I’ve been pretty remiss with regard to posting the past week or so. I actually took time out away from the computer while my sister was here on a visit. It was good not to be sitting staring at the computer screen and we managed to get a few little jobs done too!
Claire gave me a hand with painting and giving new life to our garden furniture! Doesn’t it look well? We decided to go a bit ‘arty’ with the colour scheme! What do you think?
But back to the recipe… this came from Cannelle et Vanille.
There were two main reasons I decided to try this recipe – my raspberry fence is thriving so I have lots of red and golden raspberries, and, secondly, my coriander plant has gone to seed so it was a good excuse to harvest the seed!
Looking at the finished article I guess it would have looked better using the red raspberries! For the truly remarkable photographs of the process you will have to visit Cannelle et Vanille – I am not even going to try to compete! 🙂
Firstly make your raspberry sauce. Put 250 g raspberries and 150 g of cane sugar in a saucepan and heat until thick – about 5 mins. Chill for 1 hour.
Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons coriander seeds
- 185 ml whole milk
- 225 g cream cheese
- 225 g creme fraiche
- 125 g, plus 1 tblsp, caster sugar
Method:
In a small frying pan toast the coriander seeds over medium heat until fragrant (they make a lovely popping sound!). Coarsely crush them – don’t turn them into a fine powder.
Combine the coriander and milk in a small saucepan. Bring to a light simmer, turn off the heat, and let the mixture steep for 10 minutes. Strain and discard the seeds.
In a food processor, pulse the cream cheese, creme fraiche, sugar and milk until smooth. Transfer to a bowl and chill for at least 1 hour.
If you have an icecream maker this next part is easy. I don’t. So I went through the part of taking the icecream out and whisking it a couple of times!
On last whisking add in half the raspberry sauce. Freeze until solid.
Save the rest of the sauce to serve as a topping on the icecream. It is delicious and was a big success!
A Year In Redwood 
Would never thought about using coriander in this way. Lovely idea. Loving the furniture colours too.
What colours are your garden table and chairs painted in? I’ve done my table Cuprinol Lavender but I don’t want the chairs the same colour. Any ideas would be welcomed. Thanks Barbara
Hi Barbara,
Gosh, I cannot remember the names of the colours (which is unusual for me!). I used the Colortrend Exterior paint…. let me go see if I can find the tins and see if there is a name on them!
Margaret
Hi Barbara,
Finally remembered to check the paint colours for you! Cannot find tin for chairs – I guess we’ve used it all up, but the table is painted what is called ‘Berry Bright’ from the Colortrend range. Hope this helps!
Margaret