Hey All,
Culinary fun continues with my gym and recovery folks and here at home. Last week we did a "Prepare" event using on sale items and the coordinators flare for world flavors. It was an absolute blast, but I'll refrain from posting her great recipes, in hopes one day she makes it big and will write a book about it or have a TV show. I haven't made much else that has been inventive or especially noteworthy; just good cooking to keep us fed.
Last week, I hit the motherload on brie. Every once in a great while, NPS get outdated or near outdated cheese and sells it at ridiculous prices. Case in point, 7oz. baby bries for $0.50. Brie is definitely more my thing, so I only bought 2, but I may have fixed that today. I made a grilled cheese using the brie for Husbear, and I made a grilled brie and pears with rosemary for me. YUM! Husbear was delighted with his ooey gooey grilled cheese with a unique flavor. I'm easy to please with brie, so it was a huge win. I should note, I bumped up the flavor by using half bacon grease, half butter to lube the frying pan.
Afterward we had a Fruckie. As I've heard many times before, WTF is a Fruckie? It is a delicious thing made with leftover corn chips, peanut butter fudge, and chocolate. Sweet, salty, and I use semisweet or even super dark chocolate to make a delicious treat. Its really quite simple, and I line the pan with tin foil, so its super easy all around. I usually use what's left of a bag of corn chips, so 1 part = 1/4 cup in a 9x9 pan. The link before uses a full bag of chips, a much larger pan, and is a horrible waste of corn chips that could be better used with that brie ;)
Put the corn chips in the foil lined pan. Melt equal parts corn syrup and sugar together, just when it starts to boil, add one part peanut butter, mix well, turn off the heat and pour that over corn chips. I usually cook it for about a minute so its sets up harder when cool. Next put chocolate chips, or broken bar bits or whatever on top, the heat will melt it and let it spread....easy peasy and delicious.
There will be some of the chip bits leftover in the bottom of the pan. If you have more corn chip remnants, use them again, or put them on ice cream.....that little bit of salt with all the dripped in sugar and chocolate is an amazing ice cream topping.
I'll keep writing more as things pop up, in the meantime, keep it simple and make good food!
Lotsa Love,
3Day
