Ask, and ye shall receive! We are not making the Madeleines because we are doing this as a first course rather than a dessert.
Blood Oranges can usually be found at Whole Foods, possibly Trader Joes? You probably won't find them at a safeway/giant/albertsons. They are a little smaller, maybe tennis ball sized. The flesh is a beautiful ruby red (like ruby grapefruit in color) and they are a little sweeter (i think) than a regular juicing orange.
Chilled Basil-Champagne Fruit Soup with Madeleines Recipe courtesy Emeril Lagasse, 2005
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Recipe Summary
Difficulty: Medium
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Inactive Prep Time: 2 hours
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Yield: 6 cups
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2 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, and roughly chopped
1/2 honeydew melon, seeded, peeled, and roughly chopped
1 1/2 cups water
3/4 to 1 cup sugar
1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
1 teaspoon lemon zest
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil leaves, plus extra for garnish
1 cup rose brut Champagne, chilled
Madeleines, recipe follows
Combine the apples, honeydew, water, sugar, orange juice, lemon zest and lemon juice in a 2-quart, heavy saucepan. (The amount of sugar varies depending on the sweetness of the honeydew. If the honeydew is very sweet, use 3/4 cup of sugar, but if it doesn't seem as sweet, increase the sugar to 1 cup.) Bring the mixture to a boil over medium-high heat, reduce the heat to medium low, and simmer uncovered for 20 minutes.
Remove the pan from the heat, add the basil to the pan and puree with an immersion blender, or in small batches in a blender (be sure to use caution when blending hot liquids in a blender). Transfer to a clean container and refrigerate until thoroughly chilled, at least 2 hours.
Stir the Champagne into the soup. Ladle into 6 small chilled bowls, and garnish with additional chopped basil and 2 Madeleines per serving. Serve immediately either as a first course or a dessert.
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It was starting to annoy me. Zoomed back to Tokyo on the bullet train and all is well. Kitties fine, used to their person being away for a day or two. Challenges still intact.
and try to keep the recipes to lowcal or healthy ones...I think that's what they all were, but I'm getting worried 
we're going to turn into some Oprah magazine thread, with how to lose weight tips and groans of "the scale won't budge!" 
side by side with rich, calorie-packed recipes and full-color food-porn centerfolds. Please remember some of us are on VERY low-calorie regimes! CB, your plea for cookie recipes was I HOPE, one for low-cal cookie recipes (really, is that a concept), no?!
Think of it as others, like me, having nothing else to look forward to! You do! Get into that swimsuit and, more!, look smashing in it!! 