OMFrickinGosh, I almost don't even know how or where to begin because I LOVE this app. First, if you cook whether you home school or not get this app because it is free. Thus, one has nothing to loose downloading it. Since we do home school, I decided to explore something that I had no clue about. There is nothing more rewarding than learning with your child. My student had just watched Hood Winked 2 and oddly enough there is a quest for truffles, which had peaked my curiosity. I actually had to look up truffles in our dictionary app to find out that there are different types of edible truffles. The first are mushrooms. The second is chocolate.
So, I put truffles in the app's search and several recipes came up. My student and I discussed a little Math to determine exactly which recipes we would try. We examined each recipes rating and chose the recipes with the highest feedback given the highest number of responses. The first was Cauliflower Soup with Truffle Oil. I was eager to try this recipe because I don't really like cauliflower and never purchase it.
Here's the ingredients
Here's the directions
We chose purple cauliflower just to put a little color in the process.
Saute the onion.
We added our purple cauliflower.
We added organic vegetable broth instead of chicken broth.
After simmering for 25 minutes covered we placed the mixture in our blender.
Our soup was still hot after being mixed so, we didn't put it back on the stove. We placed our soup in small cups.
And we topped off the soup sprinkling finely chopped chives, truffle oil, pink Himalayan salt and crushed red pepper.
Let me just tell you THIS was the best soup I have ever made and tasted. The only problem was that me and my student split the entire vat of soup this recipe serves six people.We used the same process to select our Chocolate Truffles.
Here is the ingredients
Here's the directions
We boiled organic heavy cream.
Then we poured the hot cream over our organic chocolate.
Mixing until it became a liquid (we added a little dash of pink Himalayan salt and a splash of vanilla).
The recipe was a little misleading because it didn't solidify until I placed it in the freezer 3 hours in the fridge was not enough. I put it in the freezer over night.
Finally the mixture was scooped out and rolled into balls which we covered using ground almonds.
And we used cocoa powder as the recipe advices.
These little melting morsels were delicious. They were a pleasant surprise for visitors and our neighboring friends. Everyone gave them five stars despite their less then perfect round forms. Also, we stored them in the freezer just to keep them as firm as possible.Each recipe includes reviews, which are located in the lower section. This is why we added salt and vanilla, as well as choosing to roll them in ground nuts.
