USCHO Cooks: Open Your Mystery Basket.

[jen]

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Making Ghirardelli Chocolate Chip cheesecake for my aunt's birthday next week. Planning to put a layer of raspberry and chocolate ganache on top.

[MattS]

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Thank you to everyone with the suggestions for stuff to add to ginger. I am going to divide up what I have this weekend and try some of the suggestions. Again, thanks for the advise.

[leswp1]

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ginger goes very well with cloves.

[wolverineTrumpet]

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The talk of grasshopper pie in this thread sounded good. Found a recipe to try out for New Year's Day. A few things I might change if I made it again, but overall it was boozy and good.

[jen]

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Anyone have any suggestions for another spice or a fruit that would go well with ginger? I am trying to make a ginger flavored liquor taste better and so far I have had no luck. I tried cinnamon and apples but neither helped.

peach
pear
lemon
molasses
honey
cardamom

[MattS]

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Season salt

Interesting. I'll give that a shot ( ) also.

[dxmnkd316]

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Anyone have any suggestions for another spice or a fruit that would go well with ginger? I am trying to make a ginger flavored liquor taste better and so far I have had no luck. I tried cinnamon and apples but neither helped.

Season salt

[MattS]

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Nutmeg?

Are you going for something spicy or something sweeter with that ginger "kick" to it? I'd look to various ginger food recipes to see how it's paired with other ingredients and then go from there.

Both are good suggstions. I will look them both. Thank you!

[St. Clown]

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Anyone have any suggestions for another spice or a fruit that would go well with ginger? I am trying to make a ginger flavored liquor taste better and so far I have had no luck. I tried cinnamon and apples but neither helped.

Are you going for something spicy or something sweeter with that ginger "kick" to it? I'd look to various ginger food recipes to see how it's paired with other ingredients and then go from there.

[MissThundercat]

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Anyone have any suggestions for another spice or a fruit that would go well with ginger? I am trying to make a ginger flavored liquor taste better and so far I have had no luck. I tried cinnamon and apples but neither helped.

Nutmeg?

[MattS]

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Anyone have any suggestions for another spice or a fruit that would go well with ginger? I am trying to make a ginger flavored liquor taste better and so far I have had no luck. I tried cinnamon and apples but neither helped.

[dxmnkd316]

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Giada is back on the market, announcing her divorce after 11 years.

So you're saying there's a chance?

[jen]

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I made a bastardized Black Tie Mousse Cake for my aunt and uncle (like the one at Olive Garden). I did a base layer of homemade chocolate genoise (some recipes called for cake mix - didn't want to do that). Then a layer of chocolate mousse, a layer of vanilla custard (both with a little gelatin to make them hold together as a cake), then topped with and a layer of chocolate ganache swirled with white chocolate. I slathered the sides with mini chocolate chips.

Recipe for the mousse, custard and ganache layers here. Holy ****, it is good. I am hoping they share it on New Year's Eve instead of hoarding it.

There were a lot of recipes that used a vanilla cheesecake layer instead of custard - but I liked the custard better. The cake is rich enough.

edit: I can say bastardized?!

[Timothy A]

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Giada is back on the market, announcing her divorce after 11 years.

I saw that, it makes me feel sad.

So what's in the new years eve menu? BBQ ribs and panko breaded northern pike. I'd like to make the grasshoppers ahead, if I do that will the booze keep the ice cream from re-freezing solid? (as solid as ice cream can be anyway).

[hockeyplayer1015]

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Giada is back on the market, announcing her divorce after 11 years.