Posts Tagged ‘strawberry jam’
Strawberry Pistachio Cookies
Cookies & Bars • Tags: eggless cookie, pistachio, strawberry jam, thumbprint cookie
It’s a return to thumbprints. We can’t believe we’d never tried to make these until this year! The first batch featured bittersweet chocolate, almonds and port wine strawberry jelly. For some insane reason, we only made a tiny batch of twelve, and that was, of course, regrettable. We had to make more. This new version is a nice switch–different nuts, a little spice, a crunchier coating and store bought preserves this time. Trust us when we say making your own jelly tastes better, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. And we had to have these cookies again!
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Strawberry Balsamic Pepper Jam
Other Sweet Treats • Tags: aebleskiver, Foodbuzz, strawberry jam
We totally bombed with our initial aebleskivers attempt. A complete bomb. What should’ve been puffy popover-like Danish pancakes turned into sticky, gunky mess. The main reason this happened is because we didn’t follow directions. We are both well-educated, intelligent young adults, yet we tend to fail when it comes to directions. We’ll read them, but we don’t follow them. That is usually not a problem for recipes, but it doesn’t work when you’re using a cast iron pan for the first time. It’s just a fact. You have to season your cast iron pan. If you don’t season your pan, you’ll end up with a mess on your hands and in the pan. Cleaning it up is not fun, and you may feel discouraged with the second attempt. And that’s exactly what happened.
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