the egg whites. It was difficult scraping the creme out of the jar, but after you mix it with the melted butter it's just like using real marshmallows = a gooey, fluffy, ploppy white mass you mix with rice cereal. I had 4 treats when they semi-cooled; the Fluff ones are pretty much the same as regular ones, except they're less "stretchy" and a little "crisper." The treats tasted very buttery too, since i used 3 T of real organic butter as opposed to margarine.

posted by beXn @ 3:03 AM