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18
Jun

Blueberry, ginger lime mint caipirinha

singleguychef By singleguychef 8 Comments
Categories: General, Drinks and Mixed Drinks Tags: , , , , , , , .

Traditional capirinha is made with cachaça and tangerine lime and sugar, not tangerine. It was a late posting and you can see I was sampling the product earlier. :-P. Thanks to Brazilian Girl for the catch. I’ve been served a multitude of variations. Here’s my contribution to the mix and I am sure this libation is going to appear again and again throughout the Summer. It’s premiere appearance gave my sister and C a nice buzz. ;-)

Ingredients

Blueberry, ginger lime caipirinha3 limes juiced or to taste
1/2 pint of fresh blueberries
2″ piece of fresh ginger
1 good handful of ginger mint leaves. traditional mint leaves can be used as a substitute.
1/3 cup of honey or to taste
28 oz. of sparkling mineral water or club soda
3 oz. of quality vodka or to taste
crystallized ginger for garnish

Preparation

1. Juice the limes into a large glass pitcher.
2. Peel the ginger and smash it to loosen up some of its flesh. Add to the pitcher.
3. Add the blueberries and ginger mint leaves and with a wooden spoon, mash the berries, ginger and mint leaves.
4. Pour in the honey.
5. Add the sparkling water and vodka and stir well.
6. Place some crystallized ginger into the martini glass and pour in the goods.

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31
May

Fresh berries with puff pastry and coconut whipped cream

singleguychef By singleguychef 4 Comments
Categories: General and Recipes Tags: , , , , , , , , .

In my freezer, I currently have:

Fresh berries with puff pasty and coconut whipped cream3 boxes of phyllo sheets
6 packages of won ton wrappers - circa 2004, I am bad about cleaning out the freezer :-P
1 HUGE bag of frozen peas
1 bag of corn
1 ice pack for my sore parts
vodka
gin

Oh here it is, a box of puff pastry rounds!

I *raises hand* admit that I’ve never made fresh pastry dough for my dessert recipes. The people from Pillsbury farms have bailed me out numerous times with great tasting products. I find it a must to have these on hands especially after a 4-5 course meal and the guests are still hungry. Throw them, the puff pastry, not the guests, in the oven, make a sauce or filling while they bake, plop some fruit down, shave some chocolate and you’re in good shape. Yeah, I like to always have chocolate around.

This recipe can be made under 30 mins. or so, and is a perfect, after lunch, dessert.

Ingredients

1 puff pastry package. There’s actually enough whipped cream to use 2-3 boxes. You’ll have a lot of whipped cream leftover with one box but finding uses for it shouldn’t be a problem. :-P

2 cups of heavy cream
1/2 cup of coconut milk - note: I’d try, 1 1/4 cup of cream to 1 1//4 cup coconut milk. I just had 1/2 cup leftover from the coconut rice recipe.
1/4 cup to 1/2 cup of sugar - this is to taste, 1/2 cup is really for the sweet toothers.
1 tsp of vanilla
1/8 tsp. of sea salt

2 cups of fresh mixed berries - I went with blueberry, raspberry and blackberry.
springs of mint for garnish

Preparation

1. Follow the puff pastry instructions.
2. Add heavy cream and coconut milk into a large mixing bowl. Mix at high speed until cream begins to thicken.
3. Slowly add some sugar, vanilla and sea salt and mix until cream begins peak and hold it’s shape

Plating

1. Make sure the pastry rounds are cooled.
2. Put 1 TBs. of cream in the bottom the round.
3. Add a layer of berries.
3. Spoon additional cream over the berries and then add some more berries.
4. Garnish with mint leaves.
5. Serve either with some grated chocolate, a chocolate sauce or berry coulis.

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