Superbowl Weekend

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.  Ours was pretty good.  Trevor and I got to spend some good quality adult time together since the kids were with their mom all weekend. 

Friday night started off on the right foot with my hockey game.  I scored another goal and assist.  So proud of myself.  I’ve only been playing for 3 years, could barely skate when I started and still have issues stopping on a dime.  I just use the other players to stop..hehe   Already looking forward to next weekends game. 

Saturday afternoon was spent cooking and prepping for our dinner party that night.  Since we were kid-less this weekend it was perfect to have some great adult time with some friends of ours.  We decided to make it a themed dinner party, so we decided it was going to be Italian.  Brenda was going to take care of the appetizer, and so we came prepared with dinner and dessert.  Brenda and Al offered to host it at their house since they have an 8 year old daughter and were unable to find a sitter. 

Brenda prepared some awesome bruschetta. 

And voila the lasagne I made.  Click here for the recipe. 

And of course dessert was Tiramisu.  It kind of fell apart on me since I think I didn’t leave it in the fridge long enough to set.  We kind of slept in too long Saturday morning, so we had a later start at making it.  Oh well…it still tasted pretty awesome.  Click here for the recipe.

After dessert we started the games night.  We played Cranium. 

The four of us played New Year’s Eve and the boys won..so tonight was rematch night….um, boys won again…. lets blame it on having had too much wine that night… it was a close game…but we’ll get you next time boys…muah haha.

Think hard boys

The evening went by really fast and great laughs were had by all.  Lots of giggling from the girls too.  Next thing we knew it was 2am and we had a quick 5 minute walk home in the dark and rain. 

Sunday was a really lazy day.  We slept until noon, Trevor made us some coffee and I cooked up some yummy Cinnamon French Toast for Brunch.  Then it was off to buy groceries for the week and get ready for some Superbowl entertainment.  I’m not much of a football fan, don’t know anything about the game. My favourite part is the Half Time Show.  I thought this years was pretty good… the costumes were awesome.  Go Packers

It was leftover lasagne and Tiramisu for dinner and dessert..and of course a glass of wine.  Getting ready to watch a new Glee episode now and then off to make my lunch for tomorrow. 

How did you spend your weekend?  What did you think about the Superbowl? 

Have a great night

Bea

xoxo

Tiramisu…. a great “pick me up”

I came up with this recipe after trying so many different ones… I find some are too heavy, some too light, some too bland..so I took them all and created my own version.  And this version I find is probably the healthier version of this dessert… I like it a lot..no, I love it a lot.  My favourite dessert of all time.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup vanilla flavoured coffee syrup
• 1 envelope Knox unflavoured gelatine
• 454g light ricotta cheese
• 250g Quark or baking cheese (found at Superstore or Save-on-foods)
• 250g  light cream cheese
• 1 1/2 cup vanilla yogurt ( a thicker variety)
• 2 Tbsp coffee flavoured liqueur (such as Kahluah)
• 36 ladyfingers – buy the version that is lower in sugar
• 3/4 cup extra-strong brewed coffee, cooled or same amount of boiling water and 1 Tbsp instant espresso powder
• 2 Tbsp Kahluah for the ladyfingers
• 1 ounce semi-sweet chocolate for grating

Directions

1.  First make the filling.  Warm up the syrup in a small pot or you can also heat in microwave and then sprinkle the gelatine over top to soften. Set aside.

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Put the ricotta, cheese and yogurt in food processor or Vitamix and whirl until smooth.  Stir warm syrup-gelatine and add it to mixture along with 2 Tbsp of the liqueur.  Whirl again until smooth and set aside.

3.  Combine the cooled coffee and rest of liqueur in a shallow bowl.  You you have to dip each ladyfinger in coffee mixture and shake off the excess.  You have to make sure that you don’t soak them or they will fall apart on you; just a really quick dunk. 

4.  Line the sides of a trifle dish with ladyfingers to make it look like a crown (stand them up).  Also cover the bottom of dish with more fingers.  You’ll probably have to cut or break them to make the fit the best way possible. 

5.  Now spoon about 1/2 of the filling over the fingers.  Grate some chocolate over cheese filling until covered.  It’s best to use the finest holes of grater). 

6.  Repeat with layering:  ladyfingers, filling, chocolate.  Finish off with a the cheese mixture and grated chocolate.  Cover with saran wrap and refrigerate for about 8 hours or overnight. 

7.  Serve tiramisu in dessert dishes.  You can also top with fresh fruit if you want. 

It kind of fell apart on me..didn’t leave it in the fridge long enough.