A Crab Feast and Chocolate Scones with Strawberries & Cream
I discovered a box of strawberries in the bowels of the fridge this afternoon, and cream that needed to be used up before we leave, so I made a batch of bittersweet chocolate scones to carry them. (To our mouths, that is.)
I was a little bored with traditional biscuits, to be honest, and remembered a recipe I had seen at some point in the past year – this laptop is like an ultra-slim carrying case for every cookbook and recipe I could possibly need – and we had cocoa.
I’m going to send you over to Seven Spoons for the recipe though – it’s hers, and I want to introduce you directly if you have not yet made her acquaintance. I know you’re going to be fast friends. The only things I did differently was to cut in the butter with a whisk and my fingers (not having an electric mixer), stir a handful of mini chocolate chips into the dry ingredients (that’s what we had), use half and half instead of 18% cream and skipped the egg white wash; the dough was plenty sticky to allow the sprinkle of sugar overtop to adhere.
Dinner itself was sourced locally – plucked directly from the ocean with our own hands. (Yes, we caught, killed and ate our meal. Or more accurately, I caught, boiled water for, and ate mine). Having dropped our crab trap off the dock about a block away a few times with no luck, we were tipped off that crabs are particular fans of hot dogs. Who knew? So we inventively tucked a few into an empty water bottle, rigged it up with wire in the cold rain, and dropped it again. Voilà – crab for dinner. With garlic butter, boiled new potatoes, spinach salad with mangoes, and red wine from the Okanagan. The kids were more enamoured with the crab bait.
April 09 2010 | leftovers | 9 Comments »
