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8: Swept off my feet by a Texan

January 6, 2010 By Robyn 3 Comments

After a beautiful walk along the Riverwalk we returned to our palace. In effort to avoid the awkwardness of what should happen next, I decided to unwind with a bath.

After my relaxing experience in the modern bathroom, I put on my pyjamas. When I came out, I was shocked to see a silver platter sitting on the dining room table. After I picked my jaw off the floor again – John informed me that he ordered us room service.

Under the classy silver cover, unveiled a huge ice cream sundae with chocolate syrup, whip cream and two cherries on top. This dessert was accompanied by two glasses of orange juice in long stemmed glasses. (Note – I wasn’t “21″ the magic drinking age in the USA and my date didn’t drink!)

What was this man trying to do? Seduce me?

Happily Married and Living With Passion,
Robyn

P.S. I’ve got one more chapter ready to share this week  – check back for more romance ;)

If you’ve missed a chapter of this love story

CopperTexas

Filed Under: Swept off my feet by a Texan Tagged With: Bath, Dessert, Orange Juice, Riverwalk, Room Service, San Antonio, Seduce

Cool Summer Cuisine

August 8, 2009 By Robyn 5 Comments

The fabulous Chef Beazley grew up in Texas - where it gets REALLY hot in the summer! When meal time rolls around, the idea of eating warm food isn’t very appealing. We’ve had fun creating cool summer cuisine. John is working on getting the recipes prepared to share with you - in his own online cookbook! Until then, hopefully these pictures will give you inspiration for summer meals.

An amazing recipe that our friend Allison served us and nicely shared after:

Salad

My talented hubby enjoyed making crepes for his first time! They were for an absolutely divine meal that he cooked – I’ll have to share pictures of it later. However, with the leftover crepes - I made a cool summer dessert with blueberries inside:

 Fruit Crepes

Drinks – summer requires amazing cool beverages to enjoy on the patio and have ready when company stops in. John found a recipe for this phenomenal frozen drink – when he had leftover wine to use. The wine lover in him, didn’t want to throw it out or consume a couple days after opening. Merlot Ice:

Merlot Ice

My marvelous soul mate relaxing this afternoon:

Chef Beazley relaxing

Hope you’re having an amazing summer!

Filed Under: Domestic Goddess in Training! Tagged With: Cuisine, Dessert, Merlot, Salad, Summer, Wine

Home Alone

June 10, 2009 By Robyn 4 Comments

I hope your week is going fantastic. Here’s a hump day dessert to make you smile! Trust you and your local farmers got some much needed moisture, hopefully in the form of rain…

John is on the road for work, so I’ve been on my own for evening meals. I’ve been spoiled the past few weeks, because Chef Beazley was home every night and had a new creation prepared when I got home. As I’m sure most of you can relate, it’s hard to cook for one person. I eat less and throw a few mix and match items together when I’m by myself. Chef Beazley asked me to use up a partially spoiled peach and left me with a couple leftover hamburger buns when he departed. 

Salmon Burger

My Texan doesn’t eat seafood so I took the chance to enjoy a Fire Roasted Salmon & Aged White Cheddar burger. Ha ha, we enjoy the game of naming our meals!

Then for dessert – my favorite part of meals - which I’ve been known to eat first!

Remember the peach I was telling you about, it was quite sad looking.

PeachBadSpot

So, I made it more appealing.

CutOutBadPart   CutPeach

I discovered the leftover Coffee Caramel sauce I had in the fridge. I had made it for a recipe I found in a magazine; Coffee Caramel Cranberry Compote Banana split – it was divine!

I poured the sauce into a skillet and warmed it up. Then tossed in my peach pieces, to do the same.

 CoffeeCaramel   WarmedUpPeaches

In the meantime, I added vanilla ice cream to my leftover candied cranberries.

IceCream

He he…this was my favorite part, add the alcohol to flambe!

Cognac   Add

THEN – you light the mixture on fire with a long lighter. **Kids don’t try this at home.** (don’t think I have any young followers – but you never know one day someone may look at this post!)

Light

 WOOHOO! I was quite impressed how I captured this moment.

 After the flame burned all the alcohol off, I poured the creation on my ice cream. Mmm…

Peach Cranberry Flambe

Peach Cranberry Flambe

I made enough dessert for at least 2 people, probably could have been stretched with a bit more ice cream for up to 4 people – yikes – I definitely indulged in the entire bowl myself!

Think I went for a rest on the couch to digest OR walked to get the mail! If I could change one thing – I’d have a beautiful pristine white dessert bowl – maybe even one with a funky shape to serve this in!! I’ll add that to my wishlist.

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Filed Under: Domestic Goddess in Training! Tagged With: Dessert, Salmon