Fresh berries with a custard sauce! Yum!!

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Happy 1 month Birthday!

Thank you for being such a supportive audience! My blog is one month old today! I am flabbergasted at the response. Everyday, someone asks, where is your audience coming from? I tell them; I have friends all over the world, those friends recommend to their friends and so on and so on. Sewwhatscookingwithjoan is reaching nearly every continent, over 1500 viewers! I have lots of requests, and will honor those requests in order. I love getting your e-mails, comments on blog and Facebook comments. Comments on the blog, go directly to my e-mail, and I will respond! And yes, Wee Bear seems to be a favorite!! Wee Bear is my biggest fan, so much so, look what he bought me, with help from TT and Sweet One!

TT and Amy researched and with my needs in mind, here it is! Expect better quality pictures in the future!!

Taken with the new camera! We are at Newcastle Country Club near Seattle. Wee Bear, me, Amy and Dustin(TT)!!

Fresh berries with custard sauce. (the old camera took this one)

I am offering an extra recipe this week! A light, easy dessert for Easter! Pick out your favorite fruit, wash and arrange into a pretty vessel. Drizzle custard sauce over the top and add a couple of mint leaves. 

Custard Sauce

1 c. milk

1 c. heavy cream

1 vanilla bean or 1 tsp. vanilla

5 egg yolks

1/2 c. sugar

in a heavy saucepan, bring milk,cream and the split vanilla bean to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer about 4 minutes. Open up the vanilla bean and scape.

Beat egg yolks and sugar until light in color and thick. Beat in 1/2 c. of the hot milk and cream mixture.

Pour mixture back into saucepan with remaining milk and cook, over low heat, until custard thickens and coats the back of a spoon. Do not boil.

Strain and cool. 

*The scraped vanilla bean pod, can be put into sugar for two weeks, to make vanilla sugar or into your ground coffee, to flavor it gently with vanilla.

*The vanilla bean is the cured dried fruit of the rare and exotic vanilla orchid - the only orchid that bears fruit. Vanilla is the most labor intensive of all agricultural products. It is the second most expensive spice in the world, next to saffron.The entire process of vanilla cultivation, pollination and harvesting is done by hand, without using machinery, chemical fertilizers or pesticides.

Gifts for the host/hostess:

  If you are fortunate enough to be invited to someones home for dinner or even appetizers and drinks, remember, they have gone to a lot of work to have you. From cleaning the house, picking out your favorite drink and making a delicious meal! Giving a little thoughtful gift is appreciated....plus you will be thought of again, when another event is planned! Here are some ideas for gifts. I have ordered towels and aprons, had them personalized and sent to me. I then deliver a nice bottle of wine with a towel wrapped around it and in a beautiful bag with ribbons or tissue, to my host/hostess. They are delighted!! One of my friends was so thrilled, her husband and her bought a embroidery machine and started making t-shirts, etc. for their grandchildren and children!! I hooked them up with Fawn, for direction in their new endeavor! hahaha!

Beautiful embroidered towels by Fawn. Sweet One bought this for me yesterday for Easter, I love it!!

Some personalized towels made for me by Fawn.

Beautiful apron personalized for me.

*All available at the Mercer Island Florist or 
Embroidery by Fawn 






                              
 Cheers! JJ