Blue Cheese Mousse, baby pear and walnut salad
Long name for a quick process. I am not really a gadget person but I love the basics and bought my nifty little food processor/blitzer in Turkey, which I now use as often as I can. Perfect for blitzing smaller quantities, sauces, pestos and things. We are getting glimpses of spring and I made the blue cheese mousse and balsamic baked pear salad as a starter for a dinner with friends.
Blue Cheese Mousse
Blue Cheese Mousse
100gr blue cheese, 125ml cream, 75 ml creme fraiche , 2 table spoons tangy mayonaise, salad herbs
Blitz all of the ingredients together. The quantities above are just an indication and you can add more to taste. I absolutely love the consistency of the mousse and can see a lot of potential here. It is soft and fluffy but dense enough to use in a piping bag and I am getting the idea that it will hold well if gelatine is used to form something….anything with blue cheese!
Spring salad
Balsamic Glazed Pears
Pears, olive oil and balsamic cream/reduction
Cut pears in thin slices, skin and all, no need to remove the skin. Drizzle with olive oil and balsamic cream and bake in the oven at 180 C until soft
Balsamic glazed baked pears
I served the mousse and pears with baby leaves, rocket, walnuts and a herb vinaigrette.
My friend Ina introduced me to these gorgeous tinned baby pears. See the pepper pot in the back ground, that is how small they are! Small or not, they became the centre piece and conversation topic of the night.
Baby pears in petit colander
This mousse will become a spread or a topping for many a thing in future.
Blue cheese mousse starter
This one goes to Fromage Homage for the September Cheese Please! Challenge as hosted by The Garden Deli for the cheese and fruit combination for this month. Somehow I always end up sending some or other blue cheese for the challenge so let me not deviate this time then!
Cheese Please!Blog Challenge
Random Photo:
Yip, definitely a front rower …..
For sure right in front!
Dit lyk heeltemal te gesond na my sin!
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Toemaar moenie vra wat na die gesonde starter gekom het nie…..
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Nou het jy my nuuskierig!
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yummy!!! Lyk sommer baie lekker! Die ou peertjies is heerlik!
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Ja hulle bly cute!
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Blue cheese and fruits are a favorite of mine. This looks amazing! 🙂
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Thank you and same here. I am cooking with fruit more and more.
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Blue cheese and pears – yum yum yum 🙂
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Thanks! Yes indeed yummm
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I love cheese with fruit and blue cheese and pears are a wonderful combination! I love the blue cheese mousse and will have to make some, perhaps even tomorrow! What a great sharing dish 🙂
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Thank you Petra. I know you will love it. Let me know what you think.
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Pears are coming into season here.. Sure I can find some blue cheese.. another delicious recipe and I want that colander and blue plate! Xx
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Dankie! Jy moet dit eenvoudig probeer. Kan jy glo hoe klein is die vergietes. Ek is mal oor die dingetjie!
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Ek soek ook enetjie!
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Blue cheese and pears are a terrific combination. Your salad had to be scrumptious.
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It was indeed thank you! Also one of my favorite combinations but then again just feed me any blue cheese and I am happy.
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I agree totally. 😀
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Sounds so interesting and looks sooooo delicious!
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Thank you! I have a proper blue cheese obsession going on here.
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I’m not usually a fan of blue cheese… but the whole blue cheese and pear combination does sound very good. Might just be brave and give it a try! And thank you for linking to Cheese, Please!
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Be brave and go for it! Choose a gentle soft blue to start with. Pleasure participating in Cheese Please.
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Fabulous! I love that you included a little mayo in the mousse! I wish I had that salad right now…
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Thanks! Yes the mayo gave it the pop it needed.
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ooh looks lovely – lucky you going into spring! have missed your post, have been scrolling through the wordpress reader and after 5 pages and no flippenblog I had to google you instead! I have missed posts because I ve been traveling shame on me but now I am back and reading!
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Happy reading. I am not posting much lately. Work traveling again as we speak with notoriously slow connection. Miss home but what can you do. On a creative flatliner so just reading at the moment. Weather funny too, spring and summer followed by the chills in one day. At least nothing boring! Have a lovely week.
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Genade, maar dit lyk nou lekker……..mmmmmm
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still overworked I see as I check back to see if you are still posting or only working, I see it’s working working working! hope to read more from you soon
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Slowly out of the woodworks but still hectic to the end of the year. At least I live precariously through your blog! Managed a tiny post. Have a lovely weekend.
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aha good you managed a post, I will check immediately, it has been silent since cheese mousse 🙂 and I do miss reading about your escapades, but I agree year end coming up and there is a lot lot lot of paper work and optimizing on all business fronts still to be done – BUT I go on holiday in 2 days – 28 degrees here I come 🙂
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Where,where, where? Pray tell!
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https://flippenblog.com/2014/09/14/blue-cheese-mousse-balsamic-baked-pears/
blue cheese mousse, see I do remember what I read, but have just spotted 2 new delectable posts which i will be devouring shortly
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