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Great Recipes are Made or Stolen!

Karen & Laura's Blueberry Coffee Cake!I am very proud of my little band of chefs! Laura, Kristin and Karen all enjoy experimenting with new recipes, developing on old proven winners and when all else fails… they act like the pirates they are… and they “steal” one!

Actually, we don’t “borrow” from too many folks as their recipes usually suffer from various inadequacies: too many shortcuts, cheap ingredients, inadequate substitutions or they just stink. Was I ‘over the top here?’

Anyway, one of my family’s favorite items was prepared by a restaurant for whatever reasons left our little town of San Luis Obispo called ‘Hobbee’s’… and now can be found at least in one of my favorite places of my youth… Palo Alto. Forgiving it’s somewhat vegetarian cuisine for the moment, one of their nicer ‘treats’ was a blueberry coffee cake that was… delicious and always worth the trek.

For Some reason, my daughter Karen had never posted her mother’s and her adaptations to this recipe… they didn’t want to share it with ol dad who’s eyes always rolled at the mere hint of it’s baking! However, brought to you through excessive begging on my part… is their version of this great coffee cake!

Here’s the Recipe!

Karen loves to put  Amarula ( a south African Liquor that reminds me of a nicer Bailey’s Irish Cream) in everything… so I wasn’t surprised to see it in here too!

enjoy it with someone you love!

Roger Freberg

PS. Now you can see what we are doing when we are not on Jenny Craig!

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Cheesecake with Amarula, Peanut butter, White and Milk Chocolate

Chocolate, Peanutbutter and White Choc cheesecake

Peanut butter and Chocolate is such a natural combination that folks have tried to incorporate the pair into almost every imaginable creation. However, one of my favorites is cheesecake.

Now, after some experimentation, I have found a few shortcuts to making a great PB and C Cheesecake. Obviously, in this age when we can buy store prepared chocolate (known commonly as chocolate bars) , peanut butter and ‘Oreos’…. we become less ‘baker’ and more ‘assembler’. Be that as it may, this does not distract too much from this exquisite dessert. Tomorrow is my wife’s birthday… and she deserves nothing less… especially since she had the fun in making it!

The recipe is here.

This cheesecake is especially decadent given the chocolate cap with the glazed pecans. The ‘marbled’ cheesecake is accomplished by splitting the batter into two parts: one with peanut butter and white chocolate and the other with milk chocolate… and then rippling them together!

Peanutbutter, White and Milk Chocolate Cheesecake!

Aaaaah… bake it for someone you love.

Roger

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What every happened to Cadbury Chocolate?

Chocolate Cheesecake like you never had before!

Laura’s birthday is coming up and she requested a Chocolate & Peanut butter Cheesecake. Sounded simple enough, I had vowed not to open a  coveted  10 lb. block of Peter’s Chocolate as it only came in this single serving size. ahem…

My plan was to find a ‘well konched’ chocolate alternative like Cadbury for my needs… but I couldn’t find it at Albertson’s anywhere? And the locals didn’t know where it had gone? So, I did discover that it still existed and here hangs a story of modern times of mergers and acquisitions.  Hershey holds the license in the United States.

So, I looked for something acceptable and found a couple of bags of plain milk chocolate miniatures made by Mars, Inc. under the  title of Dove... should be good.

By the way, the easy part of turning a chocolate cheesecake into a peanut butter cheesecake is rather simple. Divide the cheesecake mixture into two sections (depending on how much of one virsus the other you prefer… I like a 2/3 chocolate section and 1/3 peanut butter section).. after you pour the chocolate mixture into the pan, then in a swirling motion pour the peanutbutter mixture into the chocolate mixture leaving a spiral trail…. then bake.

We learn something new every day… I am glad Cadbury is still here… somewhere.

Roger Freberg

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Building a better Pizza!

A real Meaty Pizza!

Pizza isn’t as bad as you think diet wise… unless you think it comes in the ‘single serving pan.’

The real key is portion control and the types of ingredients you choose to add. Obviously, for those of us who love meaty additions, we will include: seasoned tender steak, Linguica, bacon, ham, sausage, pepperoni, pheasant and Andouille sausage and …. just about every meat one would like to have! Obviously, an assortment of cheeses makes it wonderful along with Mozzarella. Adding onion, mushroom, sliced olives and some of the typical Italian flavors such as Oregano, Rosemary, Purple Basil.

So was this Pizza good?

Oh… I’d buy someone elses… but I just can’t find one as good as the one you can make yourself!

Roger