Indulgences dessert soup from Peninsula Chicago chef
Terrence Crandall, executive chef at The Peninsula Chicago, serves a rich dessert soup on the hotel's chocolate buffet. For a dinner party, present in shot glasses with whipped cream and berries. Recipe yields enough for a large buffet party and favors 64 percent dark chocolate or high quality semisweet chocolate.
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Chocolate Soup Shots Recipe
A chilled dessert drink recipe yields 30 servings. It combines whipping cream sugar cinnamon sticks semi sweet chocolate milk and chocolate liqueur. Heat cream with sugar and cinnamon, melt chocolate with hot cream, whisk in milk and liqueur, chill and serve in glasses.
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Buttering up Clearbrook Farms fruit butters enhance breads
Clearbrook Farms offers fruit butters in flavors such as peach strawberry pear and triple berry in 9.5 ounce jars priced 2.80 to 5.00. Available at various markets by mail and in four packs for 24 dollars at clearbrookfarms.com.
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Spinach or Beef Lasagna Rolls Lightly Baked
A lighter version of lasagna rolls uses mozzarella made with 2 percent milk and replaces heavy cheeses with low-fat options. Fill noodles with ricotta spinach or browned beef, bake covered then uncover to melt cheese, yielding six rolls with 188 calories per spinach roll or 227 calories per beef roll.
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Pickling tips from Bouchon chef spark home kitchen plan
A diner praises Bouchon Napa Valley duck with pickled cherries and plans a home pickling kitchen after consulting executive chef Jeffrey Corciello. He learns quick pickling blends vinegar and sugar to refresh the palate, with instructions to blanch dense vegetables first, boil brine, cool quickly, and refrigerate in jars.
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Pickled Apricots and Cherries with Bourbon Glaze
Recipe describes preserving apricots or peaches with cider vinegar orange juice grape juice sugar maple syrup spices and bourbon. After simmering, fruit is cooled added to jars and refrigerated up to six weeks. A second cherry preserve uses water red wine vinegar and sugar with cloves, jarred and chilled up to four weeks, notes not to pit the cherries.
Pickled Sugar Snap Peas Garnish for Bloody Marys
A recipe for pickled sugar snap peas using white wine vinegar salt and sugar with garlic chilies and tarragon. Pack into a 1 quart jar and refrigerate at least two weeks. Serves as a crunchy garnish for Bloody Marys and keeps for months.
Simple Pickled Red Onions Recipe Card
Trim and discard onion ends then slice into thin wedges. Pack into a quart jar and set aside extra slices. Boil vinegar with sugar, pour over onions, cover and cool. Refrigerate at least 24 hours up to four weeks. Serve with filet mignon and grilled asparagus.
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