Posted on 02/10/2017 3:05:10 PM PST by Yaelle
Happy Weekend, Everyone! A little birdie in a kilt whispered to me that we should have a cooking for Valentine's Day theme this weekend, and that is a perfect idea. I love chocolate so let's get some tried and true old favorite recipes out, as well as some new challenges if you want. But don't stop at dessert! Lots of our true loves have savory desires on Valentine's Day. Steaks, beef stew, potatoes Anna or Baked with sour cream... what is going to delight your honey, family, or even just yourself this week?
Me, I'm thinking of chocolate this week. I keep hearing Sean Hannity's commercials for chocolate covered strawberries, but can't afford those. He deserves support for his sponsors, for sure, but if you ain't got the cash, let not your heart be troubled (lol). They are easy to make.
Get some good quality chocolate chips (you can spend more $ using bars of European chocolate too), like guittard or ghirardelli. Dark, semi, milk. Your preference. Some white for decoration.
Buy organic Strawberries if possible because pesticides really Get Into the berries. Get a lot. Either way, rinse them in batches in a colander, then dry well with paper towels so as not to stain your dish towels.
Melt the chocolate chips in a medium bowl in the microwave, 10 seconds at a time only. Stick a chopstick in after each warming to attempt to stir it. They will suddenly go liquid while faking you out by holding their little shapes.
The rest is easy. Just dip the strawberries by their green stems into The chocolate, and place them on silicone or parchment lined cookie sheets. Let them get hard in the fridge. To decorate with white Chocolate, melt some and put it in a little Ziplock bag. Seal it and snip the tiniest corner off on the bottom. Squeeze little squiggles of White onto the chocolate covered berries.
Make a lot because they will go fast!
What's cooking at your house? What will you make for Valentine's Day?
Then I am in big trouble both cookie dough wise & cracked black pepper which I grind over everything savory.
You shouldn’t have offered to bring anything. lol
I didn’t expect you to say “ok, bring something”!
THANK YOU MUCH !!!
You’re very welcome! It was fun, this is a great group
Well, the little love of my life adores salmon. So I think that’s what we’ll have. (My 5 pound Yorkie)
Little Debbie snack cakes are pretty good, especially for their very inexpensive price.
Awwww! I’m with your little valentine, salmon is yummy.
It’s salmonella. Any chicken (or reptile since birds and reptiles are so similar) can have the salmonella bacteria, which doesn’t seem to harm them. It can make us very sick. That is why we shouldn’t eat raw eggs, even from healthy chickens in your backyards. Some people like to, but they do take that risk.
Oh my! The fudge pudding cake photos! Love the description, brownies that make their own sauce. Yes indeed.
The cookie decoration looks so pretty but a) hands spent nearly an hour making it and b) it probably doesn’t taste any better.
People would ask my first husband, a Swiss chef, what he thought of a fabulous looking modern dish with all the sauces and garnishes etc. his response was always “A lot of hands in my food for a long time.” Lol.
Ever fried one? One of my sons likes to fry twinkies now and then.
I am trying to think if we have Little Debbie out here.
Thanks for bringing them onto the the thread. Love the pic of the big square pan... drooling. I have some chocolate chip oatmeal cookies here but they aren’t the same.
I rarely make that. Because when I do, I eat half the pan. It MUST have chopped walnuts in it. I never have ice cream around but I’m sure it would be very good on it.
ETL, the last photo? I’m not sure what’s inside of those, but this was the dessert of a fancy wedding I recently attended. Sure,there was a wedding cake. But they also had homemade big (like your pic) Oreos with thick cream filling and coated in chocolate. KILLER. Why bother with a cake at all with those things?
No, I've heard of it though. Probably one of those things that sounds a bit crazy, but is actually very good. Like a peanut butter and banana sandwich on soft, fresh white bread.
Almost looks like ice cream.
LOL!
A lot of these pictures are like Martha Stewart magazines - nobody’s going to do all of that (I remember once she actually did a piece on hand-made marshmallow chicks! and I thought, “Why???”) - but it’s ‘inspiration’.
High Fashion magazines are the same - you’d never actually wear that stuff; you just get little ideas from it :-)
(The cookie cutters I got from King Arthur are beautiful copper ones, in various sizes, some with scalloped edges, some not; so you could mix up the cutting, decorating, etc. They really did have a beautiful pic of what you could do with little work; I just can’t find it now. But, take a big heart cutter, cut a smaller heart out of the middle; ice, drizzle, add little candy sprinkles and doo-dads - you get the idea :-)
Hey, it’s Valentine’s Day, and you’re doing this for your Sweetie!
Mine would much prefer a nice steak, though...:-(
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