Life, Interrupted

I seriously need a chocolate icon!

The stupendous Jen Stevenson has sent me chocolate -- not always the easiest thing to do, since the gluten business started up. Two of the bars are Noi Sirius, from Iceland. So I get to try something new!

I can't eat it now, what with the past ten days of gut Hell. But I am looking forward to them, and to sharing them with anyone who is also curious.

I wish everyone could get chocolate on Valentine's Day. But since it doesn't work that way, I will share mine!

Right now, this will be a link, not the recipe itself, because the person who introduced me to the recipe has it in her archive. That's http://eats.pinjing,net, whose owner often has great recipes. She got the recipe from The Cinnamon Quill.

Mochi Brownie Two-Bites

Why did I think to mention this now? Well, I did just send the recipe link to someone yesterday. But I made some for two friends Friday, and had a bit of dough left over. (My mini pan holds 24, and I doubled the recipe.) I put the overflow into a sealed glass container before fleeing the house. Three days later, I made up the refrigerated brownie dough.

These gluten free brownies are great! A little bit lighter than the original, more like a chewy cake than the dense mochi bites. So, if the original brownies are a bit dense for you, the dough kept well for 72 hours and cooked up without any additions.

When you make sweets for someone as a thank-you, especially if they contain chocolate, make only as much as will fit in the container you are passing along the item in. If you are trying to avoid such things, and there is nothing else in the fridge made for the special diet?

The brownies in the freezer will burn your mind away.

And if you succumb -- they will nail your GI tract.

Chocolate. **Sigh** But if I don't eat it now, and the paradigm shifts, I want to never regret the chocolate I passed by....

And I drank roasted barley tea with it. I swear!