Rubbishy Cookery

  Another dessert! Another mousse! What the heck! If you tried and enjoyed Recipe #18, and if you like chocolate, you’ll love this rubbishy spin on chocolate mousse. Ingredients: There’s that vintage Consumers Distributing mini mixer again! I sure hope you have something like it. Directions: Add a few spoonfuls of ricotta cheese, a couple of generous spoonfuls of icing sugar, 1-2 modest spoonfuls of cocoa powder, and a dash of vanilla extract to the bowl of your mini mixer: Then mix on “high” speed for about a minute. Here’s an action shot showing the mini mixer in its full glory: Taste your mixture. Mine needed more icing sugar: Mix another minute or so, scraping down the sides as necessary, and taste every so often, adding more of whatever is needed as you go. When it’s as tasty as you want it, refrigerate it for a while. An hour or two is fine. Wasn’t that easy? It may not look like much, but it tastes terrific!

  This is my current go-to breakfast, and not because I’m a health food nut. I have HFN tendencies, but as my other recipes will attest, I am not a true nut.  This breakfast tastes good, keeps me satisfied until lunch time, and is easy to put together in the morning.  I will say that healthfood-type ingredients tend to be expensive, and are becoming ridiculously expensive. This is not your cheapest option for breakfast, but you’re worth it! Ingredients: Directions: First things first. Let’s toast those sliced almonds until they are golden brown and fragrant. If you do this in your toaster oven, watch them like a hawk the first few times to figure out your oven’s settings and heat level. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve not followed this advice and burned my delicate (and expensive) sliced almonds, rendering them inedible. When they were normal-expensive, it was bad enough. Now that they’re ridiculous-expensive, it’s not an option. This is how they look pre-toasting: T...