Candy Even I Can Have

I admit, the pic that follows isn't pretty:

This is sugarfree candy with a name so long I don't want to type it, but here goes: Totally Tahini Cups with Coffee Cream Filling (click on the name if you want to see the recipe). I've been wanting to try this one since Maria sent me The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook, where I found it. It calls for four ingredients, no cooking and you make them in the food processor and fridge. So how good could it be?

Really, really good. Rich, too, and unbelievably sweet -- just like some decadent candy you'd get at a designer shop. I put a bit too much filling in this one, which is why it looks so unattractive.

With Halloween just around the corner I might try making some diet-ok treats just for me so I don't get tempted by all the sugary stuff.

Comments

nightsmusic said…

I don't know about the coffee, but other than that, it sounds like something I might like. Maybe a vanilla creme filling? I'm just not much on coffee unless it's hot, black and in a cup that I'm sipping on.

October 10, 2019 at 1:55 PM

the author said…

The coffee flavor isn't very strong in the filling, but if you want to be adventurous I bet you could substitute chocolate syrup or maybe some vanilla yoghurt for the coffee in the filling part of the recipe. Just figure on whatever would blend well with dates.

October 10, 2019 at 5:05 PM

Other Stashes

Along with clearing out the spare bedroom and tidying my office and our guest bedroom, I decided to reorganize some of my stashes. This is all the yarn I have on hand, sorted by color. It looks like a lot, but lately I've been using up a minimum of half a bin every month, so this is approximately a year's supply. All of my solid color cotton perle thread. I go through a lot of this every year, too. I need a container in which I can fit all of it together, but I haven't found the right one yet. I won't show you all of my fabric -- I'm still reorganizing this stash -- but I went through everything and donated two bins of fabric I won't need to the local quilter's guild.

In Progress

I promised myself I would show you the good, bad and ugly of my cleaning this year. This is what it looks like when you dump thirty years' worth of stashed fabric on the floor -- and oy, what a pain in the butt to pick up again! This is what it looks like after it's been sorted, folded and placed in containers, which took me about a week. Now the hard part is to downsize my stash by at least half, I think (that's my goal, anyway.) I've already e-mailed the president of the local quilting guild, a local friend who is a quilter, and a public school art teacher I know to see if I can donate some of the excess to them. The rest will go to Goodwill. Already I've reduced my vintage textiles from two bins to one, and my scraps from three bins to one. It's probably the hardest clean-out I've done, which is why I saved it until last. I know I have too much fabric, more than I can use in my lifetime -- but at the same time, I love it. So I have to...

Downsizing

This was my fabric stash once I sorted everything -- 22 full bins. I spent a day taking out and boxing up what I could part with, with the goal of trying to reduce it by half, so I'd have 11 bins. I was very strict with myself, and removed everything that for one reason or another I was sure I wouldn't be able to use. This is what I ended up with -- 12 bins of fabric that I'm keeping. It's not quite half, but close enough. Half of what I took out went to a local quilter friend, a school and Goodwill. These four tightly-packed bins will be going to the local quilting guild once I make arrangements with them for a drop-off place. I am relieved and a little sad and now determined to control my impulses to thrift more fabric. I don't want to do this again, so until I use up six bins, I can't for any reason bring any new fabric into the house.

Valerean

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