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JC Chocolate Caramel Sauce with Strawberries

Ingredients

  • 500 grams strawberries
  • 1/4 chocolate bites
  • 1/2 cup cream
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • pinch salt

Instructions

  1. Over high heat, melt the sugar for about 2 minutes until transformed into a deep golden caramel.
  2. Add the caramel mixture and pour into the cream then return it to heat and cook until caramel and cream are smoothly dissolved.
  3. Remove from heat, add chocolate and salt and stir until chocolate melts.
  4. Finally, add butter to the mixture.
  5. When cooled drizzle the caramel chocolate sauce over your strawberry dish.

Variations

replace strawberries with any other fruits.

Cooking time (duration): 30

Number of servings (yield): 4

Meal type: dessert

Culinary tradition: Middle Eastern

My rating:5 stars: ★★★★★

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Posted: January 26th, 2010
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Lavender Panna Cotta

Summary: elevate your senses into a whole new space

Ingredients

  • 2 cup milk

  • 2 cup cream
  • 30 grams of gelatin
  • 4 tbsp cold water
  • 1/2 cup honey
  • 2 tsp dried lavender

Instructions

  1. In a small bowl sprinkle the gelatin over water until softened.

  2. In saucepan, heat the cream, honey, and lavender until simmer. Turn the heat.
  3. Whisk in the gelatin and make sure that no lumps remain the add the milk to the ingredients.
  4. Pour into any preferred serving shape you like (i.e ramekins, shots, etc…) and put in the fridge for at least 3 hours.
  5. Serve with lemon zest on top and crushed dark chocolate.

Quick Notes

If you chose to serve your panna cotta in ramekins so to unmold them later on. Set the panna cotta in the fridge to more than 5 hours and then run a small knife to the edge when you un-mold them.

Variations

serve with any kinds of fruits, marmalade, or chocolate instead of lemon zest.

Cooking time (duration): 12

Number of servings (yield): 6

Meal type: dessert

Culinary tradition: Italian

My rating:5 stars: ★★★★★

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Posted: January 18th, 2010
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Nutty Buttons

Summary: when salty and sweety isn’t enough

Ingredients

  • 100 grams Pretzel Rings

  • 100 grams Chocolate’s Kisses (e.g. Hershey’s)
  • 100 grams Hazelnut and Pecans

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 100 C.

  2. In a waxed sheet, spread pretzel rings out in a single layer on the baking sheet.
  3. Place one Kiss inside each pretzel ring.
  4. Bake for 5 minutes.
  5. Remove from the oven and immediately press one nut on top of each kiss.
  6. Allow to cool completely so that the kisses can harden back up.

Variations

Replace nuts with M&m’s

Cooking time (duration): 10

Number of servings (yield): 6

Meal type: dessert

My rating:4 stars: ★★★★☆

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Posted: December 22nd, 2009
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Peanut Butter BuckEye

Ingredients

  • 1 jar peanut butter

  • 1 small pack butter (melted)
  • 6 cups icing sugar
  • 4 cups dark chocolate chips

Instructions

  1. Mix together peanut butter, melted butter and sugar.

  2. Roll the dough into munch like balls.
  3. Stick each ball in a toothpick and align on a cookie sheet.
  4. Froze for 40 minutes.
  5. Bain-marie chocolate until smooth.
  6. Dip rolled balls in chocolate.
  7. Leave a small portion of balls without chocolate thus the look of a Buckeye.
  8. Refrigerate until served.

Cooking time (duration): 50

Number of servings (yield): 6

Meal type: dessert

Culinary tradition: USA (Southern)

My rating:5 stars: ★★★★★

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Posted: December 20th, 2009
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Banana, Peanut-Butter, Nutella, Halva and Honey Sandwich

Summary: for lovers, craving mothers, and dopamine-deprived persons

Ingredients

  • 1 banana

  • 1 tbsp peanut butter
  • 2 teaspoons Nutella
  • 2 tbsp Halva (Haleweh)
  • 1 tbsp Honey
  • pinch of crushed nuts

Instructions

  1. Slice banana into little disks, about 1-1.5 cm thick.

  2. Mix the remaining ingredients, and add mixture onto a sandwish.
  3. Drizzle honey on top of them.
  4. Add the nuts.
  5. Wrap the sandwich.

Cooking time (duration): 5

Number of servings (yield): 1

Meal type: snack

My rating:5 stars: ★★★★★

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Posted: December 6th, 2009
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Black Forest Coffee

Ingredients

  • 1 cup hot coffee

  • 2 tbsp chocolate syrup
  • 1 tbsp cherry juice
  • Whipped cream
  • Chocolate shavings (White or Black)
  • cherries compot (if available)

Instructions

  1. In your BEST mug, mix coffee, syrup and cherry juice.

  2. Stir well then top with whipped cream, chocolate shavings and cherries.

Cooking time (duration): 5

Number of servings (yield): 1

Meal type: breakfast

My rating:5 stars: ★★★★★

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Posted: December 2nd, 2009
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Hot Chocolate

Summary: creamy and comforting

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

  • 1 cup and 2 tablespoons white sugar
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 1/2 cup boiling water
  • 5-1/4 cups milk
  • 3/4 cup half-and-half cream

Instructions

  1. Combine the cocoa, sugar and pinch of salt in a saucepan.

  2. Blend in the boiling water.
  3. Bring this mixture to an easy boil while you stir.
  4. Simmer and stir for about 2 minutes. Watch that it doesn’t scorch.
  5. Stir in 3 1/2 cups of milk and heat until very hot, but do not boil!
  6. Remove from heat.
  7. Serve with some cream on top and Hershey’s kisses.

Variations

you can add some ginger or peppermint flakes on top.

Cooking time (duration): 7

Number of servings (yield): 6

Meal type: breakfast

My rating:5 stars: ★★★★★

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Posted: November 25th, 2009
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Cannoli del Mio Moroso

Ingredients

    Shells:

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 30 grams Crisco
  • 50 grams sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 10 tbsp. of water (or white wine preferred)
  • 1/2 tsp. cinnamon

    Filling:

  • 2.5 cups of milk
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 2 cups of sugar
  • 0.5 cup of cornstarch
  • 1 tsp. vanilla

Instructions

    Shell making:

  1. Mix all the ingredients together except the egg till they form a small ball.
  2. Add the egg to the mix and slowly add the water/wine till you get the dough.
  3. Refrigerate the dough for about ~3 hours.
  4. Roll it thin.
  5. Use a cup or a glass to cut the rolled dough.
  6. Wrap the cut circles around the tube and seal the edge with some water.
  7. Fry the cannoli shells in the tubes in oiluntil deep golden brown.
  8. Pull the tubes from oil and slide the shell off the tube.
  9. Place the shells on paper towel to soak up extra oil and cool down.

    Filling:

  10. Heat sugar, milk, and cinnamon, leaving a little milk out to mix with the cornstarch.
  11. Add cornstarch/milk mixture when milk comes to a boil.
  12. Mix until thick while stirring continuously.
  13. Refrigerate for about 20 minutes.
  14. Add the vanilla and stir it with the mixture.

    Finishing:

  15. Use a cake decorator’s bag to fill the shells, and dip the ends of the filled cannoli shells into the nuts or chocolate mixture.

    Enjoy!

Variations

You can use ricotta cheese instead of cream to fill the cannolis.

Cooking time (duration): 240

Number of servings (yield): 12

Meal type: dessert

Culinary tradition: Italian

My rating:5 stars: ★★★★★

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Posted: November 7th, 2009
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