I did end up making Cream Scones this morning. They turned out lovely! The recipe is one a friend gave me from the NY Times. I am even considering making it for Creme Cafe when I get back! I could not find currants so used golden raisins instead. You could use any dried fruit and they would taste just as good! Here it is:
Currant Cream Scones
Yield: 20 servings
Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup sugar, plus 2-3 tablespoons for sprinkling
1 1/3 cup dried currants, or any other dried fruit
1 cup heavy cream
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and 1/3 cup sugar. Stir in the currants or whatever dried fruit you decide to use. Mix together by hand until the ingredients are just blended.
Dump the dough onto a lightly floured work surface and knead very briefly. Roll the dough out to a one inch thickness. Using a 1 1/2 inch cookie or biscuit cutter, cut out the scones, rerolling the dough as needed. Place the scones one inch apart on a baking sheet coverd with parchment.
Use a pastry brush to paint the tops of the scones with meltd butter, then sprinkle with sugar. Bake until the scones are golden, about 12-15 minutes. Let the scones cool on a baking rach. Serve warm or at room temperature with butter and jam.
This was a lazy kind of day so I worked mostly on the computer, did some more editing on my book. No beach today!
Lunch was a Croque Madame, the French version of a grilled ham and cheese. Only most of the cheese is on the outside of the sandwich. Top it with a fried egg and you are set!
The afternoon was spent trying to find a picture for the cover of my cookie book, at least until I got a call from my boss at Creme to discuss a wedding we are suppose to cater in October. Sometimes it is difficult to get people to understand how much it really costs to cater an event-any event. One thing to do it yourself, another to ask someone to do all the work for you. Anyway, we'll see what happens.
When it was near time for dinner, I made rice pudding (in anticipation for a dessert for tomorrow evening). Then started in on dinner, which was Bell Peppers Stuffed with Coconut Rice and Shrimp. SO good!
Dessert was Pineapple Foster over ice cream. Yum!
So other than eating good food, not much happened in paradise today so I will leave you with another Maui sunset picture...
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