Author: smoothiesandsundaes

Honey Madeleine Cake

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Fig, honey and pistachio St.Honore.

Every supper club, I try to do something new by developing new ideas or testing out new techniques and recipes. I’ve been wanting to make a version of a St. Honore of my own by substituting a round choux at the base instead of the puff pastry that is typically used. The idea of a round hollow choux at the bottom of a pastry filled with any filling excites me, if done properly, it looks very neat and minimalistic. We had tested this prior to the pandemic with the kiddies, unfortunately I have lost my notes.

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Supper Club (2021-08-10)

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Green Giant water with its pulp, cherry tomatoes, mozzarella, jalapeno apple jelly, parmesan crumble, finished with sacred basil leaves and flowers.

Appetizer. Tomato salad 2.0 – It’s interesting to look at how a dish evolves from its inception to the final product. Without any iterations/failures, the dishes can’t get any better. I originally bought the mozzarella (wanted to buy a burrata, but couldn’t find it in Brampton) for the previous tomato salad but never got around to it using it that day and so it ended up on this plate.

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Sweet Potato Dog Treats

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In an effort to make sure our dogs (Queenie & Rugby) live long beautiful lives, Megan and I have decided that we are going to try to make them dog treats instead of feeding them the junk off our plates all the time. This means adding dog treats to our weekly meal prep. We decided to start off pretty easy: sweet potato chews! We basically sliced a sweet potato to roughly 1/2″ thickness, put them in there oven at 250°F for 3 hours, flipping them after each hour. Voila! We keep these in a jar by the dinner table so that they are on hand when our girls are working their best puppy dog eyes for our dinner. So far, they don’t seem to know the difference (and if they do, they sure don’t seem to mind!). We also tried cutting them into 1/4″ strips and putting them in a dehydrator for approximately 24 hours for a firmer/crispier texture. Both are delicious according to the dogs!

Supper Club (2021-08-02)

.Reading time 7 minutes.
Green Giant tomato with pickles (ground cherries, red onion), house cured lardo and a tomato water vinaigrette

Megan and I recently decided to revive some sort of supper club again. In part, to make up for the fact that we haven’t travelled or dined anywhere exciting for quite a long time. But mostly because we’re missing the fact that we used to take turns doing supper club as a family: one a month, someone would take charge of making an elaborate (or more elaborate than usual) dinner for everyone else – typically something we’d never made before. We never really got mom and dad to step outside their comfort zone, but dinner was always interesting.

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Mosaic Non-Bake Cheesecake

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This is inspired by something I scrolled past on Instagram. I can’t remember where I saw it and unfortunately I didn’t save it, so by the time of this post it’s lost to me (If I come across it again, I will definitely post the link). It was a sliced cake studded with a mosaic of jellies in various shades of red. With that image imprinted in my mind, and some berries from a recent farm visit, I decided to try to make my own version of it.

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