Chocolate Strawberries and Red Wine Strawberries

Ingredients:

Ingredients for Chocolate Strawberries

• 1 lb. of ripe Organic Strawberries
• 2 cups of Premium Baking Bittersweet Chocolate Chips
• 1 cup of Organic Powdered Sugar
• 1/2 cup of Organic Half & Half

Ingredients for Red Wine Strawberries

• 1 lb of ripe Organic Strawberries
• 2 cups Red Wine (Merlot)
• 1 cup of Organic Powered Sugar
• 2 oz of Cognac

How to prepare Chocolate Strawberries:

Mix in a Double Boiler the Chocolate, Sugar and Half & Half.
Stir until melted and smooth.

Dip each Strawberry in the Chocolate

Place each chocolate dipped Strawberry on Wax Paper

Put in the refrigerator for the Chocolate to harden.
Remove from refrigerator 1/2 hour before serving.

If you have Chocolate mixture left, mix it with fruit
(Apple or Strawberry or Banana).
Put in the refrigerator for the Chocolate to harden.
Remove from refrigerator 1/2 hour before serving.

How to prepare Red Wine Strawberries:

Cut the Strawberries in small pieces and mix them in a steel bowl
with the Red Wine, the Sugar and the Cognac.
Mix every couple of hours.
It tastes better if eaten the next day.
(could be kept for few days in the refrigerator)

Cantaloupe - Cognac

Ingredients: serve 2
1 Cantaloupe
2 Tablespoons of Organic Powdered Sugar
1 pinch of Cayenne Pepper
2 oz of Cognac
Tools: Sharp Knife and Small Scoop

How to do it:

Cut the Cantaloupe in two and remove the seeds
Put each half in a bowl

Pour in the hole 1 tablespoon of Sugar
1 oz of Cognac
1 pinch of Cayenne 

OPTION 1: With a sharp knife cut slots

Cut at an angle along the rim
to make small triangles 

OPTION 2: cut small balls with the scoop

Keep in the fridge 2 hours before serving