Showing posts with label strawberry recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label strawberry recipes. Show all posts

Sunday, June 12, 2022

Classic Eton Mess

A Classic Eton Mess has three essential ingredients, beautifully ripe strawberries, meringue and whipped cream. It can easily be made with store-bought meringues, for a simple yet lovely dessert, pretty enough for company.

Food Lust People Love: A Classic Eton Mess has three essential ingredients, beautifully ripe strawberries, meringue and whipped cream. It can easily be made with store-bought meringues, for a simple yet lovely dessert, pretty enough for company.

The folklore behind the quintessential English dessert, Eton Mess, is that it was created when a group of Etonians, students at that famous school, were headed out for a picnic, a meringue topped with whipped cream and berries stashed in the car. The story goes that one of their dogs stepped on the dessert, crushing the meringue and generally making a mess of it. They ate it anyway and declared it delicious.

But if Wikipedia is to be believed, the truth is rather less romantic. The classic Eton mess was first mentioned in print back in 1893. To quote that source, “Eton mess was served in the 1930s in the school’s ‘sock shop’ (tuck shop), and was originally made with either strawberries or bananas mixed with ice-cream or cream. Meringue was a later addition. An Eton mess can be made with many other types of summer fruit, but strawberries are regarded as more traditional.”

Classic Eton Mess

This can be made in one big bowl from which you will serve with a spoon or in six individual bowls. The pistachios are not traditional but they add a lovely pop of green to the Classic Eton Mess. If you are making your own meringues, start one day ahead of assembling and serving this dessert to leave plenty of time for the meringues to dry out and get crunchy. 

Ingredients
1 1/2 lbs or 680g ripe strawberries
1/2 cup or 100g sugar
Pinch salt
1­-2 tablespoons orange liqueur (e.g. Triple Sec, Cointreau or Grand Marnier)
1 1⁄2 cups or 360ml whipping cream 
18 small meringues­ - homemade or store-bought 
2 tablespoons pistachio slivers, optional

Method
Hull and chop the strawberries roughly.


Put half of the chopped strawberries in a small pot with the sugar, a good pinch of salt and a tablespoon of water. 


Cook over a medium heat for about 3­-4 minutes, crushing the strawberries lightly with a fork or potato masher when they start to soften. Cook at a low boil for another 3­-4 minutes, until the strawberries and syrup that is created have thickened somewhat.


Put the hot strawberries in a heatproof bowl, stir in the orange liqueur and leave to cool. 


Stir in the rest of the strawberries. Cover with cling film and refrigerate until completely chilled.


Once the strawberries are cold, whip the cream into stiff peaks. Divide it in half and fold one quarter of the strawberries into half of the cream.

To serve, make small layers from the bottom: 
1. strawberries 
2. pink cream (with strawberries)
3. 2 small meringues, crumbled roughly 
4. white cream (plain)
5. strawberries 
6. slivered pistachios (if desired) and a whole mini meringue on top.

Food Lust People Love: A Classic Eton Mess has three essential ingredients, beautifully ripe strawberries, meringue and whipped cream. It can easily be made with store-bought meringues, for a simple yet lovely dessert, pretty enough for company.

Enjoy! 

Food Lust People Love: A Classic Eton Mess has three essential ingredients, beautifully ripe strawberries, meringue and whipped cream. It can easily be made with store-bought meringues, for a simple yet lovely dessert, pretty enough for company.


It’s Sunday FunDay and what could be more fun than some great dessert recipes. Check them all out below. Many thanks to our host, Sneha of Sneha’s Recipe

 
We are a group of food bloggers who believe that Sunday should be a family fun day, so every Sunday we share recipes that will help you to enjoy your day. If you're a blogger interested in joining us, just visit our Facebook group and request to join.


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Food Lust People Love: A Classic Eton Mess has three essential ingredients, beautifully ripe strawberries, meringue and whipped cream. It can easily be made with store-bought meringues, for a simple yet lovely dessert, pretty enough for company.




