Summer Berry Clafoutis
We had a late, filling lunch today so dinner consisted of dessert only - Summer Berry Clafoutis with Ice Cream :)
It's basically a standard Strawberry or Cherry Clafoutis, but substitute summer berries (blue berries, red currants, black berries and raspberries) for the Strawberries or Cherries.
View all photos taken: Saturday, 14th April 2007, This photo: 7:33pm
this is really making me hungry!!:(
hah...
Oh
my
goodness!!!!!!! {:->
It was good - very good :)
And it contained fruit, eggs, carbohydrates and dairy so it must have been good for us too ;^)
ohhhh that looks soooooooooo good....where is this place? Wait please don't tell me that someone you know made that? I know it's only breakfast time but I want that NOW
Yum.
Better than that, I made it :)
There's still a slice left, which I may yet have for breakfast with the pancakes Lea is making...
wow Lea is one lucky lady...
my boy struggles with 2 minute noodles.
Darn, now I'm hungry! It looks excellent : )
Well, *I* love him, but my hips are convinced that David is their main enemy
("Look out! He's in the kitchen again! Hire another frontend loader to carry us around!")
;)
hahaha I wouldn't knock it.. Looks really yummy!
Dissert for dinner?! Ah...that's my dream dinner as a child and still is! What a fun family you guys are. :o)
Lea, buy one of those vibrating belts for your hips. :o)
My current strategy is pushing the mower around when the weather loves me :)
It was Melissa :)
Yep dessert for dinner Margot - It doesn't happen very often, but sometimes you just have to do these things :)
not made this so will have to give it a go, one of my favourite puddys just has to be summer pudding, made with thick bread , none of that weedy thin variety, and lots of yummy fruit, anything berry wise, so yummy! send us a bit- I'm guessing it all went , yep it did... : ( licks screen...........
....................................................just kidding !!
sometimes -quite often I will just have something like custard or ice-cream for dinner..or even just fruit
Like a bread an butter pudding but with berries instead of jam ?
hehehe there's one slice left, but not for long, it's going tonight.
What's this "or" surely it's custard AND ice-cream ;-)
this is like bread and butter puddy or my summer pudding is? easily confuddled you know, never tried custard AND ice cream, have had ice-cream and cream, disgustingly indulgent that is !! will get you summer puddy recipe if you need it, have got to make one now !!
my fave ice-cream at the mo is creme brulee- oh its so good : D
Your summer pudding - is it like bread and butter pudding ?
I've just finished the last of the clafoutis (with ice-cream and a marshmallow bunny). :)
cream-brulee ice-cream ??? Sounds yummy, but I can't imagine it's anything like an actual creme-brulee, I mean, where's the caramalised sugar top ? and the not-quite runny consistency underneath ?
the ice creme is by carte d'or, its pretty good, quite a lot like it, and it has a crunchy sugar top too!
anyway, take a good sized pudding bowl, I think I use a 2pt, line it with white bread, I take off my crusts but its not obligatory, overlap them and line the bottom too. Now cook, ever so gently such goodies as blackcurrants redcurrants with if you wish sugar to taste, for about3 mins. I also add strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and cherries ( stoned - they feel the pain less that way ), these I dont cook. Anyway, whatever fruit like that that I have. Not adverse to using a bit of frozen if I have it either - scandal - oh sacrilidge say the purists.Pour fruit into puddy bowl, top with bread so its nice and sealed. Put a plate on top - it needs to sit on the bread and way down with a small child or a tin of beans etc.about 2Ibs weight is ideal- but whatever !! leave in fridge overnight. To eat -turn out, there should be no white bread showing, should all be soaked with juice. I make sure of that before I finish it at the adding fruit stage, you can off course reserve any liquid to pour over at this stage, somewtimes I have had to resort to making more juice as too much white bread showing. suggest you use a glass bowl! I am sure there are less garbled recipes for this on the internet..... !!I use white bread, never tried it with brown !!
and here is one !!
www.deliaonline.com/recipes/summer-pudding,1225,RC.html
and another
www.recipezaar.com/138307
this is the strangest one I have seen ..
www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/summerpudding_72319.s...
Sounds very tasty, and obviously absolutely nothing like bread and butter pudding. :)
Might have to try this myself at some stage. We get berries for a lot longer here than you do there (usually two seasons per yet - at least it is for strawberries anyway), but they're still somewhat expensive (the other berries that is - strawberries get down to about $2 a punnet at the height of the season).
we have the advantage of growing our own blackcurrants, blueberries, tayberries blackberries and raspberries, if I grow strawberries the dog or the birds eat them ! We also drive out to farms and pick our own, so that helps as well !
Well I have a small strawberry plant on the back veranda, it's only produced one fruit so far, but we'll see how it goes - the plant itself looks healthy.
I also want to plant blue berries, but I have no idea if they'll do any good in this climate. Blackberries are classed as a noxious weed here, so I can't plant any of those. What....is a tayberry ?
its a cross, blackberry/raspberry I think, yummy !! we have our blueberries in tubs, ericaceous compost as they dont like limey soils, its not very limey here, its just easier also !
Well it sounds yummy :)
Hmm, blueberries in pots... I wasn't sure how big they got. As for limey, I'm sure several American's would disagree ;-)
LOL !!! well it kept them scaby free- have I got the right disease there, ohh history lessons so long ago and ill remembered, there is such a lot of history with the jolly old UK as well - !! well back to blueberries, much more of the now !! About 5 feet eventually although there are some more compact varieties appearing around the 3 foot mark. then off course there are secautares- that doesnt look quite right !!I need to hit the sack as they say !!
Close, Scurvy is what you mean. :)
So I'll want a large pot for the blueberries then... or alternatively just try them in the ground :)
www.hgtv.com/hgtv/gl_trees_shrubs_fruit/article/0,1785,HG...
this could be helpful, ours are happier in pots, they are not huge pots either, but we will pot on as required, they are quite pretty shrubs anyway. we have added some of that water retaining gel to our pots- helps store water in the soil. wishing you success and yummy muffins etc !! lovely fresh fruit salads etc !
Argh, STOP it already you two! I can feel my waistline expanding as I read your posts. Hehehe...just kidding! You may continue to torture me with your dessert talk. (o^^o)
Lea, that's a good strategy. :o)
That looks like a very useful link indeed Helen (haven't read all of it yet, eyes are too tired to focus properly).
Hehehehe Better watch out Margot or I'll be forced to make another dessert just so I can photograph it! ;-)
I've got a half eaten apple crumble, but its not that photogenic !!!
You could always take a picture of yourself eating the apple crumble Helen ;-)
Or scoop some up on a fork and post it to the fork group!
LOL!! well right this minute I'm feeling rather not myself- well my buddy icon is anyway, rather grey and down at the mouth, seems flickr is having problems !! maybe a bit of creative photography would be good!! never eat it personally, the crumble that is- even though I made it !!!
I noticed your icon is looking a bit "plain jane".
In fact it's looking a lot like this:
I love crumble, apple, apricot, or peach - they're all good :)
LOL !!! love it, you make me laugh !!!
:) I've often been tempted to use it as an icon - feel free to do so it you want.
that is very kind of you, it 's great ! well spotted ! seems like there is a problem with the buddy icon, I wasnt sure how to shrink a photo to 48x48 pixels as it seems its the only way to get a buddy at the moment- hence this rather er strange one ! I may use yours later though !!
Well it looks like a black faced sheep from here. Resizing, you can do offline in just about any image editor known to man, however some do a better job than others.