What's for Dessert

Pear in Puff Pastry with ice cream

What's for Dessert

Go Australia
We had friends over to watch the Soccer Aust V. Ghana on the Saturday evening and to pass the time until 11.30pm kick off, they...they... made chocolate muffins. Thanks guys very cute.

What's for Dessert at Yum Cha

Follow on from above posting "Sunday Yum Cha"

Chinese desserts tend to be quite bland. There were jellies with little paper umbrellas, which looked colourful and these tended to be taken by the children

Below: A mango creme served with carnation milk
Below: Cremed coconut

What's for Dessert

Pear poached in a syrup made with Harvey's Bristol Cream Sherry (the Best) with pistachios and cream. The rose Elina is still flowering although we are almost in winter.

What's for Dessert

Delicious cake for a birthday. The cream layer inside was passionfruit.
There's nothing like it, well perhaps the lie down is good too.

What's for dessert

Reading the Menu




I would have liked to have photographed the whole delicious meal that followed but I was too busy chatting to my darling friend T. who was in Melbourne visiting from L.A.

Managed to photograph the dessert though...no I didn't have any...too much cream for me at the moment.

What's for Dessert

Chocolate Pancakes with oranges, a dash of Cointreau and icecream

What's for Dessert

Blue berry pancakes with vanilla ice cream.



Did you notice I've been practising my quenelles

What's for Dessert

Chocolate Cake and Coffee at a cute Cafe

Nectarine Tart

A previous post below showed our nice little crop of nectarines which 'somehow' became a tart.

Dessert: Pears & a good Blue

Pears in red wine, with a local Gippsland blue veined cheese called 'Shadows of Blue' and maybe a few grapes makes a delicious lunchtime dessert

Desserts

Coffee and cake with crushed pistachios

Red Alpine Strawberries

I noticed that this neat little bush which bears delicious little red fruits had quite few ripe berries peeping through the foliage.










This plant with delicate white flowers is bushy and doesn't produce runners like other strawberries and as such can be used as an edging or border plant. The berries have an appealing flavour and aroma.

Adults Cupcakes & Tea

Nothing like a cup of Tea.

The icing on these cupcakes is Earl Grey Tea flavour, subtle and quite delicious.

Twinings Earl Grey of course.

Dessert

Ian made a cake. It was a Betty Crocker Vanilla cake mix and it was delicious.

Dessert

Dessert was Rhubarb Fool.

We have a quite alot of rhubarb growing and it is great to use this sweet and sour plant as part of our home grown food.


Rhubarb Fool















Rhubarb is native to Northern Asia and, like many other plants, it was originally valued as a popular remedy for a wide range of ailments. Its flavor wasn't appreciated until the 19th century, after it was introduced to Europe, when it was discovered that the tartness of rhubarb was greatly improved with the addition of sugar.

A Rainy Day Dessert

I had been wanting to make a chocolate bowl as a container for fruit or mousse for sometime and on previous occasions something always happened to the bowl .... it melted or it broke or just got eaten.

This time .... success.









It was made by inverting a small bowl, covering it tightly with plastic wrap and then laboriously painting it with melted chocolate for 4 coats. I could dash outside to water the fernery in between the coats setting.



The filling was strawberries and orange pieces marinated in a little sugar and Frangelico.