Posted on Jan 08
Carmel Chocolate French Toast
So the egg thing for breakfast morphed into this high octane french toast. Enjoy! Warning: This is so completely decadent that adults may need their kids to eat their leftovers. Mine did! Carmel Chocolate French Toast Ingredients: 4 eggs 1/8th teaspoon cream of tartar 1 can sweetened condensed milk 1 tsp vanilla extracts 1 dash...
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Lime Curd Whipped Cream Puff Pastry
Found this interesting lime curd at the store and decided to bring it together with a lime shaped puff pastry base that I made and some whipped cream. There really is no recipe for this picture. I used store bought pepperidge farms puff pastry dough and sculpted it as you see here. Some details of...
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Puff pastry, bacon, basil, cream cheese, and scallions
Puff pastry, bacon, basil, cream cheese, and scallions Ingredients: Pastry Dough (thawed) Cream cheese + fresh scallions Basil leaves Cooked bacon Egg wash 1 egg pinch of salt 1 Tablespoon water Directions: Egg wash: make 30 minutes before use. Beat egg, add salt and water, incorporate. Set aside in refrigerator for 30 minutes. Pastries: Preheat...
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Posted on Dec 24
Chocolate covered candied whole cranberries
I made these yesterday. When you pop one in your mouth you taste the chocolate and then you bite down on the candied cranberries and your mouth is filled with sweet tart cranberry juice! A very interesting treat. Cranberry Clusters Recipe courtesy The Cookworks, 2003 Show: Cookworks Episode: Christmas Candyland Recipe Summary Difficulty: Expert Prep...
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Brie and puff pastry – basil – lime
Brie, basil, and lime pastry triangles Ingredients: Pastry dough sheets Egg wash: 1 whole egg 1 tablespoon of water Pinch of salt Stuffing: Fresh Basil leaves Sliced lime wedgelets Brie slices (rectangles to fit size of triangle) Directions: Preheat oven to 450 F. Make egg wash first and let it sit about 30 minutes. Simply...
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Posted on Oct 24
Homemade Adzuki Tea Sweet
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } TeaSweet2, originally uploaded by nikaboyce. Afternoon snack – homemade adzuki sweet bean paste “tea sweet”. Just boiled adzuki beans with a bit of sugar added to the boil towards the end and then a...
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