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Cranberry Hazelnut Financier / French Nut Cake

Serves 6-8, modified from Feb. 7, 08 food section, Ottawa Citizen.
1 cup of ground hazelnuts, toasted
2/3 cup whole wheat organic all purpose flour
1 Tbs creme de marrons
3/4 cup white sugar
pinch salt

1 medium ripe pear, cut in 1/4 inch cubes
1 tsp grated ginger
1 cup cranberries, fresh or frozen, cut in half
1/4 sugar

6 large egg whites
pinch salt
1/2 […]

Raspberry Pie

3 tablespoons cornstarch
a cup of frozen rhubarb
3 cups of frozen raspberries,
3/4 sugar
a dollop of moreno cherry jam
a few squeezes of lime
Cooked until hot and thickening. Add a tablespoon of butter. Put into a prebaked shell (i.e. 425 degrees for 10 minutes) and do the lattice top and bake for 45 more minutes at 350 degrees.

Too […]

Apple Plum Crumble

Apple Crumble with plums subbed for 1/3 of apples.

Gelato

Quick we must eat all the gelato before the winter ice crystals get to them!

Plum Cake

A plum cake springboarded from this recipe by omitted the walnuts, not peeling all the plums, adding a squeeze or few of hazelnut puree, using this not wheat flour or leavening but the stuff below, and no egg and half a cup of honey as the sugar.

Chocolate Zucchini Cake

3 eggs
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
Dry:
2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1/2 cup Black and Green organic cocoa
1/4 cup Dagoba xocolatl (hot pepper cocoa)
3 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp chinese 5 spice mix
Wet:
1/2 cup almond milk
2 tsp vanilla
Preheat over to 350 degrees. Butter a 9×13 pan (or bundt pan). […]

Key Lime Pie

( Desserts and Recipe )

Key Lime Pie from the recipe on the bag is simple.
Graham cracker shell (brushed with egg white and baked 5 minutes to be crisp)
4 egg yolks
can of low fat sweetened condensed milk
4 oz of lime juice.

Gradually mix together filling and beat with electric mixer. Pour and bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.