What ya trying to do? Scald me!?!?!?

Poor things! Didn't even get used!

The Juicy Red Culprits!

TWD~ Summer Fruit Galette

Summer Fruit Galette? Looks pretty simple, so we thought!

Well, I think this was our first flop recipe in a while! It all started out when my sister and I looked at the recipe and saw.......................8 peaches, 9-10 plums, etc................one of the sisters said " I think we're supposed to pick one of those fruits. the other one said "No I think we're suppossed to use all the fruits named" We asked our mother, and she said that the recipe looked as if you should use all the fruits. So she went grocery shopping for us, and got our desired fruits. pluots, peaches, apricots, and we had rhubarb. Great! We thought now we'll just have to try it out...................well, after halving the fruit, and "trying to fit it into the pie crust, we came to the conclusion that we were only supposed to use 1 of the fruits. It was hilarious. Trying to see how much of this fruit we could fit into the crust...............we ended us cutting it into slices, and using all pluots, and apricots. The peaches that we took all the effort to blanch, and de-skin, we ended up freezing for another use sometime. ( we didn't even pull out our imported rhubarb from the freezer!) After getting all the fruit cut and into the crust, Mr. Crust decided that there was a little to much liquid on him, and started to stretch and get a little mushy:) Wonderful! We quickly popped it into the oven and watched it bake....................as one other person commented, pluots are a little to juicy for this dessert...........well we can vouch for that! It was a little soupy, and much tarter then I expected, but pretty good for all our catastrophes! I would love to try this recipe again "properly"

Hopefully next recipe will be a little less eventful:)

Till next time......................

Be sure to come back and see the Banana Chocolate Marble Loaf! We've got some really cool ideas on what we want to do with it!

Cinnamon Orange Coffee Cake

This recipe is a take off a Dorie Greenspans Cardamom Crumb Cake. Every Saturday the Boys in our house get to make breakfast, they really wanted to make this but we had no cardamom. So Sam my 13 year old brother got creative and added cinnamon and a little nutmeg instead. The flavor was really good. I enjoyed the orange zest a lot, also the coffee flavor was not really that noticeable to me.



For the Crumb:
1/2 c. flour
1/2 c. chopped walnuts
1/3 c. sugar
1 T. orange zest
1/2 tsp. instant espresso powder
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 stick butter

For the Cake:
1/4tsp.nutmeg

1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon

2 c. flour
2tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. instant espresso powder
2/3 c. sugar
2 T. grated orange zest
1 stick butter, melted and cooled
2 eggs
1/2 c. milk
1/2 cold strong coffee
11/2 tsp. vanilla

For the Crumb:
Preheat oven to 400. Grease a 8 inch pan(we used a 9in. round cake pan) and dust with flour. Put all the ingredients together except the butter toss to mix. Add the butter and using your finger or a spatula, mix everything together until till you have crumbs of different sizes. Don't over do it. Set aside.

For the Cake:
Whisk the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and espresso powder in a bowl. Mix together the sugar and zest. Rub them together with fingers until sugar is moist and the orange fragrance strong, mix the dry ingredients in with the sugar mixture. Mix the wet ingredients together. Add the wet to the dry and stir do not beat to mix Stir until you have it evenly moistened.Scrape into prepared pan and top with crumb mixture. Pat the crumbs ever so gently into the batter. Bake for 30-35 min. or until cake has risen, the crumbs are golden and a thin knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Serve at room temp. or warm. Serves 8.

Eggplant Eggventures:o)

Esther and I have always wanted to try eggplant, but just never had....................until yesterday evening. At our local grocery store, eggplant was one of the lucky items on sale. So guess what? We of course got some, and tried for the first time, "Eggplant Parmesan"

It was so delicious! definitely a keeper recipe! You should try it if you haven't already........

Hannah

Look at that lovely color!