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Aug

3

Brandied cherries recipe

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brandied cherries recipe

Use this fast and easy brandied cherries recipe if you have a huge load of cherries and want to conserve them as fast as possible. No need to take out the kernels when you preserve your cherries on alcohol.

Luckily my sister brought us the harvest of their cherry trees, so I had no reason to feel bored on this yet again another rainy summer day. And last year’s brandied cherries gave us the warm feeling the sun refuses to give us this summer.

Brandied sour cherries recipe

 

Ingredients

 

  • 1 kg (2 pounds) sour cherries
  • 300 gr (10 oz) fine sugar
  • 1 l (2 pints) gin or "Holland Gin" (Dutch Gin – Jenever)

 

How to conserve your brandied sour cherries

 

Remove the stems and was the sour cherries. Put in an airtight goblet (we use the ones for sterilizing fruit): one layer of cherries, one layer of sugar, another layer of cherries…

 

Fill up your pot with alcohol until your pot is completely filled. Your cherry brandy will be ready in 4 to 6 weeks but we prefer to wait until a cold winter day to pop the cherries for the first time :-)

 

If you want, you can add some cinnamon sticks, but we prefer our Brandied cherries recipe without.

 

Sep

17

Easy peach cobbler recipe

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easy peach cobbler recipe

Today, my sister faxed me the above easy peach cobbler recipe: seems her peaches are riper than the peaches on my patio peach tree or … she just couldn’t resist :-)

 

Nothing is easier to bake as a cobbler: you put your fruits in a baking tray, add your liquid batter that finds its way through the fruit and rises above the fruit when baking. Or as the easy peach cobbler recipe mentions:

 

"Peach treasure under a biscuit dough"

 

For those using metric measures, I converted this easy peach recipe below.

 

Easy peach cobbler recipe metric measures

 

Fruit base:

 

  • 340 g cooked, pitted peaches
     
  • 65 gram sugar
     
  • 2 tablespoons Ready-Mix for pancakes
     
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
     
  • 14 gram butter

 

Topping

 

  • 180 gram ready-mix for pancakes
     
  • 50 gram sugar
     
  • 1 beaten egg
     
  • 180 ml milk
     
  • 50 gram shortening, melted

 

Follow the rest of the easy peach cobbler recipe instructions in the picture above.

 

My sister says it’s delicious like it is, but personally I prefer an easy peach cobbler recipe served with vanilla ice cream :-)

Sep

5

Zucchini cheese soup recipe

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zucchini cheese soup recipe

This delicious zucchini cheese soup recipe is quick and easy to make, yet overly delicious to eat or drink on a rainy summers day! A great way to use your zucchinis when you run out of ideas what to do with all the growing zucchinis in your garden!

Use any cheese you have at home and grate it, or use 2 triangles (1 1/2 oz – 40 gr) of "The Laughing Cow" creamy cheese.

 

Zucchini cheese soup recipe ingredients

 

 

  • 1 pound (500 gr) zucchini, cut into pieces
     
  • 2 big onions, cut into pieces
     
  • 1 oz grated cheese (any cheese you love) or 2 triangles (1 1/2 oz – 40 gr) of "The Laughing Cow" creamy cheese
     
  • 2 pints (1 liter) chicken stock (use chicken stock cubes if you want to work fast)
     
  • olive oil to fry
     
  • salt and pepper to taste
     
  • basil and chives to garnish

 

Zucchini cheese soup recipe

 

  1. Add a bit of live oil in a big pot and fry the onions on a very low fire (make sure the onions don’t turn brown)
     
  2. Boil the chicken stock or water.
     
  3. Add zucchini and chicken stock (or water with chicken stock cubes) to the onions and bring to the boil on a high fire.
     
  4. Let boil on a low fire for another 20 minutes.
     
  5. Add the chives, grated cheese or "The Laughing Cow" creamy cheese and puree the soup with a mixer as fine as you want. If you still want some crunchy stuff in your zucchini soup with cheese, then don’t mix it too much.
  6. Garnish with basil leaves (don’t cut them if you don’t feel like it, it’s to garnish your zucchini soup only!). You can grate a bit more cheese on your zucchini soup as well.

 

Please leave a comment if you have an even better Zucchini cheese soup recipe !

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