Sunday, April 10, 2022

Feta and Strawberry Tabouli Salad

Feta and strawberry tabouli salad is a great twist on a Middle Eastern favorite. Juicy ripe strawberries brighten the salad, adding color and a welcome sweetness. This is one salad that’s just as good as leftovers!

Food Lust People Love: Feta and strawberry tabouli salad is a great twist on a Middle Eastern favorite. Juicy ripe strawberries brighten the salad, adding color and a welcome sweetness. This is one salad that’s just as good as leftovers!

As much as I love a traditional tabouli salad (which is A LOT!) it’s also fun to mix things up and put a new spin on an old favorite. Adding fresh strawberries was inspired by the fancy salads we enjoy with not only greens but also fruit, nuts and cheese. In this case, the nutty-flavored bulgur wheat is standing in for actual nuts. 

On a completely different subject, let’s talk about the first ingredient, a thing I like to call purple onion. In most recipes it is referred to as red onion or Spanish onion but since my first encounter with same as a child, I’ve called it purple onion. Because it is purple! This is my tiny hill and I am prepared to defend it. 

A Google search quickly revealed that in some European countries it is indeed called purple onion and now I want to know where. Annoyingly, Wikipedia didn’t say. Even BBC Food had the nerve to describe the onion thusly, “Red onions are an attractive, milder alternative to the yellow onion with their shiny purple skin.” Purple. That’s right. 

Have I convinced anyone? Join me on the purple side. It’s more accurate over here. Plus I have tasty salad.

Feta and Strawberry Tabouli Salad

For aesthetic reasons, I chose to use yellow cherry tomatoes for this festive salad. If you only have red ones, no worries. The flavor is what really matters. 

Ingredients
For the dressing:
1/2 medium purple onion, sliced very thinly (about 2 1/2 oz or 70g)
2 tablespoons or 30ml fresh lime juice
1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup or 60ml extra virgin olive oil

For the salad:
1 cup or 210g bulgur wheat (3 1/4 cups or 615g when soaked and drained)
1 bunch green onions, just the green part, chopped (about 11/4 oz or 35g)
1 very large bunch (about 5 1/3 oz or 150g) cilantro
8 oz or 227g yellow cherry tomatoes, halved
14 oz or 400g strawberries, hulled and quartered
7 oz or 200g feta, crumbled (I prefer the sheep’s milk type.)
 
Method
In metal or heatproof bowl, cover your bulgur wheat with 1 3/4 cups or 414ml of boiling water and cover the bowl with an upside down plate or some cling film. Set aside. 


Put your thinly sliced onions in a large bowl and pour the lime juice over them. Sprinkle with the salt. Add a few good grinds of fresh black pepper. 


Let the onions marinate in the lime juice for a few minutes. This helps reduced their pungency and sharpness. Now mix in the olive oil. 

Chop your green onions finely and set aside. 


Cut the hard stalks off of the cilantro and discard.  (The tender, narrow stalks near the leaves are fine to leave in.) Wash the cilantro thoroughly several times and dry in a salad spinner or a dry dishcloth.  Chop it roughly. 

Once the bulgur wheat has absorbed all of the water it can, drain it in a strainer and push down on the top to get rid of any excess water. 


Fluff it with fork and leave it to cool. 

Now we can assemble the strawberry tabouli. Add the halved tomatoes to the dressing first. 


Tip in the cooled bulgur wheat, the green onions and cilantro and mix well to coat the wheat with the dressing.


Finally, add the strawberries and feta and toss gently to combine. This tabouli gets better and better as it sits so you can make it ahead without any problems.  


Enjoy!

Food Lust People Love: Feta and strawberry tabouli salad is a great twist on a Middle Eastern favorite. Juicy ripe strawberries brighten the salad, adding color and a welcome sweetness. This is one salad that’s just as good as leftovers!

