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No Bake | Date & Prune Chocolate Truffles … truffles on a diet don’t get better than this #festivefood
Healthy, delicious, a power house of energy and guilt free indulgence, truffles on a diet can’t get better than this!
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No Bake Dessert| Creme au chocolat shots … fudgy, indulgent, deep chocolate creme
This is my fast track version of Crème au chocolat which translates simply into my idea of an indulgent chocolate cream! The basic recipe is quite versatile, and can be easily doubled too. I like it because it can be made in advance. Also, desserts in glasses always appeal to me. They make a bold, crisp statement, and allow for contrasting pairing that you can show off. Serve it with either fresh seasonal fruit and herbs, with amaretti cookies, or paired with vanilla bean macarons. Then again, spike it with your favourite cherry liquor and serve with juicy bing cherries, or give it an espresso kick … the possibilities are…
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{No Bake/Frozen} PEACH-GINGER & PLUM-VANILLA GRANITA … bidding adieu to stone fruit
Worldly things were of little meaning. She lived for hamburgers, ice cream, pencil and paper. Carol Adams I’m really really gutted and you might wonder why. I feel as if I lost the first prize and walked away with the consolation prize. At the heart of my misery is my rather late discovery of the granita. Have actually contemplated making it quite often, but never with such a sense of urgency until I saw this post on House of Annie. I was generally googling for something fun and refreshing to do with the last plums and peaches of the season, and this particular post had me gaping! Annie had made…
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{No Bake} OTTOLENGHI’S PRESERVED LIMES … Preserve the Bounty
This August, I signed up for the Preserve the Bounty Challenge hosted at Nourished Kitchen which is an intensive 5-week challenge designed to teach you how to preserve the bounty of summer without pulling out the canner. Participants receive an email and tutorial once a week covering a traditional, time-honored food preservation technique. In Jenny’s words, “There’s many, many methods for preserving food without canning; however, in this challenge we’re focused on only a simple handful: freezing, sun drying, salt-curing, oil-curing and fermentation. Each one of these methods helps to maintain nutrient content better than the process of hot water or pressure canning.” Preserve the Bounty: August 2010 It’s August…
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{No Bake/ Cooler} PLUM LEMONADE!
If life gives you lemons, and you are lucky enough to have plums too, …make plum lemonade! I bookmarked this the minute I saw it. The summer through, I keep a pitcher of fresh lime juice waiting for the kids when they come back from school, exhausted from the severe heat and looking for cool respite. They absolutely love fresh lime juice and guzzle it down hungrily, greedily sucking at the ice cubes in the end. When the Indian phalsa berry season was on, they enjoyed this phalsa cooler, and once in a while they luxuriated with a tall glass of peach ice tea {from a mix unfortunately}. Home made…
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{No Bake/Vegetarian Dessert} TROPICAL FRUIT VERRINES… Stoned this summer!
“Give me book, fruit, French wine, and fine weather and a little music out of doors played by someone I do not know” John Keats We’ve been stoned nice and proper this summer! No, no, it’s not what you think. It’s just that we’ve had a wonderful bounty of stone fruit, and just when I think it’s the end of the season, the vibrant bazaar and the vendor tempt me back with more fruit to offer! A few days ago, my favourite fruit-vendor promised me another week of peaches. Just when I heaved a sigh of relief that I still had time, and there was really no need for…
