strawberry and white wine terrine

after a couple days of having ice cream for dessert (damn you, 10 for $10 deals!) i decided maybe it was time for something with a lighter (or at least something that seemed deceptively light) taste.

hence, strawberry and white wine terrine.

i know, i know. there are 7 calories per gram of alcohol. whatevs, you guys! in my mind, jello is light, no matter what it's made from. besides, i've wanted to make a fruit terrine for a while, mainly after seeing this beauty in one of my mom's Good Housekeeping magazines years ago (the colors!). so after realizing i had a box of gelatin and a package of strawberries just sitting in the fridge (because for some reason my family doesn't seem to like strawberries unless they're put IN something else or ON something else), i decided it was time to give it a go. i haven't really gotten a good chance to work with gelatin by myself anyway.


i made both a mini terrine (using a ramekin) and a large one in a loaf pan, for the pamilia :)

side view, so you can see both the strawberry (red) and the white wine (clear) layers.

aerial view. note to self: learn how to plate, woman! i guess i just got lazy this time and plopped it on the bowl. if i were to go all out, i would probably have added some chantilly cream and a mint leaf on top, and maybe a strawberry coulis on the side (also, if i were to go all out i probably wouldn't have been impatient while unmolding it and the edges would probably look more crisp haha).

yummm :p the wine taste actually wasn't as strong as i thought it would be (because apparently i haven't acquired a taste for wine yet), and it actually tasted pretty damn good. one thing i also needed for this was more strawberries -___- i only had one box, and the recipe called for 2 pints + 1/2 cup of strawberries so i ended up stealing a few from my uncle (shh!). oh well. i think it tasted totally fine, and it sure as hell did NOT need 6+ hours to set, like the recipe said. sighh.

as for my life, there's not much to really update on that you guys don't already know. we haven't moved yet, although we're trying to get ready for that (albeit slowly). i have a couple of projects due in the next coming weeks, and guess what? it turns out that working ahead of time (as opposed to procrastinating, which is what i usually do) really pays off. one of my baking 2 projects is due this wednesday and i pretty much had it finished last month. yay for not panicking last minute! :) i also have an anthro and psych project due, but i don't even wanna get started on that crap. basically, anthro = the death of my GPA. hopefully i'll do well enough on tuesday's test; i don't want to drop out of the class because i won't have enough credits to be a full-time student and i don't want to try and find another class so late in the semester. arghh. apparently the later in the semester it is, the lazier i am. :/