Category: dessert
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Raw plant based beet brownie with chantilly and kumquat
Hi Everyone! This is just a quick post of the recipe of my final project dessert at Matthew Kenney Culinary. I have just finished the course, and this dessert, which my husband found so amazingly good, is definitely worth a quick post here, because Valentine Day is coming… And some of you might want to make…
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Beet brownies
Beetroots They are warm in both color and taste. Sweet, earthy and really beautiful. There are three different varieties always available at the markets here in Southern California. The golden beet with its orange color, the red beet with its dark, purple red meat and the chioggia which is a white red striped beet. A…
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Plum financier
“Next to the madeleine, the financier is probably the most popular little French cake, common street food for morning or afternoon snacking. The cake’s name probably comes from the fact that a financier resembles a solid gold brick. Curiously, as popular as they are, financiers seldom appear in recipe books or in French literature. The…
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Ricotta and peach crepes
You will probably see from my posts that I don’t bake a lot. The reason for that is I am not the cake, cookie, biscuit type of person. If I had to chose between a savory dish and piece of perfect cake, I would take the savory dish. 100% of the time. But this doesn’t…
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Vanilla rice pudding, balsamic strawberry sauce and strawberry nectarine salad
How to make this yummy balsamic strawberry sauce? Chop 1 pound of strawberries and cook it on low heat with about 1/2 cup of white cane sugar, juice of 1/2 lemon, 1 T very good quality, thick balsamic vinegar and approx. 1/3 cup of water. Feel free to adjust, you have to end up with a sweet, thick…
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Farmer’s cheese dumpling and strawberry textures
This idea came as a result of my love for farmer’s cheese which is the closest dairy product to the very popular Hungarian “tehenturo”. We, Hungarians love our “tehenturo” which, if I really want to try to describe, I would say it is more like a curdled soft cheese. We consume a huge amount in both…
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