Heart- Shaped White Chocolate and Cherry Scones
Weekend mornings, particularly on those days that involve hockey games and long dog walks, call for warm scones – the big coffee shop-style ones with crunchy sugar on top. (I buy mine at Middle Eastern and Mediterranean markets – far cheaper than at gourmet shops.) When it happens to be the weekend before Valentine’s day, white chocolate and dried cherries seem more in order. Sue dried a case of Okanagan cherries last summer and brought me a bag, and they’re still being rationed in my freezer. I decided they best be put to good use, rather than succumb to freezer burn, filed away as too special to eat. If you don’t have dried cherries (or can’t afford them – cha-ching) cranberries are a fine substitute. Feel free to add dark chocolate instead of white, too.
I’m sorry to add an extra click to some of these recipes, but I have myself a paid gig over at the Family Kitchen. I love that I’ve managed to turn writing about food into an actual job, something I’ve wanted to do since grade 3 and told my class of wannabe nurses and firefighters that I wanted to be the food editor of Canadian Living magazine when I grew up, and websites have turned into a new media outlet – so I write for newspapers and magazines, and now for a website as well. (Besides here, of course, which is its very own thing and my favourite place of them all.) Julie Van Rosendaal meets Mary Tyler Moore meets Joan Jetson.
So that’s why I sometimes direct you over to the Family Kitchen for a recipe – I’ve posted it there, but want you to know about it. (Also, our pay is determined by traffic numbers. Just sayin’.)
So – this is one of the recipes I posted over at the Family Kitchen.
February 13 2011 08:41 am | leftovers
Dahlia on 13 Feb 2011 at 9:12 am #
I’ve always wanted to write about food for a living, too… Actually, I always wanted to cook for a living, despite being surrounded by wannabe princesses, and I also wanted to write (being surrounded by wannabe university professors).
I’ve recently found out that cooking for a living is something of an oxymoron, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed for the writing about food thing… I’ll keep clicking on you Family Kitchen links -no point in both of us not making a living from our passions!
Cheryl F on 13 Feb 2011 at 9:48 am #
I access The Family Kitchen three ways…have it on my favourites list, from your side bar or from your individual recipe link. Do you only get paid from clicking on individual recipes? Just want to know, ’cause if I’m there you might as well get paid!
Amber on 13 Feb 2011 at 10:14 am #
Wish I could help with clicks but I can only access Family Kitchen if I get out of IE and open Mozilla. For some reason it freezes every time I use IE:( Might want to mention that to the website designer.
Erin on 14 Feb 2011 at 4:49 pm #
Yum! Here’s a question for Sue: How do you dry cherries??
suchalab on 14 Feb 2011 at 9:46 pm #
made these this aft for Valentines for my family only I used semi sweet dark chocolate drops, and Stoneridge Orchards Montmorency Dry Sweetened Cherries from Costco, yum.
JulieVR on 14 Feb 2011 at 10:00 pm #
I believe Sue has a dehydrator! But I’ll let her answer if she sees this!