The gourmet club just had a fun progressive dinner last night. Three houses within 5 miles of each other served as the venues for the evening. We started with a beautiful spread of appetizers at house #1, then headed to house #2 for the main dish and sides. So delicious! For dessert, everyone went to my place, house #3.
I'm sharing with you now the dessert spread. I decided to focus on strawberries and blackberries. First is a pavlova with freshly-whipped cream, topped with sweet strawberries and blackberries.
This was light and delicious.
I also served strawberry panna cotta in small verrines. A layer of blackberry gelée topped the panna cotta and for crunch, I added some rice crispies cracker crumbs. It gave the panna cotta the slightest hint of salt that contrasted nicely with the sweet and tart strawberry-blackberry dessert combination.
The pavlova and the panna cotta
Then I had a thought! I had made a very nice sweet-tart and flavorful balsamic syrup last week and wanted to use it. Also, I still had a lot of blackberries left. So I decided to add ice cream to the spread.
I made small quenelles of blackberry ice cream filled with a bit of the balsamic syrup.
Here's a cross-section of the ice cream showing the balsamic syrup filling
And here they are altogether
But wait, there's more. I had an extra pavlova so I dressed it up with lemon curd and almond slivers.
oh my, my....I wish I could have been a part of this evening :) Fabulous desserts. I bet your friends were so pleased. Exquisite presentation @offoodandart!
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Thank you so much! We all had a fun time and ate more than we should have =D!
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This dessert look so delicious. Panna cotta is so tasty
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Thank you! Love them too @denissemata! Also love that they're easy to make.
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Oh my dear god @offoodandart, I'm here sitting on the sofa thinking that maybe I should go eat something. But then I decide to open the feed just to take a look - this was the first post.
And now I just have the biggest desire ever.
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Thanks for the nice words! Hope you found something nice to satisfy your hunger @mrprofessor!
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yuuummm! looking good and professional as always <3
btw i lost my invitation, sorry i couldnt make it ;-) haha
hope you have been well <3 <3
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We owe you some view tokens @thekitchenfairy - Please can you open a view.ly wallet and let me know so that I can transfer the tokens to you. I could also use an ethereum wallet
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Next time you lose your invitation, tell them you always have a VIP pass from me!
Yes, doing well but super busy. Haven't posted in a long time. Glad I finally did.
Hope you're doing well too.
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I love pavlova @offoodandart and yours looks quite unbelievable - would love to have a taste of one of your delectable desserts. Your photographs - as usual - are magnificent
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I'm sure we'll meet sometime. We can have a fun time over food and drinks! Yeah!
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Just like @edenmichelle I can truly say that Pavlova is my favourite dessert - I think of all time. The entire post is so "mouth-watering" and like @mrprofessor - I too, have such a desire - and need to eat some Pavlova. You are a true professional and all your recipes belong in a recipe book to be cherished as classics
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Pavlova over cheesecake? Both good! =D
Thanks for the nice words! With all the great contestants we have at Cook with Us, it's so easy to be inspired.
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I guess I look at cheesecake as something to enjoy at any time not necessarily for dessert - with tea or coffee whereas Pavlova is the best dessert on the universe
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MMMMMM... MMMMMMM.... MMMMMM!!!
It's so gorgeous to look at, I would think thrice to taste it! Looks so yummy, tita! The technology that would allow us to taste photos couldn't get here quicker!
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Thank you @jedau! Now wouldn't it be great to have that kind of technology?!?
Hope things are going well on your end. Leaving for our trip in about a month. Woohoo!
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Things have bee quite busy her, tita. That's why I haven't been on Steemit that much. Hopefully the stars align and we could at least get a bit to eat while you're here!
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Same here. It's been busy so haven't really posted in a while until now.
Did you see that we now have @curie support? That's a big relief and a great treat for the Cook with Us community. It enables us to continue with this contest. Whew!
See you around @jedau!
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That's awesome to hear, tita! I've lost that privilege more than a year ago, but I'm glad CwU has it. That's huge! Apart from voting for you qurator entry, I haven't really been able to keep tabs. Has the result for that come out yet?
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Yeah, excited about @curie’s sponsorship.
Thanks for your support! I think the results for the qurator contest will go out tomorrow.
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How talented you are @offoodandart, it looks absolutely delicious x
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Thanks so much @lesbento! Got lucky the pavlova turned out. =D
Hope all's well with the new job and the new life!
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Oh wow, had I been invited, I would have headed straight for the house with the dessert table and polished it all off, looks absolutely delicious!
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You didn't get your invitation? Hmmmm ... I need to check on that.
Thanks so much @lizelle!
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WOW!!! That is one incredible looking dessert spread. The Pavlova looks stunning and I really like the combination of balsamic and berries in the ice cream. Just wish I could have samples some of that dessert.
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The spread is not even close to what you create! But thanks so much for the nice words @loveself!
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