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To Foodie or Not to Foodie – A Rant and a Recipe
We are always torn when writing on this blog and more importantly when adding recipes to our website at emealsforyou.com how far down the Foodie Road we go. It has been our intention from the start to provide you with recipes and meal plans that are easy to make, use common ingredients and most important, interesting. With this in mind I sometimes think you might take a look at the title and decide the recipe is not for you.
I enjoy cooking, and thinking about cooking. We do have a rule around here that you can’t talk about the next meal while eating the current meal. Cooking is all about confidence. Confidence is about trying new recipes and having them turn out great; or sometimes making them a few times to get it right. The important thought here is to try. Don’t be put off by something new or a “fancy” name. Our readership is composed of all levels of cooks; from chefs to the newly wed preparing her or his first meal for the in-laws.
So here we go! This sounds crazy but it will take a store-bought carrot cake to a new level of dessert. Give it a try and let us know what you think.
Goat Cheese Ice Cream
Goat Cheese Ice Cream
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 12 |
| Category: | Dessert |
| Meal: | N/A |
| 2 | cups | cream, heavy |
| 0.5 | cup | milk, whole |
| 4 | large | egg, yolks |
| 0.25 | cup | sugar, granulated |
| 3 | Tb | corn syrup, light |
| 4 | oz | cheese, goat |
Bring the cream and the milk to a boil. Whisk egg yolks and sugar together and slowly add some of the hot cream into the yolks, stirring constantly. Add the yolk mixture to the cream and cook for 2-3 minutes, whisking constantly. Whisk the corn syrup and the goat cheese together and add to the cream mixture. Remove from heat and whisk until fully blended. Cool in a water bath and then process in an ice cream maker. Freeze until needed.
Note: This is very rich and should be used in conjunction with other desserts.
Shown over carrot cake.
From the Dessert Collection at emealsforyou.com.
Recipe of the Week – Hot Fudge Sundae
(From the Dessert Collection at emealsforyou.com)
We are having a going away party for a couple in our neighborhood group this weekend and I am responsible for the desserts. I have over 100 dessert recipes on my website (emealsforyou.com) so finding something to make wasn’t the problem, deciding what to make was. After kicking around several ideas we hit on having an old-fashioned Ice Cream Social. We will set up a dessert station with ice cream, hot fudge sauce, caramel sauce, whipped cream and of course cherries to top it all off. The perfect finish for the neighborhood party.
This hot fudge sauce is extremely easy it make and has always elicited rave reviews. Make a double batch, it lasts forever in the frig, well almost forever depending on your families addiction to chocolate.
Hot Fudge Sauce
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 8 |
| Category: | Dessert |
| Meal: | Santa Fe Feast (Share-a-Meal Plans) |
| 0.5 | cup | sugar, white |
| 0.5 | cup | corn syrup, light |
| 1 | Tb | vanilla |
| 1.5 | Tb | butter, unsalted |
| 0.25 | cup | cream, heavy |
| 0.5 | cup | cocoa |
Heat sugar, syrup, vanilla, cream and butter in a heavy sauce pan until blended. Mix in cocoa and stir.
Hint: may be kept in the refrigerator for weeks. Re-heat in microwave.
Size Matters – A Rant
Since the early 1960′s the nations of the world have accepted the Metric System as the unit of measuring everything from distances to the size of kidney stones. The United States has lagged behind the universal efforts and remains one of three, joining Burma and Liberia to fight the conversion.
There are however a few companies in this country that have embraced the metric system; mostly to their benefit. Take the soda industry, can you think back to the time you bought a half gallon of pop? Booze is the same way. Without our knowing we now buy less for the same amount of money or even are paying more. We purchase liters of our favorite beverages; 1.75 liters of Jack Daniels, do the math… a liter is only 30 ounces, not the 32 we all learned made up a quart. That 1.75 liters of Jack is only 55.5 ounces, somehow we gave up our right to the other 8.5 ounces. Maybe the booze manufacturers were worried about our livers and imposed a safety valve of less is better.
Now we come to the real reason I am writing this: someone, somewhere has been playing with the size of my ice cream packages. We went silently into the night when the 64 ounce, half gallon became the smaller, metric version. Just when we got used to that they switch on us again. Last week, reaching into the cooler at the local grocery I grab a ( half gallon, downsized to about 50- some ounces) Breyers vanilla. WAIT!!!! Something is not right!!!!! The new size is back to the old system of weights and measurements, to my chagrin the new 1/2 gal. is now 1.5 quarts.
Enough, give me back my “lost” 15 ounces. Mess all you want with the 2 X 4 being only 1.5 inches by 3.5 inches but keep your greedy little hands off my ice cream.
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