It’s Sunday FunDay and my friends and I are sharing side dishes for your Easter table. Anything that isn’t a main course qualified so we’ve got you covered from appetizer to dessert! Many thanks to our host, Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm

 
We are a group of food bloggers who believe that Sunday should be a family fun day, so every Sunday we share recipes that will help you to enjoy your day. If you're a blogger interested in joining us, just visit our Facebook group and request to join.


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Food Lust People Love: Feta and strawberry tabouli salad is a great twist on a Middle Eastern favorite. Juicy ripe strawberries brighten the salad, adding color and a welcome sweetness. This is one salad that’s just as good as leftovers!

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Sunday, June 13, 2021

Sparkling Strawberry Lemon Cocktail

Lightly sweetened homemade strawberry vodka is the main ingredient of this sparkling strawberry lemon cocktail, refreshingly cold, perfect for summer!

Food Lust People Love: Lightly sweetened homemade strawberry vodka is the main ingredient of this sparkling strawberry lemon cocktail, refreshingly cold, perfect for summer!

More than a month ago I shared the how-to instructions for making simple strawberry vodka so I hope you all got right on that! If so, you are ready to make this cocktail today. 

If not, what are you waiting for? It’s one of the easiest ways of preserving the flavor of sweet summer strawberries to enjoy all year round. 

Sparkling Strawberry Lemon Cocktail

I am not a fan of the flavored vodkas you can buy in the stores because they always taste artificial to me but if you are a fan, feel free to use one in this cocktail. You’ll need to add a little simple syrup as well though, if your store-bought strawberry vodka isn’t sweetened. Most are not. 

Ingredients
1/2 oz or 15ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
2 1/2 oz or 75ml club soda
Curled lemon peel or strawberry for garnish (optional)

Method
Fill a cocktail shaker 2/3 full with ice cubes. Add in the strawberry vodka and lemon juice. Shake until well chilled, about 15 seconds.

Fill a glass with ice. Strain the cocktail mixture into the glass. Top up with club soda and stir gently. 

Food Lust People Love: Lightly sweetened homemade strawberry vodka is the main ingredient of this sparkling strawberry lemon cocktail, refreshingly cold, perfect for summer!

Garnish with a strawberry plus a curl of lemon peel, if desired.

Food Lust People Love: Lightly sweetened homemade strawberry vodka is the main ingredient of this sparkling strawberry lemon cocktail, refreshingly cold, perfect for summer!

Enjoy!

It's Sunday FunDay and it's all about berries today! Check out the recipes below. Many thanks to our host, Renu of Cook with Renu and her Sunday helper, Rebekah of Making Miracles.


We are a group of food bloggers who believe that Sunday should be a family fun day, so every Sunday we share recipes that will help you to enjoy your day. If you're a blogger interested in joining us, just visit our Facebook group and request to join.


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Food Lust People Love: Lightly sweetened homemade strawberry vodka is the main ingredient of this sparkling strawberry lemon cocktail, refreshingly cold, perfect for summer!
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Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Simple Strawberry Vodka

This slightly sweet simple strawberry vodka is best served well chilled in shot glasses or as a cocktail ingredient. It makes a fabulous sparkling libation with Champagne or soda. 

Food Lust People Love: This slightly sweet simple strawberry vodka is best served well chilled in shot glasses or as a cocktail ingredient. It makes a fabulous sparkling libation with Champagne or soda.

One of the easiest ways to preserve the fresh taste of strawberries is to “pickle” them in alcohol. The strawberries transfer their sweet flavor and gorgeous color to your alcohol of choice in just a couple of weeks. 

Speaking of preserving fruit, jam is one of my favorite things to make with whatever fruit is in season. And I always wash and freeze strawberries and blueberries in a single layer then pop them into a Ziploc bag to extend their seasons. But I wanted to challenge myself to do something different this time. 

I had no idea how easy it would be to make strawberry vodka!

