Taste-and-Treats on the West Coast

I've been wanting to post this recipe for a long time now. Never having had a chance to make it I don't have a photo..  and seeing that I am about to embark of this more healthy sort of life style, I won't be making semi fredo for a while :) Semi fredo is a sort of a creamy dessert that is frozen and can be adapted to whatever flavour or shape you can imagine. The basis always remains the same as in Plain Vanilla :) This particular one stems from my Swiss/French granny and is a perfect dinner party boozy, delectable piece of culinairy heaven ! Ingredient: 6 large eggs 200 g dark chocolate 200 g ground hazelnuts 1 cup castor sugar 1 Tbsp Nomu Vanilla paste 2 bakkies cream 2 tots of Kirsch or Brandy or Rum Separate the eggs Grate the chocolate on a coarse grater Add the ground hazelnuts, vanilla paste and Kirsch and let this mix rest in fridge for about 30 minutes  for the flavours to intermingle. Beat the egg yolks and sugar until light and fluffy. B...

Spring = Strawberries and Cream ! This combination put together with the wonderful packet of Amarettis I received from Diletto online Deli to make a pud with.. too amazing and oh so very quick and easy to do. Ingredients: 1 pkt Amaretti bisquits 1 tub Mascarpone 1 cup Greek Yogurt 5 squirts of Nomu vanilla paste Icing sugar to taste 3 tots Amaretto Liqueur Juice of 1/2 lemon Strawberries 1 flaky chocolate Method: Find some nice glass bowls. Break about 4 Amaretti bisquits into the bottom of the bowl and soak with a 1/2 tot of Amaretto liqueur. While this soaks in mix the mascarpone with yogurt, vanilla paste, sugar, 1 tot of liqueur. Calculate about 1 handful strawberries per person. Mash the strawberries  just a bit to release the flavour and.sprinkle a bit of ground pepper over them. Now assemble the dessert. On top of the Amarettis goes 1 layer of mascarpone mix, followed by a sprinkle of flakies, followed by a layer of strawberries and another layer of m...