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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
For Mother’s Day, I made three sauces to go on top of a New York style cheesecake. The cheesecake was bought from the store (as I was asked very last minute to get one). The three sauces I quickly threw together over about an hour or so were: a Raspberry sauce, a Raspberry ganache, and a plain ganache.
The raspberry sauce was simply lemon juice, raspberries, sugar, and a bit of vanilla extract. The ganache was made by using the left over raspberry pulp and mixing that with some heavy whipping cream and dark chocolate. The regular ganache was just some semi-sweet chocolate chips, heavy whipping cream, and a drop of vanilla extract.
Overall, everything turned out great. The raspberry sauce stole the show (dessert wise), and the regular ganache was a good backup for anyone that didn’t like raspberries. The raspberry ganache wasn’t completely eaten, so I have a bit left in my fridge, ready to be put on a bagel or some pound cake.
I initially wanted to add some mint to the raspberry sauce, but I know that my mother isn’t really a fan, so I opted to forgo that ingredient.
Overall, I’m really happy with how everything turned out since I didn’t use any official recipes. Mostly just knowledge from prior projects, like strawberry jams and cherry pie fillings, and then also tasting as I went.
My big things over the last few days have been:
A chicken, bacon and mushroom pie with wild garlic that I foraged on a walk. I actually made the pie filling a few weeks back and threw it in the freezer for an easy midweek dinner (thank you, past me!). It's pretty great and there's enough left for dinner tomorrow.
The top tier of my wedding cake, which is a classic-ish rich fruit cake. Feels a bit surreal to have baked that, it's not too far away now! I've thrown in some non-traditional dried apricots, figs and fresh ginger and will be feeding it with rum for the next couple of months. Had a trial run of it for Christmas and it was great. Next month I'll get to work on the other tiers/ flavours ahead of time and freeze them.