Monday, June 18, 2012

Spaghetti with Rosemary Sea Salt Pizza Bread

My dad came over for dinner tonight so I made use spinach spaghetti with ground beef.  Also, I spread whole wheat pizza dough in an oiled 9 in cake pan.  Then I flipped the dough over so the oil would be on both sides.  I chopped fresh rosemary from my yard and spead it on top of the dough along with sea salt.  Then I baked it at 400 for 20 minutes.  The bread was delicious with the tomato sauce. 

Scones - Chocolate & Coconut

Nothing gets your husband out of bed faster on a weekend morning than the smell of coffee and baked breakfast food.  I used a general scone recipe and added semi-sweet chocolate mini-morsels and sweetened shredded coconut. 

Coconut Cake with Berries & Cream

For Father's Day weekend, my father-in-law, brother-in-law and his girlfiend came over for a game of corn hole and dinner.  We made a delecious steak dinner on the grill and for desert I made a delicious cake.  From Living magazine, page 135 July 2012, I made the Coconut Cake with Blueberries and Cream.  I used half the recipe ingridents because it called for a 9x13 in pan, but I just used a 9 in round cake pan.  The recipe said to have the cake refridgerate for 3-5 hours, but mine took an overnight stay in the refrideragtor to set completely. 

It was the first time I used coconut milk in a cake.  It was super sweet combined with the sweetened condenced milk and heavy cream.  I probably could have used about a quarter less heavy cream when I poured the liquid over the cooling cake.  For garnish, I whipped fresh cream and smeared it on top of the refridgerator set cake like frosting.  Then I laid fresh blueberries on top.