My brother, his wife, and I all have birthdays within a week of each other, mine being the 21st, his the 28th, and her's the 31st of August...so we decided this year that we were going to get together and make dinner together this weekend. Jim will be making tri-tip on the grill (which, I must say, he excels at), and Carrie is making this ridiculously good pasta salad with artichokes and grape tomatoes, and we'll be having corn on the cob, asparagus, and bread too. I'm going to be in charge of dessert. Since we'll already be having 3 cakes between us at seperate dinners, we definitely don't want cake! lol
What would you make that would compliment the meal, and that I could hopefully assemble on the spot (they live 45 minutes north)? I'll be going to the farmer's market that morning, so seasonal ideas are most welcome!
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:28:34 -0700, "Nexis" <nex...@cox.net> fired up random neurons and synapses to opine:
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>What would you make that would compliment the meal, and that I could >hopefully assemble on the spot (they live 45 minutes north)? I'll be going >to the farmer's market that morning, so seasonal ideas are most welcome!
The following sounds like it would make a perfect summertime addition to your dinner - it is really, really good and simple:
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Lime Fool With Stawberries And Kiwi
desserts
1/4 cup whipping cream 1/4 cup lime juice 1 teaspoon lime peel; grated 6 ounces white chocolate; such as Lindt 3/4 cup whipping cream; chilled 3 tablespoons sugar 2 cups strawberries; sliced and hulled 2 kiwi fruit; peeled, thinly slice 4 whole strawberries 4 lime slices
Bring first 3 ingredients to simmer in heavy small saucepan. Reduce heat to low. Add chocolate and stir until melted and smooth. Pour into medium bowl. Refrigerate until cool but not set, stirring occasionally, about 25 mins.
Beat 3/4 cup chilled cream in another medium bowl to soft peaks. Add sugar and beat until stiff. Fold cream into white chocolate mixture.
Place scant 1/4 cup sliced berries in each of 4 8 - 10 oz. wineglasses. Press 3 kiwi slices against sides of each glass. Spoon 1/3 cup cream mixture into each glass. Spoon scant 1/4 cup sliced berries in center of each, pressing into center so berries do not show at sides of glasses. Spoon remaining cream over; smooth tops. Cover and chill at least 2 and up to 6 hours.
To serve, using small knife, make lengthwise cuts in whole strawberries without cutting through stem ends. Fan 1 strawberry atop each dessert. Attach lime slice to rim of glass.
Contributor: Bon Appetit
Yield: 4 servings
Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd -- "If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."
> My brother, his wife, and I all have birthdays within a week of each other, > mine being the 21st, his the 28th, and her's the 31st of August...so we > decided this year that we were going to get together and make dinner > together this weekend. Jim will be making tri-tip on the grill (which, I > must say, he excels at), and Carrie is making this ridiculously good pasta > salad with artichokes and grape tomatoes, and we'll be having corn on the > cob, asparagus, and bread too. I'm going to be in charge of dessert. Since > we'll already be having 3 cakes between us at seperate dinners, we > definitely don't want cake! lol
> What would you make that would compliment the meal, and that I could > hopefully assemble on the spot (they live 45 minutes north)? I'll be going > to the farmer's market that morning, so seasonal ideas are most welcome!
========================================= There is a Danish cherry wine called Kijafa . We used to cut up fresh fruit - as for salad - Peaches, plums, nectarines, cherries, melons, pineapple . . . the more variety the better. Put the fruit in brandy snifters or big goblets and add a generous splash of Kijafa. Garnish with a mint sprig.
Best served cold. Better the next day but not as pretty Lynn in Fargo
> My brother, his wife, and I all have birthdays within a week of each > other, mine being the 21st, his the 28th, and her's the 31st of > August...so we decided this year that we were going to get together and > make dinner together this weekend. Jim will be making tri-tip on the grill > (which, I must say, he excels at), and Carrie is making this ridiculously > good pasta salad with artichokes and grape tomatoes, and we'll be having > corn on the cob, asparagus, and bread too. I'm going to be in charge of > dessert. Since we'll already be having 3 cakes between us at seperate > dinners, we definitely don't want cake! lol
> What would you make that would compliment the meal, and that I could > hopefully assemble on the spot (they live 45 minutes north)? I'll be going > to the farmer's market that morning, so seasonal ideas are most welcome!
> Thanks :-)
> kimberly
Use a red or white wine glass - fill 1/2 way with fruit sorbet - lemon or any flavor. Top with fresh berries of any variety or sliced fruit which has been macerated in a sweet sherry.
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:28:34 -0700, "Nexis" <nex...@cox.net> fired up > random neurons and synapses to opine:
> <snip>
>>What would you make that would compliment the meal, and that I could >>hopefully assemble on the spot (they live 45 minutes north)? I'll be going >>to the farmer's market that morning, so seasonal ideas are most welcome!
> The following sounds like it would make a perfect summertime addition > to your dinner - it is really, really good and simple:
> @@@@@ Now You're Cooking! Export Format
> Lime Fool With Stawberries And Kiwi
> desserts
> 1/4 cup whipping cream > 1/4 cup lime juice > 1 teaspoon lime peel; grated > 6 ounces white chocolate; such as Lindt > 3/4 cup whipping cream; chilled > 3 tablespoons sugar > 2 cups strawberries; sliced and hulled > 2 kiwi fruit; peeled, thinly slice > 4 whole strawberries > 4 lime slices
> Bring first 3 ingredients to simmer in heavy small saucepan. Reduce > heat to low. Add chocolate and stir until melted and smooth. Pour into > medium bowl. Refrigerate until cool but not set, stirring > occasionally, about 25 mins.