As it turns out, it’s really not much of a challenge at all. You can make straight strawberry vodka by cutting up the strawberries and tipping them into vodka but I chose to add some sugar too so I wouldn’t have to add simple syrup for cocktails. It was a good decision.

Simple Strawberry Vodka

This fruity vodka can also be made with other berries like blackcurrants or cranberries, or any soft fruit really, come to think of it.

Ingredients
9 oz or 255g fresh strawberries
2 1/2 cups or 590ml vodka
1/2 cup or 100g sugar

Method
Hull and chop the strawberries into four or five pieces.


Put them in a sterilized jar with the sugar. Add the vodka and strawberries and shake gently till the sugar has dissolved.


Leave for at least two weeks in a cool, dark cupboard. Give the jar a gentle shake at least once a day.


Strain through several layers of cheesecloth or a single ply of paper towel and decant into a decorative bottle. Discard the poor pale strawberries which have given their all that we might have fruity vodka. 

Seal and label.


Isn’t it a beautiful color?

Food Lust People Love: This slightly sweet simple strawberry vodka is best served well chilled in shot glasses or as a cocktail ingredient. It makes a fabulous sparkling libation with Champagne or soda.

Enjoy!

It’s time for another Foodie Extravaganza party and we are celebrating National Strawberry Month with all sorts of great recipes. Check them out! Many thanks to our host Kelley of Simply Inspired Meals for the theme and to Sneha of Sneha's Recipe for her behind-the-scenes work. 



Foodie Extravaganza is where we celebrate obscure food holidays by cooking and baking together with the same ingredient or theme each month. Posting day is always the first Wednesday of each month. If you are a blogger and would like to join our group and blog along with us, come join our Facebook page Foodie Extravaganza. We would love to have you! If you're a spectator looking for delicious tid-bits check out our Foodie Extravaganza Pinterest Board.


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Food Lust People Love: This slightly sweet simple strawberry vodka is best served well chilled in shot glasses or as a cocktail ingredient. It makes a fabulous sparkling libation with Champagne or soda.
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Sunday, March 28, 2021

Strawberry Mint Glazed Roasted Rack of Lamb

A tart and fruity strawberry and mint glaze makes a wonderful sticky topping for this strawberry mint glazed roasted rack of lamb. It’s the perfect dish for date night or the ingredients are easily doubled for a family dinner. 

Food Lust People Love: A tart and fruity strawberry and mint glaze makes a wonderful sticky topping for this strawberry mint glazed roasted rack of lamb. It’s the perfect dish for date night or the ingredients are easily doubled for a family dinner.

Years ago I discovered quite by accident that a rack of lamb takes only 45-60 minutes to roast, which is so much quicker than the leg, my usual part of a lamb to roast. As much as we love lamb chops, I had never bought them all hooked together still. 

One day I arrived home to find a care package with big prawns, some smoked salmon and a vacuum-packed rack of lamb stashed in my refrigerator. One of the catering contractors who supplied my husband’s drilling rigs had dropped it all off as a thank you for the business.

Those were the days of achingly slow dial-up internet so I consulted my trusty Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook (1980 edition.) Right there on page 227, the instructions were so simple: Season with salt and pepper. Roast for 1 hour or until you reach your desired internal temperature. In the last 15-30 minutes, brush with an apricot glaze aka warmed apricot jam. Honestly, does it get easier than that? Who knew!

Good Housekeeping ended with the instructions of how to remove the back bones on one side of the rack so the chops can be easily cut apart. Let me offer you a little tip. Ask your butcher to do this before you even bring that rack of lamb home. Roasting and serving is quicker and easier without those back bones to deal with. 

Strawberry Mint Glazed Roasted Rack of Lamb

Instead of the Good Housekeeping recommendation of apricot glaze, you can use any fruit you like so this can be a wonderfully seasonal dish. This time I used strawberries and mixed them with the more traditional accompaniment to lamb, classic mint sauce. Any leftover glaze can be served with the roasted rack of lamb, to spoon over the chops. So good! 

