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Actually, I made a mix of this recipe and this one, partly because I was lazy, partly because we tried the other recipe yesterday and weren't entirely happy with the texture of the sprouts, but liked the balsamic vinegar.
I just placed the sprouts in the oven (as instructed in this recipe), mixed with olive oil and salt; however, I enjoyed the garlic (as per the other recipe), so after 10 min roasting time, I added a few small crushed cloves of garlic. After 25 min, the sprouts were done, and I added a tablespoon of balsamic vinegar (again as per the other recipe).
The texture was a lot better this time, it definitely wasn't as mushy. I felt the outer part was crunchier yesterday, though DH thinks that was only because they were already slightly burnt. DH also thinks that the vinegar flavour was slightly too strong; it might have been too much for the amount of sprouts we made. All in all, however, it was better than yesterday, and a lot easier as well.
PS: Just in case you were wondering: This recipe is the online version of Ina Garden's Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, and received a lot of very positive reviews here.
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Rich, but very good!
It actually wasn't as good as it could have been, and that was all my fault: I made half a recipe, which meant I should have used about 12-14 ladyfingers, but I still had so much coffee and cream leftover that I decided to just finish the pack and add a third layer of ladyfingers. They just barely fit the bowl (it was overflowing dangerously!), and I still had a little bit of cream leftover, but I felt good about having used nearly all of it. But once we started eating, it turned out that the dessert consisted nearly entirely of ladyfinger and that there was very little cream. So what I should have done is just leave it at two layers and pour all the cream over it - nevermind it that would have resulted in a thick layer of cream, that's actually just what you want.
I was also sceptical about the cream - it was so liquid, I didn't expect it to become very thick. But it did! And it was really good in taste.
Last: it really was quite easy; I'll definitely make it again.
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