> Beat 3/4 cup chilled cream in another medium bowl to soft peaks. Add > sugar and beat until stiff. Fold cream into white chocolate mixture.
> Place scant 1/4 cup sliced berries in each of 4 8 - 10 oz. > wineglasses. Press 3 kiwi slices against sides of each glass. Spoon > 1/3 cup cream mixture into each glass. Spoon scant 1/4 cup sliced > berries in center of each, pressing into center so berries do not show > at sides of glasses. Spoon remaining cream over; smooth tops. Cover > and chill at least 2 and up to 6 hours.
> To serve, using small knife, make lengthwise cuts in whole > strawberries without cutting through stem ends. Fan 1 strawberry atop > each dessert. Attach lime slice to rim of glass.
> Contributor: Bon Appetit
> Yield: 4 servings
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
Now that's one fool I'd like to meet!
-- Wayne Boatwright
******************************************* Date: Monday, 08(VIII)/18(XVIII)/08(MMVIII) ******************************************* Countdown till Labor Day 1wks 6dys 5hrs 54mins ******************************************* Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. - Rollo May *******************************************
> My brother, his wife, and I all have birthdays within a week of each > other, mine being the 21st, his the 28th, and her's the 31st of > August...so we decided this year that we were going to get together and > make dinner together this weekend. Jim will be making tri-tip on the > grill (which, I must say, he excels at), and Carrie is making this > ridiculously good pasta salad with artichokes and grape tomatoes, and > we'll be having corn on the cob, asparagus, and bread too. I'm going to > be in charge of dessert. Since we'll already be having 3 cakes between > us at seperate dinners, we definitely don't want cake! lol
> What would you make that would compliment the meal, and that I could > hopefully assemble on the spot (they live 45 minutes north)? I'll be > going to the farmer's market that morning, so seasonal ideas are most > welcome!
> Thanks :-)
> kimberly
Kimberly, I would suggest a fresh fruit trifle. I don't really follow a recipe, but I use fingers of pound cake, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, sliced bananas, and fresh pineapple cut in cubes. I make a boiled custard sauce (not as thickk as pudding), and copious amounts of fresh whipped cream. Line a clear glass bowl on the bottom and sides with the pound cake fingers, then build layers of fruit, custard sauce, whipped cream, and succeeding layers of the same until the bowl is full, finishing with the whipped cream and garnishing with some of the berries. You could make this on site, or it can easily be made ahead and transported in a cooler with ice. Note: I always splash the poundcake with a bit of sherry or brandy. It's delicious, but also beautiful and showy. :-)
-- Wayne Boatwright
******************************************* Date: Monday, 08(VIII)/18(XVIII)/08(MMVIII) ******************************************* Countdown till Labor Day 1wks 6dys 5hrs 54mins ******************************************* Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. - Rollo May *******************************************
On Aug 19, 8:28 pm, "Nexis" <nex...@cox.net> wrote:
> My brother, his wife, and I all have birthdays within a week of each other, > mine being the 21st, his the 28th, and her's the 31st of August...so we > decided this year that we were going to get together and make dinner > together this weekend. Jim will be making tri-tip on the grill (which, I > must say, he excels at), and Carrie is making this ridiculously good pasta > salad with artichokes and grape tomatoes, and we'll be having corn on the > cob, asparagus, and bread too. I'm going to be in charge of dessert. Since > we'll already be having 3 cakes between us at seperate dinners, we > definitely don't want cake! lol
> What would you make that would compliment the meal, and that I could > hopefully assemble on the spot (they live 45 minutes north)? I'll be going > to the farmer's market that morning, so seasonal ideas are most welcome!
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:28:34 -0700, "Nexis" <nex...@cox.net> wrote: >My brother, his wife, and I all have birthdays within a week of each other, >mine being the 21st, his the 28th, and her's the 31st of August...so we >decided this year that we were going to get together and make dinner >together this weekend. Jim will be making tri-tip on the grill (which, I >must say, he excels at), and Carrie is making this ridiculously good pasta >salad with artichokes and grape tomatoes, and we'll be having corn on the >cob, asparagus, and bread too. I'm going to be in charge of dessert. Since >we'll already be having 3 cakes between us at seperate dinners, we >definitely don't want cake! lol
>What would you make that would compliment the meal, and that I could >hopefully assemble on the spot (they live 45 minutes north)? I'll be going >to the farmer's market that morning, so seasonal ideas are most welcome!
A recent Martha Stewart living magazine article featured for dessert a watermelon half presented on a silver platter. The watermelon was scooped out with an ice cream scoop and served with crisp cookies. It was so silly and charming. I might add a scoop of ice cream as well.
Nexis wrote: > My brother, his wife, and I all have birthdays within a week of each other, > mine being the 21st, his the 28th, and her's the 31st of August...so we > decided this year that we were going to get together and make dinner > together this weekend. Jim will be making tri-tip on the grill (which, I > must say, he excels at), and Carrie is making this ridiculously good pasta > salad with artichokes and grape tomatoes, and we'll be having corn on the > cob, asparagus, and bread too. I'm going to be in charge of dessert. Since > we'll already be having 3 cakes between us at seperate dinners, we > definitely don't want cake! lol
> What would you make that would compliment the meal, and that I could > hopefully assemble on the spot (they live 45 minutes north)? I'll be going > to the farmer's market that morning, so seasonal ideas are most welcome!
> Thanks :-)
> kimberly
Fruit salad (whatever looks good) with honey-yogurt dressing and gingersnaps
