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Raspberry-Champagne Fizz

December 30, 2010 7:15 AM

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Raspberry-Champagne Fizz
Recipe and photo reprinted with permission by Viviane Banquet Farre
www.foodandstyle.wordpress.com

An elegant New Years spin on the ice cream float, this beautiful dessert by Chef Viviane Banquet Farre will delight your guests. It's so easy to make, you can actually enjoy your party instead of worrying about preparing and serving dessert.

I was not surprised to find such a lovely and festive idea on Viviane's website, which is appropriately named - Food and Style. With a flair for all things beautiful and delicious, her website is my first stop when I'm entertaining. I look forward to seeing what she will create in the new year.

Wishing you a very healthy, happy and delicious New Year!

Cheers!

serves 12

For the raspberry coulis
10 oz frozen raspberries - thawed
1 tsp lemon juice
3 TBSP Chambord or Cassis liqueur

For the fizz
1 quart vanilla ice cream
3 pts fresh raspberries, as garnish
1 bottle Champagne or sparkling wine

Step 1: To make the coulis: Place the raspberries, lemon juice, sugar and liqueur in the bowl of a food processor and process at high speed until very smooth. Pass through a fine sieve and pour into a large squeeze bottle. Refrigerate until ready to use. The coulis can be refrigerated for up to 3 days.

Step 2: To serve: Squeeze a little raspberry coulis in a martini glass. Top with one or two scoops of vanilla ice cream, depending on the size or your glasses. Garnish with the raspberries. Top each glass with sparkling wine or Champagne at the table. Pouring it at the table makes it more fun for your guests!

176 Homemade Popsicle Recipes

July 30, 2010 7:20 AM

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176 Homemade Popsicle Recipes

I'll admit it. I'm a card-carrying popsicle addict. As I've mentioned in another post, I crave them like a child when I'm sick... and want to add a little vodka to them when I'm well! Once you start making them at home, you won't buy the commercial food-dye ladened boxes of them at your grocery store.

The great thing about making your own popsicles, is you can add just about any combination of fresh fruit juice and they will be good. However, I'm always looking for new ideas and recipes. In my quest, I found some great compilations of recipes that were so worthy of sharing. Check out these links:

50+ Homemade Popsicle Recipes - Tipnut.com assembled recipes from all over the web into one post. There are great ideas for regular fruit pops, frozen yogurt and pudding pops. Each recipe has a link to the original source.

32 Homemade "Organic" Popsicle Recipes - Blisstree.com writes that making your own popsicles is better for your body (and your kids bodies) as well as the environment. Here are 32 mostly organic recipes including veggie varieties for picky eaters.

50 Amazing Homemade Popsicle Recipes & Tips - This website had me when I saw the photo of the VitaMix on the counter. We love our VitaMix! In addition to great healthy recipes for pops, this link also has great tips for making them the best.

30 (ish) Popsicle Recipes by Kitchen Daily - Kitchendaily.com dedicates a month to sharing a new popsicle recipe each day. They share fun fruit recipes but also include adventurous and serious dessert combinations. Butter pecan pop anyone?

11 Fabulous and "Twisted" Popsicle Recipes - Beautiful and so yummy, hostessblog.com shares some serious recipes and tips on how to make beautiful "twisted' pops.

3 Cocktail Pop Recipes - You can turn just about any fruity cocktail into a popsicle. This article shows you three favorite ways to do that. How about a Mojito pop?

Those are some of the best resources for popsicle recipes on the web. However, if you really want to get creative just get out your juicer or blender - hit your farmer's market and have some fun making up your own recipes!

Homemade Popsicles!

June 20, 2010 7:37 AM

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Homemade Popsicles!

Photos by Zoku and Williams-Sonoma

I've loved popsicles my whole life! It's possible that I love them more than ice cream. To this day whenever I have a cold, I send my husband out for two "medicinal" remedies.... hot and sour soup and popsicles! The downside is the commercial packaged popsicles are loaded with sugars, food colorings and other chemicals. They just aren't good for you. Yes, there are some "fruit" bars on the market that are a little better but even those aren't great.

The other day I was in my favorite place ... Williams-Sonoma... and there it was... a popsicle maker. I had to have it. I also had to have the book on display next to it called Pops! by Krystina Castella that featured unbelievably creative recipes! And everything was so beautiful with whole fruit slices set into clear fruit juices.... or how about frozen cocktail pops like a mai tai or pina colada pop! Or chocolate dipped pops? Blueberry cheesecake pop anyone?

Krystina's website has several wonderful recipes but I encourage you to get the book if you really want to get serious about popsicles!

Great merchandising Williams-Sonoma - you had me at hello!

The machine is called a Zoku. It's only $50 and you can freeze six pops in under 10 minutes! How cool is that? And it doesn't need electricity either! You just put the base in the freezer, pour your fresh juice or yogurt or ice cream (creamsicle pop?) into the base and about 9 minutes later.... voila!

I squealed with delight. Actually, I'm not kidding.... I really did. Good-bye food dyes! Good- -bye fake chemicals and sugars! Visions of organic fruit bars were dancing in my head. My 5 year old squealed with delight when I brought it home and explained we could make all our favorite popsicles at home now. What a fun activity for kids!

We'll be making our first batch of popsicles later today. And now I've added a popsicle section to this website to feature all of our favorite recipes. I know it will be full of them in no time so stay tuned . . .

To get your own slice of frozen heaven - visit the Williams-Sonoma website here

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