Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Going shoppin'

Things that are hard to find in stores here in LDN:

*chocolate chips for baking
*white vinegar (malt vinegar they've got to the nth degree, however)
*double boilers, or, as I hear they're called here, "bain maries"
*beeswax wood conditioner
*bulk foods
*good, affordable wine from the West Coast of the USA


Things that are so very easy to find here:

*marmalade, chutneys, preserves and mustard
*spreadable butter
*clotted cream
*drying clothes rack
*good, affordable wine from the Continent


Don't get me wrong, I love the "easy to find" list.  I could OD on clotted cream, really.  I would just like to be able to buy chocolate chips, melt them in a double boiler and make with the gooey outcome a chocolate tofu pie.

The recipe is from my old place of work: http://thejuicebar.org/


Tofu of the Gods

*The filling:  12oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips
                      1 tub of Silken tofu, or two smaller tubs 
                      A dash of vanilla extract
                      1 tablespoon of honey (optional)

*The crust: 1 packet of graham crackers
                   A handful of almonds (or any kind of nut that suits your fancy)
                   A tablespoon or two of butter, or margarine (enough so that the mix adheres together)

After having made many of these lil' beauties for work, I can make this pie in my sleep.  It's my party pie, as it were, and it's how I win friends and influence people. ;)  If I can't make the chocolate tofu pie in England, then, party-wise, I might be sunk.  (Although a heaping bowl of fresh guacamole with some thick, corn chips might be a fine replacement.)

*I'm too lazy to write out the preparations for this pie.  If you're inclined to want to know, then send me a note, and I'll mail you the info.

3 comments:

  1. wish you could have been there the day I tried to find rubbing alcohol (to remove the fuchsia dye from tips of fingers & ears when I color my hair) ... I swear it was like trying to buy a gun.

    SO happy to see you're still enjoying yourself ♥

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  2. Seriously?! Did you wind up needing a permit, or what? And then you wonder about all those folk with dyed hair walking around town. What do they do?

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  3. well, we know they don't use ice for anything, you know, being as that it's apparently rationed over there :)
    BTW... there IS a shop (I'll snatch up the name from the BF since he went there to get me some strawberry Twizzlers®) that sells American & Canadian candies etc. So.. if you are just aching for somethin', it CAN be found. :)

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