{"id":18320,"date":"2010-11-19T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/19\/sweet-sweet-sugar\/"},"modified":"2020-02-01T03:40:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T03:40:39","slug":"sweet-sweet-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/19\/sweet-sweet-sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"sweet, sweet sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately I’ve had a bad sweet tooth. As in, I wake up craving cookie dough for breakfast, and then by lunch I’m ready for a milkshake. And since dessert after dinner is non-negotiable, I’m pretty much perpetually tripped out on sugar. My poor baby. Lydia literally does somersaults after each round of sugar therapy, and I’m beginning to worry that she’ll emerge a sugar addict, like her mom. But I can’t stop!<\/p>\n

So I had this great idea. Find a recipe so sickeningly sweet that my body says, “That was soooo gross!! I give up!! No more, no more sugar, please!<\/i> Just spinach and quinoa from here on out, and I’m good.”<\/p>\n

Brilliant, right? Enter dream bars. I found this gem of a recipe in Joy of Cooking<\/i>–and it even beat out the Martha Stewart cookie section entitled, “For Hedonists.”<\/p>\n

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The heading for this treacly item from Joy<\/i> boasts that many copies of its cookbook have been sold on the strength of this one recipe alone.\u00a0 It calls for toasted sweetened coconut, toasted nuts, lots of sugar, and a cloying lemon glaze.\u00a0 I improvised and added two cups of chocolate chips for good measure. The result? Sweeeeeeeeet. After merely sampling the glaze alone, I retired moaning to the couch while Lydia did a series of flips inside my belly. When the actual pan of bars came out of the oven, I dumped the entire bowl of glaze on and escaped to another room while the sugar set. Then, once everything was cool, I sampled a bar:<\/p>\n

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It is now 20 minutes later, and Lydia is still kicking vigorously. She is only this active when I’ve OD’d on sugar. I’m still trying to figure out what that means…<\/p>\n

Also, since we’re on the subject, Merry Christmas!! We celebrated Thanksgiving a week early, so I’ve started listening to Christmas music and putting up decorations. Mrs. Claus is happily camped out on my couch:<\/p>\n

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And when you enter our home, two very happy snowmen look quite pleased to greet you!<\/div>\n
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And the most important part, of course:<\/div>\n
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More soon. I can’t wait to get some poinsettias and a tree! (And of course, all of those Christmas cookies are just dying to be baked…I guess my strategy could use some tweaking.)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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