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Friday, June 18, 2010

Another romantic desert idea

It isn't hard to come up with a nice little treat for your sweetie-pie. Last night after dinner I wanted to make something sweet for Lupe. I had a little time, as she had gone to take a dip in the hot tub after dinner. I had an idea brewing in my little brain. I bought some giant apricots at North Gate the other day and it turned out that they weren't quite ripe. They weren't really soft and they were somewhat tart. Not bad; just not the juicy, fresh apricot that you'd want to eat raw. I didn't want them to spoil so I had to come up with something to do with them. I got the idea to pop them in the oven for a few minutes to soften them up and concentrate the flavor. I cut up several and set them in Lupe's handy dandy mini muffin tray. I sprinkled each half with a little cinnamon and some cane sugar and put them in a 400 degree oven for 20-30 minutes. While they were roasting I made a port wine reduction on the stove top. I added a little cane sugar and a squeeze of orange juice to the reduction to liven it up. When the apricot halves had started to soften I removed them from the oven and placed them on some cute heart-shaped desert plates that Lupe loves. In the center of each apricot half I dropped a dollop of chocolate ganache. I finished the dish with a splattering of the port wine reduction (no points for presentation-I didn't think to use my squeeze bottles to make it all foo-foo artistic). What it lacked in presentation, it made up in taste. Sorry, no pics. We ate it too fast.

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