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Dessert

Salted Caramel Chocolate Truffles

December 3, 2010
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Salted Caramel Chocolates have been on my mind for the last three months, maybe because I had a tin of dulce de leche in the cupboard and wanted to make something suitable for the Christmas holiday.   These chocolates by the way are delicious and I’m speaking as a non-caramel eater, this was also the […]

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Why Does My Pastry Shrink? Step-by-step Guide to Shortcrust Pastry

November 26, 2010
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Your pastry shrinks because it contains liquid which will evaporate during cooking. There’s a lot of advice out there to tackle the problem with shrinking pastry.  Advise given is usually along the lines that your pastry is being overworked, let your pastry rest, make sure you blind bake, don’t over roll it, working fast, keeping […]

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Pears in Red Wine by Heston Blumenthal & Paul Bocuse – Which Was Best?

October 17, 2010
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Paul Bocuse and Heston Blumenthal are not two chefs I think of putting together but that’s how it happen this week.  In the past when I’ve cooked pears in red wine I have followed Paul Bocuse’s recipe from his book “My Classic Cuisine” published back in 1989.  A book which now amongst the cookery book […]

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Fresh Fig Tart with Crème Pâtissière flavoured with Orange Blossom

October 10, 2010
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Just before entering the gloom of our winter when the summer fruit trees go to sleep I can still buy the last of the autumn’s fruits; plums and fresh figs, by November we’ll be back to apples, pears and tropical fruits.  There’s some good offers on figs which is great for some indulgence and making […]

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Yoghurt Cake , Yoghurt Muffins (Yogurt Cake, Yogurt Muffins) of Any Flavour

October 3, 2010
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Here it is my standard cake recipe for any occasion, it has now taken over the Victoria Sponge for the all in one quick throw it together always turns out delicious cake, this cake seems even more moist the second day.  I’ve been playing around with it over the last few months.  I tried out a […]

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Poaching Peaches

August 25, 2010
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The amount of times I look at a pack of peaches, they can look so attractive with dark peachy colour, fooling you into a sense of ripeness and of course they’re not.  If you’re lucky enough and they ripen at home they still won’t have the natural sugar they should have if they were tree […]

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Happy 12th Birthday!

July 21, 2010
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I use to feel sorry for parents with children who’s birthdays were close together…and now I’m one of those.  Usually by now middle child’s birthday occurs during the  school summer holidays but for some reason it wasn’t so this year.  She just had some friends over after school for birthday cake and will have her […]

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How To: Make Light Muffins

May 31, 2010
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If like me you learned how to bake over 20 years ago in the UK then you probably learned how to whisk or cream cake mixture really well, making sure all the ingredients are all well amalgamated giving it lots of air.  I had to relearn how to make muffin-style cakes and stop myself from […]

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Rhubarb and Orange Blossom

May 20, 2010
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Last year I experimented with rhubarb and raspberries quite a bit, rhubarb and raspberry sorbet and a variation was adding some rose water…it’s a post I still have to move from my old blog to here….rhubarb and raspberries go well together not just for flavour but if you want your summer rhubarb to be luscious […]

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Banoffee Pancakes – Dulce de Leche Pancakes – Caramel Pancakes

April 21, 2010
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I made these pancakes after looking through a food magazine which had two recipes, one for banoffee pie using the tin of caramel below and another recipe for buttermilk pancakes served with caramalised bananas, and it occurred why not combine the two, banoffee pancakes? You see in our household no one likes pancakes.   The […]

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Passion Fruit Curd

April 4, 2010
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My parents are lucky enough to be able to grow passion fruit on their acre of land and when the fruit is ready for picking my mother goes through the process of scooping out the insides and freezing it for a later date.  I wish they didn’t live a plane journey away. I adore passion […]

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Apple & Brown Sugar Cake

March 23, 2010
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It’s time to bake a cake.  This post was supposed to be many other things I have on the list but nothing seemed quite right because I don’t feel right, and food is very closely connected with emotions for me. If I don’t feel in the mood to cook something then it won’t turn out […]

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Bikerboy’s Tiramisu

March 17, 2010
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If I’m ever in a situation such as I accidently knock over Bikerboy’s bike…I’m not saying I have I’m just saying if I ever did when parking the car in the driveway..sort of accidently knocked his bike or perhaps scratched a little…there would very few things I could do to compensate for the immediate broken […]

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Very Fudgey Chocolate Brownies

March 10, 2010
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I have made these chocolate brownies for a few years and never had reason to look elsewhere for other recipes…I can be loyal like that…the fickle person that I am I can stick to something….there was no need….these provide everything I want in a chocolate brownie, with a high percentage of chocolate they’re very chocolatey […]

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The Lemon Tart

March 7, 2010
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There is a limited range of adjectives you can use to describe food; exquisite, delicious, divine, delectable, mouthwatering, scrumptious, flavoursome, yummy, tasty and then you get into other description of,  mmmmm….so good…OMG…kinda of vocabulary.  After a few postings, having raided the thesaurus I can’t find a different way to describe something delicious and perfectly formed….I […]

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