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what to do w/ homemade apricot jam?

I made lots of apricot jam during summer. Of course it’s absolutely delicious to have some homemade apricot jam on your fresh roll or croissant or crispy toast or soft French bread or … nevertheless what else can you do w/ the jam? So I started surfing … I thought about something like a cake or a tart or … whatever. It’s end of summer now, but there are still wonderful fresh apricots around us…

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a cake disaster … turning into a delicious butter-sugar-almond affair

I stumbled across the idea for this recipe in Mimi Thorissons’s cookbook A Kitchen in France. It sounded nice & delicious & I thought it would be fine w/ my espressos (you know that I’m addicted to espresso!). So for my next shopping I made a mental note to buy an organic lemon as well as dry yeast … & some almond flakes. The rest would be waiting in my fridge resp. pantry. Originally the…

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last minute summer ice cream

Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising.   I admit I rarely have a container w/ ice cream sitting in my freezer.   For the record: There is the exception that I just bought a container of exquisite vanilla ice cream for my espresso mania i. e. to create espresso affogato whenever I think I need a little reward … This is btw independent of season, however, it’s no permanent condition.   So sometimes – especially during…

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