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I’m going to be a bit late with my TWD Floating Islands post, as I’ve been in San Francisco combining a little R&R with a business trip. Gotta love SF… the people are wonderful and it’s a dream of a city for those who have a passion for food.

A question for the NorCal folks (or those who love visiting the city on a regular basis like me): where do you go for your favorite baked goods?

I’ve been so wanting to take this recipe for a spin (thank you Shari of Whisk: a food blog for picking this unique recipe), and will most likely work on it this weekend (perhaps a romantic V-day dessert?).

In the meantime, while I work on getting myself caught up, you can whet your appetite for this dessert by checking out the Tuesdays With Dorie blogroll.

Ciao!

Last Friday I made the mistake of committing myself to a regular and timetabled posting about a kitchen essential. Like the Chinese Olympian, Liu Xiang, I fell at the first hurdle and utterly failed to make a posting last week. There was a reason for this, it wasn’t merely laziness or plain old forgetfulness. I can’t now remember what that reason is but anyway, here is a Friday Nibbles post on a Tuesday. As a small concession to the fact that it is not a Friday, I’ve decided to make it about a general item rather than a specific product. So, essential item two for every kitchen cupboard is…

Chickpeas were one of the first vegetables to be domesticated. Archaeological evidence has been found dating them to at least 3500BCE, but the likelihood is that they were first cultivated even earlier than that in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East (the strip of land that runs between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, now mostly in modern day Iraq – it is a painful irony that archa…