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Char Nolan - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern
Join Chef Char Nolan in her virtual office as she welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to ask anything – from cooking techniques to cou… Read More.
Question:
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I know that you eat no SOS. How do you make foods such as cookies without any sugar at all?
— Cathy Chapman
Answer:
The correct term would be refined sugar. So I will use maple syrup, which has some nutrient density to it, or I will use dates which are also very nutrient dense that contain calcium. They're a good source of potassium. But in terms of using a refined white, even if it's vegan sugar, I never ever use that. So, um, I made, um, last week I sent, uh, chef Eric a recipe and I said, I'm gonna try this. And the recipe was this. The recipe was four apples and you cut, you peel them, cube them and boil them. And then you take a, uh, you take some chocolate bars and I used an 85% chocolate bar, which is not very sweet. And what happens is that it makes a beautiful cheesecake. So when you look at it, there was some sugar in the chocolate, but it wasn't, uh, one and a half cups of granulated sugar. And if I did have that dessert, which I'll be serving tomorrow, I might enjoy a little teeny winy bite. And if you want to, uh, email me and I will send you a picture of what the final dessert looks like, because it looks like something that would be filled with, um, all kinds of, uh, sugar and fats and everything else. And the pectin from the apple made this cake just have the most beautiful texture. So, uh, if I make cookies, it is bananas, oats, and raisins, and boom, the cookies are done. So, uh, and everybody seems to love those three ingredient cookies, which are wildly popular. You can add a nut butter to it if you wish.
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