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Magazine Mondays: Cherries!

Date: Jun. 21st 2010
Category: Dessert and Pastry, Magazine Mondays
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Cherries.

How I love thee, let me count the ways!

Of all the stone fruits, cherries are my absolute favourite. One of my dreams is to have a house with a beautiful cherry tree (or two) in the backyard.

Growing up, we had a beautiful cherry tree but eventually my father had to take it down. That was such a sad day.

Every summer, no matter the cost, I make sure to get my fill of cherries.

While in Paris, I had a lovely dessert of cherries fried in butter and topped with ice cream. Since returning from my trip, I’ve been thinking a lot about french desserts and as luck would have it, the most recent issue of Fine Cooking has a feature on cherries.

Lo and behold, there is a recipe for Cherry-Almond Clafoutis.

I haven’t had much success in the past with clafoutis, but this recipe has erased past failures. It was heaven. One word of advice: serve it warm from the oven. While the flavour is still good the next day, the texture isn’t as lovely as when you first take the clafoutis out of the oven.

This is the first edition of Magazine Mondays for quite awhile so I have a lot of participants this week:

Tina of Life in the Slow Lane at Squirrel Head Manor made Squash Casserole from the May 2010 issue of Southern Living. Earlier Tina made Crockpot BBQ Ribs from the June 2009 issue of Family Circle.

Tamy of Always Eat on the Good China made Cream Cheese Peppermint Cookies.

Tia of Buttercream Barbie made Strawberry Cake from a June 2005 issue of Martha Stewart Living. Earlier, Tia made an Oatmeal Apple Cookie Cake from the August/September 2006 issue of Taste of Home.

Janet of The Taste Space made Blueberry Rhubarb Cranberry Crisp with Pistachio Crust from the June 1999 issue of Gourmet. Earlier, she made a Miso Glazed Black Cod from the July 2008 issue of Food & Wine.

Carla of RecipeAddict made Vietnamese Beef-Noodle Soup from the April 2010 issue of Cooking Light.

Brenda of Brenda’s Canadian Kitchen made Herbed Flatbread from the June 2010 issue of Martha Stewart Living.

Recipe Sleuth from Eye for a Recipe made Grilled Asian Chicken and Vegetables with Ginger Cilantro Rice from the June 2010 issue of Bon Appétit, Jerk Pork Tenderloin with Pineapple Salsa from the June 2010 issue of Food & Wine, and Wine Stuffed Chicken Breasts with Rosemary-Orange Dressing from the June 2010 issue of Bon Appétit.

Jamie of Life’s a Feast made a Zucchini Ricotta Feta Tart from the June 2010 issue of Saveurs.

For those of you that are interested in participating in Magazine Mondays, just send me a link to a magazine recipe you’ve tried and I’ll include it in my next round-up.

Have a great week, everyone!

Ciao!

For the Almond-Cherry Clafoutis recipe, click here.

11 Comments

Anh

06/21/10 at 9:35 pm

Nice to see this feature again,

Rosa

06/21/10 at 11:19 pm

A fabulous clafoutis!

Cheers,

Rosa

Simone

06/21/10 at 11:34 pm

Ivonne! You must have read my
mind!! There are cherries on my mind ever since I arrived in Italy . The abundance of those gorgeous fruits here has made me seriously crave them and ofcourse we have eaten our share of the fresh cherries, but this clafoutis us just perfect..

Brenda

06/22/10 at 3:53 am

I just go nuts for cherries. I literally gorge myself on them, I love them so much. I’ve never made a clafoutis before and what better one to start with than cherry! Beautiful pics!

Patricia Scarpin

06/22/10 at 9:07 am

Ivonne, what a delicious clafoutis! I tried one cherries and pistachios, now I can’t wait to try this recipe of yours - yum!

HappyWhenNotHungry

06/22/10 at 9:08 am

This clafoutis looks amazing, and I love the cherry-almond combination. The perfect dessert to make for guests coming to dinner on Friday! Grazie!

Katie @ Cozydelicious

06/22/10 at 10:03 am

This looks wonderful! Nothing better than cherries in season. But I actually have to say, I usually like clafoutis texture the day after - it’s different than the fresh-from-the-oven dessert, but it makes an awesome indulgent breakfast.

Mary

06/24/10 at 6:10 am

Your Paris fried cherry experience sounds positively divine.
My suocero still has a tree of lovely ruby beauties. If the birds don’t peck them all, I think this clafouti will be a great celebration dessert. Or equally as good to help drown our sorrows (depending on the football results).
Thanks so much for sharing.

Tamy ~ 3 Sides of Crazy

06/24/10 at 1:40 pm

Complete and utter decadence! Actually looks too nice to cut into!

Jamie

06/28/10 at 12:15 am

Cherries fried in butter atop ice cream sounds like heaven! Cherries are also my absolute favorite fruit I think and can eat them non-stop all the time. Love this clafoutis recipe with almonds. Perfect and beautiful.

Marc-André

07/4/10 at 8:08 am

Thank you for that post! I was at Marché Jean-Talon in Montreal on Friday and there were tones of yellow cherries and I didn’t get any because I had no idea what I’d do with them but this clafoutis looks like an absolute delight.

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