April 24th, 2005
when in doubt, cook
On the menu tonight, turkey meatballs (yummier than that sounds, I promise), fresh pasta (though not homemade; house clutter preventing me from cracking out the pasta maker), and homemade cheesecake with a raspberry coulis sauce.
The cheesecake is the best part of it all. It’s a real, hardcore cheesecake—ricotta, sour cream, and cream cheese, eggs, vanilla, and some lemon juice. The. Best. Cheesecake. Ever.
Excuse me, I have to go make raspberry coulis.
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Dinner sounds awesome (and you know I love that cheesecake:) For dessert tonight, I made this plum cobbler
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_7570,00.html
I used 1/2 cup of oatmeal instead of the almonds and substituted apple sauce for the lemon juice…it was awesome!
What’s coulis?
It’s a fancy name for sauce. I think a coulis is generally a fruit reduction sauce, with the solids then strained out. So to make raspberry coulis, you mix water and sugar to make a simple syrup, add the raspberries and cook until they fall apart, then strain to remove the seeds. The result is a thick, sweet, almost transluscent sauce of a very vibrant pink color.