Ingredients
For the strawberry mint glaze/sauce:
7 oz or 200g strawberries
Pinch salt
1­-2 teaspoons sugar (if needed, depending on the sweetness of your strawberries)
2 tablespoons prepared mint sauce (Not mint jelly! Proper mint sauce has a bite from the vinegar. I recommend Colman's Classic Mint Sauce.)

For the rack of lamb:
1 1/2 lbs or 680g rack of lamb, preferably with a nice layer of fat on top
1 teaspoon flakey sea salt 
1 large clove garlic
1⁄2 teaspoon peppercorns (I use mixed peppercorn but just black are fine.)

Method
Start your oven preheating to 375°F or 190°C. 

Use a sharp knife to score the fat on the top of the rack of lamb. Don't cut all the way through to the meat.


Use a mortar and pestle to crush the peppercorns, garlic and salt salt into a paste.

Rub the seasonings into the scored fat then place it on a rack in a baking pan. Set aside. 


To make the strawberry mint glaze, hull the strawberries and chop them into quarters. Cook them until soft in a small covered pot over a medium flame, with the pinch of salt and a splash of water.


Taste the strawberries and add a little sugar if they aren’t sweet. 

Mash the strawberries with a fork and cook them down until they are a thick sauce. Remove from the heat and stir in the mint sauce. Set it aside


When your oven has reached the proper temperature, put the pan in the oven and roast the rack of lamb for about 30 minutes or until the internal temperature reaches about 115°F or 46°C, for rare chops.

Remove the rack from the oven and brush it all over thickly with the strawberry mint glaze.

Food Lust People Love: A tart and fruity strawberry and mint glaze makes a wonderful sticky topping for this strawberry mint glazed roasted rack of lamb. It’s the perfect dish for date night or the ingredients are easily doubled for a family dinner.

Return the rack to the oven for another 15 minutes or until the internal temperature is about 135°F or 57°C. Remove it from the oven and tent it with foil for about 10 minutes.

Food Lust People Love: A tart and fruity strawberry and mint glaze makes a wonderful sticky topping for this strawberry mint glazed roasted rack of lamb. It’s the perfect dish for date night or the ingredients are easily doubled for a family dinner.

Slice into six chops and serve the remaining strawberry mint sauce alongside the chops.

Food Lust People Love: A tart and fruity strawberry and mint glaze makes a wonderful sticky topping for this strawberry mint glazed roasted rack of lamb. It’s the perfect dish for date night or the ingredients are easily doubled for a family dinner.

Enjoy! 

It’s Sunday FunDay again and this time I’m hosting and we are sharing lamb recipes. Check out all the delicious recipes below. 

We are a group of food bloggers who believe that Sunday should be a family fun day, so every Sunday we share recipes that will help you to enjoy your day. If you're a blogger interested in joining us, just visit our Facebook group and request to join.

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Roasted Rack of Lamb!

Food Lust People Love: A tart and fruity strawberry and mint glaze makes a wonderful sticky topping for this strawberry mint glazed roasted rack of lamb. It’s the perfect dish for date night or the ingredients are easily doubled for a family dinner.

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Sunday, February 14, 2021

Strawberry Almond Crumble

Strawberry almond crumble pairs our favorite sweet red berries with a buttery almond oatmeal topping that also happens to be gluten-free. And since it's so quick and easy, this is the perfect dessert to make for your sweeties today for Valentine's Day.

Food Lust People Love: Strawberry almond crumble pairs our favorite sweet red berries with a buttery almond oatmeal topping that also happens to be gluten-free. And since it's so quick and easy, this is the perfect dessert to make for your sweeties today for Valentine's Day.


I was probably five or six years old when I first tasted a crumble. We lived in Pointe-a-Pierre, the Texaco “camp” in Trinidad where all the employees lived with their families. I suppose there were plenty of Americans but the houses on either side of us were English and Scottish. And being a former British colony, that influence was everywhere else on the island too.

