Archive for August, 2009

Stuffed Breasts

Posted by Candace on Sunday, August 30th, 2009

I’ve had Tyler Florence’s book, Tyler’s Ultimate for over a year. When I first bought the book at the Wine and Food Festival in South Beach last year, I was so excited to try some of the recipes.  And then life got in the way, and I forgot.  I was really in the mood for some cooking this past weekend and pulled out the book again.  This is a fabulous book for simple but fabulously good recipes.

I made some minor changes to his recipes…  I used turkey tenderloins because my grocery store had them all perfectly trimmed.  I’m a sucker for convenience!  I also used dried cranberries in place of  dried apricots… To me, turkey and cranberries go together like cookies and milk or peanut butter and jelly!  As I was eating this delicious dinner, I realized it was missing one thing… Just a little cranberry relish.  I will DEFINITELY make this recipe again, but will add a bit of cranberry relish to the finished dish.

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Use it or lose it or

Posted by Candace on Friday, August 7th, 2009

I’m sure I’m not the only one who buys fruit and then forgets to eat it. We’ve been on this big fruit kick and actually starting buying fruit from Costco. Surprisingly, the quality there is better than the grocery store close to my house. The drawback is a dozen apricots are hard to eat before they go soft. I had about 10 apricots that were on the cusp of going bad and decided I’d make a quick dessert to use them up. This yummy cherry and apricot crisp takes about 5 minutes to prepare and another 20 to bake. Even better… its pretty healthy! My type of dessert!

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