Rubbishy Cookery

  Another dessert! Another mousse! What the heck! If you tried and enjoyed Recipe #18, and if you like chocolate, you’ll love this rubbishy spin on chocolate mousse. Ingredients: There’s that vintage Consumers Distributing mini mixer again! I sure hope you have something like it. Directions: Add a few spoonfuls of ricotta cheese, a couple of generous spoonfuls of icing sugar, 1-2 modest spoonfuls of cocoa powder, and a dash of vanilla extract to the bowl of your mini mixer: Then mix on “high” speed for about a minute. Here’s an action shot showing the mini mixer in its full glory: Taste your mixture. Mine needed more icing sugar: Mix another minute or so, scraping down the sides as necessary, and taste every so often, adding more of whatever is needed as you go. When it’s as tasty as you want it, refrigerate it for a while. An hour or two is fine. Wasn’t that easy? It may not look like much, but it tastes terrific!

  Hey everyone, it’s a dessert!  Or, a sweet, sweet breakfast.  Or whatever!  This delightful treat was just invented on a whim and is tasty and healthy-ish for any time of day! Ingredients: Directions: I hope you have a little mini mixer like the one in the photo above. Do they even still exist? Mine was purchased sometime in the early 1990s at a long-gone store called Consumers Distributing. If it ever dies, I don’t know what I’ll do. Anyway, I digress. Throw some frozen blueberries, a few spoonfuls of ricotta cheese, and a couple of spoonfuls of lemon curd into the mini mixer: Run the mixer on high speed for about a minute: Scrape down the sides if necessary. That looks great! Spoon into little bowls or mini ramekins. Choose something that doesn’t clash with the mousse if possible. Unfortunately I didn’t follow this advice and the colour clashing of the little bowls and mousse did affect my enjoyment of the finished product. Learn from my mistake! Cover with plast...