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Balsamic Blackberries with Ricotta Cream - Feast Your Eyes


Pick your own or just take your pick at the market; it's all about berries right now. Beginning today, we're going to do a four-day run of berry desserts that we found around the blogosphere, and that beckon us to hit the berry patch.

Ricotta cream (a simple mixture of ricotta cheese, a couple tablespoons of honey, and a dash of vanilla extract blended in a food processor) makes a sweet pillow for inky blackberries. The balsamic vinegar and sugar syrup drizzled over the top is a nice spike of flavor, but the berries (strawberries, blueberries, whatever you choose) will survive very well without it. Either way, it's a great riff on berries and cream. See a recipe for this dish here.

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The Bacon Bounty of YumSugar

Does Bacon Make it Better? Photo: YumSugar.

Each Thursday, we round up a selection of scrumptious links from our friends over at YumSugar. Here's what they've got cooking this week:

A sausage ricotta arugula pizza will cure hump-day doldrums.

Poll: Who doesn't like cooking with animal fat? Bacon, anyone?

Iron Chef Michael Symon cooks breakfast at Williams-Sonoma to promote his new cookbook, co-authored by Michael Ruhlman.

Transform Thanksgiving leftovers -- odds are you still have some -- into a Kentucky Hot Brown sandwich.

Test your knowledge of Texas' beloved Dr Pepper.

Once the food coma of Thanksgiving passes, it's time to consider Christmas foods.

Stuff stockings with these essential food-inspired gift ideas.

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Ravioli - Feast Your Eyes

Ravioli. Photo: su-lin, Flickr.

Assuming you've been eating nothing but turkey for the last four days (we have!), these giant ravioli from Da Augusto in Rome, Italy probably look pretty appetizing right now. Even if you haven't been subsisting on Thanksgiving leftovers, freshly made pasta is nearly impossible to resist.

And don't worry, they're not stuffed with turkey. Filled with ricotta and spinach, and topped with marinara sauce and grated Parmesan cheese, they're about as far from Thanksgiving cuisine as one can get.

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Tip of the Day - Homemade Ricotta

Making cheese at home may seem quite daunting -- but cool, creamy ricotta is an exception.
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Cheese Quiz

Think you're the big cheese? Test your cheese knowledge with our Cheese Trivia Quiz on Slashfood.

Cheese Quiz

In the 1980s, a television jingle for Velveeta described its distinctive flavor as a blend of these three cheeses.

  • Brie, Swiss and Cheddar
  • Cheddar, Jack and Cream Cheese
  • Swiss, Jack and Colby
  • Colby, Swiss and Cheddar

The dark line in the middle of this cheese isn't mold. It's ash placed between the morning's and evening's milkings.

  • Morbier
  • Taleggio
  • Tomme de Savoie
  • Scamorza

Mozzarella is traditionally made from the milk of cows, or which other animal?

  • Water buffalo
  • Sheep
  • Goat
  • Donkey

Which one of these cheeses is NOT classified as blue vein?

  • Stilton
  • Roquefort
  • Gorgonzola
  • Double Gloucester

In the cheesemaking cycle, who is responsible for the aging process?

  • Fromager
  • Cheesemonger
  • Affineur
  • Maitre d' Fromage

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