Pears and inspiration

One of my friends treated his pears

in an intriguing way

Here in blog land, we're allowed to be inspired

by each others efforts.

So my pears got undressed

and started soaking!

A good warm soak, in red wine, lovely spices and citrus peel

Then cooling off and staying ther over night

The day after, the pears came out to rest

and the wine got reduced until thick syrup

Tanned and well rested

On a bed of cream made of an egg and sugar whipped fluffy

and mixed with whipped cream.

With the oh so heavenly syrup, the taste so concentrated tha you wouldn't believe it!

Trying to make it look pretty

Worth waiting for!

Thanks Christo Le Chien, for the inspiration!

The Unintended Italian evening

Tagliatelle Anette

May be with a little sprinkle of parmesan?
And Tiramisu, suddenly I realise
I have an italian menue today!
I didn't plan it at all!

Ah, so creamy and lovely

with a cup of coffee!

Pretty pudding

One of our favourite desserts:

Chocolate pudding.

I'm cheating a bit,

making it out of a mix, adding milk and boiling carefully for

a couple of minutes.

But isn't it beautiful!

I've used this mold made of pottery

It is very old, and I can remember it from when I was little

I thought it was magic!

my mum gave it to me a while ago

because she knew I loved it!

There will be more puddings coming up!
There's some holes in the bottom of it, if I should want to hang it on the wall...

Food and nutrition project

Little Chef was in charge of

a 3 course meal tonight,

as a project at school.

He used his cook book

planned the menue

set the table and started cooking:

Home made tomatoe soup from scratch


Spicy meat balls

Served with rice and a fresh salad For dessert:

Tilslørte bondepiker

He sure did a good job feeding us!

A matter of Dessert

Budapest was full of sweet cakes and baked goods

But my tastebuds more on a healthy path

and enjoyed every crunchy and fresh bite of it!

I'm now back to my everyday life

and if I long for an everyday dessert

I might make a bread pudding:

Comfort food for an autumn day!

Summer food

Pollock

Browned onions, slowly cooked

The fish and the onions are good friends!

Dessert:

Vanilla icecream, peanuts and NonStop

And for lunch the day after, when the sun is out

with a book on my lap

and the birds singing in the tree!

Sweetness

After a good meal

it might me time for something sweet.

When I was little we had dessert every day.

My mum did like her mum did

it was a way to make dinner complete

and also a way to make your money last.

The desserts was old fashioned puddings,

fruit and berry desserts

things like milky tapioka soup(we called it pearl soup),

samolina pudding, bread pudding

We didn't have a lot of money,

but we always had our dinner and dessert.

These days I don't live up to my mum's standard.

We never skip dinner

but dessert comes mostly during the weekend.

We love our dessert!

Apple dessert and whipped cream
Home made icecream, pears, cookies and chocolate sauce

Cherry crumble and whipped cream

Aah, sweeat heaven!

Semolina pudding

And old fashioned dessert

that my mum used to make:

Semolina pudding.

My kids love this and so do I
Boil semolina with milk, sugar,
a bit of butter and a few drops of almond essense

Serve with red sauce made of
rasberry, apple or grape squash,
boiled and thickened with potato flour.
You don't have to wait until its cooled down,
it tastes very nice warm too!
Mmm!