Daily Archive: September 30, 2011

Mosque slash Cathedral

A little background for this photo…   Mom: Stop walking and look like you’re having fun. Having less than 24 hours in Cordoba made for an exhaustingly packed schedule, so that’s why our enthusiasm doesn’t completely leap off the page.    After lunch, we headed to the Cathedral (Great Mosque), which is basically the reason people go to Cordoba.   This is the Patio de los Naranjos, a courtyard of orange trees inside the mosque.  [For the rest of this post, I’m going to use the terms Cathedral and Mosque interchangeably because it has been… Read more >

Orangettes

Once in a while I get really into citrus.  You know where this is going right?   Yeah buddy! Composting your peels is great, but here’s an even better way to use them… Orangettes (v, gf) Ingredients: orange/tangelo peels (1 orange & 1 tangelo) dark chocolate (Ghirardelli’s Intense Dark Midnight Reverie 86% cacao) 1 tbsp sugar (NuNatural’s NuStevia pure extract) Directions: Peel your orange/tangelo.  *In case you’re not familiar with the tangelo, it’s a hybrid of a tangerine and a pomelo (or a grapefruit).  They have a tangerine taste, but are very juicy.  Tangelos also… Read more >