I tried

Ok so I tried this because I saw it done on a show
Unwrap

Place chocolate


Re-wrap


Bake

Powdered sugar

Eat


Tasted really yummy!

BUT!!!!!!!! I wouldnt use low fat crescent rolls next time..too dry or something...
Also you have to eat these warm when the chocolate is gooey :)

Dietary/Food Failures for 2007

1. Anything Gluten Free...OMG I hate to say this but Blech!
There must be a way (I can figure out) to work with Gluten free flour and get a good textured product.

2. Veganism. Since I am low carbing it, there is no way that a diet with few carbs and vegetables with work for me. It's impossible and unhealthy.
I can have Tofu now and again but that gets old really fast.
Sorry..
Animal protein keeps me going

3. Red Velvet Box Cake and Marble Cake from the box.
Not so good....

4. Cooking everyday: I can't do this. I am too tired when I get home.

5. Not entertaining like I want to.
Entertaining makes me braver about cooking for people.
I have to do it more to chase the heebies away...

6. Trying to like onion.
I give up. It's not going to happen

So are you from around here?

I went to a BBQ place in Crawfordville/Wakulla.
It was a rural BBQ place.
I got a smoked Chicken Salad
The girl asked me what dressing I wanted and I said Red raspberry Vinaigrette
She said: Sorry we don't have that...
The cook showed me what they had, and I got one of those selections.
Then the merriment started
The girl looked at us and asked: So are you guys from around here?
I said no
My friend said yes

The BBQ place had animal skins splayed out on the wall.
While we waited for the food I got ribbed by my friend and the owner
Owner: You must eat at Panera a lot!
My friend: Sure you don't want some fresh mango with that?
And on and on....

I dunno what the big deal was..I just bought a bottle of the very same vinaigrette the other day, AND some mangoes...
I thought everyone had these on hand...
Meanwhile I forgot the card to the BBQ place..
It was funny, a pink pig smiling in the middle of the card...

Taiwanese pineapple cake

Yi-T brought this cute pineapple cake for me.
Love the packaging...so dainty


The taste..yummy.

The pineapple filling is like a hard jelly in the middle.
The cake part is like a sponge coookie... so its like sponge cake but harder like cookie..

Trouble with Choux

I found out why my choux and Trini Choux is soft. Although it tastes great the way we make it for our cheese, chicken or tuna fillings, if we want the French Pastry we have to bake at high temp and then let dry out..also add salt to the dough....
I will try it..



From French Pastry Chef


Bake in a hot oven (425) until they have puffed and gotten some color, then reduce the temperature (350) until they dry out inside. Do Not Underbake or they will fall flat. Cut one open to check the inside for wetness, before removing from oven, if your not sure that they are done.

Additional Comments : Make into small puffs - large puffs - small eclair - large eclair - small buchette - large buchette and riviera shells

This formula will yield 25 to 30 small puff/eclair or 8 to 10 large items.

I missed this

But L'hF was nice enough to send me a picture.
Cod
Rice

Roasted Peppers :)

Au Peche

We went again...My favorite thing there forever will be the Chocolate Brioche.

Then the others

Sis loves it all
Thanks to L'h F :)

Drops and Dew

So we have been visiting this place and its really cool.

The food is light and the people there are great.

The dessert was out of this world

We laughed a lot

Talked about all things Trini

GREAT STUFF! :)

Haw flakes-Chinese Communion

Sis brought me some...
I used to eat them when I was little

Haw flakes are Chinese sweets made from the fruit of the Chinese hawthorn (Crataegus pinnatifida, genus Crataegus)
They contain unapproved food coloring so I dunno what's been happening in my system all these years but....

When sick of Christmas food

Try a Low Carb Wrap
Heat briefly in a pan with crumbled feta, pepper flakes and some shreds of turkey

The end

Eggplant , Lamb and Veges Casserole

Get some eggplant, carrots, whatever veges you want in there
Cook them all up together in lamb stock/ fat which you get from cooking lamb for your dinner
Make up your cornbread stuffing by adding it to the cooked eggplant and vegetables
Add some leftover shredded lamb

Mix
Place in casserole dish

Top with grated cheese (we tried out Organic cheese-eh same difference)

Bake 350 C for 30 mins

Sheperd's Pie

Ok It's a lot of Carbs this Christmas..but MODERATION never hurt anyone. The traditional way is just Meat on bottom, potato on top but I didn't want to do it that way..We're not totally British...

Get Minced meat/ Ground beef


Cook it- season it, add some Ketchup from a little thickening and sweetness to the savory of the seasonings

Layer
Potato

Meat

Potato
Cheese

Bake- 350 C for 25 mins

Have fun

The Choux Pastry puffs

We made the cheese and tuna puffs..
Cuz we wanted to do it...
Prepared the dough the Choux Pastry way

Baked em

Stuffed them
You know the rest

The Leg of Lamb

Bought it

Seasoned it so that the skin and fat would be encrusted with seasonings at the end


Cooked it


You know the rest.....

The turkey

Was bought- I got the smallest one I could find..11 pounds

And Thawed



And Seasoned


And Cooked

And Some eaten...


It's kinda huge for just us :(

Cute and Interesting

I saw this and liked it

Cool

Trial run

We wanna do huge pieces of lamb for Christmas
So this is a trial run to see which spice combination will work well for us
I wanted more green..more parsley. I refuse to put dill on this..
So it's going to sit for a while and marinate and then we are going to bake it and at the end roast it...


Gordon Ramsay had a segment on foodblog tv which I liked.
The end result was just too raw (pink) for me, and I decided I may not ask the butcher to take the bone out. I may just ask him to chop it...
It depends..I despise complications...

Some things

These are cool.

You eat these one a day because they are soooo rich..
The center is soft and kinda semi solid, semi gooey...

This is from Trini. It is salt prune mango.

Dried sweet mango covered in salt and other things...It sounds and looks like it may cause illness and it probably does, but it tastes sooooo good

The piece de resistance is Diana Nut Krak'r

I love the commercial and how Trinis say it
Fast, hard and loud...Sooo funny.

L'h F then ma soeur

So L'h F got me some pastries from Au Peche Mignon.
Then my sis wanted some so we went and got them.
I think she liked saying
This one

This one
This one
And THIS ONE
LOL
They look great...we will have them :)

Eating my way to goood health

Stupid eyes be hanged..

I'll force them into goodness

'Coveted Cakey'

Remember the Little women Coveted Cakey?
This is what I imagine it looked like...

"More sudar marmar!" :)

Eric Ripert

Impresses me on Top Chef. He seems to be one of the only judges who cares about flavor combination not just did he like the food.
The pairings are important. Strawberry and meat..no GOOD!
Finally a judge with some...some...some, something (je ne sais pas).


ps...They should have lovely Gordon Ramsay on there too!
He tore some guy a new one the other night for having a nasty restaurant....