Archive for January, 2009

Pannacotta with orange salad

Pannacotta is a dessert made of cream flavored with different things. The most traditional flavor is vanilla. Here is an alternative flavoring, together with the vanilla flavor.

To make a two layered pannacotta you need to think ahead and do the first part at least 10 hours before the planned serving time. This is because it needs 3-5 hours in the fridge to stiffen before you can poor on the next layer.

You can of course chose to serve any of them as a single layer, they are then enough to serve 4. The vanilla flavored can basically be served with any fruit you like.

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New years eve dinner

For New Years eve we had a couple friends over for some dinner. We’ve done this a couple years now with them, this year we decided to try some ostrich. It was a very good choice, turned out very nice. The ostrich was served with potatoes au gratin and a couple variants of salads: cucumber salad and tomato and onion salad with mozzarella cheese.

We also had dessert, in the form of a pannacotta (an Italian dessert) with orange salad. The orange salad was flavoured with cinnamon and star anise. The recipe for the pannacotta and orange salad will come soon The recipe for the pannacotta can be found here 🙂 Read the rest of this entry »