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Red Velvet Cake Roll with Strawberries and Ricotta …give me RED!
“Lots of bright colors like lime, orange and red this year.” Barbara Henderson The sight of the brilliant RED in the RVC takes my breath away each time I see a picture. Does that happen to you too? I have always wanted to make a red velvet cake (RVC) for as long as I can remember. So much talk about it, so many pictures calling my name, but I never quite had the courage to try making something so red which often involved a whole bottle of red food colouring. It scared me! Almost every recipe I came across had about that amount of colour to lend the cake its…
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WORLD OATMEAL COOKIES … with Dried Cranberries, Crystallised Ginger, Walnuts & Raisins
“I’ll feed them milk and cookies.”Brent Sutter I love a good oatmeal cookie. Had a bag of dates & thought I’d do a date & walnut something. Surfed the net for ages looking for something ‘cookie’ to make with dates & walnuts. Obviously & predictably, got hopelessly distracted, & ended up making these tasty morsels … without using dates of course! Not really sure if I would like dates in my cookies, I played around with ingredients in an old oatmeal cookie recipe I had. Ended up with these delish cookies, using some crystallised ginger & dried cranberries I had on hand. What I like about this recipe is that…
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Sweet Times with Swiss Rolls & Strawberries
‘This one smells like strawberry.” Lusy Garcia Helen @ Tartlette posted about dried strawberries & macarons, & it transported me back to remininsencing about the good days we enjoyed with strawberries this past Spring. There’s something about this berry that draws you to it. I want to grab a handful & enjoy them, but they also cast a spell on me. Can’t just eat them as is … got to do more.They’re done for the season here, but I had a couple of last things I did with them. This is one of them, & there’sne moreore, a meringue slice cake, that’s the last one! Of course, had they been…
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BALSAMIC STRAWBERRIES WITH WHIPPED MASCARPONE
“You have to ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Strawberry season is setting in here. Yes, it’s winter & still quite cold, but this is when we begin to see strawberries entering the market. Steeply priced, but far too tempting to turn away from, I bought a box to see what I could do with them. I also stumbled upon some locally made mascarpone cheese & my heart skipped a beat. You see most mascarpone we get here is imported & exorbitantly priced. I was thrilled to find a local variety & bought 2 tubs. Bought some goat cheese & fresh mozzarella too.…
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Strawberries in a Trifle … Quite Literally So!!
“That most wonderful object of domestic art called trifle…with its charming confusion of cream and cake and almonds and jam and jelly and wine and cinnamon and froth.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Dressed up with grated chocolate, melted chocolate, sliced strawberries & fresh mint leaves! I made these in dessert cups with the leftover sponge that I had frozen. Simple & effective, a rocking good dessert in one of our favourite combinations this season…‘Chocolate & Strawberry’!! Ready in minutes, with nothing very involved, this is indeed a whimsical way of using left-overs!! A hearty trifle for Valentines… The word “trifle” comes from the old French term “trufle,” and literally means something…
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STRAWBERRIES ON A ROll…Nice ‘n’ Light Dessert
On the STRAWBERRY: “Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.”Dr William Butler, 17th century English writer STRAWBERRY SWISS ROLL A delicious & light dessert which I made a while ago when I wasn’t quite camera crazy & ‘blogged on’. It was loved by everyone; am waiting to see strawberries back this season to make it again. The gateau has this lovely fresh flavour, and the vibrant look enhances the great taste!! Pretty simple and straightforward, this can be made in a day in advance. Keep it covered if you choose to make it the day before. Ingredients:Eggs – 2 Powdered Sugar – 2/3 cup…
