We had an action packed weekend - a three year old's birthday party (with a puppet show!), a visit to my favorite Multnomah Village candy store (I got a blackberry ice cream cone!), two sushi lunches, three grilling / backyard parties, not too much time online and a lot of cooking.
We live outside the city limits, just past the county line in Portland. Our neighbors across the lake LOVE the fourth of July, and usually start celebrating with (big booming, bright blooming) fireworks a couple days early. This year, we started hearing them Thursday evening. Some years we hear fireworks after the fourth.
I'll just say that Basil is not a fan.
We aren't big firework folk, preferring instead to have people over, jump in the pool and fire up the grill. The pool is not yet open, but the weather is holding in the 80's so any day now... the grilling and cooking happened, though.
My idea of a perfect four day weekend.
Some of my creations were patriotic with a theme of red and blue. In the case of this vegan and gluten free clafoutis, the white would be the custard like dough.
Red white and blue deliciousness.
berry clafoutis
1 ½ cups silken tofu (12 ounce container)
3 tablespoons agave honey
1 cup almond milk
â…“ cup brown rice flour
3 cups berries
Combine tofu, agave, milk and flour in food processor. Blend until smooth. Prepare pan (I used three small spring-form pans) - spray or butter (earth balance) and line the bottom of pan with a single layer of berries. Pour tofu mixture over berries, bake at 350 for 40 - 50 minutes.
This clafoutis is just how I like it - custardy and light, with the flavor of the berry bringing the sweetness. I used fresh blueberries, blackberries, raspberries and strawberries, and I like a higher fruit to custard ratio. More fruit means the cooking time is longer, but it does set up, and is well worth the wait.
How did you spend your holiday weekend?
What's your favorite berry?
Fireworks - like them or no?
Megan (the long-winded one) says
Not a fan of the fireworks, we live in the mountains of NC really close to TN where all the big and bright loud fireworks are legal. Our neighbors started shooting them on the Thursday and Friday before and we still had someone shooting some last night. My three dogs go through a routine of run around/hide/talk to us about whatever is bothering them/pass out/start over. My brother lives down the street and one of his four dogs has to wear a compression therapy shirt because he gets so upset. Schultz, the schnauzer and my three mutts Murray, Rocco and Inca are on team Basil when it comes to fireworks.
Also, thank you for giving me a valid reason to own a spring form pan. I haven't made anything that I couldn't make do with something else until this, it's incredible and everyone in my family can eat it. That seriously never happens, we have so many dietary restrictions and convictions that I end up making a recipe 3 ways in one night to make it family-friendly for gatherings. This will be the new "oh look, I can get away with only making one dessert" item from now on!
spabettie says
hello Long-Winded-Megan! (I love it!!),
we ordered Basil one of those compression shirts!! 🙂 and we still hear fireworks, too - as of yesterday. *sigh* Basil was outside with us, and he ran to the door like he wanted to come inside (and hide under the bed, presumably).
I hope you LOVE this dessert! I am so happy this fits everyone - LOVE when that happens! the best part? it does not taste like it's missing anything... 🙂 ENJOY!
Erin says
I would love to make this tomorrow but I have a few questions:
Your recipe produces enough for 3 clafoutis? I don't have springform pans so I was planning to use a regular small (8-9 inch) circular cake pan... let me know what you think and if i will need to use 3 of these cake pans! 😀
spabettie says
you definitely do not need to use a springform pan; this recipe made me 3 SMALL cakes (my pans are 3.5 4 inches maybe?) if you are using an 8 or 9 inch, it should work just fine, I would reduce the fruit by half (or two cups, maybe?) the berries should cover the bottom of the pan only, no layers of berries. I hope you love it, Erin!
Jen says
Hi again,
How big were your springform pans? And if, say, I wanted to use custard cups to decrease the baking time, how many do you think that would make?
Thanks!
spabettie says
Hi Jen! my springforms are about 3 - 3.5 inches across. without knowing the size of the custard cups you mean, I don't know how many? if you have a lot (10? 12?) I'd go ahead and try it! 😀
Suzanne @WorkoutNirvana says
Yum! Love your pictures! Especially da puppy, awwwwwwwww. I love Dachshunds. Well.... if I ever get back into cooking - which I will - I'll know where to come for the yummiest recipes EVAH.
spabettie says
Basil says thank you 😀 <"();::::::::;~
and thank you - I hope you try some recipes sometime, you'll have to let me know! XO
Eden says
I'm with basil. Not a fan.
But I'm a fan of you clafoutis. And I wish I could leave an audible comment and piss people off and say: "Cla-fu-tisssssss"
spabettie says
oh, I wish you could too. Liz said it sounded like an STD, and I can only imagine it is with that pronunciation.
you and Basil would get along great.
Jean Layton says
Oooo, many berries, and a vegan custard! I think I'm in heaven.
This one will have to be tried out with some of the Shuksan strawberries I just picked. Wonder if honey will sweeten as well, just don't do agave.
thanks for creating this
spabettie says
hi Jean! I'm sure honey would work just as well!
Liz (Little Bitty Bakes) says
Yum, this looks great - I'm all about fruited desserts this summer.
What are you waiting for?! Open up your pool!
spabettie says
haa - Liz, that's funny you say that, we started the process yesterday!! 😀 (it generally takes a couple days to open the pool, cleaning from the winter, etc. I'm picking up chemicals today!!) by the week end we shall be swimming!
Tiff @ Love Sweat and Beers says
Oh wow, that looks gooooood. I love berries, but if I had to pick a fav, it'd probably be blackberries. So tart, yet so good with sweets!
spabettie says
I'm with you, Tiff - I love a tart + sweet combo, not TOO sweet. I think that's why we both (Jason and I) love this dessert so much, natural sweet and not TOO sweet.
Kris @Krazy_Kris says
cla - what?
my god woman - are you going to make me google that word?
fireworks - ack - the drunkards were having fun last night at midnight - princess kitty wanted to cuddle and it was MUCH too warm for that :\
anyhooo - thought of you as i was FORCED to have almond milk.
the regular milk was curdled and i had NOTHING for my cereal and was out of yogurt too - gasps!
found a box in the cupboard and - yay - it was good!
xoxox
spabettie says
cluuuh - FOO - teee ! 😀 and it's SO good! glad you like the almond milk, glad you TRIED it!! *atta girl. another plus? almond milk... ahem... doesn't curdle. 😉 hee!
Kathleen says
This looks soooo pretty!
spabettie says
thank you, Kathleen! you put that many berries in something, it CANNOT look bad, right?