I love bon appetit

I love to get a magazine and make a recipe.Here are 2 recipes one I loved and the other I had to remake and change recipe.
The Chocolate Caramel Tart (Feb. 2010)LOVED!!!Made exactly like recipe.
Now the Lime Tart w/blackberries and blueberries (June 2010)was a different story.
The lime curd is lovely,smooth and creamy.The crust on the other hand was dry and crumby.I remade with a sweet crust recipe from the FAT cookbook by Jennifer McLagan.Same ingredients better recipe whole egg and more butter.
But Still love bonappetit

Morel season

If you live where morels will be soon popping in the woods here is a to die for recipe!

www.bonappetit.com/recipes/2010/04/lasagna_with_asparagus_leeks_morels I used a little prosciutto on top before baking and garnished with white truffle oil.Worth the hike through the woods and the use of such a valuable resource!!!Having a morel in each bite......yummmm

Blueberry Lavender Gelato

If you are looking for a real treat,and you love blueberries this will knock your socks off.I have combined a few recipes to come up with this smooth creamy blueberry frozen taste of heaven with just a hint of lavender to only enhance the blueberry flavor. Recipe as follows:

1 Tlb of lavender (World Market)
3/4 c.water (use less if using frozen berries)
1 c.sugar
In saucepan dissolve sugar in water with lavender and simmer over med-low heat for 5-8 mins.Strain through a fine mesh colander to remove lavender.Return syrup to pan and add blueberries ,bring to simmer cook until slightly thickened.let cool some. Then take half of blueberry sauce and puree in food processor or blender.Return puree to blueberries and finish cooling.
5 egg yolks whisked
2c. 2%milk
1c. heavy cream
1/2 c. sugar
Combine in another saucepan milk,cream and sugar,heat over med-low heat.Stir to warm and dissolve sugar.When is has started to bubble on the edge of pan remove 1/2 cup of milk and cream and slowly add to yolks whisking briskly to temper eggs.Then slowly add back to milk and cream mixture in saucepan and continue to simmer stirring until you have the consistency of custard.Turn off heat and stir in blueberry lavender sauce to custard.Put in refrigerator for at least 2 hrs.or over night ,then put in ice cream machine and follow manufactures direction to freeze... enjoy.We served with cookie, Oatmeal pecan blueberry cookie and garnished with lavender.

Cookies

If you love to bake cookies Martha Stewart's COOKIES cookbook is a must!I have made so many cookies out of that book and 90% of them are awesome.Pictured are a chewy chocolate sugary yummy cookie.Grammy's Chocolate Cookies.If you are a chocoholic these will be one of your favorites.Umm and so good right out of the oven!....The pecan bars are out of this world.....Chocolate Crackles (add a little espresso powder) are delicious.The list is to long to go on.Most of the recipes are free on her website,but on http://www.amazon.com/ it's only $15.50!

Above is a cake I made for Easter.The flowers are actually pineapple!!The recipe is very good.I used only one pineapple,thought to many was an over kill.The only trouble I had was slicing the pineapple thin.You need a very sharp knife and a strong hand.Also scoop the eyes out of the pineapple deep to make the flowers look lacy er.If you love banana cake this will be a winner for you!