Crumble, I discovered, is the simplest of desserts: Fruit topped with sugar, flour and butter and baked till golden. Over the years, I’ve challenged that recipe by mixing more than one fruit together – apple and rhubarb is a traditional and family favorite – and adding extras to the crumble, like today’s slivered almonds and oatmeal. Added bonus: when you need a gluten-free dessert, this is an excellent option.

The best part of crumbles is that they can be baked and served hot. Or baked ahead and served cold, at room temperature or even rewarmed. Like all crumbles, this strawberry almond crumble is the most forgiving of desserts.

Strawberry Almond Crumble

Do feel free to mix up the fruits with whatever is seasonal for you. If your fruit is more tart, you can add a little extra sugar to the filling. Sweeter fruit might need less sugar.

Ingredients
For the filling:
1 1/2 lbs or 560g fresh or frozen strawberries (hulled)
1/4 cup or 50g caster sugar
1/4 cup or 25g almond meal
2 tablespoons Pimm’s No. 3 Cup or alcohol of your choice - optional
1 tablespoon minute tapioca
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon salt

For the crumble topping:
2/3 cup or 50g 5-minute oatmeal
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup or 60g slivered almonds
1/2 cup or 100g demerara sugar
5 tablespoons or 70g cold butter (diced) plus a little extra for buttering deep pie dish

To serve: whipping or thick pouring cream

Method
Preheat your oven to 350°F or 180°C and butter a deep pie dish with butter.

In a large mixing bowl, toss together the hulled strawberries with the rest of the filling ingredients.



Pour the filling into the buttered dish and spread it around evenly.


Mix all of the crumble ingredients together stir.


Use a pastry blender or even a food processor on pulse to cut the cold butter into the dry ingredients until just combined. Do not over process into a paste.


Sprinkle the crumble on top of the filling.

Food Lust People Love: Strawberry almond crumble pairs our favorite sweet red berries with a buttery almond oatmeal topping that also happens to be gluten-free. And since it's so quick and easy, this is the perfect dessert to make for your sweeties today for Valentine's Day.

Bake in the preheated oven for 40-45 minutes for fresh fruit or 50-55 minutes if you are using frozen.

Start checking for bubbling filling about 30-40 minutes in. Once it is bubbling, bake for about 10 minutes more. You need the filling to boil and bubble to help it activate the tapioca and cornstarch so it will thicken up.

Remove from the oven and allow to cool for about 10 minutes before serving.

Food Lust People Love: Strawberry almond crumble pairs our favorite sweet red berries with a buttery almond oatmeal topping that also happens to be gluten-free. And since it's so quick and easy, this is the perfect dessert to make for your sweeties today for Valentine's Day.

If you are baking this a day or two before you are serving, cool the crumble completely, cover it with cling film and refrigerate. You can serve the crumble warmed in the microwave or oven but I must say that some folks love it cold.

Whether warm or cold, at our house, crumble is served with thick whipping cream. I suggest you do the same.

Food Lust People Love: Strawberry almond crumble pairs our favorite sweet red berries with a buttery almond oatmeal topping that also happens to be gluten-free. And since it's so quick and easy, this is the perfect dessert to make for your sweeties today for Valentine's Day.

Enjoy!

This Sunday which is also Valentine's Day, of course, we are sharing dishes that would be great for your celebration. Check out all the goodness below. Many thanks to our host, Rebekah of Making Miracles

We are a group of food bloggers who believe that Sunday should be a family fun day, so every Sunday we share recipes that will help you to enjoy your day. If you're a blogger interested in joining us, just visit our Facebook group and request to join.


Pin this Strawberry Almond Crumble! 

Food Lust People Love: Strawberry almond crumble pairs our favorite sweet red berries with a buttery almond oatmeal topping that also happens to be gluten-free. And since it's so quick and easy, this is the perfect dessert to make for your sweeties today for Valentine's Day.
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