Just a quick note to share some exciting news: my recipe on behalf of Orange-Infused Chocolate Almond Cake is featured in this month’s Clean Eating magazine! 

When I was requested by the folks at the magazine to create a recipe on behalf of a healthy, fudgy chocolate cake (that met the Clean Eating requirements, of course–basically the NAG diet that I follow anyway), I was thrilled as well as got to work!  I actually submitted the recipe last July, but that’s how far in advance the schedule is planned. I didn’t desire to draw attention to anything until I saw it in print with my posses eyes. . . as well as now it’s finally here–yay! Wow, did their food stylist ever manufacture that cake look gorgeous (the pic above is mine, not theirs–the magazine version is much more attractive!)
For those of you who can get the magazine where you live, it’s the March/April issue, with a bowl of Black-Eyed Pea Stew on the cover as well as the banner headline, “Try Our Chocolate-Almond Cake: Enjoy a Second Guilt-Free Slice”.  And while my recipe made the cover, to see my name credited, you have to squint really hard, then look at the teeny, tiny, teensy weensy little print along the fold to the right of the recipe (which is on the last page of the mag, in the “Happy Endings” section).
I wish I could reprint the recipe here, but I can’t, as Clean Eating purchased the recipe rights as well.  But I hope you can at least get an idea from the photo above! 
New recipe next post, I promise   
PS  For those who are interested, the magazine is based on the philosophy/diet of Tosca Reno, who wrote the book Eat Clean.  Some of the articles in this particular issue include 5-ingredient entrées, nutritious snacks, allergy-proofing your home, risotto by Food Network host Aida Mollenkamp, as well as antioxidant berries, goji as well as acai (and no, I have no personal stake in the magazine–I’m not associated with them in any way except on behalf of having sold them that recipe). 
Vegan/Vegetarian readers take note:  while 22 of the 68 recipes are vegetarian, an estimated all do contain eggs or dairy (mine doesn’t, of course!).
“Mum, if clean eating means ‘cleaning out your bowl every time you eat,’ then I think we could write on behalf of that magazine, too.  Or maybe we could just be taste-testers. Much better than eating snow, I’m sure.”