orthographic grump

There does not seem to be any comprehensible or halfway consistent rule about which final rs or ls get doubled when adding ed or ing.

If I ever had a full list memorized, it is lost now, and I find I must use a spellcheck and hope for the best.

I've been composing lj posts about my work every day but then I forget to actually write and post them. But I am working on the novel: just not at the computer. For some reason I am doing my best work on it in my bedside notebook, which is not the usual way I work. It's not hard to write a thousand words of it this way before I get up in the morning.

culinary note to self

Experiments with the "ghirardelli grand fudge cake" recipe from the can of Ghirardelli (naturally) ground chocolate and cocoa reveal that replacing part of the flour with garbanzo flour is okay, replacing all the flour with garbanzo flour is okay, replacing the flour with almost any combination of flour, garbanzo flour, and almond meal is okay, but replacing all the flour with almond meal results in loose clarified butter pooling up between the gfinished cake and the parchment paper lining of the pan. It also comes out cloyingly rich and gooey. Theough the gooey might be solved with a longer baking time.

But reducing the sugar from 1-3/4 cups to 1-5/8 or so is just about right. I wonder if reducing the butter similarly would allow the all-almond meal version to come out better?

Purpose of this: it's stream of consciousness cooking: free association from "how do I get sweet stuff with less simple carbohydrates? Oh, reduce the other simple carbohydrates in the mixture!" At some point I'll be trying a replacement of the white sugar with agave syrup, if I can find a verification of its relative lower glycemic load from a non-industry source: otherwise it's too expensive, and entails too many changes, to bother with.

I know some of you folks have been exploring carbohydrate manipulation in your own ways. Mostly I think I've read people talking about just going for low-to-no carbohydrate diets. I'm not really interested in that, partly because I've read something about prolonged carbohydrate restriction and low serotonin levels, and partly because my modified low-glycemic regime works well for me when I'm not grieving and freaking out. Anyway, has anybody out there seen a discussion of agave syrup and its glycemic load (or even its glycemic index which is less interesting to me because we don't eat indexes) -- that wasn't on a page advertising agave products?