David Lebovitz (an American food blogger living in Paris) has recreated one of my favorite childhood snack foods, Nutella. I’m always a firm believer in homemade being better than store-bought and this is yet another example of why I feel this way. Since this was posted on David’s site a few days ago, I’ve made this for my kids and all of them absolutely loved it. Spread this on some gluten-free bread from your bread machine and both you and your kids will be smiling ear-to-ear. (If absolutely necessary, you can use some of the better store bought gluten-free bread like Udi’s, Rudi’s, French Meadow Bakery, or Genius in the UK — there I go contradicting myself with the whole store-bought vs. homemade argument).
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“As I’ve come to believe, it’s as if they’ve implanted something in my brain so stores in Paris can know what I’m out of so that when I get there, they can be sure to not have it in stock. So I went to G. Detou (which translates in French as “I have everything”, which they normally do) to pick up hazelnuts to try a recipe for World Nutella Day from the Encyclopédie du Chocolat that landed on my doorstep. Of course, they had every kind of nut and seed crammed onto their shelves; almonds, cashews, pecans, pine nuts, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, Brazil nuts, four kinds of pistachios, and even Macadamia nuts. They indeed have everything—except the one thing that I wanted: hazelnuts…”
