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Toffee sauce:

Toffee sauce:  •  1/2 cup  butter or margarine  •1 cup soft brown sugar  • 1 cup double cream  For the sauce, add the butter, sugar and cream to a large saucepan and simmer over medium high heat until sauce is smooth and dark brown, stirring frequently. Remove from heat and let stand for 10 minutes before serving with pudding. 

Recommended reading Summer 2016

The Orphan Train,  Christina Baker Kline The girl on the train by Paula Hawkins  One Thousand White Women, by Jim Fergus A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Beckman One Hundred Names by Cecelia Ahern All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doen. Case Histories - Kate Atkinson 600 hours of Edward, Craig Lancaster A Darker shade of magic by VE Schwab  A Summer Promise, Katie Flynn A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again- David Foster Wallace. Absalom Absalom! - William Faulkner All My Fortunes , Katie Flynn Alone in the Dark Karen Rose Arcadia - Tom Stoppard Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown Broken Homes , Ben Aaronovitch Brooklyn Girls, Gemma Burgess Cat and Mouse - Gunter Grass Closer Than You Think Karen Rose Dans le cafe de la jeunesse perdue - Patrick Modiano Dying to Live: A Guide to Living with Motor Neurone Disease by  Kevin Jordan Excellent Women, Barbara Pym Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith Fingerprints of you, Kristen Pai

Friends' recommended reading summer 2016

The Orphan Train.  Christina Baker Kline the girl on the train by Paula Hawkins  One Thousand White Women, by Jim Fergus A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Beckman One Hundred Names by Cecelia Ahern A Darker shade of magic by VE Schwab  A Summer Promise, Katie Flynn A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again- David Foster Wallace. Absalom Absalom! - William Faulkner All My Fortunes , Katie Flynn All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doen. Alone in the Dark Karen Rose Arcadia - Tom Stoppard Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown Broken Homes , Ben Aaronovitch Case Histories - Kate Atkinson Cat and Mouse - Gunter Grass Closer Than You Think Karen Rose Dans le cafe de la jeunesse perdue - Patrick Modiano Dying to Live: A Guide to Living with Motor Neurone Disease by  Kevin Jordan Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith Foxglove Summer , Ben Aaronovitch Gently by the Shore - Alan Hunter Gently Does it - Alan Hunter Harriet Beamer Takes The Bus by

cheese sauce

Ingredients  2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1 cup milk 1.5 cups cheese Directions In a small saucepan over medium heat, melt butter. Add flour and stir until the butter and flour are well combined. Pour in milk, stirring constantly as it thickens. Add more milk depending on desired consistency. add cheese

BErry Cheesecake dessert

Ingredients: 2 cups almond flour 1/4 tsp sea salt 3/4 cup sugar 1/3 cup melted butter 1 cup heavy whipping cream 8 oz. cream cheese 1 tsp   vanilla 1 cup water 2 tsp  g elatin 1 tsp lemon juice concentrate or fresh lemon juice 2 quarts or more of strawberries and/or other berries Directions: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  Grease a 9" x 13" pan (I used a glass pan) with butter or coconut oil.   Make the crust. Combine almond flour, sea salt, 1 cup sugar in a bowl.  Add the melted butter and mix well.  Press into pan.  Bake for 15 minutes and then let cool. For the cream cheese layer, whip the whipping cream in a mixing bowl until it's thick and fluffy.  Set aside.  In a different bowl, beat the cream cheese, 3/4 cup sugar,  and vanilla together.  After it's well-blended, gently fold in the whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture.  Spread on the cooled crust. To make the berry layer, add  water, about 1/2 cup strawberries, gelatin,  lemon