It's Oh-So Dorie Delicious

It's a day to share 3, count them 3 fabulous treats. Two are from Dorie Greenspan and one is seriously inspired by her.


Up first, the TWD recipe of the week for Creme Brulee. Check out Mevrouw Cupcake for the deets. This IS my favorite dessert. We LOVED it, of course. There is something strange about making this at home when I am used to a white linen table cloth and servers to bring it to me. I followed the recipe but added 3 Tbps of pumpkin pie filling to warm it up and add a little "fall flavor".

I don't own a TORCH to caramelize the sugar - I considered using my Hubby's welder but alas, I'm not sure how good our fire insurance REALLY is and was not in the mood to "test it". I put them under the broiler and it worked perfect.....ignore the not-so-perfect pictures...

Really, delicious. I topped them off with fresh cream and blackberries. OH MY, just YUM.

The 2nd recipe came from the question "what to do with the left over ingredients?" Well, OF COURSE- I took the same recipe and made Pumpkin Creme Brulee ICE CREAM. Here is my adapted recipe

1 1/4 c heavy cream

1 1/4 c whole milk

1/2 cup sugar

2 eggs

1/2 c pumpkin pie filling

1 tsp vanilla extract

Boil the pumpkin, cream and milk. Whisk sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Temper the egg mixture then whisk all together. Cool for 5 hours. Add to ice cream maker per instructions. I add 1/3 c toasted walnuts and 1/3 c toasted pecans. DEVOUR IT LIKE THERE IS NO TOMORROW.

No pictures, just imagine the most perfect throw back to summer, yet perfect for fall ice cream. We WILL be having this for the finish on Thanksgiving since neither of us like Pumpkin Pie. I hope it's a long tradition.

Finally, Dorie's recipe for a fabulous quick bread. Bacon Cheddar Quick Bread with dried pears. Try this. It's warm, inviting and so, so easy. It was best the day of still warmed. I think this is something to hit the holiday tables as well. The recipe and article is from the October Bon Appetit.

Peace Out.

Cookies? cookies.

Today's TWD recipe was Chocolate Chunker. Seriously, I need break from the chocolate but we did like these cookies (?). Claudia at Fool For Food picked the recipe go HERE to see it, brush up your German and see her creations. Really, a good pick.

I made rather large cookies and I agree with Dorie's recommendation that they would be great in or on ice cream! They were more like a fudge. I did replace all the semi-sweet, unsweetened and bittersweet chocolate with Milk Chocolate and White Chocolate chunks. I used golden raisins. I wonder if the milk chocolate messed with the consistency a little.....but since there is only 1/4 c of flour, are these really cookies?

Yes, they are cookies. Not a great picture of the finished product - we had to eat them with a fork. I had one, this pic is of three on a plate......a pile of goodness for the Hubby. The one I had was good but not good for my "I'm Going to Mexico in 6 months Diet". And, again, enough chocolate. The milk chocolate helped a lot, I liked it enough to eat it. I would make them again but make sure I had some tasty vanilla bean ice cream to go with them....I loved the raisins in them. They actually tasted and felt like marshmallow in the cookies....

Overall an ooey gooey success.

K

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Hi Mom!

No "Special" Cookies today

I have opted out of the TWD challenge for today "Chocolate Whopper Malted Drops". We're still on a sugar high from last week but I WILL be back next week. In the mean time, check out some of my favorite bloggers and their treats this week -

Rachel has the recipe.
Daisy Lane Cakes

Sunny Colorful Beautiful Things

Here are updated pics of the orchid and pencil TREE! They are both lovely, like I told you.

The poor pencil tree has been exiled to his own corner in the kitchen. I am kinda jealous - he is in my favorite place....next to my thread rack and on the wine cooler..it's a lovely location. I've been making things to decorate him with - he needs something to "blend" in a little more.

love you.

K and Turbo... he loves computer time.

Cake for Fun....

Just practicing.......

The cake is "wonky".. I didn't level or spend a lot of time on the cake frosting....it was just for fun...we'll be eating this now...

Chippers and Ice Cream Drama from "a major appliance StorE thAt shall Remain nameleSs"

So....2 weeks ago. Hubby and I go to "a major appliance StorE thAt shall Remain nameleSs" to buy the ice cream maker attachment for the Kitchen Aid Mixer so I could make Dorie's Blueberry-Sour cream Ice Cream.

This store, "a major appliance StorE thAt shall Remain nameleSs", is about 30 mins from our house. We get home, and hubby opens the box and says to "come here, you have to see this"...inside is a used bowl, used coffee filter, a computer hard drive and someother C.R.A.P. So we pack up and head back to "a major appliance StorE thAt shall Remain nameleSs" .....


I stop at the counter where we had checked out the first time, Tools-Hardware-Mowers-Other Large Steel Things....tell the guy and he laughs, says "that sucks. Head to housewares and they can order a new one". WOW! I think this is gonna MUCH easier than I thought...Oh. No. It. Was. Not.

The "Trainee" in housewares did not find it funny. He called the "Head of Loss Prevention" done to the counter. After about 20 minutes of "Ma'am, I cannot return it unless it is merchandise". And, "well, SONNY, this IS the merchandise I bought HERE and why should I BE out money for a box of C.R.A.P. that YOU sold ME".... Here is the highlight, as I pack up my box of junk, he says he'll keep the box until his manager gets in on Monday. It's my C.R.A.P., I paid for it, I am keeping it. I made him write down the contents to share with his manager.


Then he asks if I'd like to order another one. humpf.


I left. Not happy. Mom, you know me and you know THAT attitude. I had THAT ATTITUDE.

The weird thing is, I really did understand that he didn't know that I didn't swap out the mixer and try to steal. I get that but, the first thing out of his mouth was "Ma'am, you stole this and I will not be swindled, I am not exchanging it."..OK NOT what he said exactly, but it is what he meant. Seriously, if I was gonna steal from "a major appliance StorE thAt shall Remain nameleSs", I would stop paying for my appliances. I am not that person.

This was a Saturday so I had to wait until Monday to speak to the manager. I call the manager and she says " No Problem. Bring it in, I'll replace it.".

And, she did. But now, I have to start my Christmas shopping over because I WAS getting YOU an ice cream maker box, from "a major appliance StorE thAt shall Remain nameleSs", filled with a used bowl, used coffee filter, a computer hard drive and some other fabulous prizes.

Do you think they say "NO" to the first request like that just to test you? If you actually DO come back, they replace it?

We have an ice cream maker. We made Dorie's Blueberry-Sour cream Ice Cream. LOVED IT. LOVE LOVE LOVE IT. We love the ice cream maker too! The ice cream is so pretty and the empty bowl is so sad.......

The ice cream is actually from TWD for 2 weeks ago. This week is Chunky Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Chocolate Chipsters. This makes 60 COOKIES!! I read a few comments on the TWD Q&A post and decided to remove the chocolate (to make it dog and ME friendly),

The boys are the official spatula cleaners....I also added more peanut butter, added peanuts and added pecans.

The dough was chilled overnight and some people broke their scoops the next day making the cookies. I made them into logs, wrapped in wax paper. I froze one and baked the other the next day. I just sliced off a piece with a knife, rolled it and baked it.

I have no pictures of the cookies. They were that good.

Next time, I am combining these two items into an ice cream sandwich. This could happen tonight..I have the ingredients.....

Oh Wait, I HAVE CAKE CLASS TONIGHT!! YEAH. check back for pictures.

Love you,
K