Words & Brush Weekender: Easy listening music and chat, Friday 14th October 2022, Free Choice - all genres of music welcome

  Easy listening music and chat, Friday 14th October 2022, Free Choice - all genres of music welcome!

Enjoy some good music here on Words & Brush, it's your free choice so please post any of your favorite music of all genres!

Suzi Quatro - Bad Moon Rising

Cher & Sonny: Little Man 1966

André Rieu - The Beautiful Blue Danube

Fleetwood Mac - Man Of The World - 2nd version (1969)

The Outlaws - Forget Your Troubles Tonight

Gary Moore - Whiskey in the Jar 

Donovan - Sunshine Superman

The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!

Frank Ifield - I Remember You

Helen Reddy - I Am Woman (1971)

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Words & Brush Recipe Corner: Apple tartlets with almond cream, honey and allspice

 

Apple tartlets with almond cream, honey and allspice

By PASCALE PEREZ-RUBIN, Jerusalem Post, OCTOBER 8, 2022 

https://www.jpost.com/food-recipes/article-718840

 APPLE TARTLETS with almond cream, honey and allspice. (credit: PASCALE PEREZ-RUBIN)

Makes 6 mini tartlets.

Ingredients:

Crust: 

200 gr. puff pastry

1 egg, beaten

Filling: 

100 gr. (1 cup) ground almonds

100 gr. cold butter or margarine, cut into cubes 

100 gr. (1/2 cup) sugar

Pinch of salt

1 large egg

½ - 1 tsp. cinnamon

1 Tbsp. instant pudding powder

Apples

3 Gala apples, peeled, cored and cut into eighths

Juice of 1 lemon

Spiced honey:

3-4 Tbsp. butter or margarine, melted

¼ cup dark honey

½ tsp. ground allspice 

Toppings:

¼ cup honey

½ cup pomegranate seeds

Directions:

To prepare the crust: Flour your work surface and then roll out the puff pastry until it’s ½ cm thick. Line your greased tartlet pans or a muffin pan with the dough. Press it down into the pans. Brush the dough with the beaten egg, then place it in the freezer for 30-40 minutes. 

To prepare the almond cream filling: Add the almonds, butter (or margarine), sugar and salt to a food processor, and blend until mixture is crumbly. Add the egg, cinnamon and vanilla pudding powder and blend until mixture is creamy. 

Peel and core the apples, then slice thinly. Add the apple pieces to a bowl and add the lemon juice. Set aside. 

To prepare the spiced honey: Mix the melted butter (or margarine) with the honey. 

Place a spoonful of filling in the center of each frozen tartlet. Arrange the apple slices on top so that they completely cover the filling. Drizzle the honey mixture on top generously, then sprinkle on the allspice. 

Bake in an oven that has been preheated to 180° for 20-30 minutes or until the dough turns golden brown and the apple pieces have softened. 

Remove from the oven and let cool for 5 minutes. Drizzle more honey on top and serve with pomegranate seeds. 

Level of difficulty: Easy-mediumTime: 30-40 minutes Status: Dairy/parve

                                                                 ENJOY!

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Words & Brush Weekender: Easy listening music and chat, Friday 7th October 2022, Free Choice - all genres of music welcome

 Easy listening music and chat, Friday 7th October 2022, Free Choice - all genres of music welcome!

Enjoy some good music here on Words & Brush, it's your free choice so please post any of your favorite music of all genres!

Romance – Tatiana Eva-Marie & Avalon Jazz Band

Dean Martin - That's Amore

Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald - Dream A Little Dream of Me

Patsy Cline - She's Got You

 

Loretta Lynn - You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man) 

Pat Benatar - Honky Tonk Woman w/Sheryl Crow, Dixie Chicks, etc

André Rieu - Roses from the South

Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 

The Beatles - All My Loving 

Paul Anka - You Are My Destiny 

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Words & Brush Recipe Corner: Tomato Soup Recipe

 

Tomato Soup Recipe

 By Chef Jean-Pierre

https://chefjeanpierre.com/recipes/tomato-soup/

Makes 24 Servings (Eat some today and tomorrow and freeze the rest)

Ingrredients

For the Soup

2 tablespoons Herbs de Provence Olive Oil or Plain Extra Virgin

2 large Onions chopped

4 to 5 Carrots chopped

1 Celery chopped no leaves

4 to 5 Whole Garlic Cloves

1 28- oz. cans Tomatoes puree

3 28- oz Peeled Tomatoes chopped

6 ounces Tomato Paste

1 cup Basil chopped

1 tablespoon Fresh Rhyme chopped fine

1 tablespoon Herbs de Provence, optional

2 tablespoons of Acacia Honey or Sugar

Herbs de Provence Salt or whatever salt you normally use

Black Pepper to taste

60 ounces Vegetable or Chicken Stock

Pesto

For the Croutons 

1 loaf Country Bread

2 tablespoons Unsalted Butter

2 tablespoons Garlic, Herbs De Provence or Extra Virgin Olive Oil

2 tablespoons Garlic minced

2 tablespoons Parsley chopped

Instructions

For the Soup

Heat the oil in a large soup kettle.  Add the onion.  When onions are translucent, add the garlic cook until fragrant, add the carrots, celery, tomatoes puree and chopped tomatoes.  Add the thyme, pesto and stock.

Simmer for 30 to 40 minutes.  Adjust seasonings with Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper.

Insert an immersion blender or pour the soup into a regular blender.  Process until very smooth.

For the Croutons:

Preheat Oven to 375 F

Homemade croutons may seem like a bit of work, when it seems so easy to open a package from the store, but I promise you, once you've tasted them, you will never buy another box!  The great flavor and texture of homemade croutons will surprise you.  So give it a go!  You won't be sorry.

Cut the bread into ¼” to ½” cubes.

In a large sauté pan, heat the butter and olive oil.  When melted, remove from heat and add garlic and parsley.  Mix thoroughly then add croutons.  When croutons are well‑coated, transfer to a baking sheet in a single layer and bake until golden brown.  Be sure to mix them around the pan every few minutes to get them golden and crisp on all sides.   Allow to cool BEFORE putting them in a bowl otherwise they will get soggy.

For more instructions watch the video

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October Open Thread

 

A new week beacons.  Ready to get the day started, but first coffee is the only luxury to a parent of two small children.  At least the coffee grinder back up works. Just hammer the beans in a bag.

 

        As we go through walks and drives to see fruity pebbles of fall on trees, their branches growing ever barren, it is a nice change to the hot summer here in the South. Sometimes we get snow, other winters it is just cold with rain.   A great hush settles over the land as the forest animals take note and start their storage.   They know more than we take notice.    

                Adventure is calling at the corn maze

with bluegrass music, gem mining, and tasty eats 

courtesy from the food trucks.

                                          

    

                        

                                                            

                                

                          

                           

         Check out the local fair that comes by. Seeing everyone have fun, hearing children's laughter  to their sense of wonder brings on a nostalgia when we were kids.  County fair food from funnel cakes, hot dogs, slushies to frozen fried icecream to accompany the fun with our sweethearts and families. Try out one of the many games to win that stuffed unicorn or bear.  They look way too easy is deceiving.

                                

                                       

       Don't forget to walk through the forest in its change of colors to gaze at the splendor and hear the forest speak to us in its language with the wind.

        Thank you for visiting and passing on the word to follow.  Take a break. We're getting more coffee from the stockroom after